Good evening. It may surprise you to know that I am speaking "prose" right now. (Audience murmurs) in fact, you already know how to speak prose yourself! (Audience gasps) over the next hour, we will unlock the secrets of this mysterious medium together (audience applauds)

I spent some time in the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vault this afternoon. Among the treasures: a first folio, a ring given to the widow of a man lost at sea, and handwritten inventory from the 17th century that documents the earliest known appearance of Shakespeare in North America

Doctors hate him! Because he's a fucking idiot!

I don't think any of my dad's cars (old heaps he used only for commuting) ever had a cassette player or even FM radio. If he wasn't listening to cricket or football, he'd play some golden oldies AM station at almost inaudible volume, and whistle tunelessly along.

"And you're surprised by this???" Yes, for 'tis I, the bloke from Memento. If it's not tattooed on my flesh I'm surprised by it.

I love to stand in the shower with my hands against the wall and my head bowed, water running down the elaborate back tattoo that hints at the torment within

NIN + Peter Murphy doing Iggy’s “Nightclubbing”. This is pretty rad.

“Cut to Athens, fourth century B.C.” Nick Tosches, Country

Guardian Australia running live coverage of the Charlie Kirk hate rally. Why.

Short thread of some cats I met today: This guy was a favourite.

Going to a “kitten cuddles” event at the local cattery. Doesnt seem like the kind of thing the internet would be interested in so I probably won’t post any photos.

Went to the bookshop

We take the cat into the garden and show her leaves like she’s a baby which she is

Raw-doggin’ getting a hot tray out of the oven

My friend just used the phrase, “When the world was normal bad.”

"People still watch broadcast TV??? In 2025???" Yeah man that's why they still make shows for it. If nobody watched they probably wouldn't bother.

Wynton’s a weird dude

#ClassicAlbumThursday Prince - For You (1978) Until about an hour ago I thought Prince’s self-titled 1979 album was his debut, but no. For You is pretty good, although much better was to come, and soon. Prince was like 12 years old though and plays everything on it, so kudos.

Looking at the Wikipedia page for hybrid regimes, for obvious reasons, and found this interesting map. Good on those seven states for at least owning up to their lack of democracy. (But you don’t gotta hand it to them.)

For all your website/being told where to go needs

Gordon Ramsey: I ordered steak tartare and you've brought me an omelette? waiter: yeah, chef's a minotaur, he doesn't like doing steak GR: jesus christ, can I speak with him? [waiter starts to gather up his ball of string and disappears into the catacombs] GR: *whispers* fuck me

Journeyman poster

*soft Great British bake off voice In this challenge, the bakers will need to incorporate a fresh, Hibernian Leprechaun

"grief, for a lack of a better word, is good" - wall street charlie brown

I’m predicting the rise of the sous chef and surgeon hat as a fashion trend within the next five years. It will be followed by the supermarket deli, fish, and meat counter fedora.

Picked this up today and it is wonderful

It is stark how different the reactions have been between the minority communities that Kirk targeted and the political/media figures who saw him as a colleague. An endless parade of people whose lives would not have changed if he got everything he wanted scolding the people who would be dead.

Me, watching American YouTubers react to the excellent Australian film Chopper: Why aren't you laughing. This is incredibly funny. What's up with you

Dress code: smart casual

make a band singular The Brian Jonestown Massacre after about 20 minutes together

Randomly watching Macho Man Randy Savage promos, and gotta say ‘saw a psychiatrist and she said I was OCD - One Cool Dude’ is a great line

Lotta Lyle and Kelis on the stereo this week #cdfriday

Most popular film on Letterboxd that I haven’t seen 20s: Barbie 10s: La La Land 00s: 500 Days of Summer 90s: Girl, Interrupted 80s: Come and See 70s: One Flew Over etc 60s: Breakfast at Tiffany’s 50s: Sunset Boulevard 40s: The Red Shoes 30s: Modern Times 20s: Dr Caligari 10s: Birth of a Nation

Probably not news to REM fans but I love this very un-Spinal Tap bit of Wiki-trivia from producer Joe Boyd about the recording of Fables of the Reconstruction

"i just need ai to add arpeggios and stuff" why don't YOU just PLAY THE ARPEGGIOS IMPERFECTLY YOU LOSER

Love this dancehall photograph from 1978 so much. Created by the now late Burmese-British photographer Chris Steele-Perkins, a Magnum photographer (group originally started by Cartier-Bresson, Capa et. al.). www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

On Sep 11 2000 there was a big anti-World Economic Forum protest in Melbourne that the media made hay with. 12 months later I went into work reeling from the news about the attacks in the US and a woman I worked with said to me in all seriousness “do you think the protesters from last year did it?”

Bleak Squad - “Strange Love” (2025) Bit of a supergroup of venerable Oz rock mainstays: Mick Harvey, Mick Turner, Adalita, Marty Brown.

Fun fact from Charlotte Rampling's wikipedia page: "Rampling was originally cast as Lady Jessica in Alejandro Jodorowsky's failed adaptation of Dune in the 1970s, but left the project in disgust after reading a scene in the script where 2,000 extras defecated at once."

I’m going to become one of those weirdos who replies to posts about current events with things like “ever heard of a guy called Hitler?? [wikipedia link]”

Perhaps the first time Bluesky was accused to making too many jokes

Conservative/rw “activist” is a hell of a euphemism.

THE EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC (1977) #TheExorcist #Horror #LindaBlair

Scramble 👏 eggs 👏 not 👏 jets

Superman's mouth writing JFK checks that his Kryptonian ass can't cash.

Looking for a great nonfiction read? Here are two books out today that I highly recommend! Dark Renaissance - Marlowe! Living in the Present with John Prine- a big hearted celebration of Tom Piazza's friendship with the legendary musician John Prine.

Nancy ❤️

Did any of them just write "happy birthday jeff"?