50 years? Blimey! Rael stands astonished. Peter Gabriel on his Genesis swansong: "It was a journey into the soul" - Uncut apple.news/AsJkLX0jLRAu...

Madonna: “He’s not the Messiah. He’s a very naughty boy! Wait…he’s behind me, isn’t he?”

I’ve received spate of these A.I. generated, author-targeting phishing attempts by email these past weeks, but this one takes the biscuit! Zero marks for effort, full marks for hilarity!

This iceberg wasn’t just chilling - it flipped upside down off the coast of Greenland in a wild ocean somersault. ❄️🔄

“His life’s work is like a dark, glittering, ethereal yet earthy river of thought, full of angels, ghosts, nocturnes, animals. These are books as brimming with spirit & light as they are with eroticism & violence” —Seán Hewitt on John Burnside’s poetry & prose 💙📚 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Very cheered to learn that there's a footballer called Fitz Hall and that his nickname is "One Size".

Comedy aside (from two great performers), it’s interesting to see how much of Basil Fawlty is already there in this early sketch. youtu.be/ZYlOV7K-xOU

"I'm late, I'm late! For a very important date! No time to say 'hello, goodbye,' I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!"

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

The levitating head effect was big back in the day, it would seem.

The lord is my Shepherd Neame; I shall not want.

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Just seen in another place.... 🤣🤣🤣👍👍

Fantastic

I keep thinking about this Ellis Rosen cartoon.

This week’s Private Eye.

I read this one where a bloke decided to get over the tragic death of his son and his wife's infidelity by walking round his home town according to an itinerary which closely matched, in ironic counterpoint, the epic mythical journey of Odysseus. I had my doubts tbh but it was very realistic

I think the bigger story is that the flying ants have written an editorial to warn us.

American friends! Nautilus is now on AMC for your enjoyment. Dive in!! (See what I did there?) collider.com/nautilus-sho...

I know, how about a kids’ board game based on an escalating scale of classroom punishments? ‘Black mark!’ ‘Detention!’ ‘Whack-O!’

Meet Mr Turnip, everyone’s favourite 1950’s television puppet. Comes with handy cardboard coffin.

Chester, 1988, and I look like I’m contemplating that difficult second album.

I enjoyed my guest spot on Chris Deacy’s “Cabin FM at the Movies” on Saturday, the highlights of which are posted below: chrisdeacy.com/2025/06/17/c...

Nice. I, too, am blessed with an attic writing / reading / napping* space. *Yeah, a lot of that.

In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...

Why, is that you burbling away (at length) on local radio about your favourite films just now, do I hear you ask? Why, yes! Yes, it is, I reply. How very unusual. www.cabin.fm

discussing our next book group choice with a customer... "I mean, we'll need at least one person to hate it." Customer: "Yep. Friction is good." me: "Some people only enjoy non-friction though"

Dickens Tolstoy Poe Melville Henry James Cather Fitzgerald Hemingway Dos Passos Faulkner Capote Carver Chandler Salinger (inc bootlegs) Berryman R Ford E Waugh Wodehouse Pratchett Adam Roberts Fforde Jodi Taylor Martin Amis W Trevor Malcolm Lowry

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

Just had a dream in which the plot of the new Fantastic Four movie hinged on the control of the image rights to the cakes the various characters made. Dr. Doom felt his rights were being abused. He also disagreed with the 4’s use of sugar. Hence, aggro. I pray this is the plot to the actual film.

decades-long manhunt finally ends

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... @brotherbikini.bsky.social

What did Bertie Wooster get up to in WW2? He was 24 when he employed Jeeves (20 years older?) who later said he had “dabbled to a certain extent” in WW1. That must have been in 1920ish. In 1939 he would have been in his early 40s, slightly liverish, but still a game old bird. 1/n

The dock of the bay.

7p.m. — and therefore the end of dry Friday.

Made me chuckle.

Active beaming-up circle evident on Margate sands this afternoon.

The Canadian election result shows that the 2024 US election might have gone very differently if American voters could somehow have known in advance what it would be like to have Donald Trump as president

The early working title for the famous Miles Davis’ album.

www.theguardian.com/football/tha... A famous night, one I was pleased to attend! @gegsyc58.bsky.social

Donnie Darko.

Can’t believe we got away with making Penguin publish this.

This is how tariffs work. ..and now I want Crab Rangoon.

This Peanuts / Alien strip is pretty cool, and also a good demonstration of the slightly surprising story breaks in a great monster movie. Usually your beast only reveals itself properly halfway through. Look:

Repost with a photo of seafront/shoreline/beach that you took.

Horse tricycle, anyone?

Sweet to see that an old teaching pal of mine has taken THE RETURN TO EVERYWHERE STREET on her current European tour and is currently sending me photos of the book as if being read against rather grand backdrops. Can’t beat a bit of sound product placement! 😂