John

A team ironically relegated to the National League last year in large part owing to the dogmatic inflexibility of head coach, Mike Williamson.

Who is now assisting Russell Martin at Rangers. These frauds belong together.

YouTube video by TheCarsThatAteParis Rhine & Courtesan by Rachel's (1997 BBC Session)

It's a pretty grand thing to talk about given it'll obviously never occur, but I sometimes think what I might play on 'Desert Island Discs'.

It changes a lot, but one track - specifically this recording; tape hiss and all - endures.

Totally transports me.
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Loved this piece on the enduring, singular brilliance of Rachel's from Alex Deller.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Baseball is the best because a guy who looks like this and wears this kinda tee can be the best player in the American League.

More colored liquid
No scent, no skin
More stained paper
More parts per million

Just an absolutely brilliant song.

Our method:

1. Put cat bed in corner to be ignored for a year.

2. Live through global pandemic requiring home working.

3. Reluctantly install desk in said corner after 6 months of procrastinating.

4. Marvel as said bed and corner instantly become desirable territory.

5. Have feet scratched lots

Fast bowlers from Ashington opening a road Ashes do bring particular flashbacks though!

And as a West Cumbrian - again of dubious skill on both sides of the ball - please let us claim Ben.

one of the more promising quotes when we signed him this summer was that he is 'just absolutely horrible'.

Good, more of it tbh.

For your consideration. Sound on

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urge you to look out Carlisle's Regan Linney's celebration from this Saturday in this case.

Top bin screamer against his old club who'd kicked him off the park, follows it with a massive knee slide, cupping his ears to the home end and then audibly booing them back.

Sensational stuff.

We are so back

One of the great acting performance of all time IMO.

Two hours on screen alone, about four lines of dialogue.

Totally bleak and utterly riveting.

I think about it all the time, and it was my instant thought upon hearing yesterday's news.

What a final act.

Given the drive-by only fair to add my sincere and long-held opinion that Joe Buck is an S-Tier sports broadcaster. All-time level brilliant.

I still miss him doing baseball.

This is a picture of Uncle Computer from ‘The Bear’.

100%

Hard to look past hardcore bands for me.

Greg Puciato, Keith Buckley, Jeremy Bolm, Brendan Garrone, George Clark all on my list.

Think Karen O, Tunde Adebimpe and Hayley Williams are all good shouts.

I think MMJ count, so Jim James is in. Guy Garvey from Elbow too, IMO.

🎶I'm sorry Nick Jackson (woo)
There is no deal
We called off the Bayern loan-to-buy
Fly home to replace the injured guy🎶

I figured as much. I just found that narrow outlook a bit sad, even if unintentional.

I agree - no hard cap on book buying whatsoever.

also, 'unlikely to recoup in any meaningful sense'.

what on earth?

learning stuff, losing yourself, engaging with beautiful prose...

Given that these aren’t dev leagues and teams like Grimsby have a lot of gnarly vets the right comp is someone like the Long Island Ducks or the Kane County Cougars.

Jim Downey in the Jeff Epstein meme

Man United? The international T-shirt brand?

That lot humbled by Grimsby and Mike Williamson’s Glasgow Rotters beaten 6-0 in Belgium.

A great evening of football and my team didn’t even play!

Yanited LOL

Give soldiers oboist wages.

A smidge away from one of my most enduring ADHD stim phrases/ear worms:

‘Why can’t I walk down a street/Cat’s Protection’

Goodness. Just a sentence that keeps getting worse.

Some of the rankest vibes of all time.

Great interview and a perfect way to remember one of the most prodigiously brilliant musicians of the era.

Just an incredible, mind-bending, unique talent. RIP

Stephen's ongoing nemesis of the new HBO Potter reboot is one of my favourite things on the internet.

Also - even allowing for VFX supported re-sizing - Nick Frost looks absolutely ridiculous cosplaying as Robbie Coltrane.

St. Vincent is another one of mine.

Just a load of arch nonsense to me.

Don’t get it all and feel weird about it.

The Clash.

I’m just like, y’know it’s _fine_. And then the dub reggae stuff lands and I actively hate it.