A Mega Ryan! I'll get my coat.
Somewhere in Ireland, probably listening to music, walking the dog or reading something. Or despairing, or daydreaming. On the route of the 19 bus.
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A Mega Ryan! I'll get my coat.
I have no idea who all the heartthrob Hollywood Chrises are. There's at least Hemsworth and a Pratt and I think a gaggle more but they all blur into one MegaChris.
Today's sketch, now available to own on Home Video. I mean you can watch it on YouTube, and you should because then I get money. It's the 80s, baby. youtu.be/23SKNZEUQuk
Give the BBC time. They'll be itching to get back to their normal broadcasting.
The start of every 80s movie:
I can
The kids' faces of course didn't look funny, they were just looking at him funny. Kids being good judges of character.
This Beoga album is great, full of energy and raise the hairs on your neck moments. The first song kicks, then kicks again. I dare you not to whoop 🎻 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Great book. And my daughter picked it up independently years after me and loved it too. Bonus 🙂
101 Mark.
A spare ring, like your spare car keys that always sit in the bowl on the table.
The pricks can't even take a bank holiday off.
Love TMBG, love a fat brass arrangement.
Always loved this the last song on that album. Shane's ode to London. Your architects were madmen And your builders sane but drunk, But a mystery of fading jewels Shine acid house and punk
Great song, great band. Video gives me the heebie-jeebies. I fell asleep, and when I woke up, I was old. I said goodbye to my youth, and my blood ran cold.
album covers but with muppets: thread
'We're just normal, men. Innocent men!' Fletcher said as he accepted the star.
Love this, even if it is apocryphal. From Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens. 📚
jozebedee132288.substack.com/p/in-which-i... So much.
The most interesting thing about King Charles the First Is that he was 5 foot 6 inches tall at the start of his reign But only 4 foot 8 inches tall at the end of it. Currently listening to. Educational, you know.
I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.
In the middle of all the hype about the Trump-Putin meeting in Anchorage at 11.30am Alaska time tomorrow, let’s not forget the dodgy way Trump conducts these things. He’s meeting Putin one-on-one first before officials are allowed in so there’s no record of what’s discussed.
Has anyone thought of following them around playing Yakety Sax on the kazoo? Mariachi band would be better.
My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.
*1980s gameshow voice* Let's have a look at what you could have won.
Music as a torture tactic always makes me think of Chumbawamba's self-deprecating response to James Hetfield.
Do you have old wooden clogs hanging on your fence? Decorative? Structural?
Rum, Sodomy, and The Lash was released 40 years ago today! I’m very proud to say it’s one of Tom Waits’ favourite albums 💚 The launch party was on the HMS Belfast, in this pic I’ve no idea how I managed to keep the ash from falling but I hope I won the bet! 🏴☠️💚 #music #punk #happybirthday
Yep. Science doesn't give a fuck whether you believe in it or not.
Painting the spare room and listening to west Cork's finest.
Samuel Beckett has been spotted at Wembley for the Oasis gig…
“Only in NYC can you have a pedicab driving down the street with tourists blasting Billy Joel’s music — and Billy Joel pulls up next to them.” 💕 - @wutangforchildren.bsky.social
Stephen McCartney has written some beautiful songs over the years (check out his earlier band Farriers too). Here's another, just out today.
Kind words from Elizabeth, who is an amazing musician herself. I've put this bundle up in anticipation of Bandcamp Friday tomorrow.
The final couple of pages of part 2 absolutely floored me. The terror, then the calm, Grace becoming her name. The what-if of all parents. Great writing.
He was there with my daughter. They have never forgotten it. Of all the work of mine they have seen, this is the one that stays with them. #Threads.
I didn’t know rabbits liked trampolines, but then again…..
From the President of the United States To the lowliest rock and roll star, The doctor is in and he'll see you now He don't care who you are. Life'll kill ya.
I'd go with CEO Affairs.
Today is the 358th anniversary of the splendidly named Solomon Eccles walking through Westminster Hall naked with a chafing dish on his head, shouting “Repent! Repent!”
I don't 100% know what it is yet, but I would write this book.
I've wondered this too. Redact victims names/identifiers. There's bound to be a hacker group out there with the means.
Same. Still only know 2 guitar chords. Jimi Hendrix's place in the legend pantheon is safe.
Are you sure yourself? Friday pints are beckoning after all.
Some would say, ok my accountant says, we need cut corners, make more profit! It’s not in our DNA, we’re makers, creators. We haven’t changed anything since we started. If I could just ask one favour please, tell a friend about us. Thanks
Switched out my planned Substack for this one. If you fancy it, please subscribe. It’s free. One very readable story a week, delivered to your inbox. Comments welcome.
About to launch into this 1100+ page behemoth. It took Moore 10 years to write it apparently, so I'm honouring that by having had it nearly 10 years in my TBR pile. See you on the other side of the Boroughs.📚
What is it in Bristol? Liddle or Leedle?
You’re so Venn
Our grandparents knew titanic warfare, genocide, economic dislocation, smashed cities & hideous disease. They clung to the ideals of liberal democracy as if their lives depended on it These people have known only peace, prosperity, safety and it has blown their minds. They hunger for dislocation.
here’s just a list of numbers
There's a man dressed as a warlock walking down Tottenham Court Road, with a German Shepherd and a three-foot speaker blasting out heavy metal. It's a busy lunchtime and everyone is completely ignoring him. I honestly don't know how Reform can claim that London is anything other than just fine.
I can't tell you how much this has cheered me up today. The sigh when the lead guy sees yet another cock-balls on the road, pulls up and yanks the handbrake. The way their owls STILL LOOK LIKE COCKS-AND-BALLS. Magnifique.
I’m not really a fan of Farage.
The original poem in Irish is likely 8th century. This version by Cathy Jordan of Dervish sends shivers down my spine. Cathy's voice & the ache of loss in the lyrics is sublime.
ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻
She (sort of) has a point. Maybe taking the adage "Better looking at it than looking for it" a bit too far.
The guy who invented coffee
I got Belfast Waterstone's one and only (or last) copy.
Genuinely really looking forward to it. Enjoy the launch tonight with Guy. It's a pity I'm not in London..
Funding @nivenj1.bsky.social's decadent lifestyle. Had to give up vaping to afford this.
Agree, absolutely brutal start, but it does go on to give some hope and inventive solutions.
Terrifying but ultimately optimistic 👍
Your evening jam: youtu.be/UyGyuavlin4?...
Ah, welcome to Ireland. He's a real fucking piece of work. Irish Maga rapist. His wiki gives a fair representation.
Still unbeatable. The line, the delivery, the contempt. Truly iconic.
Is "in 50 days" the new "in 2 weeks"?
My dad's advice on voting: "Always exercise your right to vote, Ian. Unless you intend to vote Tory. Then you're a cunt and no son of mine.”
Two brews, both alike in dignity, In fair Yorkshire, where we lay our scene.
He's a great writer, always left-field and always surprises me. One of the few writers where I've kept every book of his that I've bought, through all the bookshelf cullings.
Anyone got a video of a hare having the shit scared out of it by a curlew — ah, don’t worry, got one anyway!
Our local Orange hall is flying a (proscribed terrorist organisation) UVF flag. Someone should tell Palestine Action to open an Orange hall.
At least your balls aren't wet for once.
Because Culture etc. And Jamie Bryson will cry otherwise & clog up the courts with vexatious JRs.
An unwarranted bare arse or dangly bits usually gets an instant block from me anyway. Keep yer fecking bits to yourself Ms or Mr..
Yeah, same. DMs passed me by. The odd one saying thanks for a follow but nothing I can't live without. DMs aren't why I use a social.
Oh plus no DMs if you dont verify "If users don’t want to verify their age, or if they’re under 18, they will still be able to have an account with certain features limited. Bluesky will block “adult-appropriate content” and turn off certain features, such as direct messaging."
Only need to verify age if you want to see age "appropriate" content. It's opt in, so if you don't Bluesky will limit features available to you i.e. will moderate your content. Which is fair enough I suppose.
I've decided, I want @bellowhead.bsky.social to be playing when I wake up bleary-eyed & locked inside a wicker man in an isolated Lancashire village.
Address autofill is like a small child doing a magic trick. “Give me your house number and postcode and I’ll tell you your address” “I mean, I could just fill it in mys—“ “NO! I HAVE TO DO THE MAGIC TRICK!” *produces list of 134 addresses* “IS IT ONE OF THESE?”
This is very good news and will help to stop the Far Right getting elected on marginal votes. Now do parliamentary elections.
Had forgotten this song until it just came up on shuffle. What a tune
The Fathers book tour news… IRVINE 12th July: SOLD OUT ABERGAVENNY 16th: SOLD OUT LONDON 17th: LAST TICKETS GLASGOW, MONDAY 14th: BUY MORE TICKETS YOU GLASWEGIAN FUCKS
At the bottom of my road there is an expensive greengrocer. (I say “expensive” but I suspect what I really mean is that the produce is good and the business rates are high and they pay their workers properly.) I buy fruit there so I don’t eat junk food when I’m working. 1/n
Why is it called catnip and not kitamine?
Commoners Cake Division is limbering up for our tenth Anniversary at @OldWoollen on 20th July. Come n sing us happy birthday, listen to songs from our 10 years and enter the lip synch competition! Oh and we've got a special new 🎶 usb 🎶 Tix at oldwoollen.seetickets.com/event/common...
That evangelical preacher is closet gay isn't he. Countdown to the gay-sex-truckstop admission.
If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄
It is isn't it. Beautiful song.
"When the music started playing I gave Tomás a gentle signal with my hand a split-second in advance of where I imagined each line of the poem falling. And Tomás responded, his giant of a voice rolling out the rich syllables on cue like an old god pouring wine down a mountainside."
What movie did you see way too young?
Every time I read @adamroberts.bsky.social I learn something new, and realise there's a whole philosophical world out there I know little about. Nobody else writes quite like this. TIL Gilles Deleuze on the centenary of his birth. Great stuff.
Quick post to flag up the Substack. Free to subscribe. If you like what I’m doing here you get the same experience only with more words (not too many, though). Once a week, four minute reads, highlighting specific areas of interest. Everything is Connected.
I spent months on this investigation and gathered docs from the UK courts, Land Registry and a French local authority, to show that Raynor and Moth Winn's story is not as they claim. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
ripping the LaserDisc for Beastmaster II and it contains one of my favorite bits of distracting dubbing in history
This sent me down a wiki rabbit hole to..Lesley-Anne Down was in Beastmaster III & now I have a lyric in my head "You remind of Lesley-Anne Down". Zodiac Mindwarp? HMHB? Wonderstuff? Imagined it? Damned if I can find it.
