“Bake me a cake as fast as you can” is an unhinged demand.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE AUSTEN? (French & Saunders, BBC Radio 4) writer. Author of RICKY'S HAND, ALL MY COLORS, ETC. Emmy (Veep). Website: www.davidquantick.com. AND OTHER STORIES collection - preorder here: https://tinyurl.com/msmv7amc
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“Bake me a cake as fast as you can” is an unhinged demand.
I am feeling the wrong side of melancholy as autumn crashes in, so I shouldn't be reading books like THE LIFE OF CHUCK. But hey @stephenking.bsky.social is a genius, and the last line on page 62 is like a door opening onto light.
The best Blur single is Michael Caine by Madness.
oH GOD STOP TELLING ME ABOUT MAGIC OTHER COUNTRIES WHO ARE THE BEST AT EVERYTHING IF YOU LOVE FINLAND SO MUCH WHY DON'T YOU MARRY IT
PREFER.
I Scare Myself?
My lips are sealed.
Unusual news coming.
It's great.
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
Mummy, don't try to keep the cream for days it goes off.
Post an obscure album in your collection you that always think: 'Surely nobody else has got this?'
"Actually I didn't even apply to Stanford, yeah, they just wrote to me and said come and study here, yeah, and they weren't the only ones, either, and they said I was so good that I could probably skip a year, yeah. But in the end I went to Sussex because of my allergies."
With better scansiom, this could form part of a new Night Mail. Or the one about the quinquereme.
I've said this before and it bears repeating: One way we'll know if and when a real machine intelligence happens is that it will create art that is an artifact of its own intelligence, not ours, and it likely to be absolutely incomprehensible to us human on first approach. How cool with that be.
Failed fare dodger has got her dirty private school boots on the train seat.
Wanker! This slur against inane Guardian articles is all over the internet- but is it offensive to wankers?
The review wasn't great.
No, it's not great.
The Day Before You Camero. M x #abbacars
@jasonhazeley.bsky.social Drive like The Stig. #abbacars
The Winner Takes Vauxhall #abbacars
Isuzu Trouper Dacia Queen #abbacars
"I just rubbed pea soup onto my lower regions at a tube station near Hammersmith." "Turnham Green?" "That was the plan, yes."
Super Cooper
It Hertz To Remember #abbacars
Just passed a place called ABBA CAR RENTALS. So I’ve made a start. • Knowing Me, Knowing Yugo • Mamma Kia • The Daewoo Before You Came • The Name Of The Daimler • Jimny Jimny Jimny #abbacars
The final phase of largest-ever expansion of publicly funded childcare support has begun in England, as thousands of working parents receive more help with their nursery costs. Those eligible are now able to get 30 hours of free childcare per week during term-time for their children aged 9 mths-4yrs
Bloody Foreigner. Coming over here, with their 50th anniversary tour.
"You wouldn't know her, she goes to a different US medical school." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Happy Labor Day to everyone who gets murdered by Kathleen Turner for wearing white.
It me.
I can see how this might go wrong.
PEOPLE ARE NUTS IF THEY THINK THEY ARE IMPORTANT
Need a book? Bookseller Crow excellent indie bookshop proprietor Jonathan is gravely ill and they need all the business they can get. booksellercrow.co.uk They’re on bookshop.org too.
Delighted that an old John Lennon demo is now two seconds longer. Honestly it's like the day Sgt Pepper came out all over again
For anyone still craving early unreleased recordings don’t forget The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963 has been streaming since 2013
It's the number one story on the BBC website!
Go home, NYT Strands, you're drunk.
Margaret Fishback was among the highest-paid copy writers of her time. She was also Ogden Nash's biggest competition when it came to writing comic verse. Back in 2023, I published a short sketch of her work, along with a pre-New Yorker profile by Joseph Mitchell. neglectedbooks.com/?...
Months of joy await you.
Can't wait to sew Gary Numan do this six months later in almost exactly the same way but better.
Typical Yorkshire b'n'b.
The best use of coincidence in a story ever.
counter argument: no it doesn't.
PLEASE BE ERASURE.
Leisure Process!
Don't read Kate Atkinson before breakfast. Just finished WHEN WILL THERE BE GOOD NEWS? and p.478. My goodness.
TIL that the French for "dropped in at the deep end" is "plongé dans la marmite".
I need a glitterghost.
And well done to Crystal Clean Windows who cleaned it for free "A huge thank you to Isaac Crystal Clean Windows York Limited. After this incident happened, he kindly came and cleaned our windows for free. We are truly touched by his kindness." www.crystalcleanwindowsyork.co.uk
Portrait of the Late Ms Partridge https://www.wikiart.org/en/leonora-carrington/portrait-of-the-late-ms-partridge-1947
THERE'S NOTHING REDEEMING IN TOIL
There's a rumour going round that Donald Trump is alive.
'... so are the Rezillos, and they're doing a DIY EP."
I saw Sun Ra give an audience member a massive bollocking after the man accused him of, basically, Uncle Tomming.
Three flags short of a sandcastle.
Elton John playing Winifred Atwell.
Guy Garvey doing 1978 on Sky Arts #totp
Just noticed they’ve paywalled the Mini Crossword at the New York Times. I learned all those 5 letter long basketball players’ names for nothing.
Cheapo vinyl find of the day. TV soap fans will recognise Vince Earl AKA Ron Dixon from Brookside. This LP has the extremely rare accolade of not being listed on Discogs. No clips on YouTube either, but oh, that cover.
The first copy of #IntoTheGroove is here! I am so delighted with it. Thanks to my supportive, generous first readers: @quantick.bsky.social, @davidstubbs.bsky.social, @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social, @wadeywade.bsky.social and @juderogers.bsky.social. Out in the UK on Thur 2 Oct. @eandtbooks.bsky.social
But He Is Drawn To The Other Inside Him.
My late father in law. He was a big SF fan so... Glad you love!
Happy 44th birthday to Gaze into the Fist of Dredd, Brian Bolland’s finest hour.
If only I had thought of this "Greetings, Pope pickers," joke whilst watching Conclave months ago, instead of today, at the shops.
At last. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Why are TV adaptations like Jeanette Krankie? They're both a little broad.
AND OTHER STORIES is back in the Amazon Top Ten*! To celebrate here's me and Jim reading MARMALADE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs2H... * top ten thousand short stories.
Celebrities of course have never been news, historically.
SOTW www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTWg...
"I see you're an interface now, Father."
TBF, Yorkshire folk are exceptionally dour.
Your mam shouts at hotels and your dad paints roundabouts
One of my many TBR projects. Three mystery novels written in Nigerian pidgin by Adaora Lily Ulasi and published by Fontana in the 1970s. I'm intrigued because Ulasi 's work seems to have been completely forgotten.
I got to introduce The Soundtrack of Our Lives at their final UK show and only tripped over one cable leaving the stage.
This would be a great mashup with Sweet Child O'Mine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_NI...
fäther fäther I had the dream again the last time my slumber was disturbed in such a way was a thousand years ago I fear It is coming once more, fäther
bum.
o god now it's wild steaming
Cartoon by William Hamilton, 1972, from the New Yorker. (Several books from the period I’ve recently read bemoan the era’s perceived lack of a clear cultural identity & express doubt that anyone will look back fondly on the strife-riven Seventies. Hamilton knew far better how nostalgia works.)
The Toxic Avenger is clearing medical debt as marketing for the movie.
"Imagine adapting a successful brand into a different medium!"
Bastards. I hate and fear Letterboxed but try and do it every day.
Resarchin'.
I'm behind them on this.
Most people don't known this Victor Frankenstein started out by experimenting on animals, thereby proving the old adage that people really do reassemble their pets.
Have you heard the new remixed, remastered, machine-learning assisted Free As A Bird and Real Love? They played them on Radio2 at the weekend and I honestly thought my tinnitus was giving it one.
This is the worst possible news.
With a heavy heart, we've taken the decision to close our boutique clothing business after 13 wonderful years of you never having heard of us. As a thank you to our pretend loyal customers, there's 30% off all our fake stock. We leave you with an AI photo of our storefront. Thank you. #heavyheart
Website update ahoy. davidquantick.com
Only Butcher Baby.
Now imagining a DJ soundclash between Steven Wilson and Giles Martin where they compete to see who can make old records sound louder and emptier.
"This groundbreaking and successful Beatles album apparently sounded awful at the time but don't worry we have removed the stain of George Martin's awful production and mixed how we imagine the Beatles would want it to sound if they had taken leave of their senses."
"FYI. The forthcoming Auteurs boxset has not been remastered. This is because the original mastering of the albums was great. Not Remastered should become a selling point."
THANK YOU!I!
The "Only me!" of mixing.
