Guardian News featured this clip of a woman playing the violin while undergoing brain surgery.
The aim was to ensure that the surgeons were not damaging parts of the brain responsible for fine motor skills.
Apparently having patients awake during such operations is not rare, but the violin playing was unusual.

This Batgirl figure was amazingly inexpensive on eBay, so she’ll take her place with a whole bunch of Batmen and a Robin.

I’m happy owning one Bruce Timm based piece.

…that time when someone walks off with your bag and leaves their very similar one behind on the carousel…

It’s going to make for a later drive home from Adelaide to Mount Gambier than I’d planned.

There’s a new album from from Jason Isbell in May.
It’s called Reunions.
To clarify for readers of this blog: Isbell’s not a Christian singer, but he says interesting things in interesting ways, and is country music to boot.