Imagine if you met someone irl who kept talking like people do on here, throwing under the bus, kept the receipts, lives rent-free etc, you'd quite rightly punch them in the face

FUCKING NORA

Most unexpectedly moving ending to a series since Blackadder Goes Forth

This is a really fun one! Was great to chat to Lavinia and Marco. The Making is one of my favourite albums of the year.

I’ve started saying ‘mid’ even though I’m in my ‘mid’ forties

sorry I've added a "Controversy" section to your wikipedia article while you were asleep

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

Five stars from Lucy Mangan, you say? Well that’s great, I can’t wait to watch one of the worst television programmes that’s ever been made.

Your tone is antagonistic and you’re making me very arngry

I called someone out for doing the ‘never heard of them!’ thing under an Instagram post but apparently people are now saying ‘never heard of them!’ as a joke? But it’s a joke that looks exactly the same as saying ‘never heard of them!’ sincerely so where does that leave us as a society

For some reason I keep getting loads of barbecue videos on Instagram and once again I’m amazed that Americans think British food is bad when they’re literally out there cooking beef with Dr Pepper

Anyone else watch Girlbands Forever? Why is there a gaping Girls Aloud-shaped hole??

How depressing that they feel they must make this the headline.

I’m Looking Through You and yet You Won’t See Me, make thy mind up Paul McCartney

I asked someone with a trumpet tattoo if it was a Thomas Pynchon thing and they said no it’s just a trumpet. Sometimes a trumpet’s just a trumpet folks!

For Halloween I wrote about the new Joanne Robertson album and the Clientele. Not spooky, but certainly eerie! 🎃 open.substack.com/pub/robinall...

In all the chat about West End Girl I haven’t seen anyone mention Vulnicura… Surely one of the best and most brutal break-up albums of recent times.

For Halloween I wrote about the new Joanne Robertson album and the Clientele. Not spooky, but certainly eerie! 🎃 open.substack.com/pub/robinall...

When people are talking about baby names I bet Kate Garraway is the type of person who'd say 'The old names are coming back aren't they! Ethel, Muriel... I heard a Mildred the other day!'

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

I was working as a traveller in an antique land, that much is true

[Ozymandias, king of kings, announcing the Metaverse in 2022] two vast and trunkless legs of stone are coming soon! are you excited? 🎉

Love the fact Steve Albini owned this www.stevealbiniscloset.com/stuff/p/eric...

It was a delight to do another @personalbealtes.bsky.social covers challenge with @johnnywreallyx2.bsky.social pod.fo/e/34756e

I love looking at arts jobs: we will pay you literally £300 a month to email a person by the way 7000 people have applied for this job

Has anyone figured out a way of signalling to the person sitting next to you on the bus that you’re not getting up you’re just putting your book back in your bag

Love this Edward Gorey quote: "Anything that is art is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.”

I suppose you could interpret this as an olive branch to Only Connect

Absolute minefield falling asleep listening to Selected Ambient Works II, some of the most blissed out music you’ll ever hear following by the soundtrack to a haunted abattoir

Does anyone else think Love Actually came out 20 years ago but Four Weddings and a Funeral came out 10 years ago

Thoroughly enjoying this Fantasia on a Theme by Bagpuss, thanks @iammilliam.bsky.social for the rec claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-la...

@stevenc63.bsky.social Did you know this has appeared? youtu.be/PZxfh4NGt34?...

Paul Hollywood: what we're looking for from the contestants this week is a beautifully precise assassination - a bloodless kill, and a flawless cleanup Prue Leith: they're going to have to be really careful about DNA evidence. we don't want any traces left at the scene PH: a completely clean room

Looking forward to seeing gibberish rock band YHWH Nailgun later

I actually think those blokes selling stereo equipment in that Not the Nine O’Clock News sketch were doing their jobs to the best of their ability in a very challenging marketplace

This is brilliant, particularly this line about early social media: ‘If you got exposed to insane opinions, that was only because your real-world friends were insane’

When Jonathan Harker arrives at Dracula’s castle he’s presented with a delicious roast chicken. There’s no staff at Dracula’s castle so who cooked the chicken and did the washing up? a) All done by magic b) The count himself. Both hilarious images when you think about it.

‘What a falling off was there’ – Hamlet watching the new series of Slow Horses

Heavens to Betsy Betsy to Heavens Heavens BACK to Betsy Betsy GOOOOOAAAALLLLLLLL

My album Above the Dreamer’s Head came out ten years ago today! It’s currently pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp if you fancy giving it a spin!

Had a great time chatting to @robinallender.bsky.social Do please have a listen loves💖✨💕

Great interview. I loved Birding when I read it last year. Interesting discussion about the Manics. (For years my dad's alarm when he was on the early shift was 'Motorcycle Emptiness', so the Manics to me mean the dread of getting up for school. Fab song though.)

This month on The Allender Calendar I’m delighted to be joined by the fabulous author @regretteruane.bsky.social to discuss her brilliant novels Birding and This is Yesterday. Lots of Manics chat too!

Pre-20th century novels are boring, often very very good, but boring

any culture, at any point in history, could have invented darude’s sandstorm. the fact that they didn’t is just further proof that old times were busted generally

Truth Coming Out Of Her Well To Select All Images With A Fire Hydrant

this is fantastic