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@jtcrombie.bsky.social
Creating an echo chamber of Borgesian dimensions
Pinned
NY subway is basically bankrupt but when it comes to Halloween money is no object
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
NY subway is basically bankrupt but when it comes to Halloween money is no object
Feeling a little deflated
October 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Feeling a little deflated
RIP Tony Harrison
Met him at a poetry festival in Medellin, Colombia in 1994 (when tourists were mostly too afraid to visit the country)
I could only think to ask ‘what are you doing here?’ To which he replied, ‘what are *you* doing here?’
Lovely man
Met him at a poetry festival in Medellin, Colombia in 1994 (when tourists were mostly too afraid to visit the country)
I could only think to ask ‘what are you doing here?’ To which he replied, ‘what are *you* doing here?’
Lovely man
September 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
RIP Tony Harrison
Met him at a poetry festival in Medellin, Colombia in 1994 (when tourists were mostly too afraid to visit the country)
I could only think to ask ‘what are you doing here?’ To which he replied, ‘what are *you* doing here?’
Lovely man
Met him at a poetry festival in Medellin, Colombia in 1994 (when tourists were mostly too afraid to visit the country)
I could only think to ask ‘what are you doing here?’ To which he replied, ‘what are *you* doing here?’
Lovely man
Flew 7 hours just so I could hear @gidcoe.bsky.social on catch up on the wireless, which now only works when you are in the UK
Will have to do same for @marcrileydj.bsky.social
Surely an easier, way lads at the @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social
????
Will have to do same for @marcrileydj.bsky.social
Surely an easier, way lads at the @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social
????
July 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Flew 7 hours just so I could hear @gidcoe.bsky.social on catch up on the wireless, which now only works when you are in the UK
Will have to do same for @marcrileydj.bsky.social
Surely an easier, way lads at the @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social
????
Will have to do same for @marcrileydj.bsky.social
Surely an easier, way lads at the @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social
????
I’m sure Sir Rod did a wonderful job but blimey nothing else came anywhere near Osees at #glastonbury. Crikey!
July 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I’m sure Sir Rod did a wonderful job but blimey nothing else came anywhere near Osees at #glastonbury. Crikey!
By sheer chance I was rewatching this, which felt startlingly apropos. Someone please lie with Maria, set the house alight, save us all
June 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
By sheer chance I was rewatching this, which felt startlingly apropos. Someone please lie with Maria, set the house alight, save us all
Can’t wait for @thebugclubband.bsky.social show as WWIII begins
June 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Can’t wait for @thebugclubband.bsky.social show as WWIII begins
Where have you been all my life?
May 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Where have you been all my life?
Phenomenal @weddingpresent.bsky.social show in nyc last night they are on fire. Catch them on this tour (Boston next) if you can!
May 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Phenomenal @weddingpresent.bsky.social show in nyc last night they are on fire. Catch them on this tour (Boston next) if you can!
Without @gidcoe.bsky.social and @marcrileydj.bsky.social I’d never have known. So cap doffed in their splendid direction @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social
Incredible @annabsavage.com Brooklyn show last night I was so mesmerized I failed to take any pic/vid but do catch her if you can (nobody paid me to say this)
May 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Without @gidcoe.bsky.social and @marcrileydj.bsky.social I’d never have known. So cap doffed in their splendid direction @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social
Incredible @annabsavage.com Brooklyn show last night I was so mesmerized I failed to take any pic/vid but do catch her if you can (nobody paid me to say this)
May 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Incredible @annabsavage.com Brooklyn show last night I was so mesmerized I failed to take any pic/vid but do catch her if you can (nobody paid me to say this)
fun cover/title belies twisted darkness within, by Christian Kracht. Far from the lite fare I was seeking — but still brilliant
April 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
fun cover/title belies twisted darkness within, by Christian Kracht. Far from the lite fare I was seeking — but still brilliant
Whitey’s on the moon
April 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Whitey’s on the moon
what great art does
March 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
what great art does
Only proper newspaper left
March 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Only proper newspaper left
Brilliant
We've just produced an ebook edition of The Good Soldier with an introduction to the turbulent life of Ford Madox Ford, and the magnificent story he told. The saddest story. It's a wonderful book. It might change your reading life. And you can get it for £1.89
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-sh...
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-sh...
THE GOOD SOLDIER — Galley Beggar Press
E-book download
www.galleybeggar.co.uk
March 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Brilliant
Traveling at the moment so missed a few @marcrileydj.bsky.social @gidcoe.bsky.social shows and there’s a gap in my head where the music should be @6music.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Traveling at the moment so missed a few @marcrileydj.bsky.social @gidcoe.bsky.social shows and there’s a gap in my head where the music should be @6music.bsky.social
I know it’s a mixed up crazy world out there but getting all my best musical ideas from a bookseller in Sydenham really is wild
February 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I know it’s a mixed up crazy world out there but getting all my best musical ideas from a bookseller in Sydenham really is wild
Don’t want this to end. Brilliant
Copious (fuck off!) by @markabowles.bsky.social @galleybeggars.bsky.social
many thanks for the idea @backlisted.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
Copious (fuck off!) by @markabowles.bsky.social @galleybeggars.bsky.social
many thanks for the idea @backlisted.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
February 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Don’t want this to end. Brilliant
Copious (fuck off!) by @markabowles.bsky.social @galleybeggars.bsky.social
many thanks for the idea @backlisted.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
Copious (fuck off!) by @markabowles.bsky.social @galleybeggars.bsky.social
many thanks for the idea @backlisted.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
Word of the day is “hobbledehoydom”
January 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Word of the day is “hobbledehoydom”
Reposted by Bookrelatednonsense
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.