Arnold Lease Had a strange kind of Hobby...

"What is the price of Intelligence? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price Of all that a man hath, his house, his wife, his children Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy." Cf Blake: The Price of Experience #WeAreSoLost

So, I seem to have written yet another novel. I really don’t know how this keeps happening.

Mac-catalogue. As he says, pure gold-dust.

If you become super-rich you can lose all your discernment too!

"we're going in a new direction"

Before I call the box office, the heat has called time on my +1 coming to Gary Oldman's Krapp's Last Tape & Godot's To-Do List tonight, Tue 26, 7.30. Any takers? Please DM.

Good luck with this in future, Barnsley.

Why didn't any of you tell me a major oil giant's chairman is - was - called Albert Manifold? #InternalCombustioNames BBC News - BP chair removed over 'serious' conduct concerns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyone seen/heard from @rosslawson.bsky.social ? His presence is much missed.

"The manna was lovely, tenk you, but enough already, we're fine for everything else, really..."

That said, he was a helluva fungi.

I think this is fantastic news.

We should've noticed all along, and now 26 May is really shaping up as one of the auspicious #jazz #anniversaries. #Miles #Sonny #Neil

Saw the first of the feral mob's summer riots in a beleaguered coastal town last night. Terrifyingly great work by Deborah Warner & Co #ROH #PeterGrimes

Excellent! While they may have represented an older guard, Benny Green and Humphrey Lyttleton knew what was what in the jazz world and didn't stop supporting it.

Tin-eared counterpoint by an otherwise great wordsmith: Larkin suggested Sonny Rollins "firing notes at the listener felt like being pelted with slivers of granite." #pah

I can almost taste the brown Windsor soup...

There's an exceptionalist belief that the UK's immune to the worst political extremes. In reality, we were lucky not to get a fascist government in the 1930s. Now that the world's richest man supports our most extreme political party, we need more than luck. We need to get the money out of politics.

Dialectical materialism in action...

And the missing words are: "...of the end."

I see he waited to leave on Miles' centenary. Ever-present, in the moment. RIP #SonnyRollins

🎶Golden blunders fill your eyes Piles of fake news, it's all lies Cheap, pretty awful, do not buy It's just cheap bling, another lie🎶 #TrumpPhone #Trump

The Art of the Fail. BBC News - US military launches new strikes on targets in southern Iran, US Central Command says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone.

What links the Bible, planet worship, working in a dark satanic mill and theatre matinées? Have listen to episode one: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Obvusly...

Absolute lolz but please... Take care. You'll wish you'd said this, or had someone say it for you. Salutary work from #MaryBourke, @jonholmes.bsky.social et al #BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Pity the DC Flash supervillain/hero Killer Frost never got the traction here: so much more appropriate than "Lord".

It's Monday. Why tho? In a new series for Radio 4, alongside the brilliant Sam Peach, I've been talking to researchers, farmers, engine plant managers, brewers and waiting staff to explore where the working week came from, how it works now, and whether it doesn't. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This piece should be as well known as Lark Ascending and the best of summery Delius. Good morning everyone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY-B...

"Very crep, Norfolk..."

Cool🧵 for a hot bank holiday 👇

Workers' party: latest

#CriminalRecord is catching our febrile times with sickening accuracy.

Think this was my gateway #Dylan too. The clever 6th formers were playing it in a common room where we mere 2nd years would stand outside a be allowed to gawp. Wondered for years what "Mobil" was.

Not wrong.

"Dressed in read" is peak @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social

Gotta get up!

It’s the 36th anniversary of this today

Jackboot Jenrick going full Arbeit Macht Frei on Kuenssberg, there...

This article is a tremendous metaphor for the rise of destructive forces about to overwhelm the quiet and precarious in the UK. Alas, poor country! Almost afraid to know itself.

This is the sort of attack other parties should be launching.

Jonathan Romney’s TV film picks in Observer - Sun: SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) BBCTwo 2.15pm; Mon: HIGH NOON (1952) 5Action 1.55pm; Thu: LOCAL HERO (1983) Film4 4.30pm; Fri: MILES DAVIS: THE BIRTH OF COOL (2019) BBC Four 9.05pm

Not waving... Please note.

Just finished Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. It’s not very original to observe this, but holy cow, it’s a masterpiece. It’s at once a very serious book about war and PTSD/trauma, and extremely funny, compassionate, and joyful. What an omission that it wasn’t in the Guardian best novels list

Despite publishing @helenpilcher.bsky.social's article, @theguardian.com hasn't included it in its app so you'll have to read it here. And it's dead good on the representation of science in popular media. #ProjectHailMary www.pressreader.com/uk/the-guard...

refukked.lovable.app?utm_id=97758... @christhebarker.bsky.social