Nominal Catholics who ignore most of the sacraments irritate me, though not as much as, say, a secretary of defense who considers himself a general in Donald the Trumpheart's crusade against anti-Christian pagans. On Good Friday. wp.me/pzXeC-lbp

#NowPlaying open.spotify.com/album/5siV9C...

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#NowPlaying My eighties: open.spotify.com/track/6I1AWd...

Found this a pretty interesting piece about the machinery behind music industry hype and the writer‘s personal response to finding out that her new faves’ popularity may not be as organic as she hoped www.wordsfromeliza.com/p/fake-fans

RIP James Gadson, drummer. Working with everyone from Marvin Gaye to Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin to Justin Timberlake, his career spanned 6 decades. He played on over 500 gold records, including Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On," the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and Herbie Hancock's "Manchild"

Talk about a song I could listen to on repeat NO PROBLEM

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Who let the Goats out?

Young Punctum updates are taking a couple of weeks off as L's taking a couple of Sundays off work, hence the rebooted August 1974 entry will not go up until a fortnight tomorrow (16). There's plenty to enjoy on the blog in the meantime: funthirty.blogspot.com

My March 2026 reading! I tried something different: I blurbed every title: books by Henry James, Rachel Reid, Patti Smith, etc. Let's see if it works. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/m...

I celebrate Marvin Gaye by playing his best studio album and it's not WHAT'S GOING ON. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/r...

Bruce Springsteen kicks off his Land of Hopes & Dreams Tour in Minneapolis 03/31/26

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Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

trans rights is a "wedge" issue in the sense that if you have an issue with trans rights I will "wedge" you into a crevasse in a mountain and leave you there

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HMMM 🤔HMMM

NEW: Democrats have officially claimed a second upset in Florida's recent special elections. The AP just declared Brian Nathan, an electrical workers union leader, to be the winner of a tight state senate contest in reliably Republican West Tampa.

STREATHAM REPRESENTS HOPE

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UK album chart early midweeks, and it looks like the blog post I wrote earlier today was justified: 1 RAYE - THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE (31,322) 2 Melanie Martinez - Hades (9,242) 3 Don Broco - Nightmare Tripping (7,478) 4 Robyn - Sexistential (6,373) 5 Tom Misch - Full Circle (6,058)

RIP Glen Baxter. I stumbled upon "The Unhinged World" in a used bookstore some 20 years ago, and recall laughing aloud while flipping through it.

Fred McDowell - Trouble Everywhere I Go youtu.be/1Qv7rGc7UxQ?... 1962 Dick Spottswood field recording Released 1982 on the album Mississippi Fred McDowell - 1962 His First Recordings Following Discovery

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Early Beatles is really underrated. Hard Day’s Night is a really excellent album. Yes their later stuff is musical genius but painting their early stuff as just pop fluff couldn’t be more wrong.

#NowPlaying ...and this is already pretty damn groovy; more music of the resistance: open.spotify.com/album/78InQg...

You know that Uncorrected Bound Proof book about which I have endlessly prattled on? All of it is now up and available to read, in the correct chapter order, for those who might be interested in a three-year-old book based on a four-year-old streaming playlist: uncorrectedboundproof.blogspot.com

Well done. #NoKings

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Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets of Minneapolis”

Judy Garland, “Battle Hymn Of The Republic,” December 1963 🇺🇸

My poster for No Kings March tomorrow.

Saturday morning repost. The idea behind the extras was to illustrate a specifically British variety of emotional darkness peculiar but not exclusive to those times. It was important to get both the Drake and Wyatt songs in there.

Today is Octidi the 8th of Germinal in the year 234. Germinal is the month of sprouting. Today we celebrate daffodils.#JacobinDay More information on daffodils

"a continuously growing horizontal underground stem which puts out lateral shoots and adventitious roots at intervals" which is a way of saying everything here is both very obvious and very hidden at almost the same time (plus bops) #everyway #chaconne #hittheroad

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Well I didn't know Clare Teal had started her new show - it's basically the same show she had on Jazz FM and Radio 2 before that - on Boom Light, or I did but didn't keep in my over-cluttered mind, but here she is on now. Very fine Thursday teatime listening: www.boomradiouk.com/player/boom-...

Excellent piece; sums up what I feel admirably.

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Do not watch the new H*rry P*tter trailer whenever it came out, even if just to dislike it. Do not hate watch it whenever it came out. and by gods Do Not Harass the Child Actors.

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Hey I stayed off the whole Rowling thing at work all day so forgive me if I briefly mention that she is also an extremely bad writer, not just a bad person.

Kraftwerk - Autobahn (Live 1975) #Kraftwerk #Alternative #Alternativerock #Alternativemusic #70salternative #70smusic #Electronic #Electronicmusic #Live #Synth #Musicsky #Musicvideo

Very pertinent comment by @rmkf.bsky.social on ILE about the industrialisation of compulsory grief in literature:

Great writing, as usual!

Annual reminder: don't spray spring dandelions with roundup or similar chemicals. One flower can be visited by 100+ bees in a day, and your chemicals will kill all of them.