I'm expecting this to be a delicious exhibition, and knowing it to be a lovely anthology - this press make really tactile and lively collections. Launch is on Friday in London, why not come along and suck it up? www.outsavvy.com/event/37508/...
E.Saxey
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Tallish, bookish Londoner. Gothic/folk horror novel, set in Victorian London, "Unquiet" https://titanbooks.com/71432-unquiet/ Weird queer short fiction, "Lost in the Archives" https://tinyurl.com/saxeyshorts They/them
I didn't know about this. I'm overdue a return trip to Longplayer, to be refreshed by waves of ego-delaminating perspective. longplayer.org/visit/
Alan Burns@alanburns.bsky.social · 14h agoHappy note change day in 70 year long Part 1 of 639 year long John Cage organ piece to all who celebrate. The next change will be in October 2027
As an on-paper woman who looks like a chap in a low light/on a good day, I give some thought and care to using single-sex facilities. From today (UK), the thoughts and cares multiplied: transactual.org.uk/know-your-ri... (5000+ words and I'm very grateful for it but what the hell.)
Poem hunt! Late C19/20th, something along the lines of "Be a flower, sweet girl, be a flower / stay [minimising compliment] and neat / Or thrust yourself into a tree and have the world at your feet." Possibly 'be a rose'? But not the E Dickinson Gentian poem. Search skills failing, any clues?
My favourite thing about Morley's is the memorable but hesitant slogan: "MMM... It Tastes Better". Better than what? Better than when? Why does it sound like someone appeasing their evil chef captor?
E.Saxey@esaxey.bsky.social · 6d agoAlways exciting to see a new-to-me fake Morley's. (Morley's are the boss of South London fried chicken shops, distinctive enough to generate a crowd of imitators: garethgardner.com/portfolio/mo... )
Always exciting to see a new-to-me fake Morley's. (Morley's are the boss of South London fried chicken shops, distinctive enough to generate a crowd of imitators: garethgardner.com/portfolio/mo... )
The worn sticker on the gym equipment no longer tells me what to do with my limits. Know, respect, defy? Shorn of a verb, is it an insult? (cf. "your mum")
Wookey Farm's Burcott is a West Country goats cheese that tastes like best pecorino. I haunt country shows, elbow strangers aside to buy many extra-mature "forgot it in a cave" hemispheres. "How long does it keep," I ask, knowing it will be gone within a week. www.earthfare.co.uk/products/woo...
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Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese
In Margate Caves you can play the archeology prof in a monster movie and murmur: this creature is more ancient than we imagined! (Paintings are 19th century.)
Recommend watching the Odyssey with a Classics person - when a character says "yeah we're the house of Atreus" you can feel the seats vibrate with their knowledge of how shit-out-of-luck those guys are forever.
Sun's out for trans pride in London, got my dry wipe shield and marker pens, and am accepting suggestions for the first slogan of the day.
How much of my outfit for Trans Pride on Saturday can be made from duck tape? The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
1536 at the Ambassadors Theatre is great - three young women in a village in Essex, with the Boleyn events distant in London but still impacting on them. How misogyny can saturate a society, and its currents and ripples be stirred into destructive waves.
A pretty ruthless title, for a painting of a mermaid in a bathtub having a chat with an angel. Hulda Guzmán at the Turner Contemporary.
Told a joke about the Cyclops, no-one got it
E.Saxey@esaxey.bsky.social · 3w agoI heard a joke about Procrustes but it was a bit of a stretch
I heard a joke about Procrustes but it was a bit of a stretch
Liza@lizamezzo.bsky.social · 3w agoI wrote a joke about Agamemnon but it got axed
Sincere surreal question: if someone says "the trickster was the first to fall, he contains faces", what do you reckon it refers to? Standard Christian war in heaven? 'Supernatural' fanfic? (To offer context and explain why I can't ask follow-ups, it was shouted at me by a man on a bus.)
William Brown, arrested 300 years ago yesterday, in London, for cruising. "I think there is no Crime in making what use I please of my own Body."
I'm allergic to cats and dogs and just had a sad realisation about what would happen if I ever got to stroke a fox.
E.Saxey@esaxey.bsky.social · 4w agoFox, with shadow to demonstrate proximity
Paddled nervously in the lively sea today until I thought: you don't have to fear the waves if you're part of them. So I swam. Then got slapped up the shingle so fast that strangers checked I was ok. Love it when nature refuses to confirm the metaphors it elicited from you.
Last night a kind soul in the toilets was admiring my outfit and I asked if I was wearing too many accessories. They said "No, and Coco Chanel was a fascist". Happy London Pride.
Fear the heatwave, quite enjoy the swell and crumble of chocolate blooming.
