Christopher White
@bombaylychee.bsky.social
Still mostly about something and nothing, and still from various places too.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
“it’s impossible to ignore the melancholy and mildly defensive self-awareness of a man coming to terms with his own dawning obsolescence”: @natechinen.bsky.social on Frank Sinatra’s great Las Vegas live album with Count Basie and Quincy Jones.
open.substack.com/pub/thegig/p...
open.substack.com/pub/thegig/p...
Sinatra at the Sands
Sixty years after a landmark, a few marks on the landing
open.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:37 AM
“it’s impossible to ignore the melancholy and mildly defensive self-awareness of a man coming to terms with his own dawning obsolescence”: @natechinen.bsky.social on Frank Sinatra’s great Las Vegas live album with Count Basie and Quincy Jones.
open.substack.com/pub/thegig/p...
open.substack.com/pub/thegig/p...
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Keith Vaughan painted just twenty still life oil paintings over the course of his career. This work 'Pomegranate, Lemon, Cup,' painted in 1948, consists of a tabletop with a striped tablecloth and angular forms.
January 26, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Keith Vaughan painted just twenty still life oil paintings over the course of his career. This work 'Pomegranate, Lemon, Cup,' painted in 1948, consists of a tabletop with a striped tablecloth and angular forms.
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Erm, isn’t that one big fat typo in line four of the new Julian Barnes? 🤷🏼
January 26, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Erm, isn’t that one big fat typo in line four of the new Julian Barnes? 🤷🏼
🎥 Watched “The Mastermind” and liked it a lot.
January 26, 2026 at 4:32 AM
🎥 Watched “The Mastermind” and liked it a lot.
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Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: No Other Choice, The History of Sound, Saipan, Mercy bit.ly/4qC0jky
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: No Other Choice, The His...
Supremely slick, crisp and uncomfortably relevant, Park Chan-wook's film about a machiavellian mid-level paper company executive is unmistakably a Park picture
bit.ly
January 25, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: No Other Choice, The History of Sound, Saipan, Mercy bit.ly/4qC0jky
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Julian Barnes in conversation with Ian McEwan earlier this week, for the publication of Departure(s).
Watching it now - McEwan doing more of the conversing than Barnes, but v interesting nonetheless.
(starts at 11:12)
Watching it now - McEwan doing more of the conversing than Barnes, but v interesting nonetheless.
(starts at 11:12)
Julian Barnes in conversation with Ian McEwan
YouTube video by Intelligence Squared
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Julian Barnes in conversation with Ian McEwan earlier this week, for the publication of Departure(s).
Watching it now - McEwan doing more of the conversing than Barnes, but v interesting nonetheless.
(starts at 11:12)
Watching it now - McEwan doing more of the conversing than Barnes, but v interesting nonetheless.
(starts at 11:12)
“At that moment the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, strode by in the middle of an arrowhead of security muscle.”
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Rumours of realpolitik were rife at Davos. Thank heavens ...
At the intersection of overhyped tech and fatuous cliche, it was good to imagine something real was going down
observer.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 10:32 AM
“At that moment the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, strode by in the middle of an arrowhead of security muscle.”
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia at @oldvictheatre.bsky.social: wonderful production, thrilling in its writing, beautifully acted, what a superb play!
January 24, 2026 at 11:06 PM
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia at @oldvictheatre.bsky.social: wonderful production, thrilling in its writing, beautifully acted, what a superb play!
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In Davos, 'avin' a fag.
January 24, 2026 at 10:52 AM
In Davos, 'avin' a fag.
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A Brief Ranking of Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin
Great Snakes!
medium.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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This is undiluted Kenneth Williams – in excelsis.
Yes, he was forever magnificent on radio marvels Round The Horne & Just A Minute but be awestruck by his telling of Norman Hunter's deliciously silly story for Jackanory.
FAO @bcdreyer.social and everyone else
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeRU...
Yes, he was forever magnificent on radio marvels Round The Horne & Just A Minute but be awestruck by his telling of Norman Hunter's deliciously silly story for Jackanory.
FAO @bcdreyer.social and everyone else
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeRU...
Jackanory Gold - Kenneth Williams - The Dribblesome Teapots (Sun 15th Dec 1996, BBC Two)
YouTube video by Appropriated Subdiffusion
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:14 PM
This is undiluted Kenneth Williams – in excelsis.
Yes, he was forever magnificent on radio marvels Round The Horne & Just A Minute but be awestruck by his telling of Norman Hunter's deliciously silly story for Jackanory.
FAO @bcdreyer.social and everyone else
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeRU...
Yes, he was forever magnificent on radio marvels Round The Horne & Just A Minute but be awestruck by his telling of Norman Hunter's deliciously silly story for Jackanory.
FAO @bcdreyer.social and everyone else
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeRU...
You can now *listen* to BBC News 24 on BBC Sounds. Who knew!
January 22, 2026 at 7:46 PM
You can now *listen* to BBC News 24 on BBC Sounds. Who knew!
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Recorded on this day, 1965: Miles and his 2nd Great Quintet held the last of three recording sessions for the album 𝙀.𝙎.𝙋.. Second piece was Miles' 𝗔𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. With Wayne Shorter- ts; Herbie Hancock- p; Ron Carter- b; Tony Williams- d.
#jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis
#jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis
Agitation (2022 Remaster)
YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic
youtu.be
January 22, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Recorded on this day, 1965: Miles and his 2nd Great Quintet held the last of three recording sessions for the album 𝙀.𝙎.𝙋.. Second piece was Miles' 𝗔𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. With Wayne Shorter- ts; Herbie Hancock- p; Ron Carter- b; Tony Williams- d.
#jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis
#jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis
Breaking news from Davos.
January 22, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Breaking news from Davos.
🎥 Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye. “There is no surface on Earth that Elliott Gould can't use to light a match.”
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ youtu.be/XqLUx8RF0EQ?...
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ youtu.be/XqLUx8RF0EQ?...
AFS HELLO GOODBYE: THE LONG GOODBYE
YouTube video by Austin Film Society
youtu.be
January 21, 2026 at 11:11 PM
🎥 Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye. “There is no surface on Earth that Elliott Gould can't use to light a match.”
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ youtu.be/XqLUx8RF0EQ?...
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ youtu.be/XqLUx8RF0EQ?...
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Spare a thought for the interpreters.
January 21, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Spare a thought for the interpreters.
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Who knew the global order would collapse because an American president refused to end his speech at Davos and it went on forever and eventually 174 CEOs, 52 finance ministers, 234 journalists and Bono off of U2 starved to death
January 21, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Who knew the global order would collapse because an American president refused to end his speech at Davos and it went on forever and eventually 174 CEOs, 52 finance ministers, 234 journalists and Bono off of U2 starved to death