small hours big time night shift - colder, starry 0214 - a band of samurai movie rain it passes wet slate and Venus
11/9/25 - nocturn
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small hours big time night shift - colder, starry 0214 - a band of samurai movie rain it passes wet slate and Venus
11/9/25 - nocturn
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Sainsbury's Corn Flakes from 1973 superimposing a outlined sun witha face over fields of wheat and corn
bring back the Wicker Man Corn Flakes
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gertrude stein cracker barrel
gonna tell my kid this is gertrude stein
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Crane bows its head on the centre panel of this triptych it’s crossed legs on the right hand panel
Oh Beauty I Am Undone.
Painted on 23 carat gold leaf laid on vintage Italian poplar wood panels.
Interviewer: On the other hand, some specific American realities have a draw for you. DeLillo: Certainly there are themes that recur. Perhaps a sense of secret patterns in our lives. A sense of ambiguity. Certainly the violence of contemporary life is a motif. I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfillment in America. Again we come back to these men in small rooms who can’t get out and who have to organize their desperation and their loneliness, who have to give it a destiny and who often end up doing this through violent means. I see this desperation against the backdrop of brightly colored packages and products and consumer happiness and every promise that American life makes day by day and minute by minute everywhere we go.
DeLillo, in 1988, being interviewed about Libra, argues that fiction can provide some simple emotional closure and comforting rhythm to the senseless horror of history, then he says:
"I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfillment in America."
more than 20 years on, i am still cross about the kaiser chiefs rhyming "watching the people get lairy" with "it's not very pretty, I tell thee"
22.08.2025 14:16 — 👍 38 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 2
We truly live in hell.
15.07.2025 20:30 — 👍 26 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
small hours big time 3am - Venus in the hole of a well thumbed pocket stone a thick night turning into Monday proper
29/6/25 - nocturn
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Tom Spencer has been a regular recently at The NewSouth Bookstore — we’ve had to call him back several times to sign additional copies of his new book, The Mystery of the Crooked Man. The orders keep coming in! We are pleased the book is enjoying such success!
27.05.2025 22:15 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Paula Rego, Hey Diddle Diddle, 1989 etching from the nursery rhymes series #WomensArt
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This was a ton of fun. Twenty minutes’ gorgeousness for you.
youtu.be/G_-DftINZKg?...
NBCC member Nell Beram reviewed "The Mystery of the Crooked Man" by Tom Spencer for Shelf Awareness:
09.05.2025 23:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Print of a landscape under a stormy sky with swirling grey and light purple clouds and golden rising sunlight
Laura Boswell, contemporary printmaker based in Scotland specialising in wild landscape and coastal prints in linocut & woodblock
09.05.2025 09:25 — 👍 3797 🔁 305 💬 0 📌 21A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
08.05.2025 17:36 — 👍 28788 🔁 8100 💬 38 📌 761“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc
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LAST CALL! Author Tom Spencer will be in conversation at the Haunted Bookshop, 9 S. Joachim St., Mobile. It all starts at 5:30pm. I'll be emceeing, followed by an audience Q&A, and book signing. Call the bookshop to reserve your place or visit online: www.thehauntedbookshopmobile.com/events-detai...
08.05.2025 11:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Need a last minute mother's day gift? THE MYSTERY OF THE CROOKED MAN by Tom Spencer @tellmelieslater.bsky.social is the perfect gift for moms who enjoy mysteries, according to @nytimes.com of course! 🔍🕵️
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/b...
May is National Mystery Month. These are only a few of my favorite authors:
* Agatha Christie (or course)
* Dashiell Hammett (Thin Man series. Can't beat Nick and Nora)
* Anna Elliot & Charles Veley
* Kerry Underwood
* M.C. Beaton
* Carolyn Haines
* Tom Spencer
small hours big time night shift - looking out extra dark with low sky going fast it will clear at 3 but you'll be busy
7/5/25 - nocturn
07.05.2025 19:01 — 👍 84 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0greetings, pope pickers
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A fun evening in store Thursday - the Haunted Bookshop in Mobile hosts a conversation with the author of “The Mystery of the Crooked Man,” Tom Spencer. I will be MC’ing the event. Make your reservation today.
www.thehauntedbookshopmobile.com/events-detai...
small hours big time a waking night no films to settle into weather followed by stars 0323 - put the bins out
5/5/25 - nocturn
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The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.
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Celt Flute, might delete later.
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Poster for Carry on Up The Wicker Man. Sid James plays Sgt Howie, Barbara Windsor as Willow, Kenneth Williams as Lord Summerisle and Hattie Jacques as Oak. The tagline reads: May Day! May Day! The crafty Carry On crew are at it again! When Sergeant Howsyerfather sets out looking for a girl he'll soon find out that there's no smoke without pyre. What a flaming cheek!
Front cover of Sidneyfantastique magazine about Carry On Up The Wicker Man, a spoof of the famous Cinefantastique issue with Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle replaced with Kenneth Williams and Sid James and Barbara Windsor in the burning Wicker Man
Four lobby cards for Carry On Up The Wicker Man. Clockwise from top left: Sid James lying on a bed with the Hand of Glory next to him; Sid James sat at a table grinning with a cigar while Barbara Windsor looks on shocked; Kenneth Williams in drag as Lord Summerisle as the High Priest leading the procession of villagers; Charles Hawtrey dressed as Punch.
Can't wait to give this classic a rewatch this evening #WickerMan #CarryOn
All credit for these goes to @daniel-mcgachey.bsky.social
MUPPET WICKER MAN (Brian Henson, 1993)
Police Sergeant Kermie travels to the isolated town of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. He finds the locals to be a surly and suspicious lot, rustic practitioners of crude bawdiness and Celtic neo-paganism. Starring Vincent Price as Lord Summerisle.
Photo of an outdoor art installation featuring a woodland with a magical looking doorway created by wood and twigs in the forest
Passage, 2007 by installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart #Beltane #May1st
01.05.2025 05:44 — 👍 1173 🔁 212 💬 0 📌 9
New mystery just dropped, and it's full of twists more crooked than the titular man himself...Happy Publication Day to The Mystery of the Crooked Man by @tellmelieslater.bsky.social
Perfect for fans of The Twyford Code, Magpie Murders, and Yellowface!
