Crazy that the BBC adds a clarifying "[sic]" when Trump misspells someone's name but not after all his other grammar-free ravings.
![He pledged to back any Republican opponent that takes her on in next year's midterm elections, when she is up for reelection, before intensifying his attacks in social media posts on Saturday from his home in Florida.
"Marjorie 'Traitor' Green [sic] is a disgrace to our GREAT REPUBLICAN
PARTY!" he wrote.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/bafkreiedtt5zpkax724xwkqcnkkmkwiioleww77iwqbuuem6k6rv4zrcwe@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Crazy that the BBC adds a clarifying "[sic]" when Trump misspells someone's name but not after all his other grammar-free ravings.
“I don’t want my mind to go
but if it should do so
then I want to go out like a light
just as soon as I possibly can.”
‘After Depression?’ by Tom Paulin
(from Namanlagh)
but if it should do so
then I want to go out like a light
just as soon as I possibly can.”
‘After Depression?’ by Tom Paulin
(from Namanlagh)
November 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
“I don’t want my mind to go
but if it should do so
then I want to go out like a light
just as soon as I possibly can.”
‘After Depression?’ by Tom Paulin
(from Namanlagh)
but if it should do so
then I want to go out like a light
just as soon as I possibly can.”
‘After Depression?’ by Tom Paulin
(from Namanlagh)
Sheltering from the rain this week in Waterstones Tottenham Court Road and this called to me from the shelves.
November 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Sheltering from the rain this week in Waterstones Tottenham Court Road and this called to me from the shelves.
Listening to Nick Cave's Nocturama
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Listening to Nick Cave's Nocturama
Just out at the shops, anyone need Christmas butter?
November 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Just out at the shops, anyone need Christmas butter?
It’s out of print?? I’m sure I only bought this a few mont— [checks date] … 12 years ago.
November 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It’s out of print?? I’m sure I only bought this a few mont— [checks date] … 12 years ago.
“Is it possible,” said the Professor, “to serve Mammon and art at the same time?”
“It is,” I said, “or there wouldn’t be any art.”
Reading Joyce Cary’s The Horse’s Mouth.
“It is,” I said, “or there wouldn’t be any art.”
Reading Joyce Cary’s The Horse’s Mouth.
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“Is it possible,” said the Professor, “to serve Mammon and art at the same time?”
“It is,” I said, “or there wouldn’t be any art.”
Reading Joyce Cary’s The Horse’s Mouth.
“It is,” I said, “or there wouldn’t be any art.”
Reading Joyce Cary’s The Horse’s Mouth.
I hated it with a Heathcliffian passion and I am NOT about to reread it and find out I was wrong.
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I hated it with a Heathcliffian passion and I am NOT about to reread it and find out I was wrong.
It’s very funny that very Bluesky people are getting very upset about this. #techfash #vileshitheads
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November 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It’s very funny that very Bluesky people are getting very upset about this. #techfash #vileshitheads
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'Pretty good.' John Self
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
'Pretty good.' John Self
Oh yeah and I finally got my hands on a Booker tote bag, which means I can stop entering the prize draw every month.
November 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Oh yeah and I finally got my hands on a Booker tote bag, which means I can stop entering the prize draw every month.
Yeah this is the original look for NYRB classics which they quickly changed to the current one. Weirdly my Horse’s Mouth and Herself Surprised are the current look, so my set doesn’t match either! (Pilgrim was never reissued in the new look, but I’m surprised Horse’s Mouth wasn’t done in the old.)
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Yeah this is the original look for NYRB classics which they quickly changed to the current one. Weirdly my Horse’s Mouth and Herself Surprised are the current look, so my set doesn’t match either! (Pilgrim was never reissued in the new look, but I’m surprised Horse’s Mouth wasn’t done in the old.)
“I have always been attracted to women, as by a foreign country and a mystical religion.”
Reading Joyce Cary’s To Be a Pilgrim.
Reading Joyce Cary’s To Be a Pilgrim.
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“I have always been attracted to women, as by a foreign country and a mystical religion.”
Reading Joyce Cary’s To Be a Pilgrim.
Reading Joyce Cary’s To Be a Pilgrim.
I was at the star-studded (Lenny Henry! Charles Dance! Tony Robinson!) Booker Prize last night but forgot to take any photos apart from this one of my table-neighbours Benjamin Wood and Claire Adam with their bespoke book cover cookies. Both fantastic novels.
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I was at the star-studded (Lenny Henry! Charles Dance! Tony Robinson!) Booker Prize last night but forgot to take any photos apart from this one of my table-neighbours Benjamin Wood and Claire Adam with their bespoke book cover cookies. Both fantastic novels.
They’ve give the seven existing novels new covers by Michael Craig-Martin, and added two other existing novels that I presume they reckon constitute rewrites of Shakespeare plays too. (Haddon below is new, as is Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies [Romeo and Juliet], not pictured.)
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
They’ve give the seven existing novels new covers by Michael Craig-Martin, and added two other existing novels that I presume they reckon constitute rewrites of Shakespeare plays too. (Haddon below is new, as is Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies [Romeo and Juliet], not pictured.)
Anyone remember The Hogarth Shakespeare, a hugely ambitious project announced in 2013 where contemporary authors wrote versions of all of Shakespeare plays, inc Atwood, St Aubyn, Winterson etc - and then it fizzled out after half a dozen?
Well, it’s back! This time as ‘Shakespeare Retold’.
Well, it’s back! This time as ‘Shakespeare Retold’.
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Anyone remember The Hogarth Shakespeare, a hugely ambitious project announced in 2013 where contemporary authors wrote versions of all of Shakespeare plays, inc Atwood, St Aubyn, Winterson etc - and then it fizzled out after half a dozen?
Well, it’s back! This time as ‘Shakespeare Retold’.
Well, it’s back! This time as ‘Shakespeare Retold’.
☝️Includes Jules Renard trying a banana for the first time, Ivan Turgenev not being able to get it up, Oswald Mosley “stretching the cock over three generations” and Samuel Pepys shitting in a chimney (twice). Yes I am a man of simple appetites.
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
☝️Includes Jules Renard trying a banana for the first time, Ivan Turgenev not being able to get it up, Oswald Mosley “stretching the cock over three generations” and Samuel Pepys shitting in a chimney (twice). Yes I am a man of simple appetites.
Turns out middle-aged themes include… ‘Blue Monday’
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Turns out middle-aged themes include… ‘Blue Monday’
Out this evening at the theatre. Intrigued to know what the middle-aged themes are.
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Out this evening at the theatre. Intrigued to know what the middle-aged themes are.
What Helen Did Next. New book from Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper (another terrific writer) and Sarah Krasnostein (whose work I don’t know).
The Mushroom Tapes is edited conversations between the three on the Erin Patterson ‘mushroom murders’ trial. Out later this month.
The Mushroom Tapes is edited conversations between the three on the Erin Patterson ‘mushroom murders’ trial. Out later this month.
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
What Helen Did Next. New book from Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper (another terrific writer) and Sarah Krasnostein (whose work I don’t know).
The Mushroom Tapes is edited conversations between the three on the Erin Patterson ‘mushroom murders’ trial. Out later this month.
The Mushroom Tapes is edited conversations between the three on the Erin Patterson ‘mushroom murders’ trial. Out later this month.
Still, at least he had a balanced panel.
November 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Still, at least he had a balanced panel.
Weirdly I was just reading Helen Garner the other day, who talks about him in her diaries. I've never read him; should I?
November 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Weirdly I was just reading Helen Garner the other day, who talks about him in her diaries. I've never read him; should I?