Norbert Rantyman

I saw them live once, supporting Tom Petty on one of their first UK tours. It was over 45 years ago, and that once was enough

According to the internet there are no parades in Seville today…

YouTube video by hewey1972 [1959] (Hanna Barbera) - The Quick Draw McGraw Show - Intro

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Toddy Talk (couldn’t spell earlier)
#makeasongautumnal

Harvest is Yet to Come
#makeasongautumnal

Hallows Hooray
#makeasongautumnal

Torture on this South West train. Just pulled the tray table dawn and found these. Probably from a non ticket holding passenger who couldn’t afford the fine

Pt. 2 (Here’s the shocker…)
But nowhere, in my judgement, is the prospect so dark as it is in the United States.'
Trent's Last Case - E. C. Bentley Published 1912

Something from the novel I've just read
Pt. 1
"This is a terrible time in which we live, my dear boy. There is none recorded in history, I think, in which the disproportion between the material and the moral constituents of society has been so great or so menacing to the permanence of the fabric.

Owes a lot to The Residents, this…

He’s got a lot of balls wearing that..

The late Christoper Fowler was, rightly, incensed by the success of Thursday Murder, after he’d written a brilliant series of novels about a pair of elderly, decrepit detectives that got nowhere near that success…

I watched this last night and really wanted to like it, but it is truly terrible… Scriptwriters including Graham Chapman and Peter Cook, but just a mess..

It seems that Starmer is doing such an incredibly bad job of managing Labour policy that I wouldn’t be surprised if someone called him out as a Russian Asset soon
#starmer
#russianasset

Exactly at the point that the warm Atlantic current is in danger of collapsing - guess why.. Climate fucking change

Farage party picked a dead woman to run for Croydon Mayor EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, sadly died in July 2024. But that didn’t stop Reform UK six months later picking her as their Croydon mayoral candidate. By our Political Edit…

This is just next level insanity.

In January this year, Reform picked Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, to run as their Croydon Mayoral candidate.

There was just one rather significant problem.

She had sadly died in July 2024.

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Moonrise in a field in Kent. About to go dancing…

#totp
I think David Sylvian’s hair was the main reason for the dip in the ozone layer in the 80s

#totp
I have no memory of this McCartney song… Hopefully I will be able to forget it again..

#totp
I though The Cult might be a bit of relief, but I had somehow forgotten this abomination

#totp
Chaka Khan - Pointless remix No. 97. A great record, made worse

#totp
Dest God - Trump in the Bobby Brown video

#totp
I remember that I once briefly went out with a woman who had been a Blow Monkeys groupie…

#totp
Jive Bunny - the record that made you want to stab yourself in the ears…

Books! Books! Many books!

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The first book (not the last) I ever gave up on. Never finished it

Here’s a better image ….

Here he is…