Hal Croves

An online review of a local clown says: “Not what I had hoped for Disappointed. We agreed he would bring balloons for $20. He showed up with 3 or 4 saying one got away from him. Spent time playing a video game. Walked on the bowling alley - and fell down (needed to have the bowling alley shoes). Clothing seemed unkept. Clown face makeup was scant.”

The Clown Paradox: the more negative the online review of a clown is, the funnier the clown sounds

I’m afraid this review is a disservice to Marjorie Bowen and her novel, The Haunted Vintage. The plot as set out in this post has nothing at all to do with her novel. It’s not much in the great scheme of things but if you’re going to post a review, at least read the book you are reviewing.

Good morning! This week's theme is Alone in London.
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'Gas Lamp, Goodwin's Court, Bedfordbury End' by Jack Russell
jackrussell.co.uk

Photo from 1947. Can you spot EC? 🔎

💡Grampy Prank💡 #fleischerstudios

Fast Cowes
#punkyachting

Gesundbrunnen: winter edition #berlin #U8

"Funked Up Muzak" ft. Steve Huey Gaucho Amigos · Episode

new Gaucho Amigos episode with the great @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social

little follow-up to the HBO documentary, talkin' about Steely Dan and Yacht Rock with the man who helped define the genre himself

open.spotify.com/episode/6svC...

Why foreign correspondents are alarmed and dismayed at plans to sell the Observer | Letter Letter: Current and former contributors to the international pages of the Guardian and Observer respond to an article by Ole Jacob Sunde, chair of the Scott Trust

Here is a letter I've signed, along with 40+ other current or former correspondents, expressing our alarm and dismay at plans to sell the Observer to Tortoise media www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

'One for you, and one, two, for me..."

'Recent Past', Waterstones, Piccadilly (2004) by John Duffin
johnduffin.co.uk

Bwam Stoker’s

Every American guest when a UK celeb tells an anecdote on Graham Norton YouTube video by Eleanor Morton

Every American guest when a UK celeb tells an anecdote on Graham Norton

www.youtube.com/shorts/dIA19...

In the Golden Gloaming

In the Golden Gloaming https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-atkinson-grimshaw/in-the-golden-gloaming-1881

There are currently only 22 films streaming on Netflix made before 1980 and not a single one made before 1960, with the oldest film on the platform currently being PSYCHO. I know I’m a broken record but: buy physical media, support your local library, etc etc

That’ll explain why it’s still under my pillow.

Morning folks … hope Windy Bert isn’t treating you too badly😰🤞#StormBert

Short cut to Auntie’s (Oil on Board) by Steven Scholes (b.1952) #Art #NorthernArt

I'm sorry I said you weren't very scary.

He is funny, that Tyler…

A warm welcome awaits at The Rising Sun, Berkhamsted

Women on the Edge of a Conspiracy Theory | Hazlitt Karyn Kupcinet, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Mary Pinchot Meyer had little in common in life. In death, however, they share one particular indignity: having their untimely ends overshadowed by the ever-chur...

Re-starting this link thread because today’s anniversary brings to mind an essay I wrote in 2013 about three women whose lives and deaths were usurped by JFK conspiracy theories:

'Afternoon In Camden Town' (2023) by Chris Thompson
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a man 's face is shown in a black and white photo with the website ieclips.com in the upper right corner ALT: a man 's face is shown in a black and white photo with the website ieclips.com in the upper right corner

Repost with one of the greatest villains in cinema history
#filmsky

Happiness is a Warm Bun
#beatlesbread

Man buys an acid tab. Goes home and leaves it on the kitchen table. Goes upstairs. Comes back down later and it's disappeared. Says to his Mum "have you seen my tablet?" Mum says "never mind your tablet. There's a dragon on the shed."
The immortal Barry Cryer.

Striptease, the execrable movie based on Carl Hiaasen's first-rate 1993 novel Strip Tease. Boneheaded adaptation, stripped of Hiaasen's whip-smart wit, don't judge this class author by that movie.