HOT ROD CARTOONS #1 (November 1964), with sequential front and back cover art by George Lemmons.

Reminds me of a time I stood on the fire escape at the back of our flat, listening to the roar from Fratton Park stadium, doing my own head in trying to work out what I was actually hearing on account of how no individual shout could have made it to my ears.

Extremely Vic Reeves style

1977

Np, IS V GOOD youtu.be/O3sCsD5_Fmw?...

love it when the pharmacy runs out of amber pill bottles and puts my pills in the green ones, makes me feel like a dog and yeah me and Amber Pillbottles had a thing going in high school

Every Lego catalogue, in full, from 1966-2015. At the link brickset.com/library/cata...

Adobe discontinuing a tool that a huge chunk of the animation industry seems to actual use, for their jobs, to focus on stupid shit no one wants tech.yahoo.com/ai/deals/art...

Again, shonky from being zoomed in, but I like the effect

Np. Best version of The Werewolf

Np. I've noticed with a lot of these comps of old tunes the odd track that sounds like a low bitrate MP3, which I've suspected was due to 'mastering' from bloody YouTube or something, but now I'm wondering if it's excessive noise reduction? Anyway, earliest tracks here suffer from it but otherwise 😎

Company biog, 1964ish. "...making a fetish of simplicity even to the point of crudity" is a pleasing line

Hello. This is The Whale Pod: a podcast where a Welshman and a Geordie read Herman Melville's leviathanic 1851 opus 'Moby-Dick' and try to work out what it's all about. Featuring capitalism, empire, race, gender, sex, God, money, fascism, violence, obsession, America, and absolutely loads of whales

Here's Cliff welcoming us into February with a baffling caption and another below-par photo off his camera reel. (We used to get dolphins leaping in the background, ffs.)

Crocus varieties have names like "Little Lovely" and Daffodil varieties have names like "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King"

Finally, a term to describe the result of me asking anyone at work a question designed to get something specific out of them Me: "Am I right in thinking there is no way to join the course table to the learning plan table in yr dbase?" Them: "Can confirm Learning Plan table exists"

Mood

Zoomed in from a thousand miles away but I quite like the effect it's had. Note the small circle of birds there

New Cocteau Twins track just dropped

the grovelling "teacher! teacher! 👉 he said a swear!" energy of these little fascist turds

R.I.P. Bob Layzell (1940-2026)

Jailbreak: the blessed Ranieri frees the poor from a formidable Florentine prison. Painted in 1440 by Sassetta of Siena. It's his day today.

Particularly interested in the slackers part of this

POV: superego has just told the id that it can't do something

Dutch Interior II by Joan Miró, 1928 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137463

New episode of Monstrosities Mon Amour. See the National Theatre through the eyes of an archaeologist: @reblambert.bsky.social explains how it’s like a henge. Also her love for Dolph Lundgren’s Masters of the Universe! johngrindrod.substack.com/p/monstrosit...

A bunch more not-looking-at-the-paper team portraits

Found your dad

St George's Church, Stevenage New Town, designed by Seely and Paget, 1956-60. 'Reinforced concrete frame with precast concrete flint-faced wall panels, buff brick to narthex and copper covered barrel roofs', according to its Grade II listing.

9am team meeting. Quick portraits done without taking eyes off the subject, ie without looking at the drawing as you're doing it. Results 1000 times better than when done straight lol

Egg box sofa

The things this does to my brane. Frustrated by inability to describe the sensations but then if I DID it would probably kill it, or at least render it docile (the dreaded domestication process)

William Mitchell, ‘Scenes of Contemporary Life’ -sculptural wall mural, Stevenage, 1972; in Mitchell's words, 'an instantly recognisable pastiche of time and place… the panels were meant as a time warp for the future and a recognisable landmark for the then present'.

Reminds me: Moonlight in Vermont. Spooky but in a Golden Syrup In Your Veins, Sunday evening way. youtu.be/xTTw2biWaQ0?...

Imagine drumming on Double Barrel when you're 18, then going on to play on Police And Thieves, Pull Up To The Bumper, and a million crucial recordings. And, of course, Boops (a track I often get obsessed with). Like the LP title, Sly Dunbar was a Rhythm Killer. R.I.P. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVIs...

What's the best Link Wray compilation on CD?

Shocked Flat Cap is the famous one but I've always been a fan of Delighted Accountant