I am every person in a film. I know all martial arts and can leap from a building onto a lower one catching the ledge with my arms and hang there for minutes with somebody hanging off my feet.
28.07.2025 01:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@billangus.bsky.social
Writer in early modernity, atheism, historical fiction, poems, songs (with The Mighty Ways). Sinophile. Freelance academic.
I am every person in a film. I know all martial arts and can leap from a building onto a lower one catching the ledge with my arms and hang there for minutes with somebody hanging off my feet.
28.07.2025 01:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sorry to hear that Prof Liz
26.07.2025 11:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Establishing your personality on the unreliable reports of a single human life lived in ancient Palestine is no basis for a program of self improvement. True self improvement comes from a mandate from the self alone, not from some farcical antiquated moralityβ¦
11.07.2025 01:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hang onβ¦
29.06.2025 23:27 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Atheist sprituality - yes please ! williamjohnangus.substack.com/p/chapter-13
17.06.2025 23:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0For me:
Aretha
Dionne Warwick
Smokey Robinson
Ronnie Drew (Dubliners)
Jeff Lynne
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Marc Bolan
Maddy Prior
Iβm planning a book on the history of aikido and am interested in the relationship between Kano and Ueshiba. I wanted to write a straight history book, but almost immediately got tangled in the extreme strangeness of persons and historical moment.
12.06.2025 23:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This was the extract that caught me:
12.06.2025 23:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That being Immortal Gestures? Iβll seek it
12.06.2025 02:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hi, Iβm not entirely sure yet. Iβve just ordered your book βBeating and Nothingnessβ on the strength of a quotation that I found on here which I now appear to have lost. What martial arts do you practice?
12.06.2025 00:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hi Damon, Iβm interested in your writing on philosophy and the martial arts. Iβm an aikido person mainly so thatβs where my thinking lands. Iβm also an academic just launching into non-academic writingβ¦
11.06.2025 04:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0California Uber Alles
08.06.2025 06:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βSo where do you get your morality from?β
open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
The Guardian have misspelled this headline. It should read βAmerican President links foreign policy to his emotionsβ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
18.05.2025 23:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0β¦noe goinge to rochford this yeare??
15.04.2025 11:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The USA elected morons to government and now acts surprised every time a moronic thing happens! Oh no! What an outrage! Dumbfcks
04.04.2025 09:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Prosserβs a functionary of bureaucratic edicts, whereas Musk sees himself as the firestarter in a bonfire of the same
18.03.2025 11:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Elon thinks heβs Zaphod Beeblebrox but is obviously Prostetnic Vogon Jelz
18.03.2025 08:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Elon Musk thinks heβs Zaphod Beeblebrox but is very obviously Prostetnic Vogon Jelz
18.03.2025 08:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I hear a lot of Americans lamenting and bellyaching about their fascist government, but I donβt see them doing anything much about it. Itβs as if America has no history of industrial action or mass protest. Organise a general strike!
18.03.2025 04:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hi Dominik, later in 2025 you might like to watch out for Lisa Hopkinsβs and my forthcoming edited collection βReading the Coastline in Shakespeareβs Englandβ, published by Edinburgh University Press. A number of our contributing chapters deal with ports and harbours
17.03.2025 07:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Person from last relationship hated having my βsmelly old booksβ in the house. New lovely person asked me to build thisβ¦just finished
09.03.2025 06:55 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Stefan Collini in @londonreview.bsky.social, October 2013
26.02.2025 09:27 β π 130 π 58 π¬ 2 π 3Good people are everywhere. The right people are vanishingly rare.
03.02.2025 00:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In which we consider Christian objections to knowledge and God as a hermit: open.substack.com/pub/williamj...
30.01.2025 06:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0