@stanleybad.bsky.social
Crooner, songsmith & musician; lover of books, woodpeckers, prehistory, &c; increasingly twinless twin.
Insomnia listening…
08.10.2025 01:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0…and short :)
08.10.2025 00:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ethan Frome is good…
08.10.2025 00:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0*horde!!!
07.10.2025 16:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Found a 1st edition (minus dust jacket, though)…
07.10.2025 15:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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TIL that pillar boxes have fearsome fangs!
07.10.2025 13:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thinking about Sartre’s hoard of imaginary crabs. 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀
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Our shared ancestor James Penniman left Chipping Ongar to settle in Braintree, Massachusetts…
06.10.2025 18:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@rolandbates.bsky.social Took me a little while, but…
06.10.2025 17:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2Surprised that no one has made a film of Job as far as I know. Nicolas Cage would be good.
06.10.2025 12:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pythagoras was not a fan of the Fabe Four.
05.10.2025 12:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It occurs to me that my grandpa taught at Repton, but only from 1921-3…
04.10.2025 18:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
@rolandbates.bsky.social !!
04.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Art by Alan Magee.
04.10.2025 14:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Found a nice-smelling edition of Hoban’s Lion 🦁
04.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0In other nonsense, unicycles are just bicycles: one wheel here, one wheel there…
04.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Some people think a unicorn has one horn—but uni is the plural of unus.
04.10.2025 01:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“You dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from Darth Vader, Ophelia.”
(Is what I heard and now can’t unhear.)
03.10.2025 23:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Saw a copy of Denton Welch’s first novel today, and even walked around the shop with it, but it was just a tad too pricey. Probably buy it tomorrow…
03.10.2025 17:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tracy & Phil?!!
03.10.2025 00:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“…Herrick proved his devotion to poetic myth by pouring libations of Devonshire barley-ale from a silver cup to a pampered white pig.” - Graves, TWG. I had a Herrick biography but have lost it. Any more info on this?
02.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Jobs, Joys and Jaunts…
02.10.2025 16:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And the first film to win an Oscar for special effects …. 👀
02.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Both of which facts lead me to ask whether there’s a biography out there, or on yer good shelves?
02.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0He was also in the first 3D film, Bwana Devil!!!
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