Big piece in the Guardian yesterday about a girl suffering from "chronic Lyme disease", immediately thought of this brilliant piece: www.thecut.com/2019/07/what...

"Thessalie Wayward, a successful stage mentalist". He's still got it!

I'll be honest - it's not clear to me that this is AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwzc...

Brilliant piece on the casual erasure of of a female artist from a landmark moment in pop culture. And the answer to the question, Why don’t Peter Blake’s other album covers have the power and impact of Sgt. Pepper?

There is a genuinely extraordinary number of England flags in my (well-to-do, not poor, middle England) town. Where are they coming from?

You just know there's gonna be some ugly tweets from the good people of Bluesky

"Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam,Soundgarden or Alice In Chains"

Still, at least that means there's a vacancy for Amol Rajan

Oh. Twats have come to the despoiled hellscape of the Chilterns

Rewatching his Young People’s Concerts thinking, the perfect framing device was *right there* ’

And, just like that, he was gone. I'm choosing to believe* he went back down the plughole. * for the sake of my sanity

I’m putting rather a lot of faith in the whole ‘they can never climb out’ truism. He’s inching ever closer…

Had a massage. The music included Richter’s On the Nature of Daylight, which struck a weirdly tragic note. I mean, I’ve got knots, but they’re not… terminal?

Most discombobulating thing: people I know and love and even share a life with saying ‘wasn’t Hoult great?’

For the second year in a row, I’ve gone on holiday, to discover it’s warmer back in the UK.

Well that solves it:

In the grand scheme of things it’s nothing, but the time Unbound mistakenly sent me five copies of 42: The Douglas Adams Archive and then refused to take them back when I emailed them? Making more sense now

Going to delete some posts in case I find myself arguing about Christianity like some r/atheism dweller from 2010.

This is brilliant. Now I just need someone to do the first Pigeonhed record and my 90s bases are covered.

My 11yo is physically offended by me purporting to like PinkPantheress. Literally contorted with cringe.

I can't deny, this was the first *album* I was ever obsessed with. Basically wore out the cassette while painting Warhammer miniatures.

Watching Sinners again, and still think it’s incredibly slow to get going.

Kate Bush doesn't get enough credit for making "He'll never make 'The Sweeney'" such an inexplicably moving lyric.

No cheating post your lock screen

Such Brave Girls is noticeably less funny in the second series?

Oh god, my 10yo's getting in to Mrs Browns Boys. I'm about to forced into a heartwarming examination of my bigotry against terrible comedy.

It's funny how many people are watching ToTP, or more broadly, actually watching something at the time of broadcast.

I simply refuse to learn. I persuaded myself Superman might be good, but nope just more hyper cgi bobbins. Guy playing supe was good. Nicolas Hoult, absolutely not.

Ten writers of whom I've read more than five books, teenage edition: Willard Price Sven Hassel Ian Livingstone James Herbert Eva Ibbotson Gary Larson Clive Barker Colin Wilson Ray Bradbury Terry Pratchett

Amazing post from Field Music about why they're performing as a Doors tribute band: www.instagram.com/p/DL-4FEqs8-...

Semi demi homophones, if you’re gargling pebbles

Commentator on Dortmund game: "This would be an apposite time to score".

I'm in

Ok, but "like a cross between lentil and a velociraptor" is very funny.

Glastonbury's drifting up from the living room, and I can't tell if they're listening to Turnstile or Olivia Rodrigo, which speaks well of both imo.

The Days of Schlepping The Big Fan From Room to Room.

Having a Turnstile revelation.

Lost in a dance of the mutually stupid

Raye for Bond theme?

I can’t pretend I don’t find it slightly alarming if not actually depressing that the big surprise is a faintly doddery band from the nineties.

Useful heuristic when choosing what novel to read next: social.ayjay.org/2024/04/23/r...

“Prescription only sleeping drug” It’s a naturally-occurring hormone! Absurd story.

Christ, same. Stole the show from Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, and various Wainwrights.

1975. Just me, or is this extremely low energy?

Aging out of current music seems to happen very slowly and then very all at once. Thus ends my Glastonbury review.

The Fabiana Palladino songs on the Lorde album are good. (Might even listen to the rest of the record)

Some weird AI processing in this Guardian cricket photo

The indignity of debilitating golfer’s elbow as a hater of golf

These videos will teach you a surprising amount about real world archeology. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"I groaned​ my way through The Emperor of Gladness. I writhed. I felt real despair every time I forced myself to open the covers. It was one of the worst ordeals of my reading life." The multiple quotes are indeed brutal, but clearly necessary and land well. Yet Madonna admires him, so there's that