Patrick Kincaid
@patrickkincaid.bsky.social
Doctor of Shakespeare, Master of Writing.
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Starting Advent right by reading Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Fir Tree”, a Christmas story with its gaze fixed unstintingly on the abyss.
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Starting Advent right by reading Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Fir Tree”, a Christmas story with its gaze fixed unstintingly on the abyss.
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Pay phone in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, 1967, by Jim Marshall.
November 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Pay phone in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, 1967, by Jim Marshall.
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Scenes from the life of St Machar by Douglas Strachan, in the Crombie Chapel in St Machar's Cathedral Aberdeen #stainedglasssunday
November 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Scenes from the life of St Machar by Douglas Strachan, in the Crombie Chapel in St Machar's Cathedral Aberdeen #stainedglasssunday
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Today's vinyl is Anthology 1. Musically easily the weakest of the three original Anthologies, and the one most like a history lesson (it's *astounding* this made number two on the charts and went octuple platinum given the first quarter is basically some teenagers pissing about with a tape recorder)
Leave My Kitten Alone (Take 5 - Remastered)
YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Today's vinyl is Anthology 1. Musically easily the weakest of the three original Anthologies, and the one most like a history lesson (it's *astounding* this made number two on the charts and went octuple platinum given the first quarter is basically some teenagers pissing about with a tape recorder)
Meeting Dippy for lunch. It’s been a while.
November 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Meeting Dippy for lunch. It’s been a while.
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Starting the day right with McCartney's first solo album. One of those albums that seems to work beautifully on Sunday mornings, especially winter ones. "Junk" is such a beautiful wee song.
November 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Starting the day right with McCartney's first solo album. One of those albums that seems to work beautifully on Sunday mornings, especially winter ones. "Junk" is such a beautiful wee song.
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I said it and I'm glad.
May I suggest that Arcadia is the greatest play written in the English language in the last 150 years or so at least?
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I said it and I'm glad.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) is on YouTube.
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1990
YouTube video by Rolo Tomasi
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) is on YouTube.
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
Just thinking about how Tom Stoppard ruined Three Men in a Boat for me because Jerome K Jerome is such a bastard in The Invention of Love.
Also, thinking about what a stupendously brilliant play The Invention of Love is.
Also, thinking about what a stupendously brilliant play The Invention of Love is.
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Just thinking about how Tom Stoppard ruined Three Men in a Boat for me because Jerome K Jerome is such a bastard in The Invention of Love.
Also, thinking about what a stupendously brilliant play The Invention of Love is.
Also, thinking about what a stupendously brilliant play The Invention of Love is.
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Rosencrantz: Did you ever think of yourself as actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it?
Guildenstern: No.
Rosencrantz: Nor do I, really. It's silly to be depressed by it.
RIP, Tom Stoppard...
Guildenstern: No.
Rosencrantz: Nor do I, really. It's silly to be depressed by it.
RIP, Tom Stoppard...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Rosencrantz: Did you ever think of yourself as actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it?
Guildenstern: No.
Rosencrantz: Nor do I, really. It's silly to be depressed by it.
RIP, Tom Stoppard...
Guildenstern: No.
Rosencrantz: Nor do I, really. It's silly to be depressed by it.
RIP, Tom Stoppard...
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RIP Tom Stoppard
Dazzling talent obviously but I loved that this was the line he wished he’d written.
Dazzling talent obviously but I loved that this was the line he wished he’d written.
a man is making a funny face and says i don 't care !
ALT: a man is making a funny face and says i don 't care !
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard
Dazzling talent obviously but I loved that this was the line he wished he’d written.
Dazzling talent obviously but I loved that this was the line he wished he’d written.
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I am amazed that they actually made a third Now You See Me film when the first film was so utterly, mindbogglingly shit that I'm still angry about it a decade later.
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I am amazed that they actually made a third Now You See Me film when the first film was so utterly, mindbogglingly shit that I'm still angry about it a decade later.
I’ve more or less given up on the prospect traditional publishing, but it’s nice to see my long-out-of-print debut still reeling in good reviews (only just noticed this one from October).
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I’ve more or less given up on the prospect traditional publishing, but it’s nice to see my long-out-of-print debut still reeling in good reviews (only just noticed this one from October).
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they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
By coincidence, Andy (who appears to be my exact contemporary) writes here about an incident I cover in my latest novel, and have been revisiting this morning (of course, it’s the anniversary of the incident so it’s no coincidence at all — but I hadn’t planned the editing session on that basis).
50 years ago I was a 5 year old boy living in Barnet, developing an obsession with aircraft of all types. We lived in an area often overflown by planes landing at or taking off from Elstree aerodrome, the closest general aviation airfield which was a few miles away to the north west.-
November 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
By coincidence, Andy (who appears to be my exact contemporary) writes here about an incident I cover in my latest novel, and have been revisiting this morning (of course, it’s the anniversary of the incident so it’s no coincidence at all — but I hadn’t planned the editing session on that basis).
UPDATE: I can’t do a romantasy.
I reckon I could do a romantasy.
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
UPDATE: I can’t do a romantasy.
I reckon I could do a romantasy.
November 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I reckon I could do a romantasy.
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Thanks to all the new readers and of course, to all the saintly booksellers who have supported the book 🙏
TV series of Leonard & Hungry Paul has concluded & the responses have been phenomenal.
We have never ever sold so many copies of a book in a 3 month period like this.
With Rónán appearing on BBC Radio 4 soonish & the TV series on RTÉ next year, fingers crossed it continues!
@thebookseller.com
We have never ever sold so many copies of a book in a 3 month period like this.
With Rónán appearing on BBC Radio 4 soonish & the TV series on RTÉ next year, fingers crossed it continues!
@thebookseller.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Thanks to all the new readers and of course, to all the saintly booksellers who have supported the book 🙏
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September 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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I dunno, I just think we’ve lost sight of the true meaning of Black Friday.
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I dunno, I just think we’ve lost sight of the true meaning of Black Friday.
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Some Platters music for your Thursday RS
youtu.be/obzvern2eaI?...
youtu.be/obzvern2eaI?...
RON SINGS "ONLY YOU" WRITTEN BY BUCK RAM
YouTube video by Rawnboy
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November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Some Platters music for your Thursday RS
youtu.be/obzvern2eaI?...
youtu.be/obzvern2eaI?...
Oh and just like that I bought a ticket and will be going to this.
Beatle-y alert: @britishlibrary.bsky.social are hosting a special anniversary event to play the Stowe Tape with the student who made it, Mark Lewisohn and more special guests. I'll be hosting. April 4th 2026. Tickets here: events.bl.uk/events/the-b...
The Beatles at Stowe School | British Library
On 4 April 1963, The Beatles played a unique live concert at Stowe school in Buckinghamshire, having accepted a booking by one of the pupils.Present on the
events.bl.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Oh and just like that I bought a ticket and will be going to this.
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Beatle-y alert: @britishlibrary.bsky.social are hosting a special anniversary event to play the Stowe Tape with the student who made it, Mark Lewisohn and more special guests. I'll be hosting. April 4th 2026. Tickets here: events.bl.uk/events/the-b...
The Beatles at Stowe School | British Library
On 4 April 1963, The Beatles played a unique live concert at Stowe school in Buckinghamshire, having accepted a booking by one of the pupils.Present on the
events.bl.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Beatle-y alert: @britishlibrary.bsky.social are hosting a special anniversary event to play the Stowe Tape with the student who made it, Mark Lewisohn and more special guests. I'll be hosting. April 4th 2026. Tickets here: events.bl.uk/events/the-b...