Andy Miller
@iammilliam.bsky.social
I like books. Wrote ‘The Year of Reading Dangerously’. Now writing ‘Inventory: An Unreliable Guide to My Record Collection’, available weekly via Backlisted patreon.com/backlisted. I don’t only like books. No DM please.
Plans for the day:
1. Gaze into the abyss, while somehow preventing the abyss from gazing back
2. Pancakes
1. Gaze into the abyss, while somehow preventing the abyss from gazing back
2. Pancakes
February 17, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Plans for the day:
1. Gaze into the abyss, while somehow preventing the abyss from gazing back
2. Pancakes
1. Gaze into the abyss, while somehow preventing the abyss from gazing back
2. Pancakes
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Pancake Day tomorrow, so a busy day of getting the pancake tree out of the loft and festooning the living room with pancake cards and batter. What will Father Pancake bring you tonight?*
*pancakes, probably
*pancakes, probably
February 16, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Pancake Day tomorrow, so a busy day of getting the pancake tree out of the loft and festooning the living room with pancake cards and batter. What will Father Pancake bring you tonight?*
*pancakes, probably
*pancakes, probably
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"I Love the Bobbed-Hair Bimbos," ca. 1923.
February 2, 2026 at 12:34 PM
"I Love the Bobbed-Hair Bimbos," ca. 1923.
I am writing an essay I think is so brilliant that a) no one is equipped to understand how amazing it is except me, and b) I may have tipped over into another mental health crisis.
February 16, 2026 at 6:13 PM
I am writing an essay I think is so brilliant that a) no one is equipped to understand how amazing it is except me, and b) I may have tipped over into another mental health crisis.
This you @davidcollard.bsky.social? Corresponding: re Wittgenstein? It is, isn’t it?
February 16, 2026 at 4:29 PM
This you @davidcollard.bsky.social? Corresponding: re Wittgenstein? It is, isn’t it?
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feels cruel for Bluesky to have a Popular With Friends tab, if any of us were popular with friends we wouldn't be on Bluesky
February 16, 2026 at 8:53 AM
feels cruel for Bluesky to have a Popular With Friends tab, if any of us were popular with friends we wouldn't be on Bluesky
Mrs Dalloway said she would bring the noise herself.
February 16, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Mrs Dalloway said she would bring the noise herself.
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You know you've made it as an author when no one will properly edit you, and your books are now shit.
February 16, 2026 at 11:53 AM
You know you've made it as an author when no one will properly edit you, and your books are now shit.
I am profoundly unwilling to tell the reader what a b-side is. If the reader doesn’t know already, they probably ought to be reading someone else.
February 16, 2026 at 11:21 AM
I am profoundly unwilling to tell the reader what a b-side is. If the reader doesn’t know already, they probably ought to be reading someone else.
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Good morning from me and Richard Brautigan.
February 16, 2026 at 6:57 AM
Good morning from me and Richard Brautigan.
This is a wonderful, useful thread, not least because it begins with Orson Welles’s greatest performance i.e. as himself, interviewed by Alan Yentob for Arena. The ultimate comfort watch IMIO.
Here's a little thread collating Orson Welles material currently available on BBCiPlayer - Arena, The Orson Welles Story: Episode 1: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00plc51 (available for seven months)
Arena - The Orson Welles Story: Episode 1
Profile of Orson Welles, looking at his life and career in theatre, radio and particularly film. This part deals with his work up to Touch of Evil.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 6:33 PM
This is a wonderful, useful thread, not least because it begins with Orson Welles’s greatest performance i.e. as himself, interviewed by Alan Yentob for Arena. The ultimate comfort watch IMIO.
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Here's a little thread collating Orson Welles material currently available on BBCiPlayer - Arena, The Orson Welles Story: Episode 1: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00plc51 (available for seven months)
Arena - The Orson Welles Story: Episode 1
Profile of Orson Welles, looking at his life and career in theatre, radio and particularly film. This part deals with his work up to Touch of Evil.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Here's a little thread collating Orson Welles material currently available on BBCiPlayer - Arena, The Orson Welles Story: Episode 1: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00plc51 (available for seven months)
Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.
February 15, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.
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That said, I find the whole "MC's comedy is better because heartwarming/authentic/folk music/real people in pubs/grief" quite wearing. I loved Detectorists AND This Country, surveys of the same terrain from different (class/age) perspectives, both funny.
February 15, 2026 at 12:11 PM
That said, I find the whole "MC's comedy is better because heartwarming/authentic/folk music/real people in pubs/grief" quite wearing. I loved Detectorists AND This Country, surveys of the same terrain from different (class/age) perspectives, both funny.
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I've enjoyed the episodes I've seen very much. Odd that nobody seems to have pointed out the direct link to Ernst Thesiger as Dr Pretorius in 'The Bride of Frankenstein' (1935) www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7AK... "There is a pleasing variety about my exhibits"
Bride of Frankenstein (1/10) Movie CLIP - Pretorius Shows Henry His Experiment (1935) HD
YouTube video by Movieclips
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February 15, 2026 at 11:04 AM
I've enjoyed the episodes I've seen very much. Odd that nobody seems to have pointed out the direct link to Ernst Thesiger as Dr Pretorius in 'The Bride of Frankenstein' (1935) www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7AK... "There is a pleasing variety about my exhibits"
Loved Small Prophets. I wonder if it was commissioned as something for Christmas, but was deemed too dark. “Father Christmas” in his “grotto” here. >
February 15, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Loved Small Prophets. I wonder if it was commissioned as something for Christmas, but was deemed too dark. “Father Christmas” in his “grotto” here. >
Julie Covington, Hyde Park, London, 5th March 1969. Photo by Stewart White.
February 15, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Julie Covington, Hyde Park, London, 5th March 1969. Photo by Stewart White.
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i am sure you have all seen this awful piece but it really is both atrocious and extremely embarrassing! observer.co.uk/culture/book...
The man making books sexy again | The Observer
Flirty, fun, fashionable… book events are the place to be. Meet the 32-year-old academic driving a new wave of literary parties
observer.co.uk
February 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
i am sure you have all seen this awful piece but it really is both atrocious and extremely embarrassing! observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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Gorillaz are back so time to resurrect the greatest of all music tweets. We're all out here tryna be The Quietus and she just walks up and zeroes in on the essence.
February 14, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Gorillaz are back so time to resurrect the greatest of all music tweets. We're all out here tryna be The Quietus and she just walks up and zeroes in on the essence.
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This piece is so much better than the pull-quote. It’s a beautiful profile of a fascinating brave strong woman and I urge you to read it.
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:43 AM
This piece is so much better than the pull-quote. It’s a beautiful profile of a fascinating brave strong woman and I urge you to read it.
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I hadn’t picked up on that. Will have to re-listen. But those are also all bands who lost key members and were able to find a way forward without them.
February 14, 2026 at 9:56 AM
I hadn’t picked up on that. Will have to re-listen. But those are also all bands who lost key members and were able to find a way forward without them.
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Enjoyed recording this. It gave a chance to talk about Wodders the Emu on a highbrow arts programme, which a guest agreed was a moment worthy of the Chaplin era. Job done!
Fascinating discussion around class on Radio 4's Free Thinking feat. @adellestripe.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Free Thinking - Working Class Creativity - BBC Sounds
Depictions of working class life on TV and in culture and how they've changed.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 14, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Enjoyed recording this. It gave a chance to talk about Wodders the Emu on a highbrow arts programme, which a guest agreed was a moment worthy of the Chaplin era. Job done!
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I love Your Love Alone... quotes lines from songs by groups who changed style/had long careers - The Who, Stones, Pink Floyd, the Manics themselves - to say to Richey: you idiot, we could have/should have done this together. Much clearer in 2026 than it was in 2007. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb2K...
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
YouTube video by Manic Street Preachers - Topic
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:03 AM
I love Your Love Alone... quotes lines from songs by groups who changed style/had long careers - The Who, Stones, Pink Floyd, the Manics themselves - to say to Richey: you idiot, we could have/should have done this together. Much clearer in 2026 than it was in 2007. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb2K...