This is very niche but for fans of the old 'Ath-leeesure' Diet Coke ad: I've just learned from @jonsanger.bsky.social that there is another ad with similarly insane person in it and at the point where he does the 'soopergood' can-raise: IT'S AT THE WOMAN FROM THE OTHER AD DOING SOOPERHARD

A gentle warning from Carl Sagan

Your mam shouts at hotels and your dad paints roundabouts

Lalo Schifrin's extraordinary, funked up, reworking of the Jaws theme in honour of the man

youtu.be/LKx15uDqtd4?...

PEEL IT BACK 2025 - NIGHT TWO AND THREE
JUNE 17 AND 18 • MANCHESTER CO-OP LIVE ARENA AND LONDON THE O2

PHOTOS BY @kraw.bsky.social + IAN HURDLE + COEN REES + EDMUND FRASER

Thinking about Brian Wilson's health food shop

Anyone who believes that “political correctness has gone too far” should be forced to watch 24 hours of television from thirty years ago.

Exciting times! My book Borderlines is out in paperback - advance copies are in the bookshops already. It's a history of modern Europe told through the story of its national borders in all their humour, strangeness and tragedy.

Blue Monday is:

✅ made up
✅ a cracking tune by New Order

Massive away win for the little fella.