Joseph S Furey
@tempus-fukit.bsky.social
Writer, freelance features journalist, arts critic and travel hack, devout Gooner. News UK, editorial and commercial. Non-fiction book in the works
josephsfurey.substack.com – josephsfurey.com
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October 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Back to therapy.
My shrink and I joke about what she could put on her business card, if she had one.
Because nothing in this life is new.
For when Mercury in retrograde is not to blame.
Emotional baggage unpacked. Hold only - no carry-ons.
My shrink and I joke about what she could put on her business card, if she had one.
Because nothing in this life is new.
For when Mercury in retrograde is not to blame.
Emotional baggage unpacked. Hold only - no carry-ons.
October 13, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Back to therapy.
My shrink and I joke about what she could put on her business card, if she had one.
Because nothing in this life is new.
For when Mercury in retrograde is not to blame.
Emotional baggage unpacked. Hold only - no carry-ons.
My shrink and I joke about what she could put on her business card, if she had one.
Because nothing in this life is new.
For when Mercury in retrograde is not to blame.
Emotional baggage unpacked. Hold only - no carry-ons.
Woke up to the news of Diane Keaton’s death. I’ll put on some coffee and Alan Parker’s Shoot the Moon. She’s on the screen for about 90 minutes in that, second only to Reds, which is a longer movie.
October 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Woke up to the news of Diane Keaton’s death. I’ll put on some coffee and Alan Parker’s Shoot the Moon. She’s on the screen for about 90 minutes in that, second only to Reds, which is a longer movie.
ICE says tax-dodging Dean Cain will be using his diminished powers to leap over due process in a single bound
Nothing says protector of the weak like cuffing toddlers with Superman’s old tights
Next up: Lou Ferrigno signs on with Border Patrol, and KITT from Knight Rider patrols the Rio Grande
Nothing says protector of the weak like cuffing toddlers with Superman’s old tights
Next up: Lou Ferrigno signs on with Border Patrol, and KITT from Knight Rider patrols the Rio Grande
August 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
ICE says tax-dodging Dean Cain will be using his diminished powers to leap over due process in a single bound
Nothing says protector of the weak like cuffing toddlers with Superman’s old tights
Next up: Lou Ferrigno signs on with Border Patrol, and KITT from Knight Rider patrols the Rio Grande
Nothing says protector of the weak like cuffing toddlers with Superman’s old tights
Next up: Lou Ferrigno signs on with Border Patrol, and KITT from Knight Rider patrols the Rio Grande
Good name. Here’s Geoffrey Saucer
August 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Good name. Here’s Geoffrey Saucer
Thirteen years ago, I went for a drink with “the poisoner of Iquitos” and missed an appointment. There was an unseemly fuss when I finally turned up two days later. I had sent a text but it finished halfway through a sentence.
I miss the jungle.
I miss the jungle.
July 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Thirteen years ago, I went for a drink with “the poisoner of Iquitos” and missed an appointment. There was an unseemly fuss when I finally turned up two days later. I had sent a text but it finished halfway through a sentence.
I miss the jungle.
I miss the jungle.
C’mon Brendan, we’re going down the Boxty. I’ll take a Teeling. A double.
“A hungry feelin’, came o’er me stealin’ and the mice they were squealin’ in my prison cell…”
#amreading #amwriting #amdrinking
“A hungry feelin’, came o’er me stealin’ and the mice they were squealin’ in my prison cell…”
#amreading #amwriting #amdrinking
July 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
C’mon Brendan, we’re going down the Boxty. I’ll take a Teeling. A double.
“A hungry feelin’, came o’er me stealin’ and the mice they were squealin’ in my prison cell…”
#amreading #amwriting #amdrinking
“A hungry feelin’, came o’er me stealin’ and the mice they were squealin’ in my prison cell…”
#amreading #amwriting #amdrinking
The road is calling. Been writing about that abstraction for the past week. When it takes the definite article it is no more asphalt or geography than a dream or meditative state that one must enter into, not blast through.
Here’s home, between motels, for the latter half of the year.
#vanlife
Here’s home, between motels, for the latter half of the year.
#vanlife
June 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The road is calling. Been writing about that abstraction for the past week. When it takes the definite article it is no more asphalt or geography than a dream or meditative state that one must enter into, not blast through.
Here’s home, between motels, for the latter half of the year.
#vanlife
Here’s home, between motels, for the latter half of the year.
#vanlife
I see this is doing the rounds again.
Hpësoj is the name of the finger-painting done by the CEO's five-year-old daughter in lingonberry preserve.
It means "refrigerator quality" and every IKEA employee has to hang a print of it in their kitchen.
Hpësoj is the name of the finger-painting done by the CEO's five-year-old daughter in lingonberry preserve.
It means "refrigerator quality" and every IKEA employee has to hang a print of it in their kitchen.
June 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I see this is doing the rounds again.
Hpësoj is the name of the finger-painting done by the CEO's five-year-old daughter in lingonberry preserve.
It means "refrigerator quality" and every IKEA employee has to hang a print of it in their kitchen.
Hpësoj is the name of the finger-painting done by the CEO's five-year-old daughter in lingonberry preserve.
It means "refrigerator quality" and every IKEA employee has to hang a print of it in their kitchen.
Louisiana’s Act 612, drafted by Rep Jay Galle, grants civil immunity to drivers who hit people “illegally” in the street while fleeing. Passed with other anti-protest laws, it sends a brutal message: if you're marching or second-lining, you're fair game.
Scum
#neworleans #nokings #louisiana
Scum
#neworleans #nokings #louisiana
June 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Louisiana’s Act 612, drafted by Rep Jay Galle, grants civil immunity to drivers who hit people “illegally” in the street while fleeing. Passed with other anti-protest laws, it sends a brutal message: if you're marching or second-lining, you're fair game.
Scum
#neworleans #nokings #louisiana
Scum
#neworleans #nokings #louisiana
Oh Brian,
You wrote the soundtrack to America’s brief innocence.
Sad will never sound so sweet, or sweet so sad.
A Spotify playlist
open.spotify.com/playlist/7CR...
#brianwilson
You wrote the soundtrack to America’s brief innocence.
Sad will never sound so sweet, or sweet so sad.
A Spotify playlist
open.spotify.com/playlist/7CR...
#brianwilson
June 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Oh Brian,
You wrote the soundtrack to America’s brief innocence.
Sad will never sound so sweet, or sweet so sad.
A Spotify playlist
open.spotify.com/playlist/7CR...
#brianwilson
You wrote the soundtrack to America’s brief innocence.
Sad will never sound so sweet, or sweet so sad.
A Spotify playlist
open.spotify.com/playlist/7CR...
#brianwilson
Thomas Fugate - fresh out of uni, still blinking from the sunlamp of adolescence - has been handed the keys to the US counter-extremism effort. A Heritage Foundation intern who once bagged groceries with both hands and now cradles the brain of homeland security like it’s a stress ball
June 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Thomas Fugate - fresh out of uni, still blinking from the sunlamp of adolescence - has been handed the keys to the US counter-extremism effort. A Heritage Foundation intern who once bagged groceries with both hands and now cradles the brain of homeland security like it’s a stress ball
As well as publishing new material on my Substack, I'm rounding up my road stories.
Share, subscribe, all the verbs
josephsfurey.substack.com/p/the-accide...
#booksky #nowreading #roadtrip
Share, subscribe, all the verbs
josephsfurey.substack.com/p/the-accide...
#booksky #nowreading #roadtrip
May 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
As well as publishing new material on my Substack, I'm rounding up my road stories.
Share, subscribe, all the verbs
josephsfurey.substack.com/p/the-accide...
#booksky #nowreading #roadtrip
Share, subscribe, all the verbs
josephsfurey.substack.com/p/the-accide...
#booksky #nowreading #roadtrip
April 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If I had a salon
April 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
If I had a salon
Pope Francis, Easter Monday
A lapsed Catholic speaks
A lapsed Catholic speaks
April 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Pope Francis, Easter Monday
A lapsed Catholic speaks
A lapsed Catholic speaks
Outsider folk. Michael Hurley. Backwoods bard. These 1964 recordings catch him in early bloom, before the world knew what to make of him. Songs drift like smoke - trancey, tender, laced with cosmic humour
#vinylsky #nowplaying
#vinylsky #nowplaying
April 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Outsider folk. Michael Hurley. Backwoods bard. These 1964 recordings catch him in early bloom, before the world knew what to make of him. Songs drift like smoke - trancey, tender, laced with cosmic humour
#vinylsky #nowplaying
#vinylsky #nowplaying
Happy birthday, Natsuhiko Kyogoku. Do pick up @aokajiya.bsky.social’s translation of The Summer of the Ubume. He’s the reason English readers can even begin to appreciate Kyogoku without needing a PhD in classical Japanese literature
#booksky
#booksky
March 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Happy birthday, Natsuhiko Kyogoku. Do pick up @aokajiya.bsky.social’s translation of The Summer of the Ubume. He’s the reason English readers can even begin to appreciate Kyogoku without needing a PhD in classical Japanese literature
#booksky
#booksky
Yellow and green flames escape manhole at Texas Tech uni (see link) This is how they announce the selection of a new Ninja Turtle. This is Artemisia (“Arti”). Artemisia Gentileschi was a Baroque badass who painted violent revenge scenes, so she’d totally wield a kusarigama
youtu.be/IuyC447N1ms?...
youtu.be/IuyC447N1ms?...
March 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Yellow and green flames escape manhole at Texas Tech uni (see link) This is how they announce the selection of a new Ninja Turtle. This is Artemisia (“Arti”). Artemisia Gentileschi was a Baroque badass who painted violent revenge scenes, so she’d totally wield a kusarigama
youtu.be/IuyC447N1ms?...
youtu.be/IuyC447N1ms?...
Happy 103rd birthday, Jack Kerouac. I now pick up old paperbacks of his books, not to read again but to flick through like they’re photo albums; their best passages beaming cheesily up at me, their excited annotations fading. They may have had their day, but there’s still greatness in them
#booksky
#booksky
March 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Happy 103rd birthday, Jack Kerouac. I now pick up old paperbacks of his books, not to read again but to flick through like they’re photo albums; their best passages beaming cheesily up at me, their excited annotations fading. They may have had their day, but there’s still greatness in them
#booksky
#booksky
As of 2025, Alexander “Pointless” Armstrong’s estimated net worth is around £4.5 million
March 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
As of 2025, Alexander “Pointless” Armstrong’s estimated net worth is around £4.5 million