á propos the spoken language of The Odyssey, thought I should remind people of the near-wordless Italian adaptation Nostos: Il Ritorno www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah-C...

would love to see Musk try even to govern one of those stamp-sized principalities they had in the eastern Holy Roman Empire

looking forward to this as an old-time blog fan of Anwen's (must admit I haven't read her last book - the years fly by)

Labour cabinet minister making an official fuss about remarks about Las Malvinas is real "divorced dad but as a nation-state" stuff

To supper, and then to a little viall and to bed, sporting in my fancy with the Queen.

"I worry that we are pushing forward, as a population moving out of the Gutenberg parenthesis, into states of consciousness that involve ever less 'self-awareness', but ever more 'self-consciousness'" zachcampbell.substack.com/p/077-our-at...

Albert Oehlen, Untitled, 1989 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137368

14th, July 1979 Joy Division's album Unknown Pleasures reviewed by Dave McCullough. "Clicking electronic drums hissed and spat, a bass rumbled in, fat and heavy, a guitar pinged trebly into a weaving pattern of ragged chords." @peterhookthelight.bsky.social

In the Vanilla Grove, Man and Horse by Paul Gauguin, 1891 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137395

"Pet parrots had learned to imitate the sound of machine gun fire" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

one way you know #MeToo didn't go far enough is this person would have been cancelled several times over if not for experimental music/sound art/academic omertà

illustration, personal computing, magazine (1986) archive.org/details/pers...

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holiday laundromat facade sign, dinosaur detail, route 40, vernal, utah, 1991

Robert Mapplethorpe, Self Portrait, 1983 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1078626

crypto-renga I wrote last year scarlettracery.tumblr.com/post/7289052...

I always thought that the chronological reference in the opening line of 'Love Again' was 3.10pm but I learn from recent reading it's meant to be am. huh www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48424/...

can't fucking wait to get out of this job lol

The Poster's Fate

just want to give up honestly

been sufficiently preoccupied that "Ann Widdecombe murdered for apparently non-political reasons" entirely passed me by

🎵🎵🎵 better to burn out than to fade away

could really do w/ a circles function on here rn

Psychotically chanting "God will reward my suffering with fat naturals" with such conviction that eventually the rest of the people in the Greyhound bus join in

Philip Guston, East Side, 1980 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1120079

Larry Rivers, Double Portrait of Frank O'Hara, 1955 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135249

Uncle passing through the TV room and stopping to listen to “Dream of the Shore Bordering Another World” with his arms folded

rockwood motel office wall, klamath falls, oregon, 1987

I wasn't going to say anything else but I know one or two of you follow her on twitter, where she's apparently been telling people that we're non-monogamous again (we're not) & going into detail about her assignations

I sort of get what this is claiming - about the persistence of 'class' only as spectacle in a "post-class" Britain - but it's pretty dumb & mechanical

always v funny when the political-media establishment in the UK arbitrarily decides to start Noticing something

a v minor point but in a late chapter she identifies the Barbican as one of those post-war projects of "common wealth" like the NHS, neglecting to mention it was built for private tenants from the City of London

How will the Tour de France adapt to a world on fire? defector.com/the-tour-de-...

Up. Making water this morning, which I do every morning as soon as I am awake, with greater plenty and freedom than I used to do, which I think I may impute to last night’s drinking of elder spirits.

from literary journal's newsletter: "Tens of high profile Israeli leaders signed a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatening legal action if his government does not halt Jewish terrorism in the West Bank". tens? ambassador, you're really spoiling us

I stepped to Sir W. Batten, and there staid and talked with him, and sent for some lobsters, and Mrs. Turner came in, and did bring us an umble pie hot out of her oven, extraordinary good, and afterwards some spirits of her making, in which she has great judgment, very good.

I should do this for the Caravaggio 40th anniversary

Loving these photos of Sheffield’s music scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s by Pete Hill, with Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA, The Human League, Artery and many more britishculturearchive.co.uk/sheffield-mu...

Buzzcocks single 'Love You More' advert in Sounds 8th, July 1978. @buzzcocks.com @malcolmgarrett.bsky.social

may or may not be breaking up after it turns out gf has been cheating on me for at least a month

been a very bad <24 hours

I just can't imagine what the future will be.

[first world post] I've kind of committed myself to tending my own garden as a writer over the last few years. but it's really not very easy when all your contemporaries are getting published etc & you have to exist alone

absolutely love this guy. he posts 3 or 4 times a week & as w/ most classical music criticism I can barely understand his opinions www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CB8...

Frosties Game Boy Collector Cards & Stickers / Promotional material / Kellogg's / 1993

drafting a sympathetic DM for various Mexican egirls

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mono no aware