Robert Barry
monsterbobby.bsky.social
Robert Barry
@monsterbobby.bsky.social
Freelance writer (The Wire, Tribune, Art Review, Mubi Notebook, &c.). Musicker (Far Rainbow, The Pipettes). Reviews Editor at The Quietus. Author of The Music of the Future (Repeater, 2017), Object Lessons: Compact Disc (Bloomsbury, 2020). Idiot.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
In France and Spain, when they want to describe cheese that has been badly processed into vague molten cheese-like substance that is only fit to be put in a burger, they call it "cheddar", which i think is basically just French/Spanish for "English Cheese" (and does not relate to actual cheddar).
November 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
ooh is that a casio mt65?
October 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The Daniel Craig Bond films became very UKplc around the time of the 2012 Olympics. Also: Paddington and Downton Abbey.
October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I can't even get my local charity shop to take books *for free*.
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
you can't just mute it, then you'd lose all Denis Lavant's weird muttering, which is kind of what makes it tbh.
October 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
guess that means I'm never going to slovakia again.
October 29, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Obviously I'm using a somewhat loose definition of the word "fun" here.
October 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The winner gets a weekly column in a liberal broadsheet of their choice.
October 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM