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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 6h

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

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 14h

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

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 15h

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 · 15h

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 · 15h

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 · 15h

I know 🥺

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 15h

Cats ❤️ Getz ❤️ Cats!

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 17h

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

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 17h

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

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 17h

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

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 17h

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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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 18h

After a rough day Friday, I locked myself down for the w'end listening to Bob Odenkirk's Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama. Which reminds me that when I bought the Mr Show book off Ebay his wife Naomi was the seller and wrote me a message on the back of a photo. I had their return address on the label too!

Photo of Bob Odenkirk and David Cross from their Mr Show days.

Back of the photo with writing around the edge.
Christina. Wow. We are thrilled the show has reached you! Thank you! And spread the good word. Best, Naomi.

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Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social · 18h

Spent this afternoon adding a whole bunch of things, mainly books, to my eBay and Vinted profiles.

I think things work out cheaper if you buy them via Vinted.

But here's the eBay link too if you want it.

www.ebay.co.uk/usr/meandmyb...

meandmybigmouth

One community, thousands of brands, and a whole lot of second-hand style. Ready to get started? Here’s how it works.

www.vinted.co.uk

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 18h

Urgence

Patrick Zachmann

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 18h

For those who remember STB listening to John Coltrane, I bring you: Hildy listening to Stan Getz

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 19h

I’m having a bit of a once bitten, twice shy moment right now, but I’ll trust you Dave.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 2d

After the 15th inning it is time to replace one player with a dog until someone wins or it's all dogs.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 20h

What a lovely little moment of joy. Thank you Toby, and the pumpkin winner and winning pumpkin

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 20h

Saw a man towing a pumpkin. Too many shapes and colours to ignore, so I asked if I could take photos.
“Ignore me. Just keep towing; it’s the shape of the pumpkin in the wagon I like” I explained.

He has just won first prize at the village show.
- Congratulations
- Thank you. I am very happy

Seen from behind- an enormous emergency red pumpkin sat in a metal wagon. It has a sticker with Kit Kat written on it. A man is towing the wagon down a narrow village pavement.

He had been using two hands behind him to pull, which is the composition I really wanted. But I didn’t want to get all David Hemmings and start posing him.

A photo from the side of the man - big broad smile, like he’d won the lottery - pulling his pumpkin in a trolley.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 20h

Also I didn’t read it as a sarcastic diss to the moon, but more as about girls losing their power as they become women

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 20h

I absolutely bloody love this.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 20h

Can’t help but read “who do you look like?” with a rueful, wryly amused, head-shaking “dear, oh dear, oh dear” intonation.
Anyway, despite behind several decades too late to win one of six paintboxes, perhaps I will try this as a drawing exercise to fend off the Sunday schoolheart soulsink

Detail from a page of a 1970s puffin post magazine which reads Young Puffin competition what do you look like, with an excellent cartoon illustration in black and white of a human head split into smiling and crying halves, over text that reads We want you to draw or paint a two-faced picture of yourself - we want one picture of you looking happy and chirpy and one looking cross and gloomy and then stick them side by side. PRIZES 6 PAINT BOXES.

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 20h

“Coaster purchase”! Love it

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 20h

Oh, intriguing! No, I left it at K. These days of course you can try before you buy, so I might - MIGHT - attempt it

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