It's not canon, but this is who Miss Moneypenny ends up with.

The January blues have already hit hard, to the extent I've started to think it's a good idea to read The Making of Americans.

Today's lunchtime reading: - Weil's essay on the Iliad and force - Part IV of Spinoza's ethics (the bit from which Maugham took his title) - Esthétique du Mal

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@stanchion.bsky.social will have a 24-hour submission window on work that fits the theme 'music' on January 5, fyi

In Agadoo did Kubla Khan Push pineapples, shake the tree

It would be nice if we didn't have to see Hofstadter's thesis repeatedly proved.

WE'RE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS Send us yer poems! (art by Alan Scales on Unsplash)

Anyone else doing mordant January this year?

Submissions are officially open again! Please read the guidelines in full, and I can't wait to read your work. Any questions, just let me know! x fullhouseliterary.com/submissions

New year, new me: fabricated and gloriously inauthentic.

Important not to jump to conclusions, but I have a stinking head cold and my sinuses feel like they've been strip-mined, so 2026 is going to blow.

I will see out this year with Rilke.

It's been a great year. That is, according to the businesses whose mailing lists I've not got round to leaving.

Out for 2025: Verfremdungseffekt In for 2026: Abenteuerseffekt

Sorry Brecht and Artaud: the best plays have a scene that is simply "Adventure!"

Yes, but did your sweater cost £20k? www.thetimes.com/money/ask-ti...

More disappointment for lovers of quixotic decoupage.

Last night, on my way to the pub, I had what I thought was a marvellous insight for the poem I'm trying to write, which I had to capture lest I lose it forever. Turns out it was this:

I'm now Wagner, which feels like a mixed blessing. (The 19th Century composer, not the X-Factor contestant.)

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post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

Yes. I remember Bollards— Laid like bodies, because one afternoon In Winter the digger drew up there Unwontedly. Childhood memories ruined.

Tonight, I will eat Haribo and play Mario Kart and no one will tell me I need to stop doing either.

Following a spring clean at Longbarrow HQ, I've found a number of hardbacks (ex-bookshop / damaged in transit) that are perfectly readable, but not saleable. If you're in Sheffield (postcodes S1-S12 only), and you'd like a free book, message your postal address and I'll deliver it over the weekend.

What do you prefer to drink at Christmas…. 1) Hot spicy wine 2)Warm spicy wine 3)Cold spicy wine 4)None of the above This is a Mull tipple choice question.

Not yet 7am, and I have already explained to my unwilling children that while Santa retains overall present authority, he in practice delegates much of it to the elves under the Carltona principle.

Probably his best chance of finding the net.

Excluded from academia because I only wanted to teach the battle scenes from War and Peace.

Baloo Meridian

As well as featuring #ChristmasMusic posted by @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social & my own #AdventPoem cycle which includes music from mediaeval & Renaissance times & some seasonal oddities, this thread of threads now guest-stars @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social’s fine selection of #ChristmasCarols in its weft

🎵 Nooo oone Writes like Gaston Has insights like Gaston No one's beard's as impeccably white as Gaston's 🎵

Did once write a sort-of Christmas poem about a place I've never visited, which also demonstrates the limits of my French. www.badlilies.uk/alex-jenkins

Always a good day when Bachelard appears on the timeline.

At about this time every year I say the same thing: "See Amid the Winter's Snow" is a Christmas banger and it needs more seasonal airtime. open.spotify.com/track/4DGEMT...

Very much my energy.

Will no one rid me of this turbulent cough?

Bit overdue, but we probably need to burn more stuff to symbolise the death of English cricket.

Fun piece of auto-transcription: "Derrida's Glas" rendered, "Deryl as a glass."

Garden cat is back and stalking.

No, Terry's: this will not do.

Make your own Prynne pamphlet title joke as desired

Recession indicator: my gums.

Reskeet with your favorite meme you made.

Reskeet with your favourite meme you made

a subscription to McMansion Hell is literally a dollar a month and in exchange you get some of my best and most thorough essays (the regional car dealership rococo one, the one about gray floors, this one)

I am terribly pleased to announce that my book of sonnets, Glosses and Ligatures, will be published by Sagging Meniscus Press in the autumn of 2027. @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

Recent editorial exchanges remind me to broadcast: I maintain a small freelance editing practice, and will have some space free for new clients in the new year. I help writers both scholarly and otherwise, as well as institutional clients. A short description here: benwurgaft.org/editing/

She knew, because she had held him, that he suffcred DT's. Behind the initials was a metaphor, a delirium tremens, a trembling unfurrowing of the mind's plowshare. #Pynchon25 #TheCryingOfLot49

It’s never a bad decision to take a koi at the poems (and poets) Mark has brought together each time.