Daniel Emerson

Vallvidrera, near Barcelona, has a curling club. Each season, the members of the club go to the local reservoir and toss a stone in to see if the ice is strong enough to play. Since the water never freezes, they go for brunch instead and raise the toast, ‘We shall play one day’.

Last thing I read of his was 'Under Western Eyes'. Really really good.

Joseph Conrad is good actually and worth rereading.

Tommy Robinson is going to go back to prison tomorrow.

He will scream he is a victim, but he has chosen to plead not guilty to something he is clearly guilty of, and his defense is that he is a journalist.

If he's a journalist, Nigel Farage lives in Clacton.

Hotel room with large bed and desk, and pictures of Debussy, the sea and the score of La mer on the wall

Turns out you can stay in the Eastbourne hotel room where Debussy wrote much of La mer. They've called it the Debussy Suite (Suite bergamasque was right there)

Dump Together? An angle The Beatles never thought of for the Abbey Road cover from a shop window in Bilbao, Spain.

Reports are coming in of an escaped orangutan living on a suburban roundabout.

Add Northumberland to the list. Two this week saying the couldn't find savings and will be increasing council tax. And two falling apart from internal soap opera fights. And one doing both. 🤣~AA

Reports that FIFA President Gianni Infantino has arrived in Sharm el Sheikh for the Middle East peace summit. Unclear why he would be required or what his role is.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’ The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

Every sign in DC marks the loss of someone’s neighbor, someone’s loved one, someone’s friend.

Every sign marks yet another step in the march toward authoritarianism.

Altamont 2 — Postimages

Reminds me of this...
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Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Stills from Bobby Bollocks Jenrick's race-baiting video.
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From Papua New Guinea.
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Jar with octopus motif, 1450–1400 BCE,
Knossos, Crete

74.5cm tall
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

He actually just said the B2 bombers are 'pretty planes'

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

Like I never met John Thaw. 👀

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

I ❤️ Viz

George's character had been built up as sullenly obnoxious before the crime and trial. He's not been a particularly sympathetic character thus far.
The Helen video, dobbing Brad in for the bench vandalism, stealing from the church collection box and generalised misogyny.

Four panel comic of Nicolas Cage dressed as Castor Troy in priest costume from the film Face/Off. The text reads “And if I only could, I’d make a deal with God, and get Him to SWAP OUR FACES.”

Misheard lyrics (true story)

YouTube video by Joe Pesci - Topic Take Your Love And Shove It

The language could be quite ripe.
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Excited to say that we’re moving to our very own premises! We’ll be opening our new shop in Carshalton at midday on Sat November 1st. We’ve had such a special time at the Sound Lounge & we now have the opportunity to move to a bigger space which means we’ll have more racks & loads more cool stuff! 🚀

The Uncanny Valet

Article "Modern News Cycle" from Private Eye.

Brilliant - from Private Eye Magazine.

Looks like they stopped being absolutely bloody awful just after I stopped commuting on their lines.
Very much like my experience of Thameslink a few years earlier.
#ThatsMyLuck

If Joe Biden was unable to close an umbrella there would have been +/- 1,000 think pieces in the newspapers of America questioning whether he was capable of discharging the duties of the office of President of the United States.

YouTube seem to have put together a playlist of films that they are offering for free. Some corkers in here. www.youtube.com/feed/storefr...