A bit beyond the brief, but maybe?
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A bit beyond the brief, but maybe?
There's a department at Copenhagen University in his name as well.
This is where I have to reply-guy-add the time the captions got swapped for The Far Side and Dennis The Menace.
It's really only a novella, so it shouldn't take long. Once it's moved to the top of the stack.
I count only 55 points on Bluesky for this perfect little thing. It really ought to qualify …
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It just might take more than 15 points to qualify, but here's to an auspicious start.
Have you read Great Granny Webster, Jacqui? I just got it out of the library.
#TheTenx5. Day 37. #14.
Holden: Blackpool Late Eighties (2013)
Shooting this huge, Vangelisesque asteroid into the void. Unpicked, like my next four songs, sigh.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r-7...
Ah, nice to not have it all figured out!
I have a feeling there aren't any men in the top five.
#TheTenx5. Day 36. #15.
Charli XCX: Track 10 (2017)
Not putting this out as a single, at least Charli had the sense to let it be the last track on a mixtape, going out on a high.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj6d...
Every article about BookTok makes it seem as though it consists entirely of people who make their entire personality be about reading, while simultaneously being unable to handle the most minimally difficult aspects of actually reading.
slate.com/culture/2026...
I'm a big fan. And having read a handful, luckily I still have loads left to read for the first time.
Read: Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome (1911).
Nugget sized tragedy, with a very nineteenth century naturalist feeling of ineluctability. Beautiful, as always with Wharton.
#TheTenx5. Day 35. #16.
D’Angelo: Really Love (2014)
More than once I've looked up the writing credits for this, thinking it must be a Flack/Hathaway cover, but no. Three great studio albums over twenty years. What a talent he was.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVsQ...
A round up, in no particular order, of the peregrine falcon nest cams of England: Spring 2026
Expect to see the first eggs laid in some of these locations in the next week or two
#TheTenx5. Day 34. #17.
Underworld & The Necks: Appleshine Continuum (2019)
Somehow both bands were thirty years into their career before this most obvious and auspicious of collaborations took place.
Sit back and enjoy: it's 47 minutes of chugging minimalism.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhcg...
#TheTenx5. Day 33. #18.
Anna Meredith: Nautilus (2016)
I had not expected this weird and wonderful composition to do so well as it has in our poll. Go, Nautilus!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vajh...
#TheTenx5. Day 32. #19.
Ye Vagabonds: I Courted a Wee Girl (2019)
The loveliest, gentlest folk harmonies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bLU...
Ha!
My wife has proudly brought out this artefact.
Are you making panini stickers for us?
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What's the book?
You've read all the books!
Will this be a First come, first served thing? If so, what time is it happening? (Not that I think my preferred country will be massively popular …)
Yes, it does have a bit of the whodunnit machinery that will almost always creak, but as ever Le Carré describes this threadbare postwar Britain so well, so I have absolutely no complaints.
Read: John Le Carré: A Murder of Quality (1962).
What do you know, the second Smiley novel is not a spy book but a classic murder mystery. Le Carré might be better with spycraft but this was delightful.
#TheTenx5. Day 31. #20.
LA Priest: Oino (2015)
Catchy as hell.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJPj...
#TheTenx5. Day 30. #21.
Danny L Harle: Broken Flowers (2015)
Well built four on the floor house.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwpP...