Peanuts by Schulz: Saturday, January 7, 1967

First, you get gladiators. Next, your whole empire falls.

It might be hard to see from this picture today of the White House, but Donald Trump is very focused on lowering costs.

What my internal monologue looks like....

Rupi came to join me as it finally cooled off at sunset. I brought a cold beer, he brought his favourite carrot. #OneManAndHisDog.

First thoughts for #5DebutAlbums2026:

Bugger me @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social is great telly, isn’t it? Can you imagine any commercial network creating that, let alone running for three weeks?

Bank Holiday Monday in Gloucestershire? Only one thing to watch.

On this day in 1971:

Evening all!

It’s our daughter’s birthday today and we went went fossil hunting in the Cotswolds with our own tea and birthday cake. Pictures came out accidentally Impressionist.

A PLANNED explosion. Where no-one seems to care about the deliberate pollution of the ocean. The classic billionaire's "fuck you" to the planet.

Everybody To Kenmure Street made it to the NYT. Gift link. Still highly recommended if you haven’t seen it yet. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/m...

A short tale that doesn’t show me in a particularly good light, but whatever The small Essex town in which I live is not renowned for its diversity of culture or vibrant underground music scene 1/

Feathered evil youtube.com/shorts/YEgwn...

Thanks to several people who recommended this Can/Irwin Schmidt collection with this month’s @mojomagazine.bsky.social. Some old favourites and some that I don’t know. Great interview with Schmidt in the magazine also.

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

Introduce yourself with ten bands/artists you've seen live: Last ten & next eight:

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap.

Forget sharing the last picture you saved, I want to see the very first picture on your phone. Scroll back until your fingers bleed.

Tonight’s treats are from The Wedding Present and The Fall - Seamonsters and The Light User Syndrome respectively.

New @arabstrap.scot is - of course - an absolute banger. “Fuck these demagogues cosplaying saviours” isn’t your average love song lyric. youtu.be/1VeBhMvzdKA?...

I think it was the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov who said that if you introduce a wildebeest in the first act, by the third act it must be shot. Chekhov’s gnu

Living his best life 🎉🎈 TT: finn_e_bear

A Prayer for Owen Meany The Master and Margarita This Is Memorial Device

Not watching Eurovision. @happytoast.co.uk’s live sketching is giving me all the updates that I need.

Ten years on and I still stand by this idea.

I went to a showing of White Riot, Rubika Shah’s 2019 film about Rock Against Racism at the Folk Of Gloucester this afternoon. Sold out room, great Q&A with one of the old local organisers and some good chin wagging after. 6 or 7 of us had been at Victoria Park in 1978, nice to share memories.

There’s an old tale that Keith Urban and John Legend once formed a duo. Not sure how true it is

I've read 27 out of 100 on the list. How many have you read? www.theguardian.com/p/x4f9v5 Lists like this are meant to cause debate but I can see so many omissions, especially from contemporary writers. Still a good list for choosing future reading.

Superb work from Birdbox www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHR...

A woman demonstrating her exceptional intelligence in contrast to a wealthy but arrogant individual.

they knew that once Zaphod Beeblebrox had announced his intention to run as President it was more or less a fait accompli: he was ideal Presidency fodder. What they completely failed to understand was why Zaphod was doing it.

Put up some shelves today that required a flathead screwdriver. It’s always a delight to use this beauty that I inherited from my Dad and – I believe – his Dad before him. It’s just so ergonomically perfect.

This is what happens when there's historically low trust in the Presidents of the United States of America

There are quite a few unclaimed #buyastrangerabook offers today. I have more to offer too. Look, it's not a "repost & follow for a chance to win" thing. Just ask for any of the books on offer, and I'll send you the book (if nobody else hasn't already asked). So check it out. UK only

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To be fair, that's only slightly less than Liz Truss spent there.

Continuing a play-through of all the Fall studio albums along with Steve Pringle’s excellent You Must Get Them All brings up to Cerebral Caustic. I couldn’t find an affordable copy on vinyl but delighted to have picked this up for just a fiver.

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Slightly increase a band Gremlin (If you feed it after midnight)

Bring back proper political journalism at the BBC, like this spectacular example from 1975 youtu.be/Sad7CoNTzjE?...

Surely they've suffered enough?

Lakeside Sunday lunch.

The BBC has been using the Breaking News alert as an ad for Kuenssberg’s Sunday show for some time. This is the first time I’ve seen them trying to disguise it as an actual news story.