AgentMaayan

@agentmaayan.bsky.social

Foreign girl, known and loved by some, holding to the ground as the ground keeps shifting

This morning the barista in my office building remembered my drink order, and I was really moved because I've never been a regular anywhere that cared enough to do that. Too bad I quit my job and this is literally my last week going there, I feel obligated to tell them so they don't think I died.

When you book tickets to Paddington the musical on the West End the show's promoters ask you to rank your favourite characteristics of Paddington Bear and that is easily the most insane google form I have ever filled out

One Minute Away is about many things, but if you ask me it does a truly excellent job at talking about what it's like to be and feel like a foreigner in London. And if you're like me and your hands get tired holding up a heavy book, you're all out of excuses now that it's out in paperback.

Mark Watson@watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My most recent novel is out in paperback TODAY. As you can see, there's been a dazzling redesign of the cover. Meanwhile the Kindle ebook is 99p all month. For those with no time for books, you can also buy it as a chocolate bar, a roll-on deodorant, or I can WhatsApp you the entire thing.

A poorly shaven man sits with two copies of his book. Pink cover says ONE MINUTE AWAY in green type, and there's a piece of sushi with a clock-face on it, although actually sushi doesn't come up in the book. One copy is smaller than the other, but they're otherwise identical.

on the 100th listen I decided my favourite lyric on the new bleachers album is "so you retrace the steps and you dust the path for prints // there's a wasteland in you, is there something you missed?" so here's... something

Jack Anotnoff writing a lyric like "dying is not romantic this young // how could you let me do this alone // glory to the ones who were left, hallelujah" sir just stab me in the heart it would hurt less than this

Once again my main Eurovision thought is "imagine thinking that booing a young man while he sings is going to help anyone and not just make him feel like shit for the circumstances of his birth" (this year with the new addition of "maybe they just want him to feel like shit, huh?")