Lev Parikian

Six Things, Volume 148 Kākāpō | Line of Sight | Happy | Trees | Fish Doorbell | Tube Game

I‘m on my nonsense again. This week’s Six Things:

– Kākāpō

– Line of Sight

– Happy

– Trees

– Fish Doorbell

– Tube Game

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good lord

Watch the kākāpō webcam instead

sorrysorrysorrysorrysorry

Six Things, Volume 148 Kākāpō | Line of Sight | Happy | Trees | Fish Doorbell | Tube Game

I‘m on my nonsense again. This week’s Six Things:

– Kākāpō

– Line of Sight

– Happy

– Trees

– Fish Doorbell

– Tube Game

open.substack.com/pub/levparik...

Oh yeah, that too

Flashback to the “1 like = 1 imaginary bird” episode

A bubbling of white blackthorn blossom

Daily pic no. 67

A screenshot from the game Stick cricket

#TheCricket

They’ve become common inland. And plumage varies quite a lot according to age – adults generally darkest but with that white patch around the beak, and younger birds often have quite extensive white patches.

It’s a cormorant.

A salad bowl, photographed from above. It is pink with white birds and green leaves. Salad therein (chicken and so forth). White salad servers.

Daily pic no. 66

Tree branches in darkness, Illuminated by full moon and street lights. An eerie sort of quality.

Daily pic no. 65

On which subject, I’ve just started rereading Decline &Fall, and I’d forgotten just how… startling some of the content is.

I love them, but I can’t control them

Lovely stuff. Good luck with the lottery.

a man in a white shirt and tie is sitting at a table with a box of cereal . Alt: Rik Mayall in shirt and tie sitting at a table. He appears to be shaking salt over food, but is doing it two-handed and vigorously and pulling an inexplicable face

I like to imagine that when Rik Mayall was born 68 years ago today, he leapt out of his mother with his eyebrows already waggling and bellowed sexual innuendos at nurses and doctors alike

Yeah it’s wonderful isn’t it?

Some might be. It takes between four and six weeks, I think (but depending on where they’re going to, of course - I’m in London, and the influx in southern England is usually first/second week of May, but there’s usually a handful of early arrivals starting mid-April or thereabouts.

A swift - flying sickle - against blue sky

Just 5,000,000 seconds* till the swifts get back

*give or take

This, like Episode 1, is a lovely chat which will probably send me down more internet rabbit holes than I have time for. No change there, then.

(It's an audio guest-driven version of Lev's Substack series, if that helps)

Thanks Adrian!

This is the way to see the world

excellent pidge content

IMMEDIATELY

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

Oh yes. Definitely.

Brideshead suffers from the terrible disease of religious earnestness (other opinions are, as always, available). I love it, but suspect that’s because of indoctrination (A-level set text, coupled with the BBC adaptation). I think I prefer acerbic, witty Waugh.

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I haven't released a new record for a while - I'm benched as a trombone player while I recover from hand and arm surgery, but my music lives on!

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