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The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow
Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad
Doves - Where We're Calling From
The Verve - History
#FridayFive Literature

A photo of a copy of the 1978 fourth printing of the Orbit paperback edition of The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. The cover artist is uncredited by the publisher.

"Scared? Oh yes, I was scared—and who wouldn't be? Only a fool or a suicide or a robot. Or a line officer."

Not just one of the best SF novels about war, but one of the best novels about war.

No cheating, I promise! Had a @jacquiwine.bsky.social inspired Brookner phase last year but not read this one. Don't know how many copies it helped sell but a great blurb. Better than "funny, wise and true" in any event.

Anita Brookner?

Perhaps time for Burnley FC to re-consider its partnership with X, no?

Self praise is no praise.

The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking? - - -INVICTA GAMES, LTD. Packaging Team — Official Minutes Project: Mastermind / New Cover Presentation MARTIN SMITH (Marketing Senior Vice Presi…

Funniest McSweeney’s piece I’ve read in awhile: The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking? “Warmth is for Sorry! This is not a hug. This is a chess clock in a stranger’s living room telling you your parents are getting divorced.” [mcsweeneys.net]

1. Losing You - Solange
2. (Don't Go Back to) Rockville - REM
3. Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens
4. The Field - Blood Orange
5. 4th of July - Aimee Mann
#fridayfive

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#squareword #squareword1394

A parcel containing Telenovela by Gonzalo C. Garcia with various promotional postcards.

The joy of coming home to a parcel from the relentlessly brilliant @galleybeggars.bsky.social. I'd actually forgotten I'd pre-ordered this so it's like a lovely surprise present from myself. A little slice of joy at the end of a gloomy week.

TIDAL - High Fidelity Music Streaming TIDAL is the first global music streaming service with high fidelity sound, hi-def video quality, along with expertly curated playlists and original content — making it a trusted source for music and ...

Ok, my homepage is an absolute mess because I'm still figuring stuff out but here is my first Tidal Playlist.

Autumn Into Winter Hip Hop aka A.U.T.U.M.N. Alchemise underground tunes under melancholy nature.

tidal.com/playlist/ba2...

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite · Holed below the Waterline: Liverpool’s Losses Liverpool’s explosive growth followed the construction of a deep-water port in 1715. Soon it was a centre of the...

‘Massive new suburban council estates, replacing inner-city slums, broke up communities and isolated women and children in nuclear family homes with indoor bathrooms but few shops or amenities.’

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite on why Liverpool got left behind.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

He sleeps with the fishes.

Crewe: Joey the Swan

youtu.be/0uDZZJo6Tyk?... Robert Hughes on Albert Speer and the 'evil of banality': 'he knew one way to make a building, one way to turn a corner, one way to make a window frame ... a squared-off pseudo-classicism.' The poverty of their thought; the deadening hollowness of their art, is writ large.

1. Let's Get Lost - Chet Baker
2. Boots of Spanish Leather - Bob Dylan
3. California Stars - Wilco & Billy Bragg
4. Atlantic City - Bruce Springsteen
5. Los Angeles - Big Thief
#dadrock #fridayfive

I remember really enjoying A Glasgow Gang Observed by James Patrick: participant observation of gangs in 1960s Glasgow.

The text of Them and [uz] by Tony Harrison.

Rest in power, Tony Harrison.

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youtu.be/nUSmT-TLCr0?... Never has a song title so been at odds with the beauty therein.

1. The Kingsbury Manx - Piss Diary
2. American Football - The Summer Ends
3. The Afghan Whigs - Summer's Kiss
4. Big Star - September Gurls
5. Neil Young - Thrasher
#FridayFive

I'm Literally on Fire
This Must Literally Be the Place (Naive Melody)
I Could Literally Never Take the Place of Your Man

Stopping now.

Don't Let the Sun Literally Go Down on Me

1. Death in Vegas - Aisha
2. The Hold Steady - One for the Cutters
3. Grandaddy - Jed the Humanoid
4. Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
5. Art Brut - Emily Kane
#fridayfive

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.

Four books on a window ledge: Septology, The Doctor's Wife, The Things they Carried, The Memory Police.

August reading. #booksky

Elon Musk « x@elonmusk•6h Remigration is the only way Steve Laws @Steve_Laws_•18h Go anywhere in the UK and look around, you'll just see foreigners everywhere. It's truly sickening the damage that has been done to our nation and our people....

Steve Laws & @Steve_Laws_ X.com Epping is everywhere. 12:02•8/29/25 • 275K Views Elonmusk All Britain is Epping @Steve_Laws_ Keep highlighting this Elon, we appreciate it.

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

Let’s be honest. Carswell is not alone. You don’t tweet unless you know it’s a popular belief. There are many in public roles, in pubs and at dinner tables who believe this. This is a persecution of Muslims in the UK and anyone with any sense of humanity, who cares about Britain must call this out .

A competent government comms strategy would make quite a big deal that this is actually the second Reform elected representative to be caught using the N-word this week.

Slightly diminish a band:

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