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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 1h

Just caved in & put heating on. So I’ll be warm but also peeved I’ve broken my usual October 31 embargo. The glow of self-righteousness does nothing for cold hands & feet…

Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 6h

The surrealistically-inclined artist (& eco protester) Isabel Rock has imagined the need of fish for shoes when they wed - I mean, who would deny them? - & made these extraordinary pairs from papier-mâché accordingly.

Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 9h

Typically excellent Sunday listening w Cerys Matthews: cheesemaker Margaretha Van Dam talks history & methodologies (“mozzarella is a prima donna”), Erik Satie & Miles Davis are on the playlist.

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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 2d

This made me even more convinced that human life is devolving at hyper speed. Utterly bewildering & grimly fascinating in equal parts. I got as far as Wristband Guy & had to stop.

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Duglas BMX Bandits @bmxbanditsduglas.bsky.social · 3d

Today would have been the 85th birthday of one of pop’s greatest songwriters, Ellie Greenwich.
She co-wrote River Deep Mountain High, I Can Hear Music. Be My Baby and many more.
Here‘s her own dreamy version of Be My Baby.
youtu.be/V-Rj4dP2d10?...

Ellie Greenwich - Be My Baby

YouTube video by Carl Henderson

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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 3d

Liberty, Equality, Audacity www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Louvre thieves’ slow-motion getaway using furniture lift was caught on video

Footage showing two men appears to have been filmed from nearby window in museum

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4d

The Farce Will Be With Him... Always.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "We have Darth Vader. You know Darth Vader, right? Darth Vader is a man who is sitting -- is that Darth? Stand up please. Does everybody know -- they call him Darth Vader, I call him a fine man. But he's cutting Democrat priorities and they're never gonna get them back."

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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 4d

Gah. How have I slept on Alfa Mist’s latest, ‘Roulette’? It’s a magnificent blend of cool jazz & moody alt-soul, with effortlessly stylish orchestral arrangements all over & a dash of boom-bap. Now need to time travel so I can amend my Top 20 end-of-year list.

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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 5d

Haha. My seasonal misanthropy doesn’t usually kick in until December starts, so I let him be. Plus, he’s in his 70s & I’m not (yet) a monster.

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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 5d

Brown bread - so both middle-class, I’d say.

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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 5d

Just spotted my neighbour coming up his path with a (small) Christmas tree under one arm. Ffs, can we not, already?

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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 8d

Wondering if I underwent a humour bypass in my sleep last night: just tried first ep of Alan Partridge’s ‘How Are You?’ & was so thoroughly disengaged I didn’t even make it to the end. Does it get funnier? (I loved the AP projects bitd.)

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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 10d

Same - a tenner to support my local. But it was quite the downer, tbh.

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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 10d

Indeed. 1984 was clearly a very different country.

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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 10d

Just watched the Spinal Tap sequel:
my expectations were quite low but sheesh, it was tragic. The silence in the cinema was painful; I half-smiled twice (at Chris Addison’s character). Irrefutable evidence that you can’t strike the same match twice - especially after 40 years. In comedy.

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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 10d

Hang on - Katy Perry & Justin Trudeau?

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 11d

“D’Angelo was a generational talent—an unusually artful singer, and an experimental and idiosyncratic songwriter.” Amanda Petrusich remembers the R. & B. singer D’Angelo, who died this week at 51.

D’Angelo’s Genius Was Pure, and Rare

The musician, who died this week, made work so sensual it prompted women at his concerts to howl for him to disrobe. But his artistry was always deeper than that.

www.newyorker.com

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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 11d

Currently enjoying this unexpected (by me) Avett Brothers/Mike Patton collab. Can’t help but be reminded of awesome performance by MP & Fred Frith at Southbank, aeons ago: people behind vocalising bewilderment as to wtf the Faith No More dude was playing at. (They left.) youtu.be/2BATdG5MvKc

Heaven's Breath

YouTube video by The Avett Brothers - Topic

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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 12d

Knocked for six by the news of D’Angelo’s death - 51 is so cruelly young. What an extraordinary talent he was.

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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 14d

Trying not to harsh my own holiday mellow here but nothing tells you you’re back in the UK with such a resounding smack in the face as being met with a “rail replacement bus” notification when you’ve not even exited the airport.

Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 16d

This is the beautiful Bella, guardian/boss of my temp residence & bane of the life of resident dog. She’s 14 & could easily live to 60, I’m told. That’s quite the pet commitment. Bit disappointed in her literal parroting, tbh. It’s a LOT of ‘ça va’.

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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations to fearless campaigner Maria Corina Machado for her Nobel award. Trump must be incandescent right now - not only a Venezuelan but also a woman. It could hardly be more perfect.

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Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social · 16d