Jon Courtenay Grimwood

I expect to see it turned inside out and filtered in prose sometime. (Well, I hope so.)

It could be character development. A detective still capable of washing themselves is not yet so traumatised as to be really dangerous?

(I'm reaching here.)

Very large and blue, semi abstract painting showing two kangaroos, the artist and his nephew all looking up at the night sky.

A large, semi abstract, pale blue painting of the skyline in Edinburgh, with a large clock in a tower showing the time as 12.05, which is the time the artist's show starts at the edinburgh festival.

Large red painting with black numbers, three to a line for the first two lines, two numbers in the third and last line. The numbers are 0-9, but out of order and the last two, a one and a five, lying on their side.

Fierce, brilliant, frankly terrifying 60 minute set from Australian artist Sam Kissajukian at Summerhall, talking about the 300 paintings he created in a single manic six month episode...

If you're at the Edinburgh Festival, and you can still get tickets, consider going...

(Seriously.)

'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the...

Actually, it was coke.
(Pretty sure it was coke)
And best minds is a bit of a stretch, but anyway.

It love to think the Guardian were genuinely 'deranged resistance leftists', rather than so busy triangulating everything they'd give Pythagoras a headache.

It was certainly complicit in independence vote, fluffing for Johnson, pumping Farage, Brexit, and economic chaos following.

The six string electric guitar with only four tuning pegs is an interesting musical development.

Used to listen to the Today programme without fail. Can't bear it now. Populist slop. Such a waste.

A thin, paperback book of poetry propped up on a table. The book has a dark cover, with a shadowy fox turning its head to look back at the reader. Other books, out of focus, can be seen behind it.

'...but nothing she might find would be
familiar. other than

by inference: a certain turn of phrase,
the way two bodies touch, that momentary

halcyon of everyone
together, voices, singsong in the dark.'

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Brilliant, and lyrical, tricksy and sad. As you'd expect from John B's final collection

Personally, like roses, I always hold wine glasses in my teeth.

I saw someone in the row ahead pass out during a particularly gruesome performance of Webster's revenger tragedy, The White Devil, but that was theatre...

Not sure if Yasser Arafat really did say this. (Internet also credits Napoleon, which feels frankly unlikely.)
But yes...

'All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.'

Sometimes you just have to know when to check out, as he probably didn't say.

This made me laugh. (Not sure if that's the right response, but yes... Practice helps thinking like everything else.)

Also, no excuse for 'going forward' unless you're in a car and not planning to reverse.

And top of the list of blindingly obvious things you shouldn't have to learn first hand. You can't use a walking stick on sand. (Well, not without toppling over sideways.)
#beach

Good. It deserved to be preserved.

Great news: the High Court has granted permission for a full judicial review of the government's order proscribing Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act.
Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned.

:-)

There's probably a paper in Irony, what is a bridge too far.

Oh gods. The Rectors Cafe at St Andrews is playing Nickelback. This may be an irony too far.

Well, dams worked for the dutch!

:-)

Oh god. Yes, of course it is.

All that swashbuckling

Pretty sure it's the Duchy of Aquitaine.

Darkly funny: signs appearing across central London, protesting Starmer’s use of anti-terror laws against peaceful pro-Palestine protesters.

It's cold and dusty in here.

V niche, Adam.

(but, chapeau)

Massive kudos to Jeremy Bowen for this. He does a great job of explaining the situation and resisting being used as propaganda, but also pointing out it *is* possible to pressure the Israeli government (he very properly leaves the conclusions for the viewer to draw).

Academics (including the journal’s founder) told Wiley to pound sand, started an open access journal, and Wiley just surrendered. I think more academics should tell academic publishers to pound sand. They are vampires.