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andrewwyld.bsky.social @andrewwyld.bsky.social · 58m

Bill Watterson talks about this a lot in the tenth anniversary Calvin and Hobbes book—not only are the top panels removable but the remaining panels can be shifted around. He fought hard to get a fixed Sunday strip layout, which is why the later treasuries are landscape format.

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · Dec 15

The top row of the Peanuts Sunday strip was called the 'throw-away panel'. If there wasn't enough space in the comic section that syndicated it, the top row could be removed and the rest of the comic would still make sense without it. Schulz often used the throw-away panel for private/obscure jokes.

Peanuts On This Day @peanuts60yrsago.bsky.social · Dec 15

December 15, 1963

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The Jazz Tome @thejazztome.info · 54m

If you think Electric Miles is an acquired taste, then you simply haven't acquired enough yet. My current favorite is Get Up With It (1974).

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 3d

I’m in this new @mojomagazine.bsky.social interviewing the great Brigitte Fontaine, telling you How To Buy Electric Miles Davis (in short: buy it all) and reviewing the wonderful new Steve Gunn LP plus multi-disc reissues by William Basinski and The Dream Syndicate.

MOJO 385 - December 2025

INCLUDES
JOHN
LENNON
INSIDE HIS ROCK'N'ROLL REVOLUTION
142
REVIEWS
PLUS BRIGITTE
FONTAINE
JANE WEAVER
PATTI SMITH
WRECKLESS ERIC
RICK DAVIES RIP
PRINCE
PSYCHS OUT!
MILES DAVIS
ELECTRIFIES!
FINE
YOUNG
CANNIBALS
EAT TO THE BEAT LUCINDA
WILLIAMS
AMERICANA'S HEART & SOUL
EAGLES
"LEAVING WAS AN ACT OF SURVIVAL"
THE
REPLACEMENTS
LET IT BE!
+ JMIHENDRIX
"DEVASTATINGLY LOUD! COMPLETE INSANITY!"

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 54m

#DragQueenName

Viv Bartlett 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @vivbnow.bsky.social · 1h

Virginia Creeper

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 2h

Greta Garbo by Ted Haworth featured in Das Magazin, 1933.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 1h

The extended version of Konda still blows my mind - Keith Jarrett playing just one beautiful idea after another on a Fender Rhodes around a short cycle. To have been alive at the same time as KJ. Wow.

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Konda

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 1h

This is your cue, were it required, to go and listen to as much of the Miles Davis Jack Johnson sessions as you can.

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 3d

I’m in this new @mojomagazine.bsky.social interviewing the great Brigitte Fontaine, telling you How To Buy Electric Miles Davis (in short: buy it all) and reviewing the wonderful new Steve Gunn LP plus multi-disc reissues by William Basinski and The Dream Syndicate.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you, Peter! 🎺 ⚡️

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Dr Peter Starie @stariep.bsky.social · 1h

Great piece on electric Miles. I’m going to have to listen to these albums again. What a chore!

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 3d

I’m in this new @mojomagazine.bsky.social interviewing the great Brigitte Fontaine, telling you How To Buy Electric Miles Davis (in short: buy it all) and reviewing the wonderful new Steve Gunn LP plus multi-disc reissues by William Basinski and The Dream Syndicate.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 1h

Fifteen minutes away!! Perfect. Thank you, Joe.

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 2h

Learning this completely changed how I read these strips.

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · Dec 15

The top row of the Peanuts Sunday strip was called the 'throw-away panel'. If there wasn't enough space in the comic section that syndicated it, the top row could be removed and the rest of the comic would still make sense without it. Schulz often used the throw-away panel for private/obscure jokes.

Peanuts On This Day @peanuts60yrsago.bsky.social · Dec 15

December 15, 1963

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 13h

You star! xx

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 13h

Have you done your Borzage Ranked! Letterboxd list yet?

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 14h

Snuggled up in a trullo in Puglia, watching History Is Made at Night. Ridiculously gripping Franco-American screwball-melodrama. Sacré bleu! boxd.it/bn3Ezh

A ★★★★½ review of History Is Made at Night (1937)

Oh wow! This screwball-melodrama is so gripping and romantic and dramatic and goofy and surprising and so very, very dark: Jean Arthur’s lovely former model Irene is on the run from her violent, contr...

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Paul B 〓〓 @whatsmellslikeblue.bsky.social · 14h

Similar to Robbie Cumming, when I want to watch something relaxing, my go to is @cruisingthecut.bsky.social . Found his YouTube channel shortly after the first COVID lockdown started, and watched the lot. Was a true moment of calm amongst the chaos of those days, and still is.

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · Mar 6

Which TV presenter do you turn to in times of upheaval and unease. I've seen people mention Robbie Cumming (Canal Boat Diaries) and Bruce Parry (Tribe etc) but who else, and which women? Who is the TV presenter equivalent of an epsom salts bath or 5mg of diazepam?

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 16h

Produced in 24 hours, done under a punishing deadline, no time to hang about - yet that image IS "The Thing" to me, and to millions of others as well, I suspect. Those images, those compositions, those posters ARE the films, in my head. What a talent. He'll be so missed.

Eric Vespe @ericvespe.bsky.social · 16h

Rest in Peace to the great Drew Struzan, a man whose work sparked the imaginations of a whole generation of movie nerds. The master is gone.

I had the privilege of visiting him in his studio once and getting to talk shop. Here’s his words on one of his masterpieces:

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 22h

Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 17h

A beautifully photoshopped image by @magonzales.bsky.social in which a silhouetted Gene Kelly in Singin' In The Rain is shown swinging from the lampost outside the Exorcist house.

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Claire @thechesilbeach.bsky.social · 17h

The anticipation is palpable … what book will be joining my @backlisted.bsky.social Hallowe’en shrine this year?

A collection of the Backlisted books featured on previous Hallowe’en episodes:
Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Ghost Stories by Edith Wharton
The Breaking Point by Daphne du Maurier
Beowulf
Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Altar of the Dead by Henry James
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James
Round the Fire Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

All the books are arranged on a dark green background and are surrounded by Hallowe’en decorations including a black cat, some tombstones, candles, spiders and cobwebs, pumpkins and coffins.

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Ian Wade @wadeywade.bsky.social · 17h

RIP WTF

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 17h

And thank you, Keith. I'm racing through it but I don't want it to end.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 18h

Damn, but I love how @keithrosson.bsky.social writes. Look at this small passage; pulp, poetry, blood and melancholy. It’s exactly how I want my horror novels and Rosson seems to understand this completely.

Varley sneered. "Who gives a shit about burying
you?"
And then, ever moving bullheaded against the currents of the world, and young for only a moment more, he raised Jim Templeton's Browning.
There wasn't a shot fired, though.
Wasn't time for it.
The thing moved.
And all this over money. He'd spend a lot of time
thinking about that.
Over who had more sway on this particular street,
this particular neighborhood.
All of it for that strident, buried, nattering little-boy desire to have someone, even a murderous shitbag like
Jim Templeton, tell him, Oh, John Varley, you done good. I was looking for the right man and it was you. I'm proud.
All this, and all that followed, for such a sad, simple thing as that.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 19h

Just in case you’ve never seen this health and safety nightmare(poor quality) youtu.be/QL_WKGKZKXc?...

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 19h

Current listening:

An album cover - The Taker/Tulsa by Waylon Jennings. the cover shows Waylon in a cool navy blue coat and very long sideburns with slicked back hair, using both hands to light a cigarette in his mouth.

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Linda Hubbard @lindahubbardartist.bsky.social · 20h

Stumbled across these little beauties.
1940/60s Electrolux fake groceries made from rubber for display in fridges that where for sale.

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Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 20h

One of Peter Cushing's best performances - a terrific crime movie spin on A Christmas Carol.

Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 21h

Our brew ☕ and biccies 🍪 classic matinee today stars #PeterCushing #AndreMorell in the #HammerFilms thriller

💷 CASH ON DEMAND (1961) 3:40pm #TPTVsubtitles

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