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11.03.2026 18:56
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@backlisted.bsky.social are fans. Maybe a good cause could rouse them from their semi-slumber…
And what an essay, now that I’ve read it. A special song that deserves our time.
I remember hearing it playing instead of the usual muzak in a French hypermarché in Normandy when i lived there in the 90s. Those strange intertwined ghostly vocals, echoing around the giant food aisles, so incongruously.
I bet Anita never arrived on stage to perform it via a giant pair of spread legs. Still gives me nightmares, that.
A series of short text messages checking if dad has fallen asleep with the dog, again.
I’ve been doing the late falling-asleep-with-the-puppy shift over the last few days, and it’s the most my 18-year old and I have ever communicated by text…
Bertie Carvel as Baelor Targaryen, the internet’s man-crush for three weeks in early 2026.
He’s even looks like a good listener.
The large print giveth; the small print taketh away.
There’s very little that hits the reader with the moral dilemma of that deportation list in the middle of Trieste.
“Pas catholique” had a sense of being dubious, but I’m struggling to quite make the link with “baptise”. En passant, for anyone unaware: Perec was a renowned crossword-setter (perhaps inevitably), and his collected puzzles are still in print, along with his intro. www.fnac.com/a4249915/Geo...
Gary Oldman’s Dracula, not searching oceans of time to find Mina any more.
You are lost, but I have searched the depths of legal arguments not yet articulated to find you…
Thanks for being our very own Shelf-Level Superstar, Andy.
Misread that as Corydon and wondered what André Gide had been up to. Then I spotted who posted it…
Stuffed crust toast
Andrew Windsor causes panic in Alnwick
Well, yes. You’d probably wonder where all the time went.
An iTunes playlist for a live CD by Les Soutiens Georges.
And since this is by extension a place for puns and slightly rude Jakery, I’ll mention also that the best of all Georges Brassens tribute bands is called - what else? - Les Soutiens Georges. And very good they are/were too.
Jake Thackray looking lovingly at Georges Brassens.
Since this is a safe space for Jake friends…allow me to share the best of all photos of Jake and Georges Brassens. I’ve always thought it was the perfect illustration of the ‘Find yourself someone who looks at you like X’ meme.
In the voice of John Peel summing up a PJ Harvey Peel Session: “It is good stuff, isn’t it?” Only halfway through and I’ve already had a solution to the mystery of why the Live Performance audience laughed so much when he rhymed ‘been here since Feb’ry’ with ‘alone with my dairy’ - or so I thought!
The sitcom cricket match is (was?) a lovely little subgenre, at its best when it got to play out a lead character’s neurotic need for fair play and order against some charming amateur. On which, see also Ever Decreasing Circle’s Martin.
Next-level challenge for those actors everyone says could make people cry if they were just reading the phone book…
Just guessing here, but can they be rendered down into some life-enhancing serum?
Come to think of it, I also spoke to the wife of one of the members of REM, whose Q had gone missing. He’d wanted to read it on a flight.
I worked in a call centre dealing with magazine subscriptions at one point in the 90s. Dame Thora Hird phoned up to say her copy of Yours hadn’t arrived. I sent her a replacement.
Kein fauler Leser wird geduldet
He’s making a list
He’s checking it tweece
He’s gonna write down everything that happens in the Place Saint-Sulpice
Georges Perec is coming to town
He was deported to Auschwitz on Convoy 77, the final large convoy from Drancy before its liberation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_...
