Neither inherently right nor wrong, but objectionable nonetheless.
03.03.2026 15:24
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Neither inherently right nor wrong, but objectionable nonetheless.
Using an em-dash with spaces is the stylistic equivalent of manspreading.
It's the hope that kills you
Bowling around the house today, like a hybrid of Paulie Walnuts and Rab C., in my Adidas tracksuit and a vest I'd forgotten that I'd worn already for several days.
The unfaltering dedication of Italian men to elasticated denim is, I argue, utopian.
Sadly not within walking distance of the shop, but Lavender's Hill's Grill on the Hill in Battersea not only does fantastic bifanas but also pregos, the bifana's chicked-based cousin. Also worth going just for the Portuguese steak or the fry up (which can include the steak…).
Deleted an undignified post about Wuthering Heights I immediately wished I hadn't written. Very "middle-aged git" tone. Was reminded of this while hacking at my eyebrows this evening. The wounds of time.
It is with regret and surprise that I write to confirm that BBC Radio 3 has turned me on to Evensong
*hangers-on
If the prattle about witless literary events in New York attended by arseholes and their hangers on wasn't enough, now we have to endure the UK's liberal media foisting the same on London.
If I never hear about smug literary events in London ever again it will be too soon. Are things really so bad there now that you can only get pissed in bookshops with completely insufferable people?
*in bookshops.
Nice, will give it a burn!!
How was this?
Really didn't need the US justice department to declassify sensitive materials in order to know that Noam uses a double space after a period.
You do wonder, given this and the recent migration of Tory headbangers, whether Reform would survive a second of contact with reality, were there only an effective opposition…
Most unconvincing aspect of Hamnet from an early modernist perspective was the conspicuous absence of pudding bowl haircuts
A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her back with a broom, the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows.
“Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”
Thinking of all the Nobel Prize for Literature winners who should've given theirs to Roth
it's time for another comeback m80
A headshot of Krasznahorkai
"The real journey unfolds within the sentences, those narrow battlegrounds where coherence and disintegration wrestle clause by clause."
Nyuol Lueth Tong on László Krasznahorkai’s sentences: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/nobel-laureate-laszlo-krasznahorkai-long-sentences-essay-satantango/
Listening to TSF Jazz of Paris. The French, it seems, can't resist a bit of boogie-woogie.
Twelve years ago I interviewed Bela Tarr for @dazeddigital.com, talking to him about his film school. He took the video call while drinking a beer on the street, and was unexpectedly self-deprecating and jovial. Sometimes you *should* meet your heroes. RIP.
www.dazeddigital.com/artsandcultu...
*Let it Be-era. This content was brought to you by a Stones fan.
Sartorially and sonically, Chas from Chas 'n' Dave was the true heir to McCartney's Abbey Road-era aesthetic.
Entering my Radio 3 era
Happy to have another little review in the @irishtimes.com, this time on Lynne Tillman's excellent short story omnibus, Thrilled to Death.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
An *armada* of groove. A vast fleet of armed ships, and what they’re armed with is groove.