Might be a bit strong. But the repeated invitation to come and watch.

idk - weird melancholy pleading coda of Joyriders gives it something else, like the 'join us' allure rubbing up against the 2nd verse blunt contempt.

The condensed surprise that draws you in but gives you nothing - it's fascinating, & people seem to be prodding it from a few directions - nostalgebraist on eyeball kicks, Will Storr on the AI substack style

YouTube video by TopRankEntertainment Big Tom & The Travellers | Four Country Roads

Yeah, baby! Top ten in Ireland this week in September 1981: Big Tom with his then-band The Travellers and 'Four Country Roads' www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1v2...

He’s just a really perpetually annoying instantiation of the mystery of creation

The Cracker Barrel Hype(rreality) Simulation and Simulacrum in America

www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-cracke...

cracker barrel that labubu

Selling, buying and carrying knives and weapons The laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.

One of my favourite GOV.UK pages. Just reading through going ‘and that also sounds cool, must watch The Raid again’

www.gov.uk/buying-carry...

Tall glass with tasty adult beverage has a tennis ball in it, behind sits a young black dog

Ok so I didn’t really need that in my adult beverage but thanks for sharing

Probably this issue where I learned George Wendt is a big fan of minutemen, butthole surfers, mudhoney etc

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

An Unstoppable March, by Ian Penman The story of 2 Tone

“The Specials were something you couldn’t plot on a graph; their revved-­up combo of punk rock and Jamaican ska planted a seed that wrought unlikely blooms.”

Ian Penman on the story of 2 Tone.

The name’s QINLIANFF. ACCYOD QINLIANFF, British suit, British spy suit two piece, 100% MI6 her majesty’s secret service MACHINE WASHABLE, separates, men’s suit tailor fit two piece classic wedding business sui

🧵 On 17 December 1976, Thames TV aired a debate about paranormal beliefs. And it turned out to be one of the greatest half hours in British television history. Believe me: it's the best thing you'll see all week.

First off, host Sandra Harris gets things rolling: (1/12)

A letter that reads as follows (incidentally, there's a spot of fruity language coming up, so brace yourself if you're a nun). Anyway, here it is: I am sick and tired of TV chefs telling viewers "ask your butcher to do it." All I hear these days is "can you fillet this for me?" can you bone that?" and "can I have some twine?" No, no and no. Just buy your meat and fuck off. Toby the Butcher, Swindon

This is terrible. I met her a few times years ago and, as everyone says, what a shining person. On social media, brilliant, thoughtful and kind. An awful loss - my deepest condolences to her friends and family.

At a time when I am feeling tremendously despondent about the future, these words from Alan Moore provide a reason to continue:

Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?

I can't think of a word for this. It's Aickman-weird at the outset, then in a way awe-inspiring. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...

A SKELTEON ON FIRE WONDEREN WHY THEY CANT SHAKE BEING MAD ,AND ITS A LIST OF THE COMPLAINS THEY COULD THINK OF , "EVERYTHINGS MORE EXPENSIVE EVERY WEEK, NEW BODY PAIN, DARKER SOONER EVERY DAY, CARS DRIVE WORSE HONK MORE, OWN LESS RENT MORE, ALREADY GETTING LECTURED TO VOTE 2026, UFOS REAL NO ONE CARES" AND CONCLUDING "PROBLY MY FAULT" , AND YOU CANT BLAME THEM, DA SYSTEM IS SET UP SO EVERYTHING BAD IS "PERSONAL RESPONSBILITY" BUT EVERYTHING GOOD MUST BE EARNED, IF A CAR HITS ME THEN I SHOULD WATCH WHERE IM GOING, WHEN WE ARE EACH STRUCK DOWN BY THE INEVITABLE THEY ALWAYS SAY ITS BECAUSE WE SHOULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING BETTER AT SOME POINT, IT IS ALL TO EASY TO SCAPEGOAT YOURSELF AS THE REASON FOR YOUR FAILURE , YOUR NOT THE ONE WHO DID ANY OF THIS!!!!! YOUR A DIVINE BEING. NOT LIKE ME, EVERYTHING IS MY FAULT - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

PROBLY MY FAULT - dashare.zone ADMIN

In case you keep seeing J Saul Kane’s name popping up today and you don’t know why everyone’s banging in about him, here’s my old Kanetiquette mix featuring 30mins of his productions from the early years of his career, roughly 89-95 www.mixcloud.com/wrongtom/kan...

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor

think about what the men on that ship are seeing. god holding a lion the size of the sun

Moomins

Tuesday

OH! Right. Yes. I get it. Let’s call that ~40 years for me

AI is going great

THRILL 1 in the series is DAN DARE - awkward hangover from a previous era or psychedelic Bowie clone with a mole gun? #2000AD

freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2024/0...

The gaps interested me as I got older - UK 80s/90s TV kid fine with Bilko, Beverly Hillbillies, Munsters, etc etc, but Gilligan's Island reference? Total blank.