"The Listeners" (Walter de la Mare) read by J.H. Prynne YouTube video by ju5tin katk0

RIP JH Prynne. Here he is reading Walter de la Mare on Chinese State TV. I hope the video backdrops were especially for him. Vale.

Only way

Close-up photograph of a scone, jam, and cream

Absolute filth

Nine months on from the moon landing…

A heady mix

Nabokov!

🙏

Robert Rauschenberg’s poster for the first Earth Day in 1970, my birthday. It has an eagle, a collage of animals and other scenes, and the date.

Thanks Bob!

Vladimir Nabokov as a child. He is wearing shorts, shirt and tie, and is sitting on a chair looking at a picture book.

Happy birthday Immanuel Kant, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Nabokov, Robert Oppenheimer, Sidney Nolan, Charles Mingus, Bettie Page, George Cole, James Stirling, Jack Nicholson, Issey Miyake, Louise Glück, John Waters, Arthur Baker, Sean Lock, Sheryl Lee, Dion Dublin, and me.

Three colourful inky drawings. Two on left and in centre are botanical-looking the third on the right is a hoof.

Three colourful inky drawings. Two on left and at top are botanical-looking the third is a retching pig.

Enjoy six drawings from the Wessenden series from 2022. There are approx 100 in the series.

They are all family photo sized, ink on high gloss photographic paper. First exhibited in Venice at A plus A, and the pigs will be shown and go to auction at IMT, London next month.

Certainly seems to have a humiliation kink

Chelsea lol

You’d need a heart of stone etc.

What the fuck is wrong with her?

Packet of cherry-flavoured ‘jaffa’ cakes

Do not recommend

I’ve never seen it, that much is true.

CAT-scan was right there

It's an awful story, I know, but I'm surprised they persist with this framing. If I were sitting at my garden table I'd be visible from space, to the right camera. (And I know I might've put on a few pounds recently, but still…)

She's a little late. Starmer told me to fuck off a couple of years ago. I must check in on Labour sometime and see how their support is holding up.

Not necessarily: the one I was reading about last night was writing about forgiveness, and now I can see why.

My little suggestion today is that if you have to read a T.S. Eliot poem you put, “Girl,” in front of the first line & read the rest in the voice of a drag queen reading someone to filth.

A suburban front garden in the sun, with yellow, white, and dark red tulips, euphorbia, and various grasses.

The front garden is beginning to fill out once more

Watching a French guy make one with a shit-ton of butter?

This is actually hilarious.

ohmigod this is amazing, and will make watching this far easier (impossible otherwise, far too fast).

I took up fencing for a short time about 15 years ago and absolutely loved it. Utterly exhausting, but absolutely the best sports kit you can wear. I've *never* looked cooler.

Some of the other stories I gathered here include the time Prince invited me to his house, a glimpse at the Myst-like CD-ROM game he released in the 90s, some digital artifacts that I had the only copy of—including Prince’s own notes on his greatest hits, and the message behind his Super Bowl show.

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An image of a small painting by Lucian Freud in which the former monarch looks like the result of a make-someone-out-of-bread challenge on Junior Bake-Off

Queen Elizabeth II, #botd 1926

Look at the size of that! The rhinos on the streets in the 70s were much smaller, someone should do a comparison. I bet it can barely see a small child from up there.

Prince - If I Was Your Girlfriend (Sign O' The Times Concert Film, 1987) YouTube video by e_perez

Ten years gone

And thank you.