Today’s tube station painting is Burnt Oak. It’s new and up on my website. Burnt Oak Underground Station. London. Postcard painting. Watercolour darrenhaymanart.com
Just read the book. Do yourself and the world a favour.
Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 52m agowhatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane
NEW | Since the Telegraph decided to use my name in vain… FROM A LEFT-WING AGITATOR WITH A BOOK TO FLOG brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/from-a-lef...
From a Left-Wing agitator with a book to flog
This edition is a bit meta. Consider it a sequel to yesterday's Rod Liddle obituary.
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The events at Ceuta show how Europe’s hard right now set the tone on immigration
The events at Ceuta show how Europe’s hard right now set the tone on immigration
The narratives of the right are seeping into mainstream EU policy, and Spain finds itself increasingly isolated in its humanitarian stance on borders
theguardian.com
Listening to Keith "Facing You". He is 25 or 26 and nobody else can do this. What an amazing calling card.
I’ve lost my dog, Nico. She is very dear to me and I am absolutely heartbroken. She was last seen in Silkstream park in Colindale London. If you see her, can you let me know? I realise she could be anywhere in the country now if she got into someone’s car...
Annoying to read ALMOST anything and think "Beckett is clearer, funnier, and better than this is."
I can't tell you how reassuring this weird little guy is
@chinontherest.bsky.social · 2h agoQuadrocephalus says he had it covered
Remember that schoolfriend from 1981 who turned up recently? He and I are going to experience the Schubert Quintet at the Wigmore Hall in a few weeks. Am I being courted? Wouldn't that be fun!
I spent part of today reading back and forth in a book about a man called Bruce Springsteen. Would I like Bruce Springsteen?
Today the work Bluesky connection wasn't working. Which had the effect of making the day seem considerably longer.
Anything by Céline Anything by Ernst Jünger Waugh
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterdayalright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.
Saxophonists throughout the history of rock and pop music: if you blow less hard, you won't be sharp all the time. David? Van? Put it back in the case. Your gifts lie elsewhere.
Many people outside the UK have been asking me who Fraser Nelson is. All you need to know is that he's the Lidl Liddle.
David Collard@davidcollard.bsky.social · yesterdayMany people outside the UK have been asking me who Rod Liddle was. Here's Stewart Lee (from 08:53 onwards) on the man described by Fraser Nelson (former editor of The Spectator) as 'the greatest satirist since Swift.' Let this be the last word on the subject. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFt3...
This clip is the apotheosis of Lee I think. We all hated Rod Liddle, obviously, because he was a bastard (check out the Millwall sockpuppet shit where he really outdid himself). But, despite Lee's excellent impromptu punchline, the last bit actually achieves pathos.
Roland Bates@rolandbates.bsky.social · yesterdayI have been struggling to find this (once seen, never forgotten). Thank you David!
I have been struggling to find this (once seen, never forgotten). Thank you David!
David Collard@davidcollard.bsky.social · yesterdayMany people outside the UK have been asking me who Rod Liddle was. Here's Stewart Lee (from 08:53 onwards) on the man described by Fraser Nelson (former editor of The Spectator) as 'the greatest satirist since Swift.' Let this be the last word on the subject. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFt3...
the other will be utterly excluded from your contemporary consciousness
Cripes it's muggy. Anything more closely resembling a mug would really be difficult to imagine.
Jim Halpert & Andy's Mug in The Office
Alt: Jim Halpert & Andy's Mug in The Office
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Reading this AGAIN. He is the master (of this kind of thing)
Roland Bates@rolandbates.bsky.social · 3d agoI swear this lad just gets better every time. Magic.
here i am in the Staggers on CARLOS CASTANEDA, the guy who maybe executed a massive Sokal hoax on anthropology www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
2300 years old Scythian woman's boot preserved in the frozen ground of the Altai Mountains www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPo...
With a pea on his... thank you Madam, on his clavicle...
