Stanley Bad 🍰
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songsmith & musician; lover of books, woodpeckers, stuff... increasingly twinless twin
One of my favourite films is Altman's 3 Women—a film I discovered through scanning a copy of Halliwell's Film Guide, reading their damning review, and thinking: but that sounds amazing! And it is.
Who here has read Operators and Things by "Barbara O'Brien"? It's one of the best accounts of a psychotic episode I have read—and I have read a fair few.
Yay. Found A Voice Through a Cloud in Oxfam... Starts in a building that sounds suspiciously like Beckenham Place mansion!
If Nietzsche had a nitchy nose, 'Twas thanks to those mustachios.
Good stuff! Burgess talks Finnegans Wake...
Anthony Burgess — Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake (1973)
YouTube video by Mat Wranovics
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I promised Beverley Craven I'd wait for her—but she still hasn't shown up! She said she'd be home soon. It's been 35 years.
The Gleaners & I is on BFI Player. Cool documentary by Agnès Varda about glaneurs of all kinds. Brill.
If the Secret Chiefs are any cop, how come I've heard of them? Which reminds me: when I moved to N16 in '97, I once saw an old man with thick glasses annotating some Crowley books in a greasy spoon. I didn't dare ask who he was...
Fully expecting this to be daft—but the premise was too intriguing for me to pass up...
Found myself recollecting a Henry Treece book. He certainly wrote a lot of stuff. Will be keeping an eye out for some...
Yeah, Callier was sealed alive in a zinc-lined trunk—but Taft's turkey is gonna be so big tomorrow!
440 years since potatoes arrived in the UK, brought by Sir Thomas Harriot apparently — not Walter Raleigh which is what I was taught at school....
R.I.P., Bill Oddie. This is one of my favourite songs of his.
Bill Oddie – L O V E… BLIMPHT
YouTube video by Jem Roberts
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TIL that the Trunk murder victim (who may have been my gt granddad, I believe) had a chest tattoo "of unusual design" by a West African artist. "It was a distinction of which Callier was proud."
What if stuff & nonsense are more like chalk & cheese than chicken & chips?
Black peppercorns were found stuffed in the nostrils of Ramesneeze II, placed there as part of the mummification rituals shortly after his death in 1213 BCE.
"Imitation only makes what it has seen, whereas imagination makes what it has never seen, conceiving it with reference to the thing it really is." - Apollonius of Tyana on A.I.
Whinchats FTW (for the whin). Drawn by Mary Brooks for Let's Watch the Birds!
650 years since The Pied Piper did his thing. So... Here's my song Pay the Piper.
Pay the Piper - (a SbadMash production)
YouTube video by Stanley Bad
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