Woodrow Phoenix

I can eat a pancake like they do on tv!

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Nat King Cole en Español. Todas Sus Grabaciones (1958-1961) - YouTube

My parents had the Nat King Cole ‘Cole Español’ album - I was more familiar with the Spanish versions of his songs than the English ones :)

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

one thing that's making me feel particularly insane lately is how there is no longer any limit to the amount of wrong you can be

Wow!

Thanks GK! Decadence levels not much higher than normal but indulgence perhaps a smidge higher x

I like the Slint-esque start, v oooooo
Felt like it needed some chunky rifftastic crunching around minute three

Sketchbook comic. Panel 1: a disembodied voice says “I KNOW a.i. is ethically, ecologically and esthetically awful, but I just gotta say…” Lucy is reacting with a ._. Face and thinking “do ya? Do ya really GOTTA?” Panel 2: Lucy’s thought bubble reads: “do you just GOTTA recite some tired anecdote using the phrase ‘I just typed it in!’ That just amounts to you admitting that your cheapness, laziness and poor taste outweighs your unexamined ethical code?”

Sketchbook comic page 2: Panel 1: Lucy’s thought bubble reads “and, at the very least, do you GOTTA say it to ME?” She is turning away, saying “ok I’m gonna go, um, get a snack.” Panel 2: another disembodied voice is saying “Lucy! You’re an artist— whattaya think about a.i? Ya know, it may be bad, but I JUST GOTTA SAY…” Lucy is startled, dropping a chip.

Sketchbook comic page 3: Panel 1: Lucy is surrounded by speech bubbles and text, repeating the phrase “gotta say…” she looks terrified. Panel 2: she is fleeing the repeated “gotta say”s, yelling “you gotta live with yourselves, but I don’t gotta!” A note with a heart at the end reads “stop doing this I will not absolve you.”

Gotta say…

YES

Thanks for this report. You’re an art patron!

I think it’s worse: he knows these things aren’t true but he thinks they should be, so he’s trying to make it happen by writing about them like they’re inevitable.

Surprisingly sinister!

My favourite Kevin Nowlan strip ever

:(

It looked like a New York neighbourhood in a dream, to me. And I wanted to go there.

It will have to dig its way out of the ‘to read’ stack first :)

…and I still haven’t read it :/

Boundless is going under, it’ll cease trading by end of day. Archna has emailed Neem Tree Press authors about this but not Unbound ones :/

Authors, a couple staff members are working hard to get reversions, subcontracts, and files to us—if you need them email NOW before the lights go off

Gauld's original alt txt: Panel one: "A book must be an axe for the frozen sea within us." says Franz Kafka. He looks solemn, and holds up a finger to show that he is serious. Panel two: The publishers across the table say "That's all very well, Franz. But we commissioned a board book for toddlers". Panel three: "And here it is!" Kafka answers proudly, holding up a colourful book. It is titled "Choppy Helps out" and shows a cute axe with a friendly face (presumably Choppy) and his friend, a frozen, smiling sea. note: Herr Kafka gave me the manuscript for "Choppy Helps Out!" on the undertanding that I destroyed it after his death. I could not bring myself to do so. If you are a publisher and interested in purchasing the rights, please contact me via my website

Did you see this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon from last year (with its brilliant alt text *chef's kiss*)?

Less than 230,000 people signed up to Farage’s party Reform UK - media won’t shut the fuck up about it.

Over 600,000 people signed up to Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party - absolute crickets from the media.

You will never convince me the media isn’t complicit in the rise of the far right

This is why I walk out of films I am not enjoying, get up and leave a restaurant if there’s nothing on the menu that appeals to me, etc.

Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?

A wall, approximately two metres high, on a street near Shoreditch train station. Part of the wall has been painted lime green and on top of the green are two stylised black cats, facing each other. Red lettering fills the outlines of each black cat’s body. One says FREE and the other says GAZA. The same artist has painted this on other streets with different colour combinations.

FREE GAZA

Shoreditch

YouTube video by Helen Guzman Einstein on the Beach - Knee Play 5

Robert Wilson. 1941—2025.

youtu.be/AWjbkg8aNq0

Allan Ahlberg Dog In The Playground This is "Allan Ahlberg Dog In The Playground" by CLPE on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Allan Ahlberg. 1938 – 2025.

vimeo.com/162508369

Well if it worked the first time, then…

I have bought at least 22 (that is TWENTY TWO, I repeat) books from mentions on bsky this year.

A wall covered in posters. In the middle of the picture is a large white poster with the words PLEASE SIGN MY PETITION TO TURN THE WORLD OFF AND ON AGAIN written at the top, and a grid underneath with empty spaces for signatures. People have signed their names, including MAICEE " 5 THAT FILMGIRLS JAYE Question Mark KIVI EN B TYTOS ANVI + PAKHI V AHNA Marie

PLEASE SIGN MY PETITION TO TURN THE WORLD OFF AND ON AGAIN

Flyposter by Babak Ganjei, Brick Lane

Kids these days eh and their so-called ‘music’, load of noise innit

I am that person now: every time I hear a ‘new’ track I like on some pirate station while in the car it’s something from 1998