A question for readers of comic books. I've been enjoying one of the Marvel Epic Collections in print. These cost £40-£50 approx. in the shops. If I want to go forward into the next volume, should I sign up to Marvel Unlimited and read digitally instead?

Happy suburban pride month

Enjoying Graham Greene books.

There's a lovely song called Library on this Seeland album, for those who appreciate such things. lorecordings.bandcamp.com/track/seelan...

Changing my bio to ‘Raconteur of things’

Listening to my favourite Partridgian podcaster and he just asked his guest “Are you someone who enjoys collecting, bit of a raconteur of things?” Magnificent work.

June 1, when everyone started their new jobs at Grot HQ.

May reading: Thanks to @iammilliam.bsky.social @backlisted.bsky.social @penguinukbooks.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @conduitbooks.bsky.social @judecook.bsky.social @omnibuspress.bsky.social @reversediorama.bsky.social @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social etcetera…

Better than The Mandalorian and Grogu, though.

New retort just dropped

#nowplaying Members of Plone and Broadcast make NEU!-inspired synthpop in 2009. Result? Happiness.

I Wonder What Became Of Me? Twelve songs of afternoon barflies and midnight lushes recalling grander times. open.spotify.com/playlist/3Xv...

Tim is right. It’s Sunday morning, and Jackanory was the very definition of a broad church, so this is the perfect time to listen to our two angelic voices. 🙏

@delonsblues.bsky.social A playlist: Barflies recall grander times. 50s/early 60s vocal jazz only. Nat King Cole - Where Did Everybody Go? Sinatra - One For My Baby June Christy - Something Cool Pinky Winters - Cool Sazerac Anita Ellis — What Became Of Me? What else?

Are these the Ewe suburban skies of Ardwick Road?

Made a playlist. RAM OM, a version of RAM made of covers, some of them pretty out there. Features Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Freddie Hubbard, Percy “Thrills” Thrillington and @simonloverules.bsky.social, amongst others. Om. 🙏 open.spotify.com/playlist/55R...

Tim is right. It’s Sunday morning, and Jackanory was the very definition of a broad church, so this is the perfect time to listen to our two angelic voices. 🙏

Although Jackanory itself was never really on Sunday mornings, this is nonetheless probably the best time of the week to listen to me and @iammilliam.bsky.social talking about how much we loved this simple yet ingenious show and how much of an influence it had... timworthington.org/2026/05/28/t...

This is the daughter of our dear old friend Cathy. This news is simply devastating. If any of you can even spare £3, it would be hugely appreciated. Thank you x www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

“When will you die? / Please die.”

New screensaver.

Chilling a tin of Heinz cream of tomato soup in the fridge so I can have a bowl of delicious #storecupboatdgazpacho later.

when you read a book that everyone calls "peak feminist literature" but it's just a racist white woman who [you think] writes like an unseasoned chicken (🤷‍♂️) and you don't get the hype, it’s because you’re ignorant but groomed by consumerism to prioritise your opinion over all else. There, fixed it.

Meanwhile, on Instagram they’ve come for Sylvia Plath.

Re: Dungeon Lane. I reckon there is a genuinely great autobiographical album about McCartney’s Liverpool childhood and adolescence to be compiled from the best of his C21 output, even more if you go back to Flaming Pie. It has been his main subject for a long time.

Nope you've got this wrong. People who like the Fall are people who have the inner monologue of a quite clever but belligerent arsehole, and they enjoy seeing someone who is not scared to let it all out.

I am begging you for the millionth time to understand, no one is pretending to like a band you don't like.

Xx

These two images / aesthetics / points are not the fucking same.

PS. *whispers* I regret to whisper I find myself more in sympathy with the Guardian review of this than I would like. Wish I didn’t.

I saw a signpost in Dumfries and Galloway to the ‘Devil’s Porridge Museum’. Discovered the remarkable story of the thousands of young women who flocked to Gretna Green to make munitions in WWI so I had to write a song about them 🎶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #music #folkmusic 👇🏽 open.spotify.com/track/4cj9PA...

Adam Curtis, today, striding boldly past the racks of Paul McCartney CDs, heading straight to Inferno by Boards of Canada and then slapping his £20 note down, confidently, on the counter. Narrator: “But in the process of trying to avoid nostalgia, in reality Curtis had…”

This is why it is OK to repost your best stuff, I will take no further questions on this matter.

Neither am I too proud to post the joke again now the Paul McCartney episode of Chicken Shop Date is on YouTube. I said POULET MORT, Bluesky swine. bsky.app/profile/iamm...

Wow. Have never heard this before*: Lou Reed & The Feelies playing Run, Run, Run / European Son circa 1988 (sounds like the Feelies *really* want to be playing What Goes On…) youtu.be/3fR5HDe0thE * from a Lou Reed FB group

Where I’m calling from.

The world that could be so different - what’s all that to me? What can I do about it? Nothing. I don’t deceive myself. That’s settled. I can start on the second Pernod.

#nowplaying Boards of Canada continue to make records that make one ache for the nostalgia of the good old days of the past, forever just out of reach, exactly like they used to back in the day.

I cam empathise because all of my posts here are unashamedly metaphysical and concerned with the inevitability of suffering and loss within out impermanent world

I don’t know how it’s possible to take oneself this seriously, and I (sort of) envy writers who can. It doesn’t matter which contemporary novelist this is, the point is a more general one. Can you imagine a) thinking this and b) having the chutzpah to say it aloud in an interview?

Fantastic to be up and wide awake before anyone else.

We are profoundly saddened to share that our Honorary President, Maureen Duffy, has passed away. Maureen was extraordinary: a novelist, poet, playwright and critic of incredible range, and one of the founding figures of ALCS. Learn more about her legacy and impact: https://ow.ly/yHWs50Z52Ye

incredible

Calling Éric Rohmer fans www.mcnallyeditions.com/books/p/elis...