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Ramsgate is great but you do need to be bleeding Edward Einstein to be able to tell the time here.

Holy Smokes, I have never seen this before.

Beach scene: the pursuit of happiness.

NTS have years' worth of Optimo mixes too. www.nts.live/shows/optimo

Favourite 10 TV comedies People Like Us (OHTB*) The Fast Show The Day Today Parks & Recreation Brooklyn 99 Rising Damp Somebody Somewhere Blackadder II Superstore until COVID Call My Agent *Obviously hugely tarnished but

Ironically I can no longer watch Starship Troopers but hey.

Hey nerds! There's an Edward VIII postbox on Ramsgate harbour. I know, pretty cool huh?!

S/h record shop in Ramsgate yields a nice surprise, with a nice surprise inside.

Bless you Keith, thank you for releasing us and so many other better people across a spectrum as wide as the universe itself.

A double bill of Thunderbirds in the cinema? What a F.A.B. idea. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

From the balcony of the World's Biggest Pub you can see the lights of.....France? THIS IS NOT WHAT WE VOTED FOR.

I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of Shepard Neame. (and I found my drag name)

Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan (always say the full name otherwise there's a curse a-coming) and Jo Johnson both going from strength to strength, fantastic night in the tiny and friendly Ramsgate Music Hall.

We made it to Ramsgate, the Costa Del Kent. Looking forward to doing the Macarena to Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan.

This is very good and very good.

“No personal touchscreen beckoning itchy fingers. Just gazing dreamily into the distance or cycling about aimlessly on long summer afternoons. Boredom and its cloud-drift antidotes. Boredom as something almost erotic.”

Jasmine rules, ftw. #GBBO

"A love letter to (Hong Kong, Tuscany, whatever)" - Dan won't be reading it.

Is it Bob Dylan's hair?

My partner's latest masterpiece, inspired by Ivor Cutler.

Isabella Rossellini, David Lynch and Robert Redford. (Photo by John Armstrong for sundance.org)

*sigh* Have you even tried a crisp sandwich?

This is an interesting question I reckon. For me it's: Oren Ambarchi Moritz Von Oswald Trios Porter Ricks

I would like to start a thing just so I could get Ramin to do my logo.

Pee Wee in the Criterion Collection in December. How correct!

Thinking about creating a signature cocktail. So far the options are: - Pint of bitter w/sausage in it (too Belgian?) - Bovril & Vodka, ice and a slice.

This is PERFECT for @ianmartin.bsky.social 's birthday. Starting a crowdfunder to buy him one (1) ticket.

And I am afraid I will not be accepting the Nobel prize for physics.

It is with heavy heart I also announce the end of my relationship with Kate Beckinsale

Now this fills my heart with pride.

I am very happy for both Jean Smart & Hannah Einbunder from Hacks and Jeff Hiller from Somebody Somewhere winning the Emmys as I enjoyed both shows hugely and sometimes it's comforting to be part of the wider cultural world.

"And it won't cost a bomb"

Further context: the book’s publishers, Unbound, went bust a few months ago, the rights and all remaining stock reverted to me, and I now have several boxes of the book in my office, which is several-minus-one boxes too many. I like the book, make no mistake, but am also keen to get rid of them.

Brilliant piece on the casual erasure of of a female artist from a landmark moment in pop culture. And the answer to the question, Why don’t Peter Blake’s other album covers have the power and impact of Sgt. Pepper?

Here’s a lovely piece from The Observer to lift your spirits: competitive ball kicking through a small Parisian window observer.co.uk/news/interna...

I saw this P&O advert and thought of you, Nurse With Wound fans.

Dreamt I was hanging out with Nick Cave on a farm in the outback. After a while I plucked up the nerve to say "You know what? It'd be OK if you shut up sometimes." And to my relief he agreed. My negligible knowledge of and interest in dream analysis suggests this was a memo to myself.

It was a pleasure to be asked by Stewart Lee and producer Miles Warde to sit in as the 'expert' on Great Lives this coming Monday at 3pm on BBC Radio 4, to celebrate Derek Bailey. Our chance to honour him. No idea how it will come out, but we did our best. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Starting in 10 minutes on CJMP 90.1 FM in Powell River, BC and online: the latest edition of A Duck in a Tree, the :zoviet*france: radio show cjmp.ca/listen-live/

Time to mute some more words. If anything happens to William Shatner or the lead singer of Spear of Destiny could they let me know please?

Reasons to make music: -killing time before something more interesting happens -get to generate download codes -spite -trying to communicate with dolphins -spreading a sinister ideology -need hold music for company’s service line -woke -not good at podcasting -want to find out what a “flanger” is

It's Renaissance #Caturday

The last time I got a touch of the groypers, we'd been trekking across the Gobi for 18 days, subsisting solely on a diet of tinned mutton and Bovril.

Under the volcano, over the volcano Wandering free, The consul of Quauhnahuac is he. Making good use of the drinks that he finds Drinks that make everyday people go blind. @backlisted.bsky.social @malcolmlowry.bsky.social

Well, we all grieve in different ways.

OH MY GOD I THOUGHT THIS WAS A BIT. It must be a bit?

Even a bland single colour album cover is better because it's more a reflection of how you yourself is presenting the music - you're choosing the colour! Typing a prompt into an AI machine is just gonna give you some shitty Facebook slop built on other people's copyrighted work.

Weds Writer reflection on the highs and lows of small publisher press fairs. #WritingCommunity