main memory of Corsica Studios is repeatedly dropping near-full pints & splashing a friend of a friend (the friend being Nina Power) when there to see a reformed Terminal Cheesecake. still feel really bad about it

didn't really have an opinion on Kaleb Horton's writing but hard to describe the feeling when someone your age dies

since seeing this video I've had an ebay search set up for Suntory penguin memorabilia & you wouldn't believe the prices this shit commands www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMxo...

long-term subscriber to Depressive Crash-Out Quarterly

a great sigh of boredom ripples through nature

9 Songs: better than it should be but its main interest is v much its flavour as a period piece. also a weird effect of the female lead looking like someone I used to know

he's done it again folks

コストコホットドッグの低品質さを調味料でどうにかしてるジャンク感たまらん…近くに引っ越したい…

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuuuuuux is actually v enjoyable despite having a good portion of the plot ripped off from Rebuild of Evangelion

currently reading: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... bombing campaigns against civilians were first used in colonial mandate territories after WWI, b/c the Entente powers never got to carry out their planned strategic bombing campaign against Germany

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

Pink Pony Club would be the name of a slightly "edgy" indie disco night in the English provinces in 2008

I always admired Kaleb Horton's writing so much and am terribly sorry to hear of his death. It's a long list of singular writers who didn't have the careers they should have because of the people, places, and things that killed online media, but his name is right at the very top. I hate all of it.

coming back from the shops, guy runs past me w/ a shopping basket of laundry powder & scent balls, stops in a rich house's front garden & stuffs them in his backpack then walks on quickly looking over his shoulder. come on man

"an ancient Chinese character. MU: nothingness" www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFeJ...

Five Mixes by Optimo (Espacio)/JD Twich--it's really ten, but who deserves it more? R.I.P. to one of the greatest selectors ever. michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc138-five...

dreamt I was John Ganz (more or less) posting while on holiday at Disneyland

At Sir W. Batten’s with Sir J. Minnes, &c., where he told us among many other things how in Portugal they scorn to make a seat for a house of office, but they do shit all in pots and so empty them in the river.

idg people who go into raptures about crushing whole canned tomatoes w/ their hands. "it's tactile" - so is washing your hands, wh/ you're gonna need to do soon

been reading this very slowly (in an even worse edition, though w/ the Hilary Mantel introduction): www.virago.co.uk/titles/eliza... absolutely devastating & v funny

Doncaster AND Sheffield shows! ambassador, you're really spoiling us

Greil Marcus on Mystery Train at 50: www.rocksbackpages.com/Podcast/Epis...

there's an old church the university's converted into student flats. was sitting on a monument at lunch reading when a guy interrupts "I don't mean to bother you but... I think that's someone's grave" "yeah, I know. he's dead, he won't mind" "[beat] OK, I'll take your word for it"

I went to my uncle Wight’s, where I found my aunt in mourning and making sad stories for the loss of her dear sister Nicholls, of which I should have been very weary but that pretty Mrs. Margaret Wight came in and I was much pleased with her company.

an "easy" 30 miles this morning, wh/ naturally means 3 incredibly long nasty climbs. by the 2nd one (between Midhopestones & Bradfield) was having to stop & catch my breath every few 100 metres. just walked the last one lol

Bisonual

living room ceiling is leaking again for the 4th time in less than 2 years. each time the repair guy clears the gutters above the leaking spot, it's fine for a while then just happens again. after a while you'd think it would be cheaper to actually fix it

My barber sent me his man to trim me, who did live in King Street in Westminster lately, and tells me that three or four that I knew in that street, tradesmen, are lately fallen mad, and some of them dead, and the others continue mad.

youtube keeps trying to get me to watch Bari Weiss talking to Woody Allen. enough to drive me to enact my own 'Mishima incident'

currently reading: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... Verlaine described London as "flat as a bed-bug, if bed-bugs were flat", & suggested that 'the way people drank in pubs confirmed the "lamentable inferiority of Anglo-Saxons"'

Perfect Days (Wim Wenders, 2023) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Jx...

magazine screenshot (1984) archive.org/details/tech...

Henri Matisse, Memory of Oceania, Nice-Cimiez, Hôtel Régina, summer 1952-early 1953 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135084

Metal Gear Solid 3 The Sorrow boss fight but you're being menaced by all the customer service employees you ever had awkward interactions w/

Metal Gear Solid 3 The Sorrow boss fight but you're being menaced by all the customer service employees you ever had awkward interactions w/

Mr. Ashburnham did tell us, that this last year, there being great want of corn in Paris, and so a collection made for the poor, there was two pearls brought in, nobody knew from whom (till the Queen, seeing them, knew whose they were), which were sold for 200,000 crownes.

Misato Katsuragi from Wish

been almost exactly 2 years since I published this: utopiadeferred.substack.com/p/into-a-flame honestly the lack of reaction to it is the root of me doing nothing since

glad that everyone except a small "class-first socialist" death cult seems to have forgotten the 'Vampire's Castle' essay

I do find it funny that the Cabaret Voltaire live reunion tour includes exactly 1 (one) Sheffield show, an "exclusive" w/ a "multimedia festival" no-one cares about

there's a Particular Person I have a longstanding grudge against & every year I check their university website to see if they've finally lost their job. one day

the other funny thing going through southwest London into Surrey yesterday was how far the parakeet population has spread

Jane Jacobs claims evidence from Çatalhöyük proves halfpipes & grinding ledges preceded agriculture

v satisfying www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tUf...