Mo Burns

little raccoon in a US storm drain peering through the gap looking innocent as only chaotic little raccoons do

If you're looking for the clown, he's two storm drains over

View of the Manchester skyline taken from Oldfield road, Salford in 2010 with one solitary skyscraper. Weeds in the foreground.

Photo I took in 2010. Hum Garden by The Fall to yourself while looking at it for full effect.

Peasant Woman, Kneeling, Possibly Digging Up Carrots - 1885 #artbots #vangogh
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Two Sketches of a Man Leaning on His Spade - 1867 #artbots #vangogh
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Peasant, Walking with a Wheelbarrow - 1885 #artbots #vangogh
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A faded snap of the Pogues rhythm section playing live - they are wearing fancy dress sailors outfits - the Bassplayer is smoking and the drummer is laughing - there may be alcohol involved

Rum, Sodomy, and The Lash was released 40 years ago today! I’m very proud to say it’s one of Tom Waits’ favourite albums 💚 The launch party was on the HMS Belfast, in this pic I’ve no idea how I managed to keep the ash from falling but I hope I won the bet! 🏴‍☠️💚 #music #punk #happybirthday

Carved wooden sculpture of the front of a person swimming in mid stroke with arm raised in rippled water

'The Swimmer', wooden sculpture by contemporary New York based sculptor Stefanie Rocknak #womensart #Monday

Ha. Like Jackanory with nobs on.

Recent or older ones? After poo pooing audio books for years I've really got into them this year. Started with non fiction then moved into novels. You need good narrators. First time in ages I can get really lost in stories. Very restful on the tired old eyes! You can even borrow via Library app.

happy I found this again---a favorite clip of Eno and Cale in the studio, 1989. "Are any of the other verses all right?" "I don't think so, no."

Like Barbieheimer but actually mentally impossible

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

I didn't quite manage the necessary gear change from rewatching Starship Troopers to reading Mrs Dalloway last night.

A line of cobles (a type of boat) on the beach at Staithes, looking north west to Cowbar Nab (C.1885).

A line of cobles on the beach at Staithes, looking north west to Cowbar Nab (C.1885). At the time upwards of some 80 boats were operating from the village. Image courtesy of National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

Tom Baker visiting children in Belfast in 1978. He's plonked his hat on one small child's head, and two others are just watching him and *smiling*. They're meeting Doctor Who. Of course they are.

Just seen another photo of Tom Baker on publicity duty, visiting children in Belfast 1978 and once again... there wasn't *anybody* better at it than him, was there? Seeing him out and about, leaving kids with memories that'll last a lifetime. Look at the kid with his hat on, for goodness sake.

A normal-size teddy bear in a junk shop window sitting on a chair, wearing normal-size (ie for a human) jeans.

Completely normal Belgian shop windows part 94 (2020) photograph by Anne Billson

Fantastic hooves on these ‘elephants done by a medieval artist who had never seen one’ - early 15th century, British Library, Royal MS 20 B XX, f. 57r

Keith Haring, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, by Tseng Kwong Chi, 1985.

by Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, October 1959, Paris.

Geoffrey Dickinson was an absolute master of design. (Punch, March 1st 1967.)

Pardon? They could’ve said:

- Octopostie
- Dr No you weren’t in so we left a card
- Tomorrow Never Posts if it’s a Saturday (because Sunday is the next day)
- Mailfall (when they come through the letterbox)
- Letter (that one is Spectre)
- James Bond Posts a Letter

😎

John Lee's vocal delivery of Marseilles (twice) in the opening paragraphs of The Count of Monte Cristo was so like Matt Berry's Toast of London character that I'm afraid I couldn't listen to anymore.

#audiobooks #narration

You learn something new everyday. We'll even forgive them the pun 🤣

Storage bag that looks a bit like a sleeping dog

I have a sleeping guard dog in the corner of my bedroom #Pareidolia
#letsleepingdogslie

Pop yourselves over to ‘The Mother Town’ Burslem #StokeOnTrent to view a collaborative exhibition with @philshallcross.bsky.social - a body of work I call ‘SuperImpositions’ .. an ongoing creative adventure on the wall at www.barewall.co.uk/collections/...
#Stoke100 #SoT100

This is so marvelous. Also The War Between Men and Women (upper right corner) was released in 1972 if that tightens up the date range any.

Optical Illusion Floor Design from 500 Years Ago in the Florence Cathedral, Italy, (16th century)

Optical Illusion Floor Design from 500 Years Ago in the Florence Cathedral, Italy, (16th century)

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

Design, Council of Industrial Design, 065, May 1954. Cover design by Frederick Henri Kay (FHK) Henrion designreviewed.com/artefacts/de...

I have watched this video more times now than I’d like to admit, but it has made me laugh every single time.
[sound most definitely up]