Barrett (Homes) here giving intense Basildon Estate Agent on an off day cradling a mug of coffee regretting the 23K two bed semi (overpriced) hes just missed out on staring at his ex wife taking the phot with simmering resentment, listening to Steve Wright in the Afternoon.
Now's The Time, 1985 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5292
Oysters and Wooden Armchair, 1943 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/17109
Matsumura Goshun's folding screen 'Seventy-Two Peaks Under the Blue Sky with Mount Furong' was created in 1785. The work features ink with gold and silver foil on paper. It is an eight-panel screen from the Edo period.
this older Nobel Lit Recipitants couldnt give a shit. And i can understand it, the prizes, the rosettes come too late in life to get excited by or be able to use. GIVE IT TO THE YOUNG.
Trellick Tower from the train tonight. Number 18 in my Bluesky series
All celebrity interviews with youth culture rogues ( todays with Bez in Guardian ) always follow the same redemptaory formula, "I was lost, then I was found." The pop star must tantalise with stories of sex and drugs and rock and roll, but these MUST be in the past. They must have been redeemed.
When I was a lad Animal House was a HUGE movie but has just sort of disappeared.
Blue Over Red https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4855
Anyway, let's observe the (real) world with love, while briefly considering our individual death. Don't do more. Just do that! Read books, listen to music. Whatever. But the first two are more important. Aren't they?
Illustration of female orgasm from Sexology Magazine, November, 1949
Two women come to the till and I assume they’re friends but they’re both talking at each other, not pausing for breath not pausing to listen or react to each other, just nonstop drivelling, and frankly if I had a friendship like that I’d hope one of us would just slap the other to shut them up ffs
Pegasus, 1987 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5304
"Even when I'm in Kyoto, I wish I was in Kyoto"
Postcard From The Past@pastpostcard.bsky.social · 6d agoI am dying to get home to get home
Your windpipe is that of Anubis, your chest is broad with gold, your breasts are two eggs of carnelian, which Horus has streaked with lapis. Your forearms glisten as glass, your shoulders are firm in their protection, your heart is gladdened every day. (BDQ)
Gibbon said something incredibly rude about this lass.
Byzantine Mosaics@byzantinemosaics.bsky.social · 6d agoMosaic of Theodora https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/mosaic-of-theodora-547-0
We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.
Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/person-throwing-a-stone-at-a-bird
And he was swallowed and ingested and became one of those creatures who, many winters later died, and came back to rest in the earth to nourish another generation of you young fellars...It's not so bad. It's like a great cycle - if you look at it in a certain way...
THE FAR SIDE DAILY@bot.cowtools.org · last wk.“… And then the creatures yanked him out of the ground, skinned him alive, boiled him, and ate him. The end. Now go to sleep!”
Shhhh Sneak preview of @beckbook.com's exegesis on Philip K. Dick Don't tell my editor 🤫 beckbook.com
She lives in an English country home, and pours tea from a silver teapot - equipped with a two-way phone.
archivetvmusings@archivetvmusings.bsky.social · last wk.Thunderbirds newspaper clippage.
I take the table with three vases containing the water of youth; I pour it on the altar of your ka. This libation comes from the two caverns, the gods live from its exudations. (OGC)
Hope of a Condemned Man II https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/hope-of-a-condemned-man-ii-1974
