Robin Allender

Just saw an ad for the new Nigel Slater book A Thousand Feasts and thought it said A Thousand Fears. Might be time to give the Aickman a break.

Was this prompted by playing Connections this morning?

YouTube video by wilt234 Counter Points Come Together

One of the more interesting Beatles covers I’ve heard, which I was introduced to on KMHD tonight. youtu.be/Kp0n-461fg8?...

Ah great I don’t know that story, will check. Aickman is great, have a go on The Hospice

I’ve started reading Robert Aickman’s ghastly little stories

This whole thread is absolutely peak Bluesky. Dear Americans, not everything is about you.

How is it possible to do anything when there are simply so many word games to play each morning

The End of an Earring – Pam St Clement

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

The Bird and the Word, by Robin Allender 11 track album

I decided to take my first album off the streaming services (because I think it’s awful!), but it is still on Bandcamp if anyone wants to listen to it

robinallender.bandcamp.com/album/the-bi...

Why does Dolly Parton spoonerised sound like someone you went to primary school with

Just dropped ‘rich as Croesus’ into a conversation for the first time, think it went well, and I really enjoyed it. Would recommend!

YouTube video by ukcomedy Patricia Routledge Kitty

"My name's Kitty. I could have married, I've given gallons of blood and I can't stomach whelks, so that's me for you."

RIP Patricia Routledge.

Fascinating cover of Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room on the new Taylor Swift album

Was listening to the new Joanne Robertson album on the bus this morning when my bluetooth headphones stopped working, which meant that I gave my fellow travellers on the number 40 a quick blast of some of the vaguest music ever recorded

Ah yes, I love this album! I love a lot of their stuff. Also really like This Is Lorelei, the guitarist’s solo project, my fave album of last year. Really interesting band.

Sometimes I put an apostrophe in an Excel spreadsheet just to watch it disappear

The museum’s floor has a gradual slope. Our displays reference life and death. There are mannequins.

A simple, haunting poetry in this information from a medical musuem website.

What is a door prize

Incredible book. I gave my copy to Cass McCombs. I wonder if he read it.

Has a bloke ever managed to take off their jumper without also pulling up their T-shirt to reveal their bare midriff

Whenever I think the new Patricia Lockwood book is possibly veering towards something a bit twee or arch, she drops a sentence like this: ‘Whenever her mother was gone more than two days her father died of a Popsicle deficiency and called her back to identify his body in the morgue.’ I love it.

I loved and love this x

If I was an allegedly centrist Prime Minister of the UK who is facing being wiped out by fascists in a few years, I probably wouldn’t be building them infrastructure with which they can track & surveil citizens.

But that’s probably just me.

Damn is that the Domino one? So annoyed I didn’t get that at the time

The Diamond Sea is my favourite song that I have never listened to all the way through

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

I actually like Bluesky, you can follow people you like and respect. It’s so weird to check back into twitter and see people slagging it off. Bluesky is pathetic! It’s full of people who like reading about things they like!!

Frankly Insane CV.
RIP Danny Thompson

YouTube video by TheRover98TB I Believe in You [Official video] - Talk Talk (HD/HQ)

Among many many other things, he played on this masterpiece, RIP Danny Thompson

youtu.be/fKtp3SOQE6I?...