Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 28/09/2026Latest weirdness: glacialerrata.beehiiv.com/p/glacial-er... 1255
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 28/09/2026Are there other examples of this? Movies where they changed the name of the script primarily because the producers got the right to some Boomer anthem that they could then use as a title song to milk some cheap nostalgia? Because I feel like this was kinda a *thing* in the 90s/early 90s. 22364
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 27/09/2026I get so many of these and I try not to post too many but this one was particularly good 3252
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 27/09/2026I picked up Simon Armitage’s New Cemetery in Edinburgh and it’s exactly the kind of book of poetry that I love: a slim volume you can carry for a few days as you read a few poems each morning to ground you and reset your rhythm. 1302
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 25/09/2026Tonight, her new composition, Keep Your Eyes Open, premieres in Tampere, Finland, conducted by the stellar Stephanie Childress. I’ve been in rehearsals for the past two days and Mary’s score, Stephanie’s conducting, and the musicians of the Tampere Filharmonia have been amazing to witness. 6542
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 22/09/2026Every so often I’m reminded that some people just think about books in a way that’s totally alien to me 8442
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 21/09/2026Absolutely wild to me that we’re all just going around pretending that 2020 never happened, that it didn’t deeply traumatize millions of people, that they aren’t acting out their repressed trauma on a daily basis, or that the signs of all of these things aren’t staring us in the face every day. 34214
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 18/09/2026“Bold flavour!” What flavor is it? “Salted.” The British. Man. 6321
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 18/09/2026[Mrs. Buttle in “Brazil” voice] What have you done with his b-o-o-o-o-day….” 2181
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 16/09/2026“Have no antecedents, no established character, no cultivation, no ideas, no manners; have Shares.” Charles Dickens eviscerating the investment class, from Our Mutual Friend (1865): 04715
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 16/09/2026I appreciate that the wall text for this one mentions that Bacon didn’t like how this came out and includes a quote from him: “I wish they [the Tate] would burn it.” Kinda a weird flex on the Tate’s part, tbh 0130
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 15/09/2026Here lyes Dame Mary Page Relict of Sir Gregory Page Bart She departed this life March 4 1728 In the 56th year of her age. In 67 months she was tap’d 66 times Had taken away 240 gallons of water Without ever repining at her case Or ever fearing the operation. 2162
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 13/09/2026I swear to fucking god if any of you ever refer to my final resting place as “a place of pilgrimage for clowns” my ghost will haunt you for the rest of your days 91107
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 12/09/2026This aging, Egyptian-themed facade on a building now being used as a church, in Islington, London. 4250
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 07/09/2026Very funny to me when these bookclub scammers just plug my responses into ChatGPT and come up with the most obsequious responses 471809230
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 06/09/2026Just wanna remind the Grim Reaper that this has been on your to-do list for a really long time and the sooner you get it off your plate the happier you’ll be 4444
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 04/09/2026@cadaverformosus.bsky.social just described the panoply of metal shirts on display here as “a rainbow of one color” 6291
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 01/09/2026This is such a good technology for making the food you sell look like inedible shit 751327151
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 01/09/2026Me, describing what it’s like to read your awful posts 2291
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 30/08/2026Toxic masculinity, even at its most virulently heterosexual, has nothing to do with women and has everything to do with gaining homosocial approval from other men, Exhibit #1,253,894. 78711
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 28/08/2026Also excited to announce I'm doing three very cool workshops at the San Miguel Writers' Conference in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Feb 2027. It's going to be a lot of fun and also stunningly gorgeous.Tuition still at a discount for the next few days: sanmiguelgloballiteraryinstitute.org 070
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 28/08/2026I get 2-3 of these a day now and they are annoying af but I gotta admit this one made me laugh 2322
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 28/08/2026Y’all just ever think about how insane the Brooklyn Museum is, as a building 1505
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 27/08/2026Many great pieces on Dolly Parton this week, but @rahawahaile.bsky.social's in Scratch is by far my favorite. Just a jaw-dropping piece of beautiful writing. www.talkscratch.com/dolly-parton... 2322102
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 21/08/2026LOL at this dude in Brooklyn who can't make it past a fourth date because he's a Trumper. Like, buddy, you describe *all* of your neighbors as "shit-libs" and yet you're trying to tell yourself that your politics aren't deal breaker? No, the deal breaker is you're an asshole. 5446
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 20/08/2026This is a movie about failure, and this is its strength, and it requires of you a different kind of viewing experience. And this is true, tbh, whether or not you think Nolan is a good filmmaker. 1364
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 16/08/2026My parcel of Eden Book Society novellas arrived and I immediately dove into “An Attempted Bibliogtaphy of the Works of Barbara Livesey,” by “Stephen George Wallis,” and it was absolutely delightful—tight, terse, enigmatic, bleak and upsetting. 3140