fizzles
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a melancholy emblem of parish cruelty
similarly i was curious about this murder weapon description in a (late - 1963) Agatha Christie. suggests people in Britain were accustomed to cooking with… not a “french bladed” knife. ie a flat blade, more like something these days described as Japanese? www.boroughkitchen.com/products/new...
January 4, 2026 at 11:05 AM
similarly i was curious about this murder weapon description in a (late - 1963) Agatha Christie. suggests people in Britain were accustomed to cooking with… not a “french bladed” knife. ie a flat blade, more like something these days described as Japanese? www.boroughkitchen.com/products/new...
for some reason the only trio of songs that i want to listen to right now
the fall - disney’s dream debased (was in my head this morning - scanlon’s cold & sparkling guitar!)
max romeo - norman (“running from the east, to the west” has been in my head for days now)…
the fall - disney’s dream debased (was in my head this morning - scanlon’s cold & sparkling guitar!)
max romeo - norman (“running from the east, to the west” has been in my head for days now)…
December 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
for some reason the only trio of songs that i want to listen to right now
the fall - disney’s dream debased (was in my head this morning - scanlon’s cold & sparkling guitar!)
max romeo - norman (“running from the east, to the west” has been in my head for days now)…
the fall - disney’s dream debased (was in my head this morning - scanlon’s cold & sparkling guitar!)
max romeo - norman (“running from the east, to the west” has been in my head for days now)…
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Yes, and if you think the poor spend their money stupidly, wait till you see the rich.
December 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Yes, and if you think the poor spend their money stupidly, wait till you see the rich.
entirely correct because *that’s why they’re poor* you see, whereas *my* wealth derives from my wisdom and sagacity. this bias - mutatis mutandis - is everywhere once you see it. it’s all so deeply impractical among many other things.
We have so much good evidence for cash transfers but so many just refuse to accept that those in poverty can make good decisions.
Spoiler: They used the money just as wisely as anyone else would, and it's so frustrating that this still isn't a common sense assumption to make.
December 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
entirely correct because *that’s why they’re poor* you see, whereas *my* wealth derives from my wisdom and sagacity. this bias - mutatis mutandis - is everywhere once you see it. it’s all so deeply impractical among many other things.
for reasons not entirely clear to me, this is all i want to listen to this morning
Ti Fi La Ou Te Madam'
YouTube video by Anzala, Dolor, Vélo - Topic
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
for reasons not entirely clear to me, this is all i want to listen to this morning
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RTE Documentary On One has been ruined so badly that the latest thing they've put out is a drama. I make no judgment of it as haven't listened yet but seems kind of strange, is it now just RTE Some Audio Stuff Will Go Here. Sad because the archive contains some of my favourite radio of all time.
December 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
RTE Documentary On One has been ruined so badly that the latest thing they've put out is a drama. I make no judgment of it as haven't listened yet but seems kind of strange, is it now just RTE Some Audio Stuff Will Go Here. Sad because the archive contains some of my favourite radio of all time.
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*weak ill person voice*: "please add more brandy"
December 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
*weak ill person voice*: "please add more brandy"
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"you'll have to speak up, I appear to have consumed a number of junkets"
christ alive. this book is a good compendium of quite frightening recipes.
December 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"you'll have to speak up, I appear to have consumed a number of junkets"
good piece, and something many european broadcaster markets are grappling with. first thing to say is it’s totally legitimate for Comcast to point out that the ad revenue market has widened beyond television so the 72% (i think) ITV/Sky share isn’t necessarily what it looks like.
‘The UK needs some media free of US control’: Comcast’s move for ITV starts to focus minds
With public service broadcasters starting to look like ‘endangered species’, many want Channel 4 and BBC to work more closely
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
good piece, and something many european broadcaster markets are grappling with. first thing to say is it’s totally legitimate for Comcast to point out that the ad revenue market has widened beyond television so the 72% (i think) ITV/Sky share isn’t necessarily what it looks like.
the exasperated tone of this line in particular means that it’s become a recent favourite and also something i say to myself in any and all circumstances (supermarket shopping, buying a bag of crisps and a pint) which has admittedly become slightly problematic.
#PeoplesPop25
1/7
BADGER - “Canva (How?)”
A banger that also speaks to me as a struggling small business owner. “Spend the Ps, man!”
youtu.be/ITy-DDcEGAc?...
1/7
BADGER - “Canva (How?)”
A banger that also speaks to me as a struggling small business owner. “Spend the Ps, man!”
youtu.be/ITy-DDcEGAc?...
Canva (How?)
YouTube video by Badger - Topic
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
the exasperated tone of this line in particular means that it’s become a recent favourite and also something i say to myself in any and all circumstances (supermarket shopping, buying a bag of crisps and a pint) which has admittedly become slightly problematic.
worthy of a 17thC dutch still life. well less rich. a saenredan still life. if such things existed.
December 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
worthy of a 17thC dutch still life. well less rich. a saenredan still life. if such things existed.
my mum - my *mum* - visiting tooting from surrey regularly this summer to visit my brother in hospital (now recovered 🙏) said how courteous and pleasant it was to be in london and tooting. streets, shops etc, just v civic.
The "London = most dangerous place on the planet" discourse is still going strong on Twitter
I've actually been surprised by how little I've felt threatened as a woman in London (having lived in Tooting and Peckham)
I loved growing up in Nottingham, but I had much, much worse experiences there tbh
I've actually been surprised by how little I've felt threatened as a woman in London (having lived in Tooting and Peckham)
I loved growing up in Nottingham, but I had much, much worse experiences there tbh
December 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
my mum - my *mum* - visiting tooting from surrey regularly this summer to visit my brother in hospital (now recovered 🙏) said how courteous and pleasant it was to be in london and tooting. streets, shops etc, just v civic.
transporting me back to a town that doesn’t exist
December 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
transporting me back to a town that doesn’t exist
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my LRB blog-post on the weird kingston mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch
Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
my LRB blog-post on the weird kingston mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
This quote especially is on the money:
“There is a certain arrogance to the British government’s tone on immigration of late.”
“There is a certain arrogance to the British government’s tone on immigration of late.”
Fantastic column by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com who is not wrong about phantom heads (!!!) either:
Why Britain doesn’t have enough dentists
Plenty of trained foreigners want to work, but slots for the qualification exam seem as hard to get as Glastonbury tickets
www.ft.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This quote especially is on the money:
“There is a certain arrogance to the British government’s tone on immigration of late.”
“There is a certain arrogance to the British government’s tone on immigration of late.”
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And if you donate any amount, I'll give you a free month of London Centric.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
We're probably going to miss our target... donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
But if you donate to this excellent cause by noon today your money will be doubled and (if you drop me an email) I'll give you free access to the members-only London Centric stories I'm working on.
But if you donate to this excellent cause by noon today your money will be doubled and (if you drop me an email) I'll give you free access to the members-only London Centric stories I'm working on.
people queuing up for a delayed plane that hasn’t landed yet where they have *booked seats* what is going on.
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
people queuing up for a delayed plane that hasn’t landed yet where they have *booked seats* what is going on.
Brownlow is surely best known for It Happened Here and Winstanley? I mean I know Napoleon got publicity but I wouldn’t have said he was best known for his silent film restoration.
‘My God, what a story it would make’: film-maker Kevin Brownlow on It Happened Here and Winstanley
Brownlow is best known for restoring silent movies, but in conjunction with Andrew Mollo, he made two features, in 1964 and 1975, that look astonishingly prescient today
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Brownlow is surely best known for It Happened Here and Winstanley? I mean I know Napoleon got publicity but I wouldn’t have said he was best known for his silent film restoration.
tweet caused me to watch MISS MARPLE (jh not gm - gm herself good, but i can’t stand the way they’re put together). few things.
Still on a mid 80s BBC crime classics tip after #EOD, I watched the first episode of the Joan Hickson MISS MARPLE - JH’s “I have chosen to live my life surrounded by idiots and the price I must pay is solving their murders” performance is great
December 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
tweet caused me to watch MISS MARPLE (jh not gm - gm herself good, but i can’t stand the way they’re put together). few things.
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Wait, Robert Crumb has become a paranoid old crank who hates modernity? Robert Crumb?? Damn, you never can tell
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Wait, Robert Crumb has become a paranoid old crank who hates modernity? Robert Crumb?? Damn, you never can tell
while i’m remembering good things by god Trenque Lauquen was my favourite moviegoing experience in so many years. the first part is wonderfully novelistic in one way, the second in another way. great soundtrack as well.
Trenque Lauquen - Official Trailer
YouTube video by The Cinema Guild
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
while i’m remembering good things by god Trenque Lauquen was my favourite moviegoing experience in so many years. the first part is wonderfully novelistic in one way, the second in another way. great soundtrack as well.
i know it had to come down a perch or two after the heights of 90s fetishism partly born of rarity but by i’ve had two martini cocktails and trout mask replica really fuckin goes.
November 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
i know it had to come down a perch or two after the heights of 90s fetishism partly born of rarity but by i’ve had two martini cocktails and trout mask replica really fuckin goes.
i find the dates here (1490-1520) fascinating. not because of the lag, but because of how fast it is. to take a (not particularly satisfactory) modern analogue, the BBC launched iPlayer in 2007, and even now studios and distributors are trying to unpick and rationalise their supply chain.
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
i find the dates here (1490-1520) fascinating. not because of the lag, but because of how fast it is. to take a (not particularly satisfactory) modern analogue, the BBC launched iPlayer in 2007, and even now studios and distributors are trying to unpick and rationalise their supply chain.
going to see this lovely, v small (but free) exhibition of ursula le guin maps sent me back to earthsea - the trilogy a formative set of books for me (with the best yet to come as an adult).
www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...
www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
going to see this lovely, v small (but free) exhibition of ursula le guin maps sent me back to earthsea - the trilogy a formative set of books for me (with the best yet to come as an adult).
www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...
www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...