Listening to an audiobook of a whodunnit. About a third of the way through ‘Ruby’ seems to become ‘Ruth’ – proofreading error? or have I just lost the thread? Thought I’d do a quick online search for a list of characters. First one I clicked IMMEDIATELY TOLD ME WHO THE KILLER IS

‘it seemed like I could hear music coming from inside … ’

Couple of favourites from the 1960s: The EmCee Five, led by hugely underappreciated Hammond organist Mike Carr. This is from the album Bebop from the East Coast

A small wonder of 1950s publishing: John Lewis’s ‘A Handbook of Type and Illustration: with notes on certain graphic processes and the production of books’. Published 1956 by @faberbooks.bsky.social.

The author sent me a copy, and it's really something to behold in person.

Just getting round to investigating this fully – what the Guardian have done to mark the publication of their 30,000th cryptic crossword is 🤯

106 years ago today, on May 7th, an undergraduate at Christchurch College, Oxford, drank a glass of port then left through the main gates for a walk. I've been thinking about him, & his walk, for years now. It's taken a long time for me to figure out why - why I've kept returning, near obsessed.

Tony Stella, an artist of immense brilliance and prolific output, has passed away. He was one of the greatest artists to ever do it. Rest in peace, Tony.

Fiery orange sunset making the towers of Battersea power station glow against a sky piled up with bad-tempered clouds

Last time I did this journey, I listened to Bill Nighy recommend reading Joan Didion. This time, I’m reading Joan Didion

Georgia O’Keeffe, Lake George with White Birch, 1921 #WomensArt

Alice & Martin Provensen

Girl group feature on @laurenlaverne.bsky.social sent me looking for my copy of Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, the great history of girl groups from the 50s to the 80s by Charlotte Greig, whose career was massively more varied and interesting than I realised en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlot...

(not shown: ‘Across the ocean blue’)

Boomers on the train vocally appreciating JMAN’s trackside graff throwup between Plumpton and Wivelsfield

‘Prynne’s most impatient detractors sound like Top Gear reviewing the International Space Station’

New Lumps

This weekend, whilst rummaging at a flea market, we found this book of designs for Modernist homes - published in Sao Paulo in 1956. Here we have scanned 15 of our favourites www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/s...

Remembering Glen Campbell on his birthday. Here's "Guess I'm Dumb" filmed for Shindig in 1965

Prince doing things with a guitar that no-one else can do, on his spellbinding live version of the Temptations’ Just My Imagination. From the Small Club bootleg, recorded at an aftershow at Paard van Troje, Den Haag in 1988 RIP 💜

10 years without Prince.

This is how I discovered there were two distinctly different versions of Sulk. My copy is also the European one *sulks*

On this day, 20th April 1902 Marie Skłodowska Curie and husband Pierre successfully isolated one tenth of a gram of Radium, the first sample of a radioactive element, from 8 tons of pitchblende. Artist: Frank Hampson ‘Madam Curie’ (1970)

oh no

Decent metal lyricist too 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

My ability to dredge from my subconscious the likes of Eustreptospondylus, Iberimosornis, Stygimoloch and Dromaeosaurus is entirely down to these two:

#NowPlaying Gene Clark – No Other (Asylum, 1974)

#NowPlaying DJ Haram – Beside Myself (Hyperdub, 2025) djharam.bandcamp.com/album/beside...

#NowPlaying Shabaka – Of the Earth (Shabaka, 2026) shabaka.bandcamp.com/album/of-the...

My small and imperfectly formed cd single collection

RIP Mike Westbrook

RIP Asha Bhosle

#NowPlaying Pet Shop Boys – Discography: The complete singles collection (EMI, 1991) #vinyl

Wonderful 💛

You should probably credit the amazingly talented yet surprisingly modest graphic designer 😜

Cryptic crossword aficionados and printed periodical enjoyers! The new issue of Unch magazine is out very soon Make sure you get your copy here: unchcrosswords.com

#NowPlaying Piero Umiliani – To-day’s Sound (Easy Tempo, 1997) #vinyl

#NowPlaying John Coltrane – A Love Supreme (Impulse, 1965; 1995 reissue) #vinyl

House by a lake with blue mountains, 1933–35 by German Expressionist painter Gabriele Münter #Womensart

Can confirm. In my household these are shown more respect than I am.

Things I have seen in the rubble of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon over the past week. More up here: www.instagram.com/p/DWPjaZSjUv...

💅💅💅 REUNION Classic March 22, 2026 I solved it in 1️⃣5️⃣ moves! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 🦊 🦔 🎉 www.merriam-webster.com/games/reunion

#NowPlaying Pete Christlieb / Warne Marsh Quintet – Apogee (Warners, 1978) www.youtube.com/watch?v=F26Q...

Scorched Earth Policy – Foaming Out (Xpressway, 1991)