Margie Orford

Marina Benjamin | Faber Academy

I'll be teaching my first course for the @faberacademy.bsky.social during the last week of August. Focus is on the personal essay. If there's something you've been longing to write, but dallying, put it off no longer.
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they creep up fast - those waters

my father looking at his own River Styx days before he died at home. A long long life lived on his own terms. This mid-winter a blessing from his fierce atheist spirit, saying live on, love on, in all the complexity of the relationship between father and daughter. hamba kahle

Scotland

Heading into NYC for a live shot, and this is the sign on one of the overpasses

seems like the old but very recent adage might be true:

'you live by the conspiracy theory, you die a thousand paper-cut deaths by the conspiracy theory.'

We are all, at times, horribly tired of being ourselves.

Djuna Barnes (and also me!)

People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.

At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating
"I support
Palestine.
Action
must be taken."
My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people

Give the public what they want!
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Love this. Larry the cat.. and Macron

i bought earplugs though - they help

it is criminal :)

so much pain! mosh pit rock in the heat - I am down the hill from the Ally Pally - and am thinking a reggae band or calypso or something that goes with the heat

we are clearly neighbours because I can hear them too!

Painting of red poppies in seven differently shaped clear glass bottles on a shelf or table top

Lucy Culliton, contemporary Australian artist, known for her paintings of landscapes and still lifes #WomensArt

Someone prove this wrong.

jirre vok!

if you were South African you would ABSOLUTELY know what kind of day its been

EVERYBODY on the internet planet who had never heard of them before HAS now heard of the Irish rappers KNEECAP and of some random punk people called (brilliantly I have to say) BOB VILLIAN and is now listening to them thanks to BBC censorship anxieties and flip-flops at Glastonbury

I'm excited to be running a 5-day course for the @faberacademy.bsky.social on Crafting the Personal Essay. Last week of August. Online. A chance to act and write that essay that won't leave you alone.
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A photo of Jeff Bezos in his tuxedo. The low armhole is causing the jacket to lift off his neck.

A comment from Sartoria F. Caraceni on Instagram. It reads: "The most terrible, frightening, horrible tuxedo ever seen in my life. Omg .. [face palm emoji]. Elegance is not an empty word. I can't stand it. Really suffering ..."

People think I'm biased against Jeff Bezos, but here's Sartoria F. Caraceni, widely considered one of the best bespoke tailoring houses in the world, commenting on Bezos's wedding suit.

"The most terrible, frightening, horrible tuxedo ever seen in my life. I'm really suffering"

Lauren Sanchez et al totally offend all my eyes and fashion senses. The weird big boob Barbie -in-formaldahyde look is frightening: a gondola zombie apocalypse

Psychopath

Two paths diverged in a wood and America took the psychopath.

Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

overwhelmed with gratitude that I am NOT at Glastonbury - given my pathological phobia of crowds, port-a-loos and competing sound systems

also these rude radishes from the garden

omigod - I have given up my beloved cigarettes for 7 days and it feels like forever! and I am pining for my cancerous little friends

US POLITICS: Meet New York City’s likely next mayor — a former SA schoolboy

New York City’s probable next mayor will be the first in history to have attended St George’s Grammar School in Cape Town, an Anglican school in Mowbray.

I wish! I don't know who made it but i Love it