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somemelodiousplot.bsky.social
Apparently Spielberg asked Tom Stoppard to write the screenplay for Jaws, but Tom said he couldn’t as he was writing a play for the BBC.

"I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood blockbuster, and you turn me down to write a play for BBC TV?"

"No," Tom said, "BBC Radio."
December 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
dcozy.bsky.social
I've never seen a Tom Stoppard play, and doubt I will be able to remedy that soon. My question is, do his plays work on the page? If they do, which one should I start with?
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
dcozy.bsky.social
My review of A Passage to India is up at Conspicuous Consumption.

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A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
I have concluded my year of reading E.M. Forster with the work that many consider his magnum opus, A Passage to India . It was good in the...
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November 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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iammilliam.bsky.social
When Black Friday comes
I'm gonna dig myself a hole
Gonna lay down in it
'Til I satisfy my soul.

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Black Friday
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November 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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benpohl.bsky.social
Only a genuine idiot or a nasty piece of work could think that making one’s country less welcoming and hospitable so fewer people want to come and live there constitutes an achievement worth bragging about.
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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kimdorman.bsky.social
6.30 a.m., a row of egrets flying east toward sunrise
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
dcozy.bsky.social
The harder they come . . . .
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
dcozy.bsky.social
My review of Ashenden: Or the British Agent by William Somerset Maugham is up at Conspicuous Consumption.

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Ashenden: Or the British Agent by William Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham worked in the British Secret Service during World War I. This series of stories about the British agent Ashenden are, the...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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gilbertwhite.bsky.social
1776: The thatch is torn by the wind.
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
dcozy.bsky.social
My review of Searching for Hunter S. Thompson in Laos by Roy Hamric is up at Conspicuous Consumption.

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Searching for Hunter S. Thompson in Laos by Roy Hamric
During the second World War my father served on a PT boat that was active in the South Pacific. I once asked him whether, when the w...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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My review of Time After Time by Molly Keane is up at Conspicuous Consumption.

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Time After Time by Molly Keane
This is the second (of many, I'm sure) Molly Keane novel I've read, and once again we're among decaying Irish aristocracy. The aristocrat...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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kimdorman.bsky.social
Graciela Iturbide / Sin título, Japón, 2014
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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My review of The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardam is up at Conspicuous Consumption.

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The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardam
Some years ago I read a couple of novels by Jane Gardam, Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat , and enjoyed them a great deal, but then ...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27d
Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.
November 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
dcozy.bsky.social
My review of Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai is up at Conspicuous Consumption.

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Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai
Just a page or two into the first chapter of  Seiobo There Below , the 2008 novel by László Krasznahorkai I was stunned in a way that...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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greatdismal.bsky.social
It’s a dank October night out there, but only in the most traditional sense of the word.
October 27, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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davejorgenson.bsky.social
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
dcozy.bsky.social
Review of Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly up at Conspicuous Consumption.

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Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
Readers of the old blog, Only a Blockhead, will know that I've been making my way through the never ending, and I think still growing, serie...
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October 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
dcozy.bsky.social
Mastodon is a nice place.

Just sayin’.

#NoKings

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Kevin Beaumont (@[email protected])
Attached: 4 images The US government has launched about 30 accounts on BlueSky and is using all of them to troll.
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October 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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english rambo apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1911
english rambo apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1911
October 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
dcozy.bsky.social
Review of Roumeli by Patrick Leigh Fermor up at Conspicuous Consumption.

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Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Leight Fermor
All travel books are nostalgic: They record memories of a trip that is past, and more than a few lament the way the place they are writing...
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October 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.
October 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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derekberes.bsky.social
It's going to take generations to recover from RFK Jr.

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"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre
Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.
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October 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
October 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
dcozy.bsky.social
New Review up at Conspicuous Consumption: Hideo Yokoyama's Six Four.

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Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama
Professional reviewers like Mark Lawson at the Guardian , along with the hordes of amateurs at Goodreads and Amazon, in commenting on Hid...
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October 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM