Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun. joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...

New Substack post on the deaths of Jonathan Main and Terry Farrell, and the notion of creating places that bring people together johngrindrod.substack.com/p/sharing-co...

Found it: the platonic ideal of graphic design. The dawn of the digital, starring technologies yet to converge. The rationalism of the grid, in tension with earthy mid-century autumnals. A palette actually improved by the yellowing of time. I could set up home in this cover.

what's an opinion on the 1979 satirical black comedy thriller film Winter Kills that will have you like this

99PI has two nominees up for Best Writing at the Signal Awards. We're currently splitting the vote! As a result, we're in a very close race with Malcolm Gladwell. Do you want to beat Gladwell? I do! Vote for @99pi.org for Best Writing! vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

now this is comedy

Fact of the Day: Superman is an abbreviation of “Supermarket Manager”.

Awful news that Kaleb Horton died. A talented writer who in another time would've been getting $5 a word with an expense account. Read his skilled filleting of the Entourage movie web.archive.org/web/20150605...

Really sorry to hear about the sudden passing of Kaleb Horton, a fantastic writer. Only seems fitting to share what he wrote for David Lynch kalebhorton.ghost.io/death-is-jus...

a great writer and a tremendous photographer of california and the southwest whose work I admired very much. a very sad day.

Nope.

I want to do so much, but I can only do so much.

It’s weird that flat earth rabbit holes go so deep.

Quicksand's not that quick. I now call it "slow sand," and normal sand? "Still sand." (That is a haiku This is also a haiku. About that haiku.)

Potentially chorea-ending. 😢

‘The Cicerones’, Robert Aickman, 1967. (Saint Paul's Cathedral of Liège shortly after lunch.)

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

Anyone with more of an interest in something than me is autistic, and anyone with less is ADHD. Hope this solves today's discourse :)

Legendary 93 year old designer Dieter Rams (classic Braun, Vitsoe and a huge inspiration on Jony Ive/ Apple) has won the World Design Medal. His approach of simple environmentally responsible design has always spoken to me. I love idea of “Joyful seriousness” in design www.vitsoe.com/gb/voice/wdo...

Your Party (Zarah’s Version)

Very pleased to announce a So Watt special for this year's London Jazz Festival. This time: Derek Bailey and Jeremy Marre's landmark series about improvisation, projected from the best materials. In stereo and in full and in a single afternoon. November 15th. www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

we still don’t know who brought down paul ovenden. it could just as easily be a labour right figure annoyed he was insufficiently cruel about diane abbott.

Welcome to mid-September. If you have not yet been assigned your suicidal young snail that’s been programmed to be sickeningly crunched underfoot while you’re looking elsewhere, please be patient. Thousands more are coming your way.

I can't now make it to the Rufus Wainwright Want One symphonic gig at Manchester Apollo next Friday 26th. Two tickets. Anybody? Will sell at a loss.

For my sins, I've followed all this stuff quite closely over the years, but the fact that (according to 'Get In') Riley was working with McSweeney to attack The Canary had passed me by

Do you see how yesterday’s deranged conspiracy theories - conclusive proof that you were a dangerous lunatic - are today’s boring, obvious truths, barely even news: there was an organised internal wrecking campaign closely coordinated with the press, Sir Keir’s campaign was a fraud etc etc

R.I.P. Hermeto Pascoal, the legendary Brazilian composer & multi-instrumentalist, who died today, September 13, 2025. He was 89. Miles Davis once said that Pascoal was "the most impressive musician in the world." Pascoal had played on Davis' 1971 album 'Live/Evil,' composing several studio pieces.

'The Backs of Houses, Harley Street, London' (1925) by Algernon Cecil Newton (London Museum)

"Just bear in mind guys, your posts might be seen by deranged right-wingers, be careful" - me when my mates are getting hundreds of likes and I can't think of a funny new angle

I'm sure I need not impress upon you the severity of the situation should this institution somehow become 'woke'

Today is the ten year anniversary of my proudest ever achievement in publishing, RUSHOMON: the time I got both a Rush Hour Crush and a Good Deed printed on the same page of the UK Metro, both of which told a single, horrifying, story from two different angles. It's been all downhill ever since.

I randomly stumbled upon Fujio Kito, an artist who documents Japanese playgrounds at night. It was a fun little rabbit hole to follow. fujio-pand-park.tumblr.com

RIP to a real one. Streets won't forget. 😢 youtu.be/xdhLQCYQ-nQ

Best thing I've read today: "I have always felt that Q belongs further down the alphabet, with the rest of the emo letters"

So Marc Guehi does everything the right way, good lad, did not kick up so much as a single fuss. Charlie Simpson doesn't turn up to training, bangs on about how Fightstar is his 'ideal band' all summer and gets his move away from Busted...

A really interesting piece on the Return/Enter key. aresluna.org/the-day-retu... I also did some work on the terminology of "return" in this context in www.sup.org/books/media-...

RIP Mark Volman, veteran of the managerial merry-go-round. youtu.be/183OPk7-eK4

Available today for the first time - my interpretation of Gavin Bryar's legendary work, 'The Sinking of the Titanic,' performed with celebrated violinist Todd Reynolds, and recorded live in Philadelphia in 2007 @toddreynolds.com scanner.bandcamp.com/album/the-si...

this form is regular to a guy like me

SOME RUBE: "Duhhh, lookit mah entuhtainin' howse ah builded." ME (grown-up, serene): "Ah — but what of the firefighters???"

Gender began in 2015 (Later than it might have been) Between the end of Ed Miliband And Minions on the big screen

Urgent ask - was going to buy two tickets to see @eeih.bsky.social at Chapter in Cardiff tonight but the gig has sold out - can anybody not use theirs and wants to sell? Thanks!

A Dad Joke for Strings

WHO COULD EVER PREDICT: He followed too many he agreed with, and now his timeline is mostly complaints about governments.

guys you don’t understand, the schools go back week after next so you’ve got seven days to give the british press the riot they want or this whole summer will have been a total waste of everyone’s time

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign