Who's knows their song well, before they started singing?

The Rolling Stones Introduce Bluesman Howlin’ Wolf on US TV, One of the “Greatest Cultural Moments of the 20th Century” (1965)

🙃..infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me! The revenge of Kenneth Williams_

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

😎hopefully, this little gem will be available from 28.11.2025, Record Store Day Uk_

Meet the Man Who Created the Iconic Emblem of the Day of the Dead: José Guadalupe Posada

RIP Peter Watkins: his film The War Game is the most frightening I’ve ever seen: it changed my life when I saw it at 15. Nothing was the same afterwards. I wrote about it at length in 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded

🙃Askhole! A person who repeatedly asks for advice but never follows it_

🙂..that's me sorted, the new revised edition of verbal foulage that will disgrace any self-respecting bookshelf is arriving just in time for Chrimbo!

🙃a wandering tome that rewards the wandering reader! no need to start at page one, Buck Mulligan & Stephen Dedalus can wait if you prefer to crash land elsewhere_

From Ultima Thule to B. Luther Hatchett, slang's take on far, far away: open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...

Wanty! Wanty!!

🙃while the book on the left is an example of jackanory cosplaying, the other has the difficult narrative: Mme, do you take it up the arse?

Animated Edward Gorey. Died and gone to...somewhere? The Scariest TV Intros of all Time open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

🙃The Death of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, by Alfred Thomas Derby. The posthumous rehabilitation of Rochester as a repentant sinner saved reached its nadir with this treasureable piece of Victorian kitsch, complete with shafts of heavenly light_

😎hopefully, this little gem will be available from 28.11.2025, Record Store Day Uk_

🙂Mystery and manners which comes with the side dish of racist fuckery as standard_

..the view from Dog-shit Mansions, the revenge of Hamlet is unlikely to happen _

🤩I'm Sittin'! Sittin' On Top of The World!! 49p said the lady in the Chazza-Shop; here's a ten spot, replied yours truly, keep the change_

🤩before you spend your money on Vol. 18; ask yourself one question, was Pauline Boty the Liverpool Gal, or was she a figment of Mr Bob's overactive imagination?

🤩You have reached the 'Voice Mail' of Johnny Haddo, Gent! If you are going to speak filthy, please speak up; Thank U_

🤩Animism?

🤩who's played a blinder?

🤩How Mick Farren foresaw today's President Trump administration back in 1989_

🤩Michael Moorcock has always been upfront about standing on the shoulders of giants: the same can't always be said about Mr Bob and his bookend, Patti Smith_

🤩arriving tomorrow, the Blighter and the Trollop_

🙂not being totally enamoured with the work of the legendary Kris Needs, one has to check the index before making a purchase; there on page 351 Ishmael Reed the author of Mumbo-Jumbo gets a mention,and that dear Dog's Breath is all one needs to know! £1.40 at my local Chazza-Shop_

🙂a travel guide from the 1930s, best read while under the influence!

🙂Oh dear, how sad, never mind! His Bobness looking a little nervous, while Kid Rock is his normal obvious self_

🙂..one's a different mix..

Odd Showers (1870) — An odd little book about frogs and fishes raining down from the sky and the reasons why they do so: https://buff.ly/3o3tHCg

🙂weed smokers turning the whole community into a collective trance_

🙂..with flesh-coloured Christs that glow in the dark its easy to see without looking too far, that not much is really Sacred_

🙂John Peel, Not On Normal Communal Exercise_

🙂I'm in the right place, but the wrong car! A fabulous tale of hoodoo saints and high-living sinners_

🙂_

🙂where's my din-din?

🙂Sharon, someone has to open the fu**ing door! For Ozzy Osbourne who has just popped his mortal coil, may your memory be a blessing_

🙂Oops! The wrong side of three bottles of red_

🙂Horseshite! Although, not any old horse-shit!! It's the kind, once stuck to the soles of one's shoes, is extremely hard to remove _

🙂Nervous City with Red Grooms, which is just up the stairs from Desolation Row_

🙂 'Leg-ends'!

🙂..how things are not always what they appear to be_

🙂WAR! What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing_

🙂Mr Slang, just about on the right side of the mattress!

🙂..from the Daily Truth Attack! Clown-Prince Trump_

Book concept: People start finding books in a Little Free Library that were never written or published in this world. Some are exactly what the "borrower" needs. Some are a delight. But some are dangerous. And the Little Free Library just might have a sinister agenda...

🙂..worth a gander, playmates!

🙂..an album a day for the next thirty days: everyone of 'em has a certain amount charm in the groove! From 1972_

John Phillips: a slang Don Quixote open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...