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Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Classic #ADHD day: - Sit down to write next book chapter. - Get distracted by something entirely unconnected: - Namely, researching an ancestor in the 1500s. - Stumble across a mystery of potentially international importance. - Realise there may be a book in it. Result: 2 unfinished books.

#NowPlaying People just don't compose stuff like this anymore. Comforting derangement.

Good morning from the park.

2025: Blue tick applied to my Bluesky account. 2028?: Blue tick removed again by new billionaire owner of Bluesky, who renames the company BS-X in a bid to disseminate far-right disinformation and conspiracy theories that only someone with the intellect of a 6 year old would give any credence to.

7am (upside down)

Swiss wildlife is ludicrously robust. It's November, I live 500m above sea-level, it's -1 outside, and I've woken up early to find I've been eaten alive by mosquitos. Or, judging by the size of the bites, pterodactyls.

Font-wise, they're really going for that '1970s greetings card for grandma' vibe. Maybe they're naming the rooms because, just like poor old grandma, the president's memory isn't what it used to be and he gets easily confused.

Four vintage 'found photos' I came across recently that invite further explanation.

Just re-watched the entire UP series.

ooh, lovely

"Finish him!"

Bingeing the 31 disc CBS Masterworks Stravinsky set. #NowPlaying

#JohnLewis: "It's November! Get our mawkishness consultant on the phone!" Assistant presses speed dial button for Twee & Co. [Holding music: Rock classic re-recorded as a fragile ballad. Ukulele? Hushed vocals crack with contrived emotion; so trite it's indistinguishable from a thousand others].

Now available in paperback, just in time for Christmas.

reminds me of when @richardlittler.bsky.social Scarfolk rabies poster went into a civil service magazine... www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

I'm bingeing 1950s sci-fi/monster movie soundtracks, and now everyone outside looks like they might be aliens masquerading as humans, and I fully expect the high-rise block in the distance to be scaled by a gigantic killer caterpillar or something. #NowPlaying

7am

Evening viewing.

The kinds of ideas I get for pitches: i. A documentary on the life of Alan Bennett, written and narrated by Werner Herzog. ii. A documentary on the life of Werner Herzog, written and narrated by Alan Bennett. No wonder I never hear from my agent.

Today at the charity shop I picked up some 1975 psychiatry journals, mainly for the articles on #autism and, well, witchcraft and demons...

I just saw Robert de Niro beside a spectacular display of bananas. He was pacing up & down and kept checking his watch. I think I heard him mutter something in Italian under his breath.

I had a vivid dream about Richard Ayoade last night. After I told him the 'd' in his name was silent, we could communicate telepathically but forgot what gender we were. We levitated in a cafe to prove Catholics wrong about the Bible. I got upset knowing I'd forget all this was real when I woke up.

2025: January, Februa... NOVEMBER.

#NowPlaying some post-halloween Philip Glass.

Pondering my possible answers to a parlour game played by Russell Harty and Alan Bennett: 'Whose underpants would you least like to be gagged by?' Your choices? #UnderpantsGame

Thank you for all the generous compliments and fun comments. They're much appreciated! 🙏

#Halloween, or, as I call it, 'not answering the door evening'.

Bernard Herrmann (back, right) conducting in a rehearsal of Orson Welles’ THE WAR OF THE WORLDS radio adaptation, which aired Oct. 30, 1938.

I listen to this while jogging, which is dangerous at my age. The vexing political flim-flam they expose pushes me into heart attack territory, but then they say something very funny, which, fortunately, triggers spontaneous laughter, stimulating my chest, which has the effect of a defibrillator.

🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween... #halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster

It's the little things. Sitting in bed reading Peanuts.

I tried #Grokipedia. Just once. I looked up #Scarfolk. Grok took a kernel of truth - a real news report about Scarfolk - but completely invented all the details including a poster, graphic, and title/slogan that don't exist. Grok then repeats the story further down but with contradictory details.

A real inspiration. Only goes to show that you can be honoured in life even if you possess the intellect of a pig knuckle and have the sophistication of a burst colostomy bag; even if you're a tumour in a cheap suit and the patron saint of narcissists, incompetents, and dogs that eat their own shit.

Found a mix-tape I made in my teens: #TheBeatles Alternate Blue Album 1967–70. Tomorrow Never Knows She Said She Said She's Leaving Home Getting Better Only a Northern Song Hey Bulldog Happiness Is a Warm Gun Long Long Long Helter Skelter Mother Nature's Son Two of Us I've Got a Feeling Medley Rev 9

"An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’" Everyone thought the future would be Orwellian, but between this guy and the US in general right now, it turns out it's actually early George Lucas. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

I've reached that age where I hear younger people on podcasts/radio say things like 'I'd never heard of George Harrison, but apparently he was in a famous old band'; 'My granddad watched Spielberg films when was a boy'; 'Found this at my gran's. Not sure what it is; it says 'VHS' on the back'.

Jack DeJohnette has left the building. One of the most influential #jazz drummers, he played with *everyone*: Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Stan Getz, Chick Corea, Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, Terje Rypdal, John McLaughlin, Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett, Wayne Shorter, Chet Baker...

Insomnia has returned like Keith Moon in a Debussy nocturne.

Today's charity shop record haul. #Soundtrack #progrock #minimalism

Marie Cuntoinette

Marie Cuntoinette

#NowPlaying Bernard Herrmann's scores for Truffaut.

Imagine being as hungry for money as this man, where the income from your great-grandmother's books isn't enough, and you're forced to authorise AI versions of her to run crime writing courses, and shit like this.

"In today's Daily Justice, we're offering readers the exclusive chance to win a luxury castle in the picturesque Scottish village of Exileheaven. To enter the prize draw, all you have to do is send your name, address, phone number, and 3 proofs of paedophilic activity to the address below..."

#NowPlaying a pre- #Halloween homage to the 1970s/80s Kosmische-musik/krautrock soundscapes of artists like Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and others. Final series coming soon. Want to feel old? These little kids are in their 40s now.

So glad I subscribed to the Quiet Posters feed. I finally get to see more of the accounts I follow. And, oddly, many of them aren't particularly 'quiet'; they post just as much as the others, it's just that I rarely saw them.

#NowPlaying Not a joke