One of the great tragedies of your life is that you won't take up my recommendation of Rat Race.

Raise the bunting, Crump is back.

At the risk of sounding like the Allister Heath opinion generator, I strongly believe that civilisation ended the day people started saying 'work colleague'.

Intersperse tiresome news opinions with a bit of Oink!

Out comes Stevie

Absolutely one of the great LPs. It doesn't get enough love.

Family Seinfeld watch-through achieved.

I'm not saying I'm a prophet or anything, but I posted this last month, when none of you had even heard of the Brontës.

I made the mistake of posting this on Sunday, when its target age group (48-59) was preoccupied with trying to convince itself it had known about Big Bunny for years. Yet another blow for the hapless Violins.

Be honest with yourself – you've missed me complaining about the book biz. Fill yer boots.

I've put something on my website about why my new book isn't out yet. It includes appearances from a number of familiar faces.

I've put something on my website about why my new book isn't out yet. It includes appearances from a number of familiar faces.

Spend your Sunday listening to the great lost band of the 80s. music.apple.com/gb/album/hal...

Fred Smith, Television bassist, has passed away, according to Richard Lloyd. 1/4 of the coolest gang in town, and a hell of a player. Godspeed.

They've put a truckload of Ibsen on the iplayer. It's there all year, but it's probably best to start now and pace yourself – you wouldn't want to end up speedrunning it in December. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Wanna make something of it?

It's finally here: the 20th anniversary year of The Upper Room. They came from nowhere, released the wonderful album Other People's Problems [one teenage melodrama after another] and almost immediately imploded for reasons that were never quite clear.

I have just unfollowed: 1. A wealthy musician for bigging up Spotify and 2. A music writer for their ham-fisted criticism of a Sade lyric I have a taste for blood. It won't stop here.

Another try at creating an inspirational meme

A beautiful record well described. Chaos and precision. Peel played it all the way through, uninterrupted.

I'm sure others before me will have noted the prescience of Avengers issues 73 & 74. 2026 in 1970.

I'm giving you one more chance to do the right thing.

Get in.

Owen Ashworth is the King of Christmas. Catch his basement concert before it comes down with the tree.

No reason, just LOL. Prints of this @daveyjones.bsky.social banger are available from philiplarkin.com/product/lark... #poetry #philiplarkin #viz #space #doom

What Dan says

My first eight books are finishing yet another year out of print, thanks to the discovery of a gaping hole in my royalty statements. I'll never stop being angry about this.

It was never in doubt: my Book of the Year award goes to Rishi Dastidar's magnificently relentless 'A Hobby of Mine'.

Don't miss today's NYT Connections, fans of... one of the answers. That's you, by the way.

In my universe Ben Moor is a national treasure. He's on The Wheel, he cuts the ribbons of new hospitals, and he politely declines royal honours. BBC2 is planning a Ben Moor Night. Whichever universe you're in, if you go to his shows and read his books your life will improve.

In my universe Ben Moor is a national treasure. He's on The Wheel, he cuts the ribbons of new hospitals, and he politely declines royal honours. BBC2 is planning a Ben Moor Night. Whichever universe you're in, if you go to his shows and read his books your life will improve.

The deep state seems to be trying to convince us that Keeping the Dream Alive is, and has always been, a Christmas song. Maintain your resolve.

All that money their parents spent on their education and they write a song called Fake Plastic Trees.

The time has come...

The new MCU generation is shaping up nicely.

I concede that everyone who bent my ear about Watchmen over the last four decades was right. It's ace. Forbidden Planet is selling for £6.20, along with the rest of the excellent DC Compact Comics line. I don't see how anyone can be making any money, but that's up to them. £6.20!

If you are at all concerned about your blood pressure, look away now.

I've not heard them all, but I reckon the best song in the first quarter of this century must surely be Ghosts by Siobhan Donaghy.

The people who run the company are both sinister and pathetic. [Bearing in mind they've been caught sending legal letters to poetry correspondents I don't think they have the credibility to dispute this.]

I did watch this over the weekend. They really could not make it today. Very silly but plenty of fun. Entirely obvious what was going to happen after the opening five minutes, and all the better for it.

It's this weekend or never. I'm not sure you people deserve me.

It's this weekend or never. I'm not sure you people deserve me.

Why does everything have to have a happy ending these days?

Solid work from Frenchy here.

I see Canongate Books has reached the 'sending legal letters to poetry critics' leg of its #kindness journey.