It's not Rabbit level Updike but it's OK, even at his worst he's got lovely sentences, even at his best plot wasn't his thing

Carl your criticism of liberalism is reasonable and my complaints about you are wildly overstated
I live in Scotland have no understanding of Virginian gerrymanderings so I'm just being a goblin so you'll have to drive somewhere and stand in line TO PROVE A POINT

From memory that was really good, but it is a very distant memory

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Sorry that was a snarky answer but it has set me a fun challenge: to see how many ways I can cross the Tweed on my bike - I think it'll be 8 or 9 but I realized I did it a couple of times going to Selkirk so it might be double figures

ITV Marple from the early 2000s which was from memory incredibly gay

When can have a non-heterosexual Miss Marple?

This is the perfect time for The Blossom Filled Streets, a record I now intimately associate with coming out of lockdown in 2020 and the return of hope

Hopefully on Sunday I will ride to Innerleithen and cross it 4 times going to Peebles as that's my favorite, going up to Moffat you get to cross the source but there it's tiddly

Crossing the Tweed at Berwick but shaking my head so everyone knows I disapprove

I just sung 'Charlie Brown had ho-o-oes' and as far as I am concerned that is what Dre should put in there

Hardly anyone begins sentences with 'I daresay' but I now expect a flurry of 'I daresay they don't' or 'I daresay they do'

Failed to clock this initially, but Peter Parker has been given some time off from the Daily Bugle to do some book reviewing & thankfully hasn't wasted his time thwarting the Green Goblin but has came up with a very perceptive pull quote

You try not to be mean but this is an astounding thing to say in the week Joanna Cherry QC released her book

We had a great time but are getting the train back to Edinburgh this afternoon, tube willing, and will start trying to make a dent in the dozen books we've bought. Your suggestions have been very helpful & if you ever venture North I hope I can provide similar service

The Angela Eagle leadership launch gambit

New Coke was bad on purpose. This served two purposes: 1) to stimulate demand for original Coke, which led to the extremely successful launch of Coca-Cola Classic; 2) to allow The reintroduced Coke Classic to have corn syrup instead of sugar without people having access to original Coke to compare

There was a secret clause in the Good Friday Agreement that Celtic had to win the league that year

Uche Okeke, Primeval Beast, 1961

Twins Seven-Seven, Dream of a Tired Hunter, 1984

It's a long journey for you to come to London for the Nigerian Modernism exhibition, given you are already a wery hunter, but they have exquisitely baited their lures @hastifliche.bsky.social

I wish I could say the same about the way the V&A's curation of the women printmakers exhibition, the prints themselves are almost without exception brilliantly moving and politically charged but they're squished higgledy-piggledy in a poorly lit hard to find back room - still worth a look though

And thanks to @jacquiwine.bsky.social and @davidwilloughby.bsky.social again for the tip about the Nigerian Modernism exhibition at the Tate - it's an expertly curated selection of amazing artists that gives a sweep of how art changed in Nigeria in the 20th century

A minor work by Muriel Spark that would be rated a major triumph for any other post war British writer

60's Nigerian cartoon very much in the Sickos Onion format

From the Nigerian Modernism exhibition proof the Stan Kelly cartoon format has always been with us

People love to quote Mike Tyson saying everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face, but sometimes they don't, some people never have a plan and they deserve representation too

Idea for an electronica label, Permanent Blip

As someone who 1) likes Jazz, 2) likes Abstract Expressionism & 3) overthrew the president the one time I visited South America and *isn't* in the CIA, I don't think you have it in you

Very funny that Mr Beast's name is Jimmy Donaldson. The biggest Gen Z star on the planet, the most successful YouTuber of all time, and he has the name of a 55yo loyalist councillor who's made the news for trying to ban yoga in Lurgan and calling left handed children satanic.

The Thames from just off Pumping station lane

Chiswick Park is the first place I have ever seen that looks like an architectural rendering

Full rainbow over the river

Rainbow over the Clyde

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🎶I wanna live on the strait of Hormuz
I could be happy the rest of my life
On the strait of Hormuz🎶

(Apologies to @lilylynch.bsky.social )