Met this friend today.

Just watched Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451… and KEVIN ELDON is in it!

I need a job. Not suggestions, just a job. Any job at all as long as it helps pay the bills.

Mr Punch on TOTP…

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My Hallowe’en cartoon from 5 years ago.

On the bus. Fast and bulbous!

Eli Wallach made a mean lemonade.

Some of you will have had toffee apples; a few of you may have tried crab apples; but I’ll be surprised if any of you shares my fondness for toffee-coated crabs. 🦀

‘Monk’ comes from μοναχός, meaning single/solitary—so if you see two together, they’re probably not monks.

@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social, Saing, just saing…

np, new album by my pal Tom Skinner:

from The Thyrsus by Baudelaire,

Rewatched Švankmajer’s Faust last night. Saw it at the cinema in ‘94. Remembered it as though it were yesterday! Bloody good fun. It occurred to me that I hadn’t seen his Lunacy—so watching that now!

Facebook memory:

Samantha Eggar, R.I.P.

Damn. R.I.P., D’Angelo

I remember the first time I saw a bloke measuring a road (?) with a trundle-wheel. That’s the job for me, I thought. Where does one apply?

Only discovered Knower yesterday. Some bonkers bits!

Visited Arthur Rackham’s plaque. Also spotted those of Mondrian & Henry Moore.

Some blue plaques I spied yesterday.

Dumb Instrument ✅

Can confirm, the Denton Welch exhibition is FAB!

what kind of pants do ghosts wear? just a paranormal trousers

How can you lose?

The terrible end of the Dulwich Hermit just popped into my head. I used to roam around those woods, supposedly doing conservation (as it was an alternative to the horrors of rugby). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_...

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As it’s World Octopus Day…

As it’s World Octopus Day…

Just happened across this. Really ace!

Insomnia listening…

Found a 1st edition (minus dust jacket, though)…

TIL that pillar boxes have fearsome fangs!

Thinking about Sartre’s hoard of imaginary crabs. 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀

@rolandbates.bsky.social Took me a little while, but…

Surprised that no one has made a film of Job as far as I know. Nicolas Cage would be good.

Pythagoras was not a fan of the Fabe Four.

It occurs to me that my grandpa taught at Repton, but only from 1921-3…

@rolandbates.bsky.social !!

Found a nice-smelling edition of Hoban’s Lion 🦁

Some people think a unicorn has one horn—but uni is the plural of unus.

“You dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from Darth Vader, Ophelia.” (Is what I heard and now can’t unhear.)