Repost with an iconic fictional band.

Not going to lie, I thought this was an ad for a blue cheese-scented candle.

Siegfried Sassoon, 'Suicide In The Trenches', 1917.

I’m gonna be banging on a bit about ovarian cancer symptoms again, but this is important. Here’s a Facebook post from Target Ovarian Cancer about how similar the symptoms are to IBS. This was my experience this summer. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Bag...

Third time! Wordle 1,603 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I guess I need a new starter word.

Even I thought this was one of mine!

Home for the next week. Not too shabby. End of the video shows where we are staying. Pembrokeshire; just inland from Strumble Head.

Three from the magnificent Twilight Sad tonight to celebrate snagging a ticket to see them in Bristol next year. - Killed My Parents and Hit The Road (2008, 2019 reissue) - No-one Can Ever Know (2012, 2020 reissue) - It Won/t Be Like This All The Time (2019)

April 2026 is shaping up nicely today even as the nights are drawing in: - Picked up a ticket for the Twilight Sad in Bristol April 29th - New David Keenan novel announced

John Irving writing in 1985 about events in the 1940s nails today’s incumbent.

Ten years on from this highly personalised customer experience from what is now @welcomebackrecords.bsky.social

Lending weight to the argument that owning physical media/objects is crucial. This is why I keep dozens of real, almost identical, flesh and blood apes in my loft.

[Exit King.]

Dome - Dome 2 (1980) One of many Wire side projects, this time Lewis and Gilbert’s sonic explorations. More structured that Dome 1 but still pretty much out there. "We went into the studio with almost no preparation," Graham Lewis said, "no preconceived ideas as to what it could be."

Heron on the Severn 📷 Mrs Mac

Post you from a different era

Making Dal Makhani. This recipe includes a counterintuitive tip to reduce the morning after effects.

“Test rig blew Friday night” (Published Monday morning)

Wordle 1,576 X/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 At the last guess I still had three options. 🫥

and I feel fine

One for the #MDANT folks: Something I’ve done in retirement is take up stone carving. I was intrigued to find this book recommended in one of the online groups and ordered a copy. It’s just arrived and guess who wrote the back cover blurb? @reversediorama.bsky.social @memorialdevice.bsky.social

I guess if it isn't 9.8m/s² then the implications for the stability of the entire planet really are pretty alarming

Good evening!

Prediction: Trump will not win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday & will then turn on the committee and the prize itself as worthless and woke, declaring that he never wanted it in the first place. All this hoo-hah will inadvertently give more attention to the actual winner(s), whomever they may be.

David Bowie - Re:call 6 The last disc of the last album in the last box of my playthrough of all the Bowie Eras box sets that I started back on January 1st, not knowing that the final box would be released just in time. What a long, strange trip it’s been.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Henry Moore’s Arch in Hyde Park Tuesday evening.

This only happens to you once

Sigur Rós as intense tonight as you’d expect with a full orchestra. They even fired up the Royal Albert Hall organ for the last couple of songs.

What’s your sign?

Neko Case - Neon Grey Midnight Green Only halfway through side one so far, but well up to her usual high standards so far.

Three more from Sigur Rós tonight: - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust (2008) - Valarie (2012) - Kveikur (2013)

Reasons To Be Cheerful, 1, 2, 3…

Four hour online chat with EE yesterday went round and round in circles and achieved nothing. Managed to reach a human by phone today - full resolution in eight minutes.

Two from Sigur Rós ahead of their Royal Albert Hall shows next week. - Takk… (2005 - how is this 20 years old already?) - Átta (2023)

Currently in a 3.5 hourchat with EE customer service. Mrs Mac asked how my blood pressure was doing so I thought I’d check. Still not resolved.

Tonight’s selection from Bowie’s I Can’t Give Everything Away box: - Blackstar - No Plan EP Some people say they can’t listen to Blackstar because it’s too painful. I’ve listened to it dozens of times and - yes - it is painful but it’s also utterly beautiful. Retired my clear vinyl copy long ago

I met these two lovely people today. They have spent the last 62 years looking after the Forest of Dean - he was a forester then a manager, she was a fire spotter, including watching out into Wales. They still return to this favourite spot even after seeing the view thousands of times.

Good day out in the Forest of Dean.

I’m not the biggest pop culture hound but I like to feel I have half an eye on things. That being said, I’ve just discovered that the Ant who is running for London mayor is not the Ant from Ant and Dec.

#𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗟𝗲𝗱𝗕𝘆𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗲𝘆𝘀

Tonight’s visit to the Bowie I Can’t Give Everything Away box set: - The Next Day - The Next Day EP Hard to believe that this album is 12 years already, it still feels like “the new one”, even though we had another “new one” after it. BTW - James Murphy’s Love Is Lost remix is a monster.

Nothing screams power move like losing to a talking candle on late night TV 👌 #Colbert #Kimmel #LateShow #MAGA #Disney #FCC

Another lost Enid Blyton classic:

Tonight’s dip into David Bowie’s I Can’t Give Everything Away box set, Reality and A Reality Tour. I saw this tour at the Murat in Indianapolis, reportedly the smallest venue on the whole tour. A tremendous show with one of his finest bands. Gail Ann Dorsey channels Freddie on Under Pressure.

The 3 stages of grief: denial, anger, ballroom

Next up from the I Can’t Give Everything Away box set: David Bowie Live At Montreux Jazz Festival (2002). Just look at that set list across 4 LPs - yep, he played the whole Low album as an encore.

“Everything has changed…nothing has changed.” David Bowie: Heathen - from the last box set, I Can’t Give Everything Away.

Slightly diminish a book A Passing Thought for Owen Meany.