This is literally the most batshit crazy thing I've ever seen in my life.

Don’t think much of the Amazon Black Friday sales. I ordered The Two Ronnies on DVD but instead I got four Kindles

BBC staff have now been banned from repeating the description of Donald Trump excised from Rutger’s Reith lecture. Makes his warning here all the more chilling. youtu.be/9UlYdocG5Bs

The talk was just brilliant and felt so spot on. It feels shameful to me that this has happened.

They just played fools gold into the chimes of big Ben on Radio 4 ahead of the evening news. Mani has died. How sad. But what an epic and surreal thing to do...

blog: leeslinks voor op zondag (met Wednesday, Fleetwood Mac, Lily Allen, John Cale en oblique strategies), www.stereomedia.nl/2025/11/i-al...

has lindsey buckingham ever performed with will oldham? they could tour as buckingham palace

Wel The Ex

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Maybe Taylor Swift got a bit sick of being Taylor Swift and wants to stay home and make sourdough for a bit but had another record in her deal to deliver?

Just spotted in Piccadilly Circus. Linda Green AND Jamiroquai

I'm confused as this is more than twenty years ago that I watched it but there is a Wong Kar Wii film that has a reggae track on repeat. But it seems it's not Chung King Express. And I thought it was a Marcia Griffiths track no? It is repeated and repeated and repeated in the film...

Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go

#huttenweek in Uitgeest. This is when the timber was delivered. The sound of tiny hammers and tweenpop sadly not captured here. The fact all the kids were wearing yellow really gave off major Doozers from Fraggle Rock vibes which I enjoyed greatly.

I'm Your Naan.

First thoughts on ChatGPT5 - I like the peachy coloured background.

Joris wrote a fun thing.

Joris thinks the guy from The Bear is called Evron Burtbacharach.

Volgorde *ietsje* aangepast zodat de flow nóg beter flowt

Strong recommend. Until 4pm today Trafalgar Square. Jeremy Deller's Hogarthian rave project. One part village fete to 2 parts free rave. Epic. Wonderful. Also this.

Enjoying how this article in the Bookseller Daily email today entitled 'Are Men Being Pushed Out of Publishing' comes just above the one saying that David Nicholls is the pb #1 again www.thebookseller.com/news/are-men...

I think I have a rare (maybe original?) pressing of it but god knows where exactly...

I am obsessed with Charlixcx normal registry office wedding (where my best friend also had hers). I don't know how many times I've had to resist the eye roll in various office jobs for colleagues who literally spent thousands of pounds for an Instagram wedding.

Wowsers. londonist.com/london/art-a...

Very busy party for Granta's latest - Badlands.

Now that I can speak full Dutch I will translate. We were away on holiday and Joris has delivered his memorandum of band camp favourites for June a little later than normal. Enjoy!

Just watching the Pavement film. Saw a sort of bad review of it but I have to say if you don't get it you probably don't get the band. I mean I found it pretty amusing and it was maybe few minutes too long but I loved it. The guy from stranger things was good too.

Opened The Observer on my tablet this morning and my jaw dropped. Woah.

So long and thanks for all the chips! Parmentier, the great promoter of les pommes de terre rests ici.

Cute

The enthusiasm of the teenagers in the photocopy room at Wolfgang Tillmans is pretty endearing. They even got to use a stamper on their final art which also seems to prompt rapturous attention. (well mostly)

69 Love Songs in the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition at the Pompidou. Yes, it's the REWIG from @dominorecordco.bsky.social very nice!

St Vincent at FNAC Live Paris. She keeps trying to distract the other people in the band by biting them or saying something funny in their ear. FNAC Live is completely free although this does seem to require (these days) sponsorship by arifryers and co-pilot. Comme ci comme ca.

Boing!

Don't remember being particularly into Prodigy even though I definitely had Music for a Jilted Generation. But it just reminds me of lads from where I grew up driving around and listening to it and reciting every lyric and feeling tough although everyone (literally everyone) knew they were softies.

They've got the poison, they've got the remedy, they've got the pulsating rhythmical energy.

I think the heat might be getting to me. Instead of saying this sounds a bit Bruce Springsteen I said "it's a bit Bruce-stian" as in Proustian. And I didn't even notice I'd done it.

I also don't understand Gracie Abrams.

I'm going to Paris this week. And I'm very excited because there is a SHOP THAT SELLS MUSTARD ON TAP. Hope everyone else is having fun at Glastonbury YOU LOSERS.

Who are all these people that like The Script?

Just got a notification on classpass that WeWork is now live on there. 12 credits for a day pass which is like... the cost of 2 yoga classes (actually a little less). Crazy. But also, in this weather... tempted.

Watching Primavera on the stream. Chappell Roan is pretty amazing. Really enjoyable. That's a ten year investment from their record label (a similar thing happened to Kate Bush who signed at 16 to a development deal) and a phenomenal talent coming together. The stage set is crazy $$$$$ too.

Joris is making me listen to The Wheeltappers & Shunters Social Club AGAIN. And if that's not bad enough he's got into the habit of listening to the Dutch equivalent too. Je Bent Niet Hip is his favourite. Oh the irony...

It's been a little while but a newsletter is about to drop on substack for those interested in all things data and marketing or insights. I do also mention a couple of books 📚 Sign up now to get it probably this afternoon. convertculture.substack.com

Delighted for Bloomsbury. Great stuff. They've been a brilliant team to work with on several projects these last couple of years.

My grandmother, who was from Worcester, played a huge role in raising us. I remember her telling me about something that stayed with her all her life. One night during the war, she woke up and saw the sky glowing red. Puzzled, she asked her older sister what it was. "Coventry," her sister replied.

I'm watching Paddington in Peru but I've not seen the others. I hope I'm not confused by not knowing of any plot relevant backstory. Crumbs.

Now TV is just giving error messages constantly. I guess a lot of people are tuning in for the finale of white lotus and it can't cope with the numbers!

This was a good read last summer.

Hartstikke mooi!