Adam Farrer

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

Cardboard cutout next to an anatomical skeleton. Both are wearing pride santa hats and are wrapped in green gold and red tinsel

"You can't just put tinsel on Danny DeVito and call it a Christmas tree"

WELL...

1987 me would have been hugely drawn to a bar of CHUNK but I'd have been dead meat if any of the kids at school saw me eating one.

A shelf of CHUNK chocolate bars in Morrisons supermarket

Had a PTSD shudder when I saw that Morrison’s knock off Tony’s Chocolonely goes by the same name people began calling me after I started to get fat in middle school.

I love how all the Air Force One interviews with Trump look like he’s just coming out of the toilet after a horrific dump.

It makes me very happy when I see people connecting with my book

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crisp flavour: mixed behaviours & abandoned joys a blend of appropriate & inappropriate responses seasoned with past delights given up for forgotten reasons

The first person I thought of when I considered a living painter was Joan Cornella, who paints things like this. Quite telling really.

Both, I think. Even superstar authors tend to mean nothing to most people I know. My heroes are so insignificant to folks outside of the book world that I might as well be making their names up on the spot. I think this is probably the same in most creative industries tbh.

The latest Goodreads review of my first book, Cold Fish Soup. At this point my books should be categorised under “Not your usual thing but you’ll probably like it.”

Importantly, everyone listen to Cerys.

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Exactly like that. Learn from the best.

These are the moments when you ask "who hurt you?" right before you punch them.

As a writer you can sometimes get a little caught up in the successes of others and wonder why it's also not happening for you, so it's reassuring when you discover that the average person in the street has no fucking clue who any of us are.

Absolutely. I already have a wedge pillow, which didn't last long before becoming an uncomfortable pancake. It's mostly for snoring, which I've learned is less of a problem if I prop myself up while sleeping as if I'm The Elephant Man but I'm 50 next year so I know that neck and shoulder pain well.

Baby Spud Spud! Mashed potato doll.

It’s the same old Framley Advert Calendar! From the olden days! Happy Chritsmas!

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Got paid, immediately bought this adjustable support pillow. #middleage #everythinghurts #isnorelikeapig

The Munsters poses the chilling question, what if your parents were a vampire and a Frankenstein? The Addams Family poses the chilling question, what if your parents were openly sexual?

This year’s Christmas markets food theme: Dubai variants. All of your favourites now available for a £3 premium and sopping wet with pistachio cream.

Or maybe it was a signal to activate a dormant secret agent. “At the sign of four jumble sales you must take the first available flight to Prague.”

“The victim appears to have been smothered to death with a good condition sheepskin jacket.”

Also a big fan of this gas fire ad, which has reminded me of David Schwimmer’s Haunted House.

That and all the murders that surely came from feuding jumble groups.

My daughter has been going through the archives of the local paper from the town where I grew up and I’m disappointed there’s no follow up story about the beefs that must have arisen between the organisers of these four simultaneously occurring jumble sales.

Wonderful, and cheerfully rude, with bums of all sorts gracing every page. I grew up in a place like this. Spending this bank holiday weekend in Saltburn

This collection of interwoven stories is like a fever dream and Gummerson is an English Vonnegut. I assure you that this statement will make complete sense to you by the time you've reached, I'd say, page 6. What a bloody delight.

This by @drewgum.bsky.social is so good - bold, imaginative and properly funny. Book a trip to Saltburn today @renardpress.com

D madeleine_write Saltburn by Drew Gummerson. A collection of overlapping short stories set in a fictionalised version of Saltburn-by-the-Sea, featuring mermaids, a foetus museum, and a psychic piece of ass, among other bizarre elements. Yes, this book is surreal, but it's also a biting commentary on capitalism, war & homophobia. At its heart is the outsider, a boy who doesn't fit in, sometimes because of his sexuality, sometimes because he turns into a girl at midnight. It has some very bleak moments but also parts that made me laugh out loud. A great read if you enjoy the bizarre, and aren't squeamish about gay sex (which there's a LOT of) #reader #readersofinstagram #books #booklover #bookstagram

Thanks to @davidcollard.bsky.social @iancritchley.bsky.social @adamjfarrer.bsky.social and Madeline for these kind Saltburn words and you can pick it up free shipping @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social #IndieBlackFriday

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This is how I learned that Burroughs created shotgun art.

I’m fascinated by the kinds of people who have £250 to spend on 5ft tall Nutcracker ornaments with lower teeth smiles.

In the Magic Mirror reflects the disillusionment that colored much of Paul Klee's work following the Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933 and the artist's subsequent move to his native Switzerland.Illustrating what Klee called his method of "taking a line for a walk," a meandering red line twists and turns down the center of the canvas, delineating the features of a face. The tight curves on the brow suggest the figure is concentrating, while the tension between the nose and mouth, which pull in opposite directions, conveys anxiety. In contrast to the cheerful pink cheeks, the figure's tear-shaped eyes communicate distress. The thinly painted, ghostly outline of the head and shoulders is in contrast to the crisp rendering of the face. Klee paints the heart, the true creative center, black, thereby suggesting the pall that settled over this figure, and by extension, the artist at this time. Bequest of Claire Zeisler

In the Magic Mirror https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111666/

PC Gamer article titled “Microsoft's head of Al doesn't understand why people don't like Al, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious.” by Tyler Wilde

Here it is with the byline and alt text

This is a recent chat with one of my best friends. She’d certainly know if I’d died.

Followed by this.