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Now having a read about one of people behind that - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcell...

You know what, I’d be worried about Fred, if he found out. He’s a good guy.

YouTube video by Pharoah Sanders - Topic Astral Traveling

My head is still slightly spinning but I have been out in the cosmos with the sea and the stars and the owls and all is good.
youtu.be/hEDtqLRfFo4

“You know, the Flintstones is only *partly* based on fact?”

“I should just point out - you know cavemen didn't have cars which they motored by running along the street?” 🤓

Photo realistic close-up in watercolour of a large slice of cream filled Victoria sponge

The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield.
‘Cake’
(Yes, it is a painting - from Third Picture Book, 1971)

Today I am loving the surreal Benson & Hedges posters from the 70s and 80s. Art director Graham Watson. Photographer Adrian Flowers

when a collection of books (especially looking at you, DC) randomly changes the design, the logo, the font, the colour, the *anything* on the spine in like volume 4 of 6, someone somewhere should be sent to the hague

One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five to speak to customer services,
Six to return to the main menu,
Seven to hear those options again

The most popular blog post I ever wrote was on this subject

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Man, that’s beautiful.

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1000 piece National Gallery jigsaw puzzle of ‘Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula’ by Claude Lorrain (1641)

After two months, have finally completed this jigsaw puzzle. In other news, I now deeply dislike the work of Claude Lorrain.

An image of Papa Smurf, a small blue man with a white beard. He’s wearing red trousers that lead into shoes and a red cap that slouches forward.

Papa Smurf wears a Phrygian cap, most often associated with the French Revolution, indicating Smurf Village had a monarchy it has since overthrown. This makes Papa Smurf, de facto head of state post-revolution, akin to Robespierre. In this essay I will —

The Long Game - 1996-2003: The Inside Story of How the BBC Brought Back Doctor Who and Pull To Open: 1962–1963: The Inside Story of How the BBC Created and Launched Doctor Who by Paul Hayes - @paul-hayes.bsky.social

A week or so ago.

Wife: what was that package you got delivered?
Me: just some history books I wanted to read.
Wife: what are they about?
Me: oh, general stuff… what shall we have for dinner?

The history books:

Been a while but I did like Wiper and True’s beers - will check this one out.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already. It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

“Someone you don’t know did something you don’t care about.” -social media notifications

This might be the most beautiful thing I’ve seen on here.

Alcoholic (Victor Tourjansky) The Alcoholic, the Man with a Bottle or the Drunk is a recurring character who has brief appearances in three Roger Moore-era Bond films, played by Victor Tourjansky. The character is a comic foil to ...

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Had a bit of a rewatch earlier this year 🤓

YouTube video by Longpigs - Topic Far

And I posted the wrong band/tune! This is what I get for having too many tabs open.

They did stick to their sound so well. Keeping that rawness probably denied them the big time. (And that’s my playlist sorted for tomorrow.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS06...

I know likening people like this to “blood and soil” types does a disservice to those who suffered under the Nazis. But that talk of “veins” with everything else in that post seems to show a strong affinity.

Watched a couple of episodes of that online earlier this year. Had forgotten;

i) it’s quite a lovely show and
ii) the audience participation!

That is lovely. Never really think of the levels of business that might happen with a live audience. (Just picturing Cleese with the rat now..)

Ha! What a line to put in a song..

Oh yeah. That zinger. (Aside, if you mute the phrase “y’@ll”, this site is so much better.)

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs Autobiography by Peter Davison I more like him than I cared to admit while he was alive. I stand like he did, sit like he did, I look at my hands and see his, I look in the mirror and see his features, even though our colouring was so completely different. While I longed to look more like him, I realise I turned out as perfectly as he could have wished. Here was a man from the Caribbean who wanted nothing more than to be accepted as British, who had a son who had made a name for himself playing the typical Eng-lishman.

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs Autobiography by Peter Davison But of course it did matter. What to us was a taste of the exotic was, to my father a bothersome distraction in his quest to be accepted as an exemplary British citizen. The fact that his only son was born with blond hair and blue eyes, courtesy of inheriting my mother's dominant Caucasian genes, unlike my sisters, made the transition complete. Over the years however, his West Indian heritage became more than a distraction, and while we never knew of it until later, there's no doubt he suffered discrimination and rejection at the hands of Mother England that he loved. When Enoch Powell gave his 'Rivers of Blood' speech and my father had to stand in line and register as an alien, having been eventually accepted by my mother's extended family and friends, probably did nothing to soften his feelings.

Great thread. I can add Peter Davison writing about his father:

For those interested, I really do recommend Peter Davison’s autobiography “Is There Life Outside the Box?: An Actor Despairs”. wearecult.rocks/peter-daviso...