Nice one, Gareth! I’ve enjoyed these and hoped one of the Big Boys would be on at some point. Cheers.
05.03.2026 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nice one, Gareth! I’ve enjoyed these and hoped one of the Big Boys would be on at some point. Cheers.
05.03.2026 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just flagging up to the Vic and Bob fans out there that the latest Quite a Boast pod, always a quality listen, includes an interview with Mr Jim Moir himself open.spotify.com/show/2aO6stB... @northernmailman.bsky.social @tedmaul.bsky.social
05.03.2026 14:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0How I feel when someone blocks me.
05.03.2026 12:27 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Don’t forget your Pet Shop Boys anecdote!
#playingthehits
A photo of a copy of the 1979 Picador edition of The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. The cover art is by Candy Amsden.
"She may fall back on superstition, or take up a useful hobby like embroidery, or go mad, or marry a disc jockey. If the tower is everywhere and the knight of deliverance is no proof against its magic, what else?"
05.03.2026 11:38 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2I love that book. And that’s a great cover.
05.03.2026 11:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"LOUIS BRASSI SLEEPS WITH THE FISHES."
Does this count?
05.03.2026 10:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Wish I had Michael’s hair!
05.03.2026 09:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Michael Imperioli and Warren Ellis having a sit down
Franz Kafka and Thomas Pynchon celebrating #WorldBookDay…
05.03.2026 09:35 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0I've had literally *no* messages asking when we're going to see Carwash Fox in other media. To that end, & because it's World Book Day, I'm announcing the first in what is going to be 5 Carwash Fox adventure books. The first, 'Carwash Fox & the Binjuice of Enchantment' *pencilled in* for Xmas market
05.03.2026 09:24 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0A French version of Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa as a giant insect.
Sent my imaginary child in for #WorldBookDay dressed as Gregor Samsa…
05.03.2026 08:45 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Salford's Shelagh Delaney outside Wyndham's Theatre, London, where her play 'A Taste of Honey' is running, in 1959. Photo by Howell Evans.
05.03.2026 08:30 — 👍 75 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0
Hip Priest Mark E Smith let loose into the world on this day in 1957.
🎵 And is this your birthday 🎵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWR5...
A refreshing change.
04.03.2026 21:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I STAND WITH JEFF GUSSET!
04.03.2026 19:20 — 👍 31 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1Sir, this is a Greggs
04.03.2026 19:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer, Series 2, Episode 3
04.03.2026 18:39 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Not sure I could handle all the attention it would garner.
04.03.2026 18:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In an upturned flat cap with gravy, oop here.
04.03.2026 17:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The natural contrarian in me is searching out another way. I have 11 minutes before it’s out of the oven.
04.03.2026 17:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That’s M&S for you.
04.03.2026 17:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Someone had to put all this ‘serve it on a trowel’ business in its place.
04.03.2026 17:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nice plate as well. Earthenware.
04.03.2026 17:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Have bought a pie for tea and the ‘serving suggestion’ is just said pie on a plate.
04.03.2026 17:33 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 8 📌 1Top warmup man Bobby Chariot
‘Karl Lagertops. Is that anything?’
04.03.2026 17:30 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of my top 5 books
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