Joan Crawford is the happiest pirate ever. Photo by Ruth Harriet Louise for MGM, 1929. (Arrr…It’s a Thread)

Good morning! theonion.com/dog-s-eye-gu...

L'irréductible Stephen Salmieri

Listening to this and wondering (clang, clunk, twang!) if Derek Bailey was a big tango fan.

Decision To Leave should have made the Decision To End halfway through boxd.it/d3d8fv

A real gem. The whole cast is superb, but the movie belongs to Aline MacMahon. Given the juiciest of roles to play--a one-time bad girl who has renounced her femininity and found peace more or less living as a man in the middle of nowhere--MacMahon puts all her soul and skill into the performance.

Fabio, surely.

Watching the snow boarding and can't work out why it strikes me that "Stance Regular" works as a @andrewmale.bsky.social Pynchon character name, while "Stance Goofy" doesn't.

Sunday reading and Sunday listening. The music is from an @andrewmale.bsky.social post. The book covers the secondary cover as the app blocks the actual cover as inappropriate.

My 14 hand strawberry roan rolls round like a ship in a heavy swell.

Volunteer #librarians from around the world joined forces to build the Nancy Drew collection on Open Library—volunteering their time to organize series, verify editions, untangle authorship, and clean up metadata so anyone can discover these books. Learn more ➡️ blog.openlibrary.org/2026/01/30/a...

I'm in this new issue, writing about my love of Sterlin Harjo's The Lowdown (FX/Disney+) and why I think it is, amongst other things, a pointed riposte to the sacred land ownership narrative of Taylor Sheridan's modern westerns.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

I want someone to buy the rights and make a television series about it à la The Hour

Wonderful record. Think it was @jimirvin.bsky.social who first recommended it to me, many years ago.

Very grateful to @andrewmale.bsky.social for highlighting some of the early 30-line television content featured in 'Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain', and so pleased at the interest (and even sales!) this is stirring up.

This is a great story, and very odd. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don't know how they do it, but at one point you can hear Alana Haim's character glaring down the phone. It's cinema's first audible glare.

#NowPlaying #SundayJazz

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭

For a while people have said “you really must watch this gangster film with Ian McShane playing a bisexual hood alongside Richard Burton” and (thanks again to @andrewmale.bsky.social) I’ve finally watched the 1971 Clement & La Frenais-penned Villain and well, yes, *hello* to the both of them 👀

Thanks Andrew for this clip from Film 87 about the bloke who looked after the palm trees in the battle scenes shot in Docklands for Full Metal Jacket. Also feat. Barry Norman in full Barry Norman saying that he hates gardening.

"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

Tonight’s film: yet another great Josh O’Connor performance in The Mastermind boxd.it/d20ogJ

I once asked Bertie Carvel after one of his shows whether he was actually a shapeshifter - and he never actually denied it, so. He’s brilliant, and he should be in everything. (We’d never know)

I know all names are made up but some are more made up than others

Angela Smyth, contemporary artist & illustrator #womensart

Here's one of the greatest of all movie cast photos, but there's unfortunately no photographer credit! Betty Hutton & Eddie Bracken, with a big subset of Preston Sturges's stock company, in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, 1943.

I am reading this book now and it's terrific. Wyver's enthusiasm for his subject is ridiculously infectious.

‘Who did the first monochrome? The first black painting? Whose pictorial ground was the first to be “incident-free”? Who invented “the open space concept”? Newman claimed them all.’ Hal Foster on the Abstract Expressionist painter Barnett Newman. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Very pleased to announce I will perform 'Sub Zero' as Kevin Richard Martin at the ICA on May 30th. Tickets available here : link.dice.fm/Abd0b651109f KRM Pic c/o Jun Sato

Tickets and info for the Jakefest celebrating Jake Thackray in London on 15th August now available. Spread the word! www.ticketsource.co.uk/jake-thackra...

Once again, we have given new life to an old book. @backlisted.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social

Finished 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure by @keithcameron2.bsky.social. Real, heartfelt thanks to him for giving the Manics back to me. I have picked up the conversation where I left off (Journal for Plague Lovers FWIW). If you are a lapsed fan, you need this book. 🙏

Me (and half the pub) ordering one more and staying a while after Andrew left, so that we may hear another chapter in the shitboobs saga…

Oddly applicable to Happy Mondays 'Yes! please'

Hearing Andrew’s dreams every morning is one of the great perks of being married to him

My dream last night, ladies and gentlemen.

Brian picked a perfect time to post this. In July, we thought it possible I had weeks to live. But yesterday I learned my cancer has shown a “marked” decrease, with resolution or near-resolution of many problem areas. Thank you to modern science and Portland’s Compass Oncology. Onwards, mofos! 😉 ❤️

The pub I was in tonight had a) goths playing pool b) a pub cat c) four guest ales, d) drunk teachers moaning about their shitty job and e) an old geezer who was obviously dealing drugs to the goths; which basically makes it George Orwell’s The Moon Under Water.

I’m in the pub and the woman next to me, a teacher I think, is talking to her friend about a hated workmate and is calling her “Shitboobs”.

Mongolia Winter Olympics uniform, it’s over, no contest

Let’s be honest: in many of these winter Olympic “sports”, the snow is doing most of the work. An unexpected thaw would expose these so-called athletes for the frauds they are

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

go off jack white

The same Richard Skinner who opened his 1985 interview with Kate Bush with the words: "Now, you're a *very* determined girl, aren't you?"