Listening to Bill doing My Foolish Heart at the Vanguard, Jesus Christ. Everyone is great, but it's Paul Motian who absolutely nails it. Have a listen!

I regret to inform you that's DANNY MURPHY'S CAT

Drive this forward

She is herself and herself only

What are people supposed to do before work

Have I cancelled my order for the upcoming Vollmann fattie? I have NOT.

Very good spot

Whiteness avant la lettre, shipmates. Toni Morrison wrote an excellent essay about this.

BELBEN!! Cast a cold eye etc

Here comes Derek Guy "This is NOT what you wear to a wedding, whatever your impromptu winemaking skills"

Tomorrow I go to Tonbridge, a place with negative associations. I will take the new Rachel Cusk. I will remain stuck on p97.

I said something to D in German today (I don't speak German) and had to guess quickly what the accusative of Wer is. I opted for Wem. The answer is Wen. I should just learn German instead of enjoying making up German. (He does this as well for some weird reason)

"[Clare Carlisle's] understanding of transcendence will draw on the ways a biographer sees as well as the ways a philosopher reflects." —Todd Shy reviews Transcendence for Beginners for @thepointmag.bsky.social

Sisters are doing it for themselves

Saki's delightful 'The Story-teller' came to mind while reading Frank McNally's Irishman's Diary in today's paper. "The bachelor said nothing out loud."

Pignatari Beba Coca-Cola Beba Cloaca

Here's a small part of the "conservation president's" notorious tally of kills during safari in Africa.

The stupidest man in the whole world.

Loser.

A Times investigation reveals Farage and his partner own *at least* five homes across Surrey, Kent and Essex, all but one bought with cash since 2000. In 2017 he said he was “skint”.

This is how poets hang.

Nothing says 'speaking for the concerns of the common man' like being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to promote actual gold bars

My tl

I am very keen to get my hands on this. Thank you CB for ploughing your own furrow so relentlessly

"Is it all like this?" Of course it bloody is.

You get this nowhere else. Lewisham is ours.

Word of advice: don't listen to The Moral Maze. Tonight or at any other time! Thank me later, darlings.

I get this all the time

Message from Switzerland: no Kane, no gane.

LEWISHAM DESCRIBED AS NOT SUFFICIENTLY PICTURESQUE. FUCK YOU, THE ARCHERS

This is the resistance we need right now.

Nice one

New daily sign-off... Anyway: please, you decide.

Curd I Stan

A: Holy Shit B: this has the strange feeling of Mr Bungle segueing from of their own tunes into a wedding band cover of Crazy In Love.

Sex may be perfectly reasonable, but have you ever read Animal Lovers by Rob Palk whilst crouched in a circle of halogen lamps whilst the author sits at a table consuming insanely hot curries and drinks Hofmeister lager out of a boot-shaped glass and then the curry house is swept up into a tornado a

The second stupidest man in the world. Vice-Stupid.

lol rude

We've already established here at The Whale Pod that, if you look closely enough, everything is whales; but in this week's episode we propose something new: what if you look closer still and find out that, in fact, below the Whale Stratum - on a deeper level entirely - everything is choo-choos?

A shocking number of journalists now see climate change as a political and economic issue rather than a scientific reality. It’s all those things but it starts with the third

JOIIIIIOOOOOOOIIIIINNNNNTTTT what a game

Serena Williams is 44 and her opponent is 20. I don't mind who wins, either way the whole thing is incredible to see.

Men would rather watch a kid called Joint give Serena Williams a wobble than read the new Rachel Cusk