Hi to all my new followers ☺️ 👋
A few things about me:
- I'm a full time cat dad 🐈
- I'm a landlord 🏠
- Now that enough time has passed since the court settlement, I can also reveal that I'm the reason why Silica Gel sachets say 'Do Not Eat' 😄
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"There were rumors that Prynne held parties in his chambers at Caius where poetry would be debated late into the night and deep existential topics would be broached, like which books of poetry it was acceptable to roll joints on (Pope, no; Keats, yes)".
"I read on a blog that the animated character of Jeremy Hilary Boob, a.k.a. the rhyming “Nowhere Man” in the Beatles movie Yellow Submarine, was perhaps based on Prynne — except that J. H. Boob had a PhD appended to his name".
"I heard that Prynne was of the opinion that the only two countries with well-formed poetic traditions were England and China, though China’s was far better established, and that Prynne considered American poetry to be rudimentary and infantile in comparison".
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J. H. Prynne wrote a guide to reading works of literature for Cambridge students. This was the postscript:
If there's one poet English journalists love to quote, it's Philip Larkin
"Had she seen “Hamnet”? “I cannot imagine anything more ignominious than watching ‘Hamnet,’” Ms. Riley said".
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Bluesky quickly becoming the perfect social media platform: no notifications, no feed, no users
> Welcome to the Internet!
> Would you like to read 1,000 think pieces about the band Geese? (y/n)
I'm very pleased to see that Rosalind Belben's novel Is Beauty Good (there is no question mark) from 1989 is being reissued in July by @andotherstories.bsky.social
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yeah I'm monitoring the situation alright
Easter Snow performed by Seamus Ennis, for the day that's in it.
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this is what killed Alexander Kluge
Even the plotline about the grandmother's abduction and torture, which I thought could be an interesting examination of the legacy of fascism, just descends into a sort of banal drama about intergenerational trauma.
Great read. You've hit the nail on the head there. Trier being Bergman minus the ideas: which is probably one of the most unappealing things I could think of.
current reads
knew two lads who went to see Sunn O))) play live. one lad got a nosebleed at the gig and the other fell off his bike on the way home.
Daniele Del Giudice's 1st novel (1983) has finally been translated into English. It's about a writer who decided to stop writing. Italo Calvino said this book was "a new approach to representation." From New Vessel Press. sebald.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/a...
comhghairdeas a chara!!
not today satan
not today satan
He needs to make a movie with this guy
actually yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life, you missed it
Incredible mix of Ghanaian and Nigerian highlife and makossa tunes. Instant mood lifter:
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Interviewed Andrew Drummond about his @versobooks.bsky.social on Thomas Müntzer the Reformation (proto) revolutionary. Good book, get the book open.spotify.com/episode/5jp2...
Strait of Hormuz
where is the Strait of Hormuz
how long until Strait of Hormuz is open again
can I dig my own Strait
what to do if ingested silica gel sachet
‘After more than one sold-out screening of 𝘑𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘯 last year I overheard departing cinemagoers complaining that they would never get back those three hours, but Chantal Akerman would not have been offended by this.’
Daniella @Shreir.bsky.social on the director.
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