Untitled (Black on Gray) by Mark Rothko, 1969 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137160

KING OF THE ROAD (1986)

"kids need to learn cursive as part of the cultivation of a well-rounded personality" is a very 17th-century post

The Long March To Payday

just browsing amazon it seems like there are plenty of these about but they all require that you already pay for spotify premium etc

people complain that this site is becoming more like twitter (probably rightly) & yet the phenomenon of random replies from liberal posters who don't follow you continues unabated

was thinking the other day they need to invent a portable streaming device separate from smartphones so I can listen to podcasts at the gym. actually maybe an audio device w/... mp3 storage? a far out notion

in a sort-of-sequel the critical caveats about Wilco's A Ghost Is Born look like funny artefacts of the mid-00s brain now. it's clearly their best album!

how is this post only a month old. it feels eternal

There, Motion Has Not Yet Ceased by Yves Tanguy, 1945 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137845

alternate timeline in wh/ Philip Larkin invests in property in the 50s, gives up work for passive income & has to find completely different subject matter

there's a certain lecturer at our institution who writes on trendy topics for LRB & NYRB & seems to do nothing but similar clout-sourcing activities. had a look & sure enough she's moved on to Durham

until I saw people talking about how "bad" the mix on The Replacements' Tim was it never occurred to me to not love it. I still do!

v funny getting morning R3 news items about the government empowering quangos to stop price gouging due to the war w/ Iran but no comments on whether they're going to try & stop the war itself

Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)

Guys podcast anecdote

Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)

lovely station but the experience of getting a train there is always awful

reading Herman Ooms' description of Japanese Neo-Confucianism, wh/ worked through "equivalences and correspondences, the same idea could be express through a number of signs", maps totally onto contemporary (online) ideologies

This day my tryangle, which was put in tune yesterday, did please me very well, Ashwell playing upon it pretty well.

on the canal

median northern English town centre business

Ribbon https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/99983

early 90s British pop duo Motte & Bailey

currently rereading Woolf's diary, gotten to March 1921. v funny bit where she visits Manchester, describing the Peaks seen from the train (unsightly mill towns amid bleak moors). the university's dons aren't eccentric enough for her

been very melancholy the last two times I've been to Brighton. do I need to keep trying or just cash out

Green Party developments are a "happy for u tho / or sorry that happened" issue for me

at least tumblr doesn't produce this specific problem

Elvis Costello's album 'This Year's Model' advert in Sounds 18th, March 1978.

prime video reboot of Double Indemnity

wonderful trueblanking.bandcamp.com/album/for-bu...

neuromancer, magazine screenshot (1989) archive.org/details/game...

he's been getting ChatGPT to summarise that Jonathan Dollimore book to him

highs of 18 this week but absolutely arctic winds. hope we're finally turning a corner

Space Marine chapter the Bone Uncles

that groundhog wasn't fucking around

Jodie Gooner

don't think I could subscribe to the paper LRB again, as to me it's now just something to read while bored at work

playing the hits www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPsc...

Sunday open.spotify.com/track/3xRJ77...

longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure

started watching 28 Years Later last night & I don't get why anyone thinks Jodie Comer can even act

every day is hashtag leg day in hashtag Sheffield