On the one hand: If you need a prop to contextualise your costume

On the other hand: what are costumes but props, decontextualised?

Was the reason that he received a significant amount of money to add to his existing pile of money?

Cethan Leahy, making friends in a cold place

Squee ffs. U r a grown man, smh.

Has Berryman's selected 38-68 ever actually published with this cover? I once purchased it on the second hand market, but with the older cover (I thought it would arrive in this brand of Faber sauce).

Just as a Berryman/Faber weirdo - I want this specific edition. Any leads most welcome!

When did Fintan O'Toole start to look like a mid-tier, college gridiron football coach?

Finally reading Solvej Balle.

Made a meme based on the jacket copy of Mathias Enard’s Compass for one of the group chats. It’s so good, I’m sharing here too. You’re welcome. fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/compass/

‘Capitalism is bad. That’s it. That’s the movie.’

My final what I’ve seen/not seen. Many more I want to see from other folks’ top 10 lists posted here this week.

Perhaps some recency bias, but they’re three films that I feel very strongly about. In The Mood for Love, No Country for Old Men, Up, Wall-E, Almost Famous, and Inherent Vice could all be on here on a different day.

These are all personal favourites that I would watch at any time on any day.

And coming in at 69 is Eric Rohmer’s having a normal one effort, Le Genou de Claire m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5...

Is the answer ‘embezzlement’?

Just look at this absolute lunatic. Love him so much.

Girl dinner

Currently reading. Really enjoyed the first hundred pages (well maybe 80). But it kind of falls off a cliff after that. Really struggling to finish it. Abandoning it with 40 pages to go feels like a waste. But they’ll be the longest 40 pages of my life…

Loved this book