Niall O'Sullivan

I'm not generally a fan of gaming/pick up artist schtick but have to salute the young man who struck up a good natured chat with a young woman at the Brixton Marks & Sparks checkouts with the opening gambit of, "You've got the wrong cookies."

haha, I just wish I had the old Clubs to offer when the time comes.

New design for club bars, brown and green packaging

Don Corleone from The Godfather looking grief stricken, saying "Look at how they massacred my boy"

You can tell I quickly typed this out on my phone, sheesh!

The thing I about curling is that the initial push off looks so cool, just gliding across the ise on one knee, but it's immediately followed by the silly broomstick stuff. I love it.

....and they got him.

HAPPY FUCKING PANCAKE DAY!!!

YouTube video by F.D Signifier The Tyler Perry Video

For some reason I thought I was sharing the link, here it is youtu.be/RF8zwgqWPKU?...

This is excellent. It's pretty much FD's magnum opus that has also been his albatross for the past few years. It's four hours long and will almost certainly get taken down and edited a number of times so treat it like a Netflix series you just found out about and is leaving in a few days.

It’s 4 hours long you glorious nutcase! That’s my evening sorted then.

So, we need to film a video for our great new song, Dancing in the Street.

How about we film ourselves dancing in ... an abandoned factory in the middle of the night?

A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”

Make Art (1/4)

Plus the added element of having look through the bottom of your varifocals while doing it.

Also…

See? This is why combat sports are great.

The problem with procutivity systems:

*Present me* comes up with a goal and assigns it to *future me*;

Cometh the hour, *future me* becomes *present me* and the goal-setting *present me* becomes *past me*;

*Present me* tells *past me* to feck off and comes up with his own goals;

Repeat.

Buttondown too!

Youtube and Facebook aren’t newsletter/blog services. Beehiv, Buttondown and Ghost are the alternatives and they’re all better than substack.

More reasons why you should leave Substack here, as well as the less Nazi/enshittification-friendly places you can go to instead. I’m on buttondown.

leavesubstack.com

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

I’ve been banging on about this for ages, but if you are on Substack, please take your writing somewhere else and if you really have to stay, stop doing their PR for them by using “substack” as a noun for things that are as old as the internet.

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Thanks Ian. Funny thing about the poetry world, news can travel very slowly to some of us. I remember speaking to Alan Brownjohn about Roy Fisher a few months after his death and then watched the poor man's face drop as I realised it was his first time hearing the news.

Oh no, I didn't know what Fred had died.

Picked up a Roy Fisher book for the first time in years and started swearing out loud when I was two poems in. In a good way.

We've been quiet for a bit, but we just want to remind the world that we turn 25 this year – 25, TWENTY-FIVE!! As indie publishers we know how special it is to be around this long and how much it signals the support of YOU, our readers worldwide. THANK YOU.

#FECrew

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Rewind Best in Show

You know, for all the iconic roles and scenes Catherine O’Hara was part of, this is the one that repeats itself in my head several times a week.

youtu.be/fKWP-PcEwyY

When it gets to midnight, the clock will open up and a lot of dry ice will emerge before Robert Downey Jr steps out with his arms aloft cos it was just a really elaborate Marvel promotion campaign all along.

Finally got the AI generated email praising my book and promising access to 3000+ new readers, the one that other authors have had clogging up their spam folders for months. I feel relevant again.

One week to go to get your boxing-themed art and writing into us for issue 8 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine.

BREAKING: In an extraordinary turn of events, the poem t⁠hat I scrawled this morning in a pre-school-run, caffeinated frenzy –⁠ that had all the markers of being a timeless, instant classic –⁠ t⁠urned out to be shit.

We'll keep you updated as events develop.

There seems to be a new YouTube meta of men giving their own version of the "I'm mad as hell" speech from Network but doing it with a more chilled delivery and a lake or mountain range in the background. There's loads of them and I can't stop watching them.