Andy Miller

I’m so pleased! Thanks Dan. That makes me very happy. 🙏🖤

A sign outside the bookshop Shakespeare and Company requesting customers refrain from taking photographs.

Incredible that @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social has had to resort to this.

Quite so.

The Anatomy Lesson, 1632: seven students watch as a man in a black hat dissects a body

The People of Bluesky Crowd Round to Appreciate Andrew O’Hagan Eviscerating Mr Windsor, 2026, Rembrandt van Rijn

Where I’m calling from.

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

Do you like excellence about his ex-excellency? Then this piece of brilliant writing is for you. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

How Pet Shop Boys Sold City Glamour to Queer Suburban Kids | The Quietus I’m sat on the floor behind my dad’s armchair, chunky headphones on, listening to a new 12” my brother has bought. Our music centre lives in a compartment on an MFI divider unit, beside my parents’ co...

"The world Pet Shop Boys evoked to me back then was less kitchen sink drama, more film noir... This was a gay underworld, unspoken and largely invisible." Thanks @grindrod.bsky.social for this wonderful essay on PSB, the suburbs & sexuality:

thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Phew.

I can’t concentrate but I’ve got some Lovecraft on audio to distract myself.

EasyJet, twinned with Crippled Inside.

EasyJet, twinned with Crippled Inside.

🙏x

Thank you. If I make it, I will publish the proof here. x

You on the right here.

All being well, later this morning I will be getting on a plane. The last time I was meant to get on a plane, I ended up in A&E and was out of action for weeks. So, wish me “bon voyage” and mean it. 🙏

Yes, I’ve been writing about exactly this! RF was a phenomenon.

Absolutely! She appropriated it right back again.

I can’t deal with CJ’s lyrics, which I have described elsewhere as pedantic. But everything else is golden.

Only Women Bleed by Julie Covington

Later this week, I’m publishing a long Inventory piece about Julie Covington, the wellspring of which was this remarkable single. It seems fitting to flag it up on International Women’s Day. #IWD2026.

Almost Cut My Hair (Demo) YouTube video by David Crosby - Topic

Love the gauche sincerity of David Crosby's song Almost Cut My Hair but can't stand CSNY's horrible treatment of it on Déjà Vu? Voilà! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij_J...

Hey thanks Dan! Just doing God’s work. Or the other guy’s. x

💀

He has a recurring role in Rock Follies of 77 too.

Yes, and also - lest we forget - he is repurposing _his own_ research, not anyone else’s.

You’ll love it.

Apple TV and Prime, to name two.

I so enjoyed watching @marklewisohn.bsky.social’s new Beatles documentary Evolver:62 this evening, because it isn’t brand management or hagiography or pseudo-psychology but genuinely fascinating, factual commentary. As such, both serious and gripping. Thank you, Mark, for all your work.

One of the great revivals.

1978. Will send you a PDF.

I think it’s made a virtue out of a necessity.