Alex Christian

Lad at my school made two grave mistakes. The first: he bookmarked a porn site on his family computer but renamed the bookmark to “Capital FM”, which his mum clicked on. The second, fatal: he told people at school, which led to “Capital FM” being his nickname and me recounting this 15 years later

I’ve just gone back and done some recent ones and not got above 8 – going along fine and then there’s some regional American thing that’s basically ungettable

When I watched it last year the word that kept coming to mind was “sumptuous” – such a rich mix of cinematography, set design and costume

Ooh that’s a good game

#460 - 9/10 🎉
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Newtowncashel (Irish: Baile Nua an Chaisil, meaning 'new town of the fort')[1] is a village located near Lough Ree in County Longford, Ireland. Newtowncashel won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1980.[2]

No way does that get top billing

The caesura into “Sonst” is a big sonnet move, but the stumbling-over-itself rhyme scheme of the tercets and the short last sentence obscure its sonnetry

Good little sonnet that, by my reckoning the best I’ve ever read

Really happy with how this illustration turned out. Would be even happier if you took the chance to subscribe to the mag!

The best deal in magazines is even better for a few spare moments - run don't walk to rob us blind!

'In the week after our book, The Pub, is released, it's great to see the Daily Telegraph join us in lauding that great British institution... and in such a distinctive style too.

Time to re-up our 2021 investigation into the figure that is Hilary Lawson, the property magnate and 'philosopher' behind HowTheLightGetsIn

www.the-fence.com/the-ideas-man/

You Can Ring My Bell Clive goes to the Cotswolds

A treat from our new book, THE PUB.

We sent @clive_mart1n deep into the Cotswolds, long before the arrival of the Vances, to measure up the pubs and people currently cluttering the countryside. He was not a fan.

www.the-fence.com/you-can-ring...

Screenshot of the Standard’s “Backlash” vertical

I like the Standard’s Backlash vertical
standard.co.uk/topic/backlash

Waschbär is excellent though

I was going to bring up “Faultier” – and then remembered that we basically call them “Faulheit” so we’re in no place to judge

I drew some roses on my lunch break!

Anyway, get your dating mishaps in – we’ve got some good ones already.

Of course the Lollards started this when they were distributing cracked copies of the Bible

An fantastic place, and the only pub I know where you’ll see a 90-year-old belting out “What’s Going On” at 11pm on a Friday

It should be a “no iquids ue”, the hypocrites

Siraj flying, ball flying, stump flying

Are you reading The Tiger’s Share?

Seagale, surely?

Really enjoyed that piece, if not its implications

This is a great article. What are those proteins up to!

Lots of reviewers (and Latronico himelf) refer to Perec, who I’m now ever more convinced I have to read, but I couldn’t help but think of the two family-downfall-precipitating house renovations in Buddenbrooks and Os Maias

Photo of ‘Perfection’ by Vicenzo Latronico

An absolute punch in the gut for anyone, an additional smack around the face for someone who worked as a graphic designer/frontend developer in Berlin & Lisbon in 2016–17 (me). 5*

A clipping of “Captian Gary’s Chat” from the “Red All Over” fanzine, reading “I am Gary Brabin who recently was given the great honour to be Captain of Doncaster Rovers. I can't really explain the feeling of leading the team out. There is more to being Captain than just wearing an arm band. I would just like to thank the Boss Sammy Chung and Ken Richardson for standing by me and giving me this great honour. As fans will know I have got bags of ambition and would love to be the Captain when Rovers get promotion this season. Although I am Liverpool born and "bread" I now class myself as a Donny Lad. My biggest disappointment was our exit from the FA Cup at the hands of Mansfield Town, but hopefully this can be put right by winning promotion for the supporters who l'd like to think I've got close to during my time at the Club. LOTS OF LOVE AND SEXY KISSES. GARY BRABIN”

“LOTS OF LOVE AND SEXY KISSES” – players just don’t write columns like this anymore

This is a good one. It’ll make you look up the price of some jackets. I can’t afford the jackets.

Spurs are going to need a lot of ham-and-eggers if they want to play those two, Maddison and Kulusevski. Or are they going to bet it all on Van de Ven’s recovery pace?

Pub?