Pour your unhappiness out From your too bitter heart Which grieving will not sweeten. --Wallace Stevens #poetrysky

Do they sell fridges in Selfridges?

One of those interesting cases where the cartoon is more interesting than the caption.

One of my local pizzerias just sent this really charming email about how his kids accidentally ordered 3x more cheese than needed & now they're doing £5 Margheritas all week. Eating out at #fizzandflour this week!

I have just decided to finish the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series on the grounds that 'Harry Potter is the antichrist' does not feel as crotchety-old-mannish as it did in 2009. And VOL. IV: TEMPEST IS AMAZING!

Furthest I've been: N: Strokkur geyser S: Te Anau E: Rotorua W: Vancouver

Loving the owl mask.

Hello, I'm a deaf person in a film. I am only ever profoundly deaf, exclusively communicate through sign language, and never use any technology like cochlear implants or bone anchored hearing aids. Perhaps because of this, I have a mystical connection to nature.

RIP Ozzy Osbourne. We scoured the archives to find our best medieval bats in the rocker’s honour. #MedievalMonday. 1. Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Misc. 554 2: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304. 3: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764. 4: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511.

One of those images that really doesn't look like a painting until you zoom.

At least Disney realizes that The Incredibles is the best Fantastic 4 movie. Unfortunately, live-action Jack-Jack is exactly as dull as you think.

Here's a poem by one of the old Chinese scholar bureaucrats that I think captures a certain Vibe very well

Literally a conversation I had this evening with someone I knew from the university. "I thought about teaching as an fallback as well, but then I ASSAULTED MY NEPHEW so I can't do it anymore." Who just drops that into the conversation?!

I don't know which deaf people need to hear this, but if someone ever asks to try on your hearing aids, you should get your coat because you've pulled.

10 directors by whom I've seen more than 5 films #filmsky Ridley Scott Sergio Leone John Ford Wes Anderson Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Alfred Hitchcock Peter Jackson Howard Hawks Joe Wright John Carpenter

10 authors by whom I've read more than 5 books #booksky Charles Dickens Alexander Pushkin Lindsey Davis Patrick O'Brian C.S. Forester Mary Renault Robert Louis Stevenson Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Alastair Reynolds Adam Roberts

Dune 3: Arrakisworm J'im

Here in Cardiff, I've been enjoying the fuss around the Mike Flowers Pops concert. Truly an oasis in the desert of our contemporary music scene youtu.be/NTfZshkNZRw?...

I have a joke about River Song but I keep getting it backwards.

Once or twice a year (if I'm lucky) I find myself gripped by a spasm of laughter that continues for a good five minutes and literally brings tears to my eyes. This time it happened in the middle of Tom Stoppard's Shipwreck and I'm still recovering.

Sunday portable movie: the Maltese Falcon on the #psvita

I do desire we may be better strangers #familyreunion

13 shows to get to know me: 1. Doctor Who 2. The Prisoner 3. Star Trek Lower Decks 4. Peaky Blinders 5. Blackadder 6. Bluestone 42 7. Up the Women 8. Misfits 9. Wynonna Earp 10. Spaced 11. Delicious in Dungeon 12. That Mitchell and Webb show 13. Blue Eye Samurai

Life takes too long.

In the worst club with the best company. #plagiarism #meta #ai

After having muted every term I can think of relating to US politics, this site is finally starting to seem liveable again.

Cartoon from @prospectmagazine.co.uk last month

I'm reinterviewing for my job on Thursday and identifying with this book far too much.

I'm a featured poet at this open mic next month. Come along for pirate ballads, Pushkin sonnets and pangrams!

Bring on the Butlerian jihad.

I beg all men's forgiveness.

Beware Geeks bearing grifts.

In an unexpected kerfuffle she is seized, manhandled, vanquished and unwillingly subjugated. #sphinxy

A girl walks her bike home at night

Fol-de-rol, Volovodov!

I work in Caldicot, which is a perfect anagram of 'old cacti'. Something a bit TS Eliot about that. The teachers of Caldicot Are dry as old cacti.

But you can't blame the fires On diversity hires! Nor airborne collisions On employment decisions! And so on for the next 4 years.

Longing for some springtime vibes

'Kismet, Zuleika,' exclaims Sir Quentin, misapprehending which she recoils, prompting him to subjoin, 'by which I mean the devious workings of destiny.'

His feet squelch through some invisible yet wickedly noxious ooze he judges it preferable not to visualize #sphinxy

is so full of it

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

An acolyte extends his bottle, offering to give them a drink of water; woozy with thirst, Sir Quentin does not reject this proffered kindness. #sphinxy

I've been unfortunate enough to come down with both the man-flu and a twisted mankle.

Three years ago I was accidentally given a blu ray of Sunset Boulevard and bought a blu ray player in the sales. Many charity shop, eBay and CeX purchases later:

Blu Ray shelfie

Watching The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) and God, it's so so good.

It's an odd feeling, reading Countee Cullen so skilfully adapt the language, rhythm and theme of AE Housman in such a different context. One of the best presented poetry ebooks on Gutenberg, incidentally.

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

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