My mum says I still have to boycott over Errol's appearance at the Tory Party Conference in 1984

WH Smith's in Newark. I regret nothing.

Ooops

Did you ever see Nick Cave responding to criticism for going to the royal wedding? Much in the same vein

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This was excellent, if a lil' too close to home at points. Well done (again!)

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters - Wikipedia

This is the plot of the first story - The Stowaway - of Julian Barnes' 'A History of the World in 10½ Chapters'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Histo...

Am outside photo of Ian Wade's book '1984 - The Year Pop Went Queer', on a Kindle. Palmetto trees and azaleas in the background

@wadeywade.bsky.social politically, life's not great in South Carolina right now, but loving this as my way to escape. It's significantly funnier than Orwell's version.

And a very happy one I hope it is too

Candy Darling, who was also on the cover of The Smiths' 'Sheila Take a Bow'!

Algernon: “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”

Jack: “Is that clever?”

Algernon: “It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life should be.”

My uncle, while working at the bbc, was sent to pick up something from Sports. He was quite startled to enter the tiny room and see (in those pre-Internet days) GH, alone, watching the Beeb's live feed of the Brazilian Grand Prix

Not in Frankie world.

"Eeeee-rect"

The Exploding Boy
Man Inside My Mouth
Babble*

(*I used to be great friends with Andrew from Sleaford Mods, and he /loved/ this song. We would listen to it over and over on the pub jukebox)

This is just to say

I know you said
You were saving
The plums
But what if
Someone
Were allergic to everything BUT plums
Or literally couldn't
Buy plums
Of their own?
What if
My father
Died
Of plum lackage
And your selfish plum hoarding
Retraumatised me?
I ate them
And you must do better.

Imagine the poor Derby fans - still praying for someone to steal the lowest points crown - having to watch both their East Midlands make unlikely title charges

Yesssss

First film/last film

A copy of the book 'Mad Men Carousel' by Matt Zoller Seitz

@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social @meganabbott.bsky.social my favourite gift of the day. Happy Christmas to you both

If anyone wants a bit of wholesomeness on this cold and barren Monday morning, here’s Real Betis fans raining down thousands of stuffed toys for disadvantaged children in their annual Christmas tradition

Great victory for the Irish this. I was rooting for you 🇮🇪

A Spotify wrapped-style round up of my year's reading of the Washington Post. 8 read 1,054 stories from 51 countries. My top author was Maegan Vazquesz

@maeganvaz.bsky.social happy Christmas!

Ah, I skipped this one. I look forward to seeing it when it's published then

Amazing, congrats! I wanted to read your 100 word one, but didn't see it linked from that post. Am I missing something?

Sorry you had to read it, but this is such a wonderful review. 5 stars.

@stevenhyden.bsky.social Just finished The Dockumentary, so good! Only had the vaguest concept of yacht rock going into it, but it was so entertaining. Really well made. Congrats.

“No worries if not” -President Yoon Suk Yeol

Happy first day of Christmas!

(😉)

Under attack...about to crack, defenses breaking