Jonathan Shipley

Just gave this a lesson - huh, what an interesting and odd little record. I think I really like it!

Ooh, okay, that sounds great! Will explore! Thanks. Dying and coming back as a zombie at the age of 16 happened to me too, so I relate.

Anyone got a recommendation for a good recentish book for a bright 12 year old? Not my kid so not looking for something with an overt political/moral message (apart from kindness, tolerance, etc). Ideally something imaginative and intellectually stimulating.

And so long!!

4) if there is a thing you love doing, do more of it and worry less about how others will interpret it 5) it’s nice to really deeply fall in love but it’s nicer to then do something do something do something, don’t just sit back 6) very specifically in my case, having kids will be insanely brilliant

Trying to work out what I have discovered since I joined Twitter almost twenty years ago: 1) if you refuse to think about your own poor health, it will decline and you will make people around you unforgivably stressed. 2) you can face that stuff 3) Your parents won’t be around forever

https://www.facebook.com/asbo.derek.9https://asboderek.bandcamp.com/releases (W)Asbo Derek, Smash Your Goals, The Albert, Brighton, 18/03/23

I watched the marvellous House of All play in Lewes the other night and they were terrific and overwhelming in all the ways you’d expect a band made up of ex-Fall members to be. But I also very much enjoyed (w)Asbo Derek who told us to SMASH our goals youtu.be/BN2pNxRPbF0?... #feeltheburn

There are a number of authors who write poetic, heavily stylistic novels in a short window in the late 2010s and he was my far my favourite! The books preceding and following this are virtuosic too. Loved The Topeka School!

I am really enjoying Zadie Smith's The Fraud. About half way through and mostly just delighted at the fact that it's funny on every single page, and pleased that I have no idea where it is going. But it has lots of interesting things to say about writing, power, populism and looming crises.

I am here not out of fury with Musk nor a desire for liberty but because I seek validation. I just want to be very clear from the off that my self-serving needs outweigh my principles.

For some reason I find myself only wanting to follow people I started following in April 2007. Is this time-travel?

Seeing all these familiar names and matching-up profile pics is extremely heartwarming, like wandering into a house you spotted with its door open to find all your furniture laid-out inside. Childhood sticker albums. I used to send people on Twitter postcards, stamps must have been cheaper then.