weirdly, for a pretty big collection I only have four artists starting with O. They are Mary Margaret OHara, The Orb, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils and Kelly Lee Owens.

That makes more sense

Ah I was responding to the Meat Puppets LP. Didn’t see the whole thread. Good old bluesky!

Just assumed you had alphabetical filing Mary, Meat, Michael!

Interesting filing by first name. If I had this it would sit between Bobby McFerrin and Sergio Mendes On the shelf. I have Mary Margaret O’Hara but she’s between Nouvelle Vague and The Orb.

Picked this up today in Devon. this guy was weirdly but justifiably big in the nineties. to be honest the sleeve of this 1962 LP could have easily been designed in 1994.

Shirese - Hardly Cricket View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2024 Vinyl release of "Hardly Cricket" on Discogs.

I’m just grumbling because I want to buy www.discogs.com/release/3174... without spending the same again on postage and taxes

If they’re coming from the States they’ll bang on another tenner for taxes at checkout. Think of it as two or three albums and sixty quid is a bargain. And I concur with you - this album is magnificent.

You've reminded me of school - I always used to pick up the nicest new books until the librarian pointed out the battered ones were the ones that I was most likely to read. It's a neat tip and the opposite of what most record collectors would advise.

Or 31

Ok what was at number 31 this year because they just cut it from the chart rundown #TOTP

In Neighbours in the nineties there was a spell where they played a very quirky folky song in the coffee shop. It took a few years to find out that it was Ordinary Angel by Frente! I think I watched Neighbours hoping to hear it.

It’s also the pain of not accidentally mowing the cord and the pain of the cord wrapping around your legs when you try and turn around. Cords on lawnmowers are designed to induce madness.

This put a thought in my head. I wonder if Trump knows the difference between gas and gasoline. I could easily think he doesn’t.

This starts bad and gets worse. Fair play to Murphy Campbell for describing this mess so calmly, I’d be screaming.

Four thumbnails for obituaries of people called Nicholas

The related articles links under the Guardian obituary of Nicholas Brendon are other obituaries of people called Nicholas

With his profile it'd be easy to be cynical - his plastic surgery implies fakery - but I think it's genuine too. I have a friend with a similar barking laugh which helps convince me.

It must be useful for making friends on the stand-up circuit. I'd be hopeless with my occasional wry smiles.

He's quite fascinating. I've often though his generosity with laughter (genuine or not) is a huge factor in his likeability with audience and panellists on gameshows. As someone who is not a big laugher, I pay anthropological attention to this generosity in JC and other comedians.

Isn’t it the same as music where you have access to everything ever and some people make explosive futuristic choices from those launchpads some just settle with what works (Fleetwood Mac, Ralph Lauren trousers), and others nail their colours to an ancient subculture (nirvana records/tshirts)

i was born in 1976. For me this would be the soundtrack to bare legs sizzling on the scorching vinyl seats of a red minI cooper. Snooker on the radio. Quack quack oops.

No post credit scenes in Ready Or Not Here I Come or Project Hail Mary. You’re free to go.

A few years ago this would have been foiled

Both mine and my wife's fathers have described their daughters as 'looking like Max Wall' when they wear leggings with boots. I am continuing this with my daughter even though I barely know who Max Wall is, and don't expect her to.

Not sure but it would make sense. The IRA bomb knocked out one of my favourite bits of Manchester. lots of shops and stalls with comics, tat and records. Couldnt have chosen a better spot to clear up for gentrification (my personal conspiracy theory there)

Think it might have been Goldmine near the Corn Exchange. I bought a couple of Meters 7s in there

I was thinking in the corn exchange, Goldmine comes to mind but my memory isn’t what it was

Everytime the news refers to the Chancellor as "Reeves" I think of Graham Lister

Maybe it was one of those Victorian cameras where you have to sit really still for ten minutes

When I soak up the remaining gravy on my plate with a slice of bread, I call this a mop.
When I have enough gravy on my plate to soak up with bread, I call this a mopportunity.