Neil Scott
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Martin Amis is very good on why Nabokov's Ada is so bad.
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Martin Amis is very good on why Nabokov's Ada is so bad.
Inside beautiful, brutalist church, The Pyramid, to see some extraordinarily, self-consciously ugly posters.
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Inside beautiful, brutalist church, The Pyramid, to see some extraordinarily, self-consciously ugly posters.
The Map and the Territory
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The Map and the Territory
I like Matter, the offline reader that allows you to save web pages without the clutter, but it is funny to me that they are now encouraging you to get all your newsletters sent there directly via a custom email address.
RSS readers are back, just in a really circuitous way.
RSS readers are back, just in a really circuitous way.
October 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I like Matter, the offline reader that allows you to save web pages without the clutter, but it is funny to me that they are now encouraging you to get all your newsletters sent there directly via a custom email address.
RSS readers are back, just in a really circuitous way.
RSS readers are back, just in a really circuitous way.
Take these photos into the barbers and asking for a Nobel cut.
October 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Take these photos into the barbers and asking for a Nobel cut.
Gaudier-Brzeska apparently sculptud this 'Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound' in 1914/
October 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Gaudier-Brzeska apparently sculptud this 'Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound' in 1914/
Led astray by r/VintageLadyBoners in believing this was a photo of Ezra Pound when it's actually Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
October 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Led astray by r/VintageLadyBoners in believing this was a photo of Ezra Pound when it's actually Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
Checking in on the Guardian's next generation of football talent page mainly to see what names (and haircuts) are fashionable: Reggie, Kallum, and Elvis are all heading to a pitch near you.
October 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Checking in on the Guardian's next generation of football talent page mainly to see what names (and haircuts) are fashionable: Reggie, Kallum, and Elvis are all heading to a pitch near you.
Hopefully László Krasznahorkai will now be able to afford to buy a keyboard with an operational full stop key.
October 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Hopefully László Krasznahorkai will now be able to afford to buy a keyboard with an operational full stop key.
One of the few good things to come out of covid is the regular Drink with the Idler, featuring @askwilliamblake.bsky.social's thought for the week.
Last night was @irvinewelsh.bsky.social but I am particularly looking forward to hearing from Tim Richardson.
www.idler.co.uk/events/
Last night was @irvinewelsh.bsky.social but I am particularly looking forward to hearing from Tim Richardson.
www.idler.co.uk/events/
October 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
One of the few good things to come out of covid is the regular Drink with the Idler, featuring @askwilliamblake.bsky.social's thought for the week.
Last night was @irvinewelsh.bsky.social but I am particularly looking forward to hearing from Tim Richardson.
www.idler.co.uk/events/
Last night was @irvinewelsh.bsky.social but I am particularly looking forward to hearing from Tim Richardson.
www.idler.co.uk/events/
I was going to post something about Jim from the Office for winning the Nobel Prize for Literature but stopped myself for fear of the Bluesky police. But nowadays my feed is full of people mocking sanctimony so I don't know what to think.
October 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I was going to post something about Jim from the Office for winning the Nobel Prize for Literature but stopped myself for fear of the Bluesky police. But nowadays my feed is full of people mocking sanctimony so I don't know what to think.
This tour is pretty well organised but I don't envy the three days going between the Isle of Man, Middlesbrough, and Buxton.
October 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This tour is pretty well organised but I don't envy the three days going between the Isle of Man, Middlesbrough, and Buxton.
If you want something to watch in a storm, Powell and Pressburger's I Know Where I'm Going is perfect.
October 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
If you want something to watch in a storm, Powell and Pressburger's I Know Where I'm Going is perfect.
October 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
How it started / How it's going
October 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
How it started / How it's going
Talk about Capitalist Realism. Someone has condensed Mark Fisher's book in a nine minute audiobook.
September 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Talk about Capitalist Realism. Someone has condensed Mark Fisher's book in a nine minute audiobook.
"A stone circle is an oil rig in embryo" and "the past is where we go to argue about the future."
My notes from seeing @peteralanross.bsky.social on Saturday.
My notes from seeing @peteralanross.bsky.social on Saturday.
September 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"A stone circle is an oil rig in embryo" and "the past is where we go to argue about the future."
My notes from seeing @peteralanross.bsky.social on Saturday.
My notes from seeing @peteralanross.bsky.social on Saturday.
What is most intriguing is that the whole show was inspired by 'A Burial at Ornans' by Gustave Courbet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Buria...
September 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
What is most intriguing is that the whole show was inspired by 'A Burial at Ornans' by Gustave Courbet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Buria...
Saw Isabella Widger's exhibition in a spare room of a flat in Shawlands.
September 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Saw Isabella Widger's exhibition in a spare room of a flat in Shawlands.
Finally saw that mural of hot Mary Barbour.
September 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Finally saw that mural of hot Mary Barbour.
Some more of the art
September 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Some more of the art
Masonic Lodge Aesthetics.
September 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Masonic Lodge Aesthetics.
Just a few more signatures needed
September 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Just a few more signatures needed
