Alex Jenkins

Is your Old Fashioned insufficiently old fashioned? Well.

I didn't have any of this on my bingo card for 2025. Chiefly because I now realise my bingo card is a Wagamama menu.

I'll repost in a week 🙂

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I bring a healthy dose of anti-charisma to my meetings.

It's all right: I'm already a public servant

Time is a construct we can remake.

Technically it already happened at 2am this morning.

Feel slightly bad that this is the song associated with that. Though it is hopeful in its own desperate way.

Happy to be of service 🫡

YouTube video by Bonnie Prince Billy - Topic I See A Darkness

Clock change, therefore:
music.youtube.com/watch?v=Elyg...

From Superstition to Mythocracy with Yves Citton In this seminar we will talk with Yves Citton about his books Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our World, Mediarchy, and Spinoza et les Social Sciences: De la Puissance de la multitude à l’économie de…

The recording of our seminar with Yves Citton about his book Mythocracy, conspiracy theories, and the politics of attention is available here (or wherever you get your podcasts).
culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/10/26/f...

An Epistolary Critic | Wyatt Mason The correspondence of Guy Davenport is a syllabus for the twentieth century.

“Guy Davenport enthusiasts aren’t cranks so much as disciples who, having seen things at intimate firsthand, felt they had no choice but to evangelize.” —Wyatt Mason

Pumpkin would be such a great name for a firefighter dynasty.

When he's arrived to clean your windows, he's George Forby.

When others talk about her, she's Anent Bening.

Brain: this sounds like the sort of joke I'd make

Bsky search: yep

Just thought of this joke again without remembering I'd already made it.

Forward Prizes Ceremony 2025: Live Stream | Southbank Centre

This year no ticket or jacket required for the Forward Prizes live stream just rock up on this YouTube link.

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/for...

We’ve a beautiful new @badlilies.bsky.social landing on Halloween! Expect poems that will stay with you at this time of the thin veil between worlds.

A fine-looking thing indeed. Many congratulations, Graeme.

I'm thrilled to say that my collection "Dirt Rich" will be published by Carcanet in January. I've been working at it for almost 30 years: love poems, elegies, lamentations, jokes... The aim is "all killer no filler". Please buy it if you can. Here's Andrew Latimer's brilliant cover:

Less than a week to go - don't forget to register!

Only qualified Candide-ates should apply.

Front cover of the NYRB Classics edition of Erich Auerbach's "Dante: Poet of the Secular World."

It's long overdue, but I finally picked up a copy of this:

(At the roundtable) Why do you keep voting against your own interests!

Traitors, but it's class treason.

My youngest remains a committed practitioner of a temporal dualism of his own devising: everything is either "today" or "the other day."

Feels like there was some scope for a tetrahedron/tetrachord association.

Initial source was Wikipedia, which made me suspicious, but it's also listed on the online Britannica. Mind you, there are plenty of legends about Monk's life that made it into biographies.