Silversprite

also my theater was showing nathan for you clips before ycse started and this was one of the best things you could show at the movies

It's dark before dinner time. Greenwich Mean Time sucks.

Just ate a doughnut with a marmite filling, which was an experience.

Frodo, daydreaming about Cheese through the whole meeting… “Will you take the Ring to Mount Doom young Hobbit?” …snaps out of his revery and says “err… Yes! Yes I will” without having a clue what he’s just agreed to.

The Lord of the Rings is essentially a series of faculty meetings broken up by several long walks in the countryside.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbP-... Anna von Hausswolff: Mountains Crave

Roses are red Green is the clover

This ad was on @channel4.bsky.social tonight. Literally incredible. How does a major company approve an ad that encourages faking and cheating at work?

Intrigued by the 'short' in 'short book'. How long - or short - is the text? Perhaps just a few pages? Or a few paragraphs? Or just one?

An excellent line, which I will pilfer/re-use (thanks).

Never impressed with the SpaceX rocket landings (when they aren't exploding), and now this dumb "flying" - it doesn't - car. We've had VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) aircraft for HALF A CENTURY and I can remember them from childhood. Old technology. Whatevs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p_9...

At New Street station, on the train to Moseley Village. It has two carriages, is a local service. People waiting for the train to Edinburgh, leaving from the same platform in a little while, keep getting on. If they don't get off before this train leaves, they are in for a surprise/disappointment.

Trying a latte from "Joe and the Juice" for the first time, partially as first order through the app is free. Said app is over the top. I am having an "experience" but I feel more like Alan Partridge from that recent sketch. Also, their menu has some scary prices.

Did the #My9Albums thing. Not easy; on a different day I'd pick a New Order album over Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Maybe Rio by Duran Duran. And more Boards of Canada (I restrained myself); Boc Maxima wins out over Music Has The Right To Children because Whitewater > Rue the Whirl. It'll do.

Spoke with a homeless Ghanaian man at Berlins main train station last month, and his biggest frustration was being blocked from the job market. He was absolutely desperate to work. But to women like this, he’s just “Ghana town”.

If you see this we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without an explanation.

I Receive You.

50/50 the twat in the White House will make some kind of deranged speech about invading Norway. Or, at the least, introduce new tariffs on the Norwegians.

Navi is a deserved recipient. If news of the Nobel Peace Prize induces a fatal aneurysm in you-know-who, then *chef's kiss*.

Incidentally, her reading from that event is online, and it's about as good an introduction to her poetry as can be, if you've never encountered her work.

Anne Carson is the first Nobel Laureate in Literature who I know owns a book by me, as I gave her one of my poetry books when we read together in the midst of Covid in Reykjavík. She was very friendly. They say you should never meet your heroes, but it couldn't have been a nicer experience.

"One has overdone the cocaine."

When we see the excess deaths from record-breaking temperatures we shouldn't be shy in saying those journalists who knowingly lied and obfuscated about climate change until there was nothing we could do about it have blood on their hands the same way Nazi propagandists did.

My God. It’s takes something special for me to have more sympathy for Rees-Mogg than his interviewer.

Today was another good day for a walk or two around the nearby park, with pleasant wildlife including swans, ducks, geese and smaller avian friends. And squirrels. So many squirrels.

This looks like you've paid two year 10s to pretend to be your parents at parents evening #CelebrityTraitors

When I'm on my way to a spa weekend I am reminded of that etiquette bloke's tacky list. In the next 24 hours I'm absolutely guaranteed to: 1. Eat on a train 2. Use a hot tub and 3. Drink prosecco. I'm not much of a one for pudding but I'll try and get salted caramel in too.

ixi's technical analysis of, and reaction to, Boqurant and 5.9.78 by Boards of Canada is a joy. Especially the moment 2:02 in. Greedily hoping for an analysis of the Random 35 Tracks Tape (R35TT) at some point. Or just Some Old Tunes (1985-1996). www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXnO...

New expletive has landed

Ibex silhouetted by the sun: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

Never mind the Beatles comparisons, Oasis are just an inferior version of The Charlatans, without the Hammond organ, but with added cocaine.

Overheard: "Of course it's possible! If John Major and Edwina Curry can have a years long affair, ANYTHING is possible!" That brought back memories of the day we all went "what?!"

One thing has led to another and, in this park, a small group of friendly but slightly confused Sikhs are intensely listening to Naraka by Boards of Canada. I will very shortly be taking questions. youtu.be/pwF0mO_vffs

I LOVE ixi talking about music. One of the very best YouTube creators, without a doubt (imo). She is less than 2100 subs away from 100K, and she deserves to hit that soon. If you enjoy really smart music analysis, consider subscribing to her.🎶🎹 m.youtube.com/watch?v=KNpq...

Fly tipping is like cow tipping but smaller

Wondering what the recommended maximum intake of hummus in a 24 hour period is.