Rob Cook
@robgcook.bsky.social
Slightly older than Sgt Pepper, slightly younger than Milton Keynes. 🏴🇮🇪. Dad. Registered Nurse. Minimally published unit. Variegated dilettante.
This thing still plucks at my brain 30 years later, which I suppose is exactly what it’s supposed to do, so buying a new edition before the old one succumbs, like the heart, to overuse, seems reasonable, no? I do so love that old cover though @mjohnharrison.bsky.social - the Steadmanesque lettering!
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 AM
This thing still plucks at my brain 30 years later, which I suppose is exactly what it’s supposed to do, so buying a new edition before the old one succumbs, like the heart, to overuse, seems reasonable, no? I do so love that old cover though @mjohnharrison.bsky.social - the Steadmanesque lettering!
Waiting in the sea light for @willdalrymple.bsky.social at QPAC in Brisbane, hoping he’ll sign his ancient book for his increasingly ancient fan 🤞🏽
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Waiting in the sea light for @willdalrymple.bsky.social at QPAC in Brisbane, hoping he’ll sign his ancient book for his increasingly ancient fan 🤞🏽
I don’t know that anyone’s going to say it better than @moiradonegan.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I don’t know that anyone’s going to say it better than @moiradonegan.bsky.social
I’d always thought that the whole point of America was that the American people “get to decide what the American people think” but I guess that whole ‘No tyrants! Give me liberty!’ thing is all just old hat now. Shame, really.
September 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’d always thought that the whole point of America was that the American people “get to decide what the American people think” but I guess that whole ‘No tyrants! Give me liberty!’ thing is all just old hat now. Shame, really.
The gangs, criminals, youth & maniacs all have extra inherently loaded descriptors. The homeless people don’t, because for Trump ‘homeless’ is equivalent to ‘violent/bloodthirsty/wild/drugged out’ & it’s meaningless to him that they’re people. On Sunday he told the homeless people to leave DC. (1/2)
August 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The gangs, criminals, youth & maniacs all have extra inherently loaded descriptors. The homeless people don’t, because for Trump ‘homeless’ is equivalent to ‘violent/bloodthirsty/wild/drugged out’ & it’s meaningless to him that they’re people. On Sunday he told the homeless people to leave DC. (1/2)
Post someone who looks good in a hat.
August 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Post someone who looks good in a hat.
Right then. The Return of Covid, the sequel that no one (specifically me) wanted after two and a half years since the original. At least this time I have themed reading material.
August 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Right then. The Return of Covid, the sequel that no one (specifically me) wanted after two and a half years since the original. At least this time I have themed reading material.
Just starting it on my tea break. Reading you is akin to drinking mulled wine. Warm and friendly and pleasing, while also being spicy and piquant and surprising.
July 30, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Just starting it on my tea break. Reading you is akin to drinking mulled wine. Warm and friendly and pleasing, while also being spicy and piquant and surprising.
I only went in for one of these (gesturing at you @damonyoung.com.au) but @willdalrymple.bsky.social is never less than dazzling, @keithhouston.bsky.social’s Book book & the pocket @tate.bsky.social Blake were impossible to resist, & @mosababutoha.bsky.social’s poems are infinitely necessary.
July 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I only went in for one of these (gesturing at you @damonyoung.com.au) but @willdalrymple.bsky.social is never less than dazzling, @keithhouston.bsky.social’s Book book & the pocket @tate.bsky.social Blake were impossible to resist, & @mosababutoha.bsky.social’s poems are infinitely necessary.
Mike Harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social on his blog back in January. Increasingly applicable beyond just phones, I feel.
July 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Mike Harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social on his blog back in January. Increasingly applicable beyond just phones, I feel.
A finely balanced pair of headlines from @theguardian.com today.
May 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
A finely balanced pair of headlines from @theguardian.com today.
Forgot to post this the day I went, but this lot cost a stinking $38 from the UQ Alumni Book Fair.
May 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Forgot to post this the day I went, but this lot cost a stinking $38 from the UQ Alumni Book Fair.
I bet HH is just itching to reply ‘YOU’RE GODBLESSED RIGHT I AM WHAT OF IT BIGOTED FASCIST SINNER’
May 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I bet HH is just itching to reply ‘YOU’RE GODBLESSED RIGHT I AM WHAT OF IT BIGOTED FASCIST SINNER’
More William Robinson, from ‘Tallanbana with cloud front, 1998’ — detail of the brush strokes making sunlight on water, up to the full canvas. Stunning.
#brisbane #queensland #australianart #williamrobinson #qut #oldgovernmenthouse
#brisbane #queensland #australianart #williamrobinson #qut #oldgovernmenthouse
May 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
More William Robinson, from ‘Tallanbana with cloud front, 1998’ — detail of the brush strokes making sunlight on water, up to the full canvas. Stunning.
#brisbane #queensland #australianart #williamrobinson #qut #oldgovernmenthouse
#brisbane #queensland #australianart #williamrobinson #qut #oldgovernmenthouse
The great William Robinson being artistically undecided: “possibly a good colour”, “another good one”
#brisbane #queensland #oldgovernmenthouse #qut
#brisbane #queensland #oldgovernmenthouse #qut
May 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
The great William Robinson being artistically undecided: “possibly a good colour”, “another good one”
#brisbane #queensland #oldgovernmenthouse #qut
#brisbane #queensland #oldgovernmenthouse #qut
He really reminds me of this.
May 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
He really reminds me of this.
Good unfiltered morning, you lot.
April 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Good unfiltered morning, you lot.
Love it when a political party is happy to send unsolicited texts but not so happy to receive them.
April 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Love it when a political party is happy to send unsolicited texts but not so happy to receive them.