1.2 trillion likes is quite a lot

money spider

@danielgray.com In the last hour, I have declined to buy the copy of The Art of Looking Sideways in the Oxfam bookshop on Micklegate. (Just in case you haven’t got a copy. And want one)

ooh decisions decisions

Imagine making eye contact with someone for long enough to do this

Please don’t take them just because you can

RIP Dot Rotten (can’t believe it’s 15 years since I posted this)

#NowPlaying Ganger – Fore (@dominorecordco.bsky.social, 1996) #vinyl

#NowPlaying Eric Dolphy – Memorial (originally released as Conversations on FM/Vee Jay, 1963; this reissue: DJM Records, 1976) #vinyl

‘The Community of Kindness project has been working with local Newhaven children to create 2,500 colourful pieces of artwork’

that’s not how you spell it

Un'ichi Hiratsuka (1895-1997)

SONG (Anagram-Haiku) Deep moonlight reveals the older poems leaving me, their pale song loved.

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RIP Sly Dunbar. Here's a lovely edition of the South Bank Show all about the wonderful Sly and Robbie. A few people were asking to see it, so I've uploaded it to YouTube and I'll leave it there until Monday. Hopefully it'll get a proper repeat soon. youtu.be/M-cuOdr6DpQ

Seems unlikely

Linocut album cover artwork for @pgofton.bsky.social ‘Pagodas’ released under ‘The All Golden’ moniker. It’s a collection of recordings and songs he made as a teenager and in his twenties and it’s remarkably good and one of my studio favourites when I’m printing….

It’s out! Get yourself a crisp new copy of Issue 2 of Unch, the clued-up crossword magazine, here ⬇️ unchcrosswords.com Designed – and illustrated(!) – by yours truly

Got a sale on for the rest of January. Any digital release is pay what you like and got heavy discounts on a bunch of amazing records. Tell all your friends! hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com/merch

Happy birthday to Barbara Lynn. This is the coolest thing you'll see today. The full TV show is at youtu.be/-LQDXb3axJ4

This still feels very much like Spotify stealing artists’ money

Very soon

Kind of reminds me of the first verse in this version of I’m in the Mood by John Lee Hooker, who’s perhaps not primarily known for dropping gags into his songs

#NowPlaying Augustus Pablo – El Rocker’s (Pressure Sounds, 2000) #vinyl pressuresounds.bandcamp.com/album/el-roc...

#NowPlaying Gerry Mulligan – Collaborations (Verve, c.1961)

Some superb type selections here 👇

Soon

Jean-Luc SALA

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Dancing at the Sunset Club, a jazz and calypso club, situated at 50 Carnaby Street - December 1951

Nice move by Lloyds having a defibrillator next to the cash point for when you check your balance after Christmas

#NowPlaying McKinley Dixon – Magic, Alive! (City Slang, 2025)

#NowPlaying Jo Kurzweg – Winterzeit – Schöne Zeit (Amiga, 1976)

I guess Christmas increases the risk of this kind of thing but kinda funny hearing a Radio 3 show end with Silent Night and the following show play another version about 15 minutes later

Right. I am officially On The Sherry

After reading The Raven a high school classmate asked if poetry existed before Edgar Allen Poe, and what did they call it?

#NowPlaying Yara Asmar – everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so so much (@hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com, 2025)

Anyone thinking ‘how could you possibly need a tub of mustard that big’ has clearly never tried it

Can’t tell if this is the original audio or it’s had a free improv percussion solo edited over it

Perhaps a day late but this winter solstice set from @michaeltanner.bsky.social is doing all the right things to my soul www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...

Apparently my brain/eyes have decided to start confusing ‘reminder’ with ‘reindeer’

"I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided. That's my daring idea. Just say no."

Half Ma’am Half Brisket

#NowPlaying Ohio Players – Contradiction (Mercury, 1976)

This is genuinely fascinating; I love the drawing. The discovery that foxes have been ‘cunning’ in stories for 4½ thousand years! The cliffhanger! The multicoloured cows! Good work, Dr Jana Matuszak

Martin Green played this amazing record at last night's Stars 0n 45 event with Lawrence and Steve Furst at the Circle & Star in Hampstead. Spaghetti Junction by Friday Brown, as featured on her eponymous LP from 1971 #Birmingham71 youtu.be/9JJp12o9idI

Either 1) neo-Nazi holocaust denier, conspiracy theorist and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, named by the Anti-Defamation League as ‘perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite’, or 2) Walliams

#NowPlaying Love, Builder of Worlds – Scared for the Climate (Grime Remix) /via @jam.coop

Let me just check what time my reservation is

Július Hegyesy (1933-2018)