Europeans when asked to unblock The Straights of Hormuz

Anthony Bourdain, in his parents' house, with a poster of Grace Slick, 1972.

29 in Scrabble

Terrific indiepop zine!

Chris Rea in a bath surrounded by bubbles and some eggs from Bob Mortimer

RIP Chris

Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.

#NoWords 🤮

Travel poster Soviet Armenia a car passing under a bridge, while a train crossses the aforementioned bridge. mountains, woods and a city

Just spotted that BBC2 are showing Get Carter tonight at 11pm, so if you're a fan of seeing Alf Roberts get chucked off a car park you're in luck.

Tower of Power

Four men in parkas forcing a furious polar bear into a cage.

“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter

A simply incredible wordsmith. Brazil alone, never mind Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Last Crusade and Empire of the Sun. What a legacy. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81 Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing Fans and historians have spent 60 years debating what the band means – and which member is greatest. Will the returning Anthology project and Sam Mendes’s planned biopics create new arguments?

Delighted to have had the chance to write about Beatle ‘historiography’ in @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

With his usual mixture of sarcasm and acuity, Frederich Kittler called Rock Music, “a misuse of military technology.”

Guy fawkes signatures before and after torture. After is very vague and straggly.

Guy Fawkes signature and Guy Fawkes signing for an Evri parcel

Going in... 🪖 @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social @forumbooks.bsky.social

Black and white photo looking down a street of terraced brick houses. Several cars line each side of the street, with many people gathered at the far end. Beyond this the bow of a large oil tanker can be seen, towering above the end of the street and the rows of houses.

Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)

Texarkana YouTube video by R.E.M. - Topic

#REMTop30
#MusicChallenge

5) Texarkana

My favorite from Out Of Time.
Mike Mills on lead vocals was the perfect choice.

“A melodic style that has drawn comparisons to The Moody Blues.”

youtu.be/p16q-w2OuI4?...

Draw! #montypython #art #watercolours

Listening for the 5th time. It gets better and better with repeats.

Anyone who supports ID cards on the grounds that “if you’ve got nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about” should be banned from having curtains.
Mark Thomas’s People’s Manifesto

Fleetwood Mac is a band made up of British and American musicians, yet the one named Lindsay Buckingham is not British.

A fern in a Robert Smith plant pot.

A great birthday gift from @nicolablackwell.bsky.social a Robert Smith plant pot for my fern!

Pot by @dyeworksprint.bsky.social

So can I purchase a 'Palestinian Chicken Enthusiast' t-shirt without spending 14 years in the slammer under the Terrorism Act? Asking for a friend...

Ozzy Osbourne being Ozzy Osbourne.

An incomparable legend.

‘Literature has completely changed my life’: footballer Héctor Bellerín’s reading list Former Arsenal player wins admiration for his taste in books, but admits one novel defeated him

Hoorah for Héctor Bellerin (even if he was a Gooner).
Cool men read. Tell all the boys in your life. They need to hear it.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Duly pre-ordered, sir. 🎭