Morning all.

Photographer Tony Ray-Jones.
Weymouth 1968.

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

We should remember part of humanity is also generating complete nonsense. I'd like to see AI wake up at 1am with a vision of a sitcom about Dracula who has two pomeranians, one liberal and one conservative, with a theme song that includes the lyric "it's a two cup teacup politics dust up."

Kurosawa on watching Solaris with Tarkovsky

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll

She was born on March 20th, 1915

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Girl chewing gum, John Smith, 1976 YouTube video by Filmman Cine Mix

There are few greater things, as someone who teaches in an art school, than saying to a student, 'Have you seen John Smith's film "The Girl Chewing Gum"?', and then sharing it with them if they haven't.

Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of its first screening at the London Filmmakers’ Co-op.

Remembering Mark E. Smith on his birthday. Here are The Fall performing Big New Prinz live on Tony Wilson's The Other Side of Midnight in 1988

Hebden Bridge, 1975, photo by Martin Parr.

Oh, yeah. I hadn't thought of that. 05:11 S02E03 Mettle March 9 2001

Graham Kritzer (@GrahamKritzer) on twitter: "Guy inventing Accordion: I'm gonna make this suitcase so fucking loud"

Happy birthday to the magnificent Robert Wyatt. Here he is performing I'm a Believer on #TOTP in 1974. The show's producer asked him to perform in a wicker chair because a wheelchair "was not suitable for family viewing". Robert told him where to go

People walk and one car drives across a snow covered street with classical buildings in the background.

Christmas Day in Rome (1965)
Photo: Tony Vaccaro / Monroe Gallery

Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day.

"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".

From sheds to super-stadiums, the football ground is bigger than architecture Amid an evolution from standing terraces to high-tech arenas, the sport’s industrial working-class legacy lives on in new designs

www.ft.com/content/5937... From sheds to super-stadiums, the football ground is bigger than architecture. Including Home Ground, curated by @petecollard.bsky.social

penguin classics cover for the magician's nephew by CS Lewis, but the cover image is george michael bluth

Two young girls sit by a New York window as a giant Snoopy float passes by in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, 1988.

Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.

Gift of Angela Westwater

On Kawara, I Got Up..., 1977
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two houses build up against a warehouse wall, people sit on the steps of the houses.

Peter Sekaer, New York, c 1934.

Rétro Station Service ⛽️ TOTAL ⛽️ avec pompiste & Citroën Ami 6 de juillet 1965

Saturday's Start over Chicago's Lake Michigan.

landscape with dotted trees and kites flying over it

Utagawa Hiroshige

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I disgraced myself.

whats Pinocchio's favorite pizza. "Dominose." (the crowd applauds weakly but with an awareness that i have consolidated power and begun my invasion of the Low Countries)

He stood and thought. The pub, he thought. Oh dear, the pub.

Young cowboy, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1950s, photo by Jimmy Forsyth.

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that