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Marie Phillips

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Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor. Free newsletter at mariephillips.beehiiv.com

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 2h

Well then I don’t know. But the trulli are very pretty.

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 2h

I mean, @andrewmale.bsky.social and I are here together, if that’s who you mean by ‘everyone’! That aside, I don’t know what to tell you. I thought it looked nice? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 5h

Quite happy to be spending the next two weeks in this little trullo.

A little trullo in Puglia. Sparse to some, heaven to others (me).

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 2h

I’ll put a pea on top of the duvets tonight and see if I get bruises

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 5h

Oof

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 5h

Haha! 🦈

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 5h

Update: slept extremely well last night, for ten hours, under three duvets and two blankets. Enjoying the sun this morning.

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 20h

Have arrived in Puglia to discover that it is AGAINST THE LAW to turn the heating on before November 1st. Also, the temperature at night drops to 8 degrees. Pray for me.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 5h

Checking out the supermarket for them today

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 5h

Hahahahaha!

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 5h

Fortunately we are here for two weeks so the sun will return. Meanwhile we slept very well - for ten hours - under three duvets and two blankets!

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you! She is 🥰

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 20h

But it’s the warmest spot in the house!

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 20h

Have arrived in Puglia to discover that it is AGAINST THE LAW to turn the heating on before November 1st. Also, the temperature at night drops to 8 degrees. Pray for me.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 1d

My regards across time to your excellent, fair to middlin’, late Uncle Christy

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, I can feel a tinge of youthfulness returning to my cheeks

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 1d

Need a meme version of this where I can change the “oh fine” to something a little closer to my current state of mind

Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 1d

Things To Do While Getting Well, illustrated by Mike Strouth (1971)

Practice your speech for when people ask, "How are you?"
Cartoon style depiction of a bedridden girl rehearsing an upbeat "Oh, fine!" response to the question "How are you?" as a humorous tip for handling visitors during illness.

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David Bryant @23daves.bsky.social · 1d

The dog has just destroyed another television set because a squirrel appeared on it. The second time this has bloody happened (although last time it was because a cat appeared behind Benedict Cumberbatch).
#ShouldHaveCalledHerKeithMoon

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 1d

I think the starting point is the GP. A good one will say “I believe you when you say something is wrong with you, but the current state of medicine is unable to diagnose or cure it. Let’s work together on symptomatic relief.” A bad one will say “I can’t find anything so you’re imagining things.”

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 1d

I know 🥺

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 1d

Cats ❤️ Getz ❤️ Cats!

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 1d

Now I feel really old because I was pre-web so bought my bootlegs on tape from a dodgy bloke selling them out of a cardboard box in Camden Market

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 1d

Well now I’m a Cookie Monster is Tom Waits truther

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 1d

Impossible to parody well, yes… and yet, Rowlf just is Tom Waits

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 1d

I remember buying Asylum Years and thinking it was the greatest album I’d ever heard - all killer no filler - and then it turned out it wasn’t an album but a compilation from the years he was on Asylum records, but I maintain it’s a perfect title for a Tom Waits album, and it IS great, so there

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think I did enough trading of misbought records with friends. But that’s probably because I was one of the only people I knew with even the slightest interest in alternative music. Like, there were about three of us at school and we all liked the same things and taped them off each other.

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