YouTube video by Mono Salsero Hector Lavoe - Che che cole

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Abney Park Cemetery Spirits

On the turntable is Cosa Nostra by Willie Colon who died last week.

It's a spin on the whiskey sour made with 3 oz Bulleit 95 Rye, 1.5oz lemon juice, 1/2 oz maple syrup, 1/4 oz Maraschino liqueur, 1 dash of Angostura bitters and 1 Maraschino cherry.

I could give it some craft cocktail name, such as the "Rye Aye Man" or something, but I'm just going to drink it.

It's amazing to me that there is a Green Party in this country, but it's still evil.

Thinking about my friend whose birthday it is today who died - and how they might not have died if it wasn't for 14 years of Tories making it harder for them to exist across multiple vectors of their existence - and all the bastards that repeatedly voted for that. I'll never not be angry about it.

Coining the term "The Gammonosphere" for the complex of seething, festering English dead that compels their descendants to steal out in the night to paint roundabouts and shout at hotels.

two of my quotes from this paper

I'm interviewed in this academic paper going on about Hellblazer and media representations of working class occultists.

Alternate reality Mandalorian, but Mando is Peter Mandelson and he doesn't have a change of heart and rescue baby yoda but just continues trafficking other baby yodas to the Empire for multiple seasons while enriching himself.

The Hung Gar Kung Fu system that we learn some of alongside Karate has got an attack to the balls in it that translates as "Stealing the Wild Peach".

I think they just gave up removing the tiny sticker at some point and accepted that they were always going to have a little dog on the door of the shop. 3/

I would walk by this shop every day on my way home from work, so whenever I noticed they had removed the dog sticker from their door, I would replace it with another different little dog. I did this for about a year until I moved somewhere else. 2/

There was this creepy little shop when I lived in South London - and I can't even remember what they sold or why I started doing this - I suppose I had my reasons - but I got several packets of these 99p dog stickers and stuck one on the door of the shop. 1/

Making friends on Threads again

It would be really weird to go and see Bad Bunny in Newcastle. I hope somebody teks him oot on the toon like.

YouTube video by BeckyGVEVO Becky G, Bad Bunny - Mayores (Official Video)

I think I first heard Bad Bunny as a guest MC on this Becky G tune - and he immediately stood out to me on this because of how distinctive his style was. I could not have possibly predicted the current cultural moment from this video though.

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Not that there is anything wrong with a person being taken to a Candomble ceremony by their Brazilian boyfriend, but if you're Peter Mandelson there probably is.

Let's not also forget that Peter Mandelson once sent money and a thank you note to a Brazilian Candomble priest for services rendered, which was allegedly for cursing Gordon Brown's press secretary.

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"I was not involved in any of the fascist noncing" announced Deepak Chopra earlier today on the fascist noncing app.

Sort of wish I'd just taken the opportunity to knock his fucking teeth out now though. God is a construct. Karate is real.

When I interviewed Deepak Chopra for work about a decade ago, it crossed my mind that it would be funny to conduct the interview as a clueless UK journalist who had no idea who he was and thought he was interviewing Tupac Shakur, somehow still alive.

2026 is making me hate the word "aura" in entirely new ways from how I already hated the word "aura"

Investigative reporter Peel Grayman breaks down the facts and evidence

Did the courageous citizen journalist that's debunking the torrid web of lies to clear Neil Gaiman's name call his substack "Techno Pathology" because it would have been too obvious if the very real crusading journalist had been called "Morpheus the Dream King"

Punxsutawney Phil is in the Epstein Files.

Looking forward to S1 of X-oronation Street

I tried to summon the Sea Leviathan to consume you all 25 years ago and now finally we're getting somewhere. Come on in. The water's lovely.

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