Tim Smith-Laing
@timsmith-laing.com
Writer, reviewer, listener for @telegraphnews.bsky.social, @apollo-magazine.com, etc.
Senior Lecturer on Maastricht University's Executive Master in Cultural Leadship: https://maastrichtuniversity-emcl.org/
All views my own.
www.tim.smith-laing.com
Senior Lecturer on Maastricht University's Executive Master in Cultural Leadship: https://maastrichtuniversity-emcl.org/
All views my own.
www.tim.smith-laing.com
Post a non-religious image you think of as holy.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Post a non-religious image you think of as holy.
Timeline doesn't lie.
October 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Timeline doesn't lie.
Life has been so mad this last six months that I have records I bought in July that I still haven't listened to. At last, I am.
My god this is good.
My god this is good.
October 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Life has been so mad this last six months that I have records I bought in July that I still haven't listened to. At last, I am.
My god this is good.
My god this is good.
Opened Berryman's Sonnets this morning for the first time in many a year. My boy.
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Opened Berryman's Sonnets this morning for the first time in many a year. My boy.
Today, and every day's, thoughtform: the intention to know.
August 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Today, and every day's, thoughtform: the intention to know.
Looking at Nadia kaabi-Linke's work for a piece, and just completely entranced by this image from Tunisia during the Arab Spring. Phenomenal.
August 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Looking at Nadia kaabi-Linke's work for a piece, and just completely entranced by this image from Tunisia during the Arab Spring. Phenomenal.
Nope, I give up, I'm old, I don't understand anything any more.
August 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Nope, I give up, I'm old, I don't understand anything any more.
Extremely strong irrational desire to track down this album now and purchase it whatever the cost to me and my family.
August 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Extremely strong irrational desire to track down this album now and purchase it whatever the cost to me and my family.
You can tell this is daft stuff by the proment mention that 'He's not in the Royal Academy'.
Goldsworthy declined the offer in 1994. He's not in the RA because he didn't want to be.
Also, he does have an OBE. He's Andy Goldsworthy OBE. With an OBE.
So, you know, maybe not a watertight case.
Goldsworthy declined the offer in 1994. He's not in the RA because he didn't want to be.
Also, he does have an OBE. He's Andy Goldsworthy OBE. With an OBE.
So, you know, maybe not a watertight case.
July 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
You can tell this is daft stuff by the proment mention that 'He's not in the Royal Academy'.
Goldsworthy declined the offer in 1994. He's not in the RA because he didn't want to be.
Also, he does have an OBE. He's Andy Goldsworthy OBE. With an OBE.
So, you know, maybe not a watertight case.
Goldsworthy declined the offer in 1994. He's not in the RA because he didn't want to be.
Also, he does have an OBE. He's Andy Goldsworthy OBE. With an OBE.
So, you know, maybe not a watertight case.
When you can surgically attach a microphone to the back of an old man's head but you can't make your mind up about the name of your new political party...
July 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
When you can surgically attach a microphone to the back of an old man's head but you can't make your mind up about the name of your new political party...
Camp has been arround since 1876! And delicious pseudo-coffee it is too.
July 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Camp has been arround since 1876! And delicious pseudo-coffee it is too.
#NowPlaying funny little repackage of Rosemary Lane. Gorgeous.
July 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
#NowPlaying funny little repackage of Rosemary Lane. Gorgeous.
My impression at a distance is that many of the MAGA gang have had their minds so fried by Russian propaganda that Trump going to war with a Russian ally would cause unendurable cognitive dissonnance. There can only be one result.
June 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
My impression at a distance is that many of the MAGA gang have had their minds so fried by Russian propaganda that Trump going to war with a Russian ally would cause unendurable cognitive dissonnance. There can only be one result.
#NowPlaying Bill Orcutt/Fake Estates, The Anxiety of Symmetry, freshly arrived from the States. Beautiful beautiful stuff.
June 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
#NowPlaying Bill Orcutt/Fake Estates, The Anxiety of Symmetry, freshly arrived from the States. Beautiful beautiful stuff.
This is great but oh boy is that cover like being punched in the eyes.
June 12, 2025 at 6:21 AM
This is great but oh boy is that cover like being punched in the eyes.
Genuinely mental what Spotify thinks fit to recommend 'for me' now. Guess which two of these artists I have ever listened to on Spotify:
June 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Genuinely mental what Spotify thinks fit to recommend 'for me' now. Guess which two of these artists I have ever listened to on Spotify:
The shameless enshittification of Spotify's algorithm in a single picture. What I actually listen to vs 'New Releases for me:
May 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The shameless enshittification of Spotify's algorithm in a single picture. What I actually listen to vs 'New Releases for me:
Reading Blaise Cendrars for a thing and ... yeah ... yeah ... yeah.
April 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Reading Blaise Cendrars for a thing and ... yeah ... yeah ... yeah.
God, this is quite brutal.
February 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
God, this is quite brutal.
Very exciting arrival. Chapeau to @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social for translating this!
January 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Very exciting arrival. Chapeau to @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social for translating this!
Sometimes reviewing makes me feel like I'm losing my mind.
New book on Dante features this on Botticelli's illustration to Purgatorio 10. But ... this is just the punishment for this terrace, where the sinful are weighed down by stones. Have I gone mad?
How does a scholar make this mistake?!
New book on Dante features this on Botticelli's illustration to Purgatorio 10. But ... this is just the punishment for this terrace, where the sinful are weighed down by stones. Have I gone mad?
How does a scholar make this mistake?!
December 3, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Sometimes reviewing makes me feel like I'm losing my mind.
New book on Dante features this on Botticelli's illustration to Purgatorio 10. But ... this is just the punishment for this terrace, where the sinful are weighed down by stones. Have I gone mad?
How does a scholar make this mistake?!
New book on Dante features this on Botticelli's illustration to Purgatorio 10. But ... this is just the punishment for this terrace, where the sinful are weighed down by stones. Have I gone mad?
How does a scholar make this mistake?!
Trying to find 10 posts to like so I can teach the algorithm what I like ... how long can I scroll for before I die?
November 28, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Trying to find 10 posts to like so I can teach the algorithm what I like ... how long can I scroll for before I die?