Pip Kazan
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ME/CFS-afflicted novelist Philip Kazan. It’s better to burn out than it is to rust, and I wish somebody had told me that when I chose the rust option.
I’ve been trying to find a specific sort of African music that John Peel played in the v early 80s. It had this beautiful, light, cascading guitar work and minimal vocals. Not Malian (though he did play Super Etoile) or Highlife, I don’t think from SA or Zimbabwe either. A (nice) mystery. Help!
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I’ve been trying to find a specific sort of African music that John Peel played in the v early 80s. It had this beautiful, light, cascading guitar work and minimal vocals. Not Malian (though he did play Super Etoile) or Highlife, I don’t think from SA or Zimbabwe either. A (nice) mystery. Help!
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Give us this Bond.
an older man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and talking .
ALT: an older man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and talking .
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Give us this Bond.
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Maximus Decimus Meridius Snuggles was never quite the same after he had past life regression therapy.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Maximus Decimus Meridius Snuggles was never quite the same after he had past life regression therapy.
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British "patriots" assaulting the BBC to gain approval from American fascists is just fucking weird on a deep level.
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
British "patriots" assaulting the BBC to gain approval from American fascists is just fucking weird on a deep level.
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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[Commences bleeding from the ears, happy out.]
November 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
[Commences bleeding from the ears, happy out.]
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When you're having dreams
Of Orgonon
Who you gonna call?
Cloudbusters
Of Orgonon
Who you gonna call?
Cloudbusters
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
When you're having dreams
Of Orgonon
Who you gonna call?
Cloudbusters
Of Orgonon
Who you gonna call?
Cloudbusters
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Just driven passed an ageing mod on his mirror strewn Lambretta and involuntarily shouted,"Bellboooy!" I hope he appreciated it...
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Just driven passed an ageing mod on his mirror strewn Lambretta and involuntarily shouted,"Bellboooy!" I hope he appreciated it...
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Time for this blog’s annual outing - busting some equine myths of the First World War.
Straight from the horse’s mouth
The run up to Armistice Day is truly the season of duff military history, so on that theme, I thought I’d share some of my top equine myths of the First World War… 1. ‘The British…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Time for this blog’s annual outing - busting some equine myths of the First World War.
These are all excellent albums but if you don’t know Kaleidoscope, Side Trips is a… a trip. Take it off Mr Cox’s hands, why dontcha?
THREAD. In my attempt to raise money for a deposit on a house I’ve decided to sell all my duplicates of favourite LPs. Not cheaply but below Discogs:eBay going rate.
If any of these are of interest, please reply below and I’ll dm you with price.
All first pressings. All classics. All in nice nick.
If any of these are of interest, please reply below and I’ll dm you with price.
All first pressings. All classics. All in nice nick.
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
These are all excellent albums but if you don’t know Kaleidoscope, Side Trips is a… a trip. Take it off Mr Cox’s hands, why dontcha?
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FUN FACT: Sir Charles Curran was forced to resign as Director-General after Pyramids of Mars implied Sutekh, god of violence, was bad.
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
FUN FACT: Sir Charles Curran was forced to resign as Director-General after Pyramids of Mars implied Sutekh, god of violence, was bad.
Billy, don’t be a hero
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Billy, don’t be a hero
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November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I realised after I’d written this that I might seem to be implying that this meant my grandpa’s experiences had somehow become implicitly about me, because that’s how things always seem to go nowadays: “oh no, MY Somme inherited trauma hell, poor me!” I wouldn’t dare even consider that. …1/
Or we try. But when everything else has faded away, blood still remembers blood. We carry the memories inside us. We carry those ancestors in ways we can’t really understand. I suppose you could call that Remembrance.
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I realised after I’d written this that I might seem to be implying that this meant my grandpa’s experiences had somehow become implicitly about me, because that’s how things always seem to go nowadays: “oh no, MY Somme inherited trauma hell, poor me!” I wouldn’t dare even consider that. …1/
This is my grandfather, Brigadier G. B. Vaughan-Hughes MC in 1919, aged 22/23, ‘somewhere in France,’ on Joey, his army mount. He bought Joey off the army and let him live a long and happy life in Wales. ‘Tommy,’ as grandpa was called, had entered the war early in 1915 as an 18-year-old 2nd Lt …1/
November 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This is my grandfather, Brigadier G. B. Vaughan-Hughes MC in 1919, aged 22/23, ‘somewhere in France,’ on Joey, his army mount. He bought Joey off the army and let him live a long and happy life in Wales. ‘Tommy,’ as grandpa was called, had entered the war early in 1915 as an 18-year-old 2nd Lt …1/
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Brains are COOKED
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Brains are COOKED
Pigs.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Pigs.
I’m guessing this wasn’t the truly infamous and long vanished Boobs Disco, on Union Street in Plymouth, one of the most dangerous places on earth. OTH a sitcom based on Boobs Disco would certainly be diverting.
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I’m guessing this wasn’t the truly infamous and long vanished Boobs Disco, on Union Street in Plymouth, one of the most dangerous places on earth. OTH a sitcom based on Boobs Disco would certainly be diverting.
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WRYTE
WEIRDE
BOOKES
WEIRDE
BOOKES
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
WRYTE
WEIRDE
BOOKES
WEIRDE
BOOKES
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Walter Gotell incidentally was in absolutely everything on both sides of the Atlantic for thirty years which is how come he's the only actor to have appeared with both Thora Hird and Dolph Lundgren.
November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Walter Gotell incidentally was in absolutely everything on both sides of the Atlantic for thirty years which is how come he's the only actor to have appeared with both Thora Hird and Dolph Lundgren.
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
‘Salò Sponge’ responds to zeitgeist
November 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
‘Salò Sponge’ responds to zeitgeist
I’m waiting for the Chinese Mountain Cat/Pallas Cat mashup we all deserve.
November 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’m waiting for the Chinese Mountain Cat/Pallas Cat mashup we all deserve.
There’s only one reason to tax the ultra rich and that’s to destroy them as an economic class. Which would bd excellent for everyone else. But that’s never going to happen. It would take the kind of massive social engineering the 1945 Lab govt managed, and that just won’t be possible again.
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
There’s only one reason to tax the ultra rich and that’s to destroy them as an economic class. Which would bd excellent for everyone else. But that’s never going to happen. It would take the kind of massive social engineering the 1945 Lab govt managed, and that just won’t be possible again.