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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1h

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 1h

Nice delivery from @renardpress.com

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and The Rights Of Man or What Are We Fighting For? by HG Wells in Renard Press editions.

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Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 1h

Sorry, my reply was snappier than it needed to be.

Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 19h

I'm pleased you like Smith's era more than I do. But next time you see a total stranger say they want to redress the balance away from negativity, maybe ask yourself why you feel the need to respond to that by adding to that negativity?

Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 1d

I am so into the 2nd person that I tend to find myself slipping into it even when I'm trying to write in the 1st or 3rd. But i've always found huge resistance from readers to anything in the 2nd person.

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Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 1d

Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is a book full of them.

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Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly never thought about The Trial through a queer lense. Interesting.

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Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 1d

I feel as though a lot of viewers of TV series (not just Dr Who) judge the success of a season totally by the finale, as though the individual stories are just stepping stones. The characteristics of the finale wash back and contaminate what came before. It's...not how I watch Dr Who.

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Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 1d

💯. The Story and the Engine brought something totally fresh to Doctor Who. And for a 60 year old show, that's impressive and to be cherished.

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Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 1d

Just to balance the negativity, I think Dr Who has been mostly great since RTD came back to it, Gatwa's second season is my favourite since Eccleston and the idea that the past few years have just been a nostalgia trip is negated by the number of episodes that are simply unlike any previously in Who

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Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 2d

Although push come to shove, this might be my favourite Lou Reed song, backed by the mighty Blind Boys of Alabama.

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I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum) (feat. Blind Boys of Alabama)

YouTube video by Lou Reed - Topic

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Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 2d

12 years gone.

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Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby (Official Audio)

YouTube video by LouReedVEVO

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt
via Smithsonian Magazine

Square of tartan with vertical and horizontal thin stripes in red and grey on black

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Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 3d

Oh my god, this might be shaping up to be as funny as The Exorcist. The obviously fake long arms. The bizarre running. The look on his face as he cuts a finger off. I'm dying here. Why did no-one tell me this film is so funny?

Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 3d

Right, time to watch A Nightmare on Elm Street for the first time.

I don't know about the film but the painfully 80s captions are pretty horrific.

Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 3d

Right, time to watch A Nightmare on Elm Street for the first time.

I don't know about the film but the painfully 80s captions are pretty horrific.

Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 4d

Re-reading Ballard's Millennium People. I don't think the reviews were great, partly because the plot is so similar to his previous novels, but now it feels one of his most prescient works, its bitter white middle class turning new double yellow lines into 15 minute city-esque conspiracies.

Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 4d

I'll take Coppola's Dracula any day - and that has Keanu Reeves giving one of the worst performances in cinema history.

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Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 4d

My memory is that John Cleese (of all people) was the best thing in it. Branagh's hubris at directing and starring should have given him insight into playing Victor but instead just leads to the same result - a failed experiment (and imagine managing to direct a bad performance from De Niro).

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Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 5d

Man too cowardly to stand up to fascists also too cowardly to sack people in person.

Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 5d

He did WHAT!?!

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 5d

I have this short piece in the Observer tomorrow about three essential books on information crises:

observer.co.uk/culture/book...

What to read to understand the information age

From the printing press to the triumph of video: three books on how media revolutions have shaped us

observer.co.uk

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Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 5d

Finally watched Megalopolis. Going to have to watch it again to see if I missed the explanations for what was going on or if there just weren't any. Nice to hear The The's Lonely Planet playing over the credits though.

Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 6d

State Of Decay is genuinely my favourite (mostly) traditional gothic vampire drama. The much maligned Peter Moffatt does a stunning job of directing, with lots of delightful little touches. Design and lighting are excellent and despite tension Dicks and Bidmead combine to great effect on the script.

Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 7d

Directed by Joseph Losey. Screenplay by Harold Pinter. Starring Stanley Baker and Dirk Bogarde. Personally I prefer The Servant but a lot of people put this as Losey/Pinter's finest collaboration.

Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 7d

The story of a love triangle... and the FOUR people in it!
ACCIDENT (1967) coming next on #TalkingPicturesTV at 9:05pm #TPTVsubtitles

Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 8d

Now onto The Seeds of Doom omnibus. Hoping they've kept most of The Thing bit and trimmed more of The Avengers bit.

Philip Marsh @misterpalomar.bsky.social · 8d

The Brain of Morbius really doesn't make a lick of sense, does it? It gets by on atmosphere and Holmes' dialogue, but think about any aspect of it for a moment and it just falls apart. Thankfully everyone involved in making it is going all out so its flaws are somewhat hidden.

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