MacGuffin @bobbinup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026They control everything, but if it was up to me I would rip up my ticket & boycott their fucking stadiums. 010
MacGuffin @bobbinup.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Brereton (bespectacled, with NACC staff) “continues to regularly attend military functions in full uniform, including camouflage”. 021
MacGuffin @bobbinup.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Angus demonstrating his plan to “turn the Party round”. 010
MacGuffin @bobbinup.bsky.social · 18/12/2024The Bard for me too. Can’t pick one. Dead heat between 5 plays. 210
MacGuffin @bobbinup.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Yes indeed. In Rock & roll for one, the line between parody and reality can be razor thin. C/f Spinal Tap. A personal Rock & Roll Hall of Shame favourite: 👇 010
MacGuffin @bobbinup.bsky.social · 14/12/2024I can’t find my copy of ‘Heart’ I was intent on re discovering the ‘yawl on the Thames’ extract on your recommendation. Instead I’m about to start/restart TNOTN. The gardening can wait… 210
MacGuffin @bobbinup.bsky.social · 10/12/2024That could make an excellent follow up category: Unreadable books or books that destroyed me… Personal example: 110
MacGuffin @bobbinup.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Agree entirely. Brilliant speaker who also wrote about what he knew with passion and brilliant turns of lucid prose. One of my favourite passages from ‘Native Son’ 👇 000
MacGuffin @bobbinup.bsky.social · 08/12/2024For those yet to read this gem. Not really a spoiler… 120
MacGuffin @bobbinup.bsky.social · 07/12/2024He most certainly did. I love this short summation of his work from his Autobiography. 010
MacGuffin @bobbinup.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Yes, indeed. I became interested in Miller after reading Orwell’s essay Inside the Whale an eon or two ago. Orwell could be a harsh literary critic but he saw in Miller a fearless originality. I’ll try to post a small extract. 110