this is really extraordinary and it contains all of those things about guitar delta blues that seemed to be missed especially by white imitators: the approach to meter is as weird and complex as j dilla, and the approach to harmony so divorced from western hegemony as to sound avant garde

The only time I've lied during vetting is when I said I absolutely definitely clean Letty's teeth

Have spent most of my adult life going "one day I will never have to think about Peter Mandelson again"

The Pitt is very well done and entertaining but can we not pretend it's some kind of groundbreaking TV. It's a hospital show, top drawer but 100% formulaic

Fuck 'em, they're only oysters

Marketer: You get that photo of a cat with our cat food? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin angry just like you asked. Marketer: what

It would be quicker to print these posts out and drop them round to you one by one

These are going off then

I feel like there are a number of quite obvious flaws with this announcement

ITV has announced 70 Up, the documentary following contributors every seven years, is to come to an end. The director Michael Apted died in 2021. The Up film series has aired since 1964. Final episodes this year.

#NotAthens #RuralPhotography

This is like if I pivoted from scriptwriting to being a horse

Ronald Searle, NYC, Count Basie's Bar...

A confusing day for people using the word 'sanction' in either of its diametrically opposed meanings

Same, man, same

“Two can play at that game” is literally the Drebin quote here when he takes an innocent woman hostage to cluelessly fight the enemy

Strawberries, 1696. A little miracle of simplicity, for Adriaen Coorte's day.

Wait I thought it was a picture of him stealing someone's soul

Danish poster for Madame X by Benny Stilling, 1966

Was so sorry to leave my soup behind.

Honestly, for younger folk on here, this is such a throwback to 1989. There comes a point when, for all but the most psychotic and savage autocrats, the will of the people is just too strong to ignore.

My wife who used to live in Hungary is correcting the pronunciation of Magyar every time they say it on the news

All back to mine for some leftist chatterati

Whilst I very much don’t want to look at everything globally through the lens of British political culture, I also want to point out that Matthew Goodwin was getting paid a lot of money by the Victor Orban led government and highly likely he won’t be from now on and that’s y’know very funny?

so so many people here spontaneously erupting in chants that translate to "it's over! it's over!" not even 10pm here and unfortunately I'm already getting a bit emotional

Time to enjoy some 1960s Hungarian calendar cards! maraid.co.uk/blog/2014/10...

historic rejection of JD Vance

Sylvia Plath here with her famous Rubber Johnny x

things my mother asks for when she wants to watch “Only Murders In the Building”: - There is Death In My Neighborhood - There’s a Mystery in My Apartment - Everyone Dies in Our Building - Martin Short

Can't believe how successful this blockade is already, have to hand it to him

It's not easy to ease a vibrant pub murmur with a soft song. I don't know Ruth but she sure manages it here.

good morning from Budapest

Every time I ask my smart speaker to play BBC Sounds it tells me I can ask my smart speaker to play BBC Sounds

R.E.M. released Murmur on this day in 1983. The Kent countryside is still working on its impression

"You shouldn’t have to pay for the pickles if they forgot the pickles on your burger"

All Saints, Margaret Street "To describe a church as an orgasm is bound to offend someone" - Ian Nairn (who else?)

Spotted Peter Mandelson at the Wallace Collection

I'm sorry I said you weren't very scary.

In Jay McInerney's new book, a character appears gently pitying of his father because "it mattered to him, that he was a guy who could get a booth at Balthazar". In his recent Lunch with the FT, McInerney is proud of being a guy who could get a booth at Balthazar.

My third batch of Rough Trade sevens for #WeekendSingles, including The Go-Betweens, Kleenex, Cabaret Voltaire, Young Marble Giants, The Fall, The Nightingales, The Pop Group, The Raincoats and Aztec Camera. Listen to them all on this playlist of the label’s 45s ▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2l0...

Are Tunnocks trending yet?

Side-eying her eyes: Saint Lucy, painted by Francesco del Cossa of Ferrara. Today is his day.

Like how this implies that for instance Gregory XI was firing out less remarkable tweets at Catherine of Siena

“What are the best and worst Morrissey lyrics?”

Very much enjoying Bait, not least because Guz Khan is one of the funniest people alive

“The economy was designed”

"Adult content" is it

Only a couple of days left to see Caravaggio's extraordinary Cupid at the Wallace Collection

I see Jenkins has done a wrong again

Nothing says Friday like thirty 1950s bus tickets from Milwaukee. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/g... A typographic carnival.