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Elizabeth Harper @cadaverformosus.bsky.social · 14h

baby, just say yesss

James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In Herzog's (excellent) Nosferatu, they call Count Orlok by Dracula's name. Which isn't right, imo, Orlok is a very different character, not just his Wisborgian non-Union equivalent.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finding Antony & Cleopatra a hotter, more romantic play than the post-adolescent view of love as offered by Romeo & Juliet on first read. Greatly helped by the character of Cleopatra having a personality.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One year ago this week we lost the great writer Kaleb Horton. I am still very sorry that I won't ever get to read anything new by him ever again. Today his partner @katehascats.bsky.social joins us to write about her experience of loss and grief.

welcometohellworld.com

There is only before and after he died

Losing Kaleb

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 28/09/2026

[Doesn’t listen to radio] [Keeps AirPods in when in public spaces] [Listens to the same Spotify playlist every day] How can that song be a hit? I’ve never even heard it!

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tempted to stop redecorating there. Stylish and conceptual feeing.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Man, they're going to turn me into the old me..." CUT TO: Me, staggering drunkenly before I slip pathetically in my own vomit and collapse on to the road

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Payday has come and gone without any sign of may paycheck, which is supposed to arrive via snail mail. I have not received a paycheck in nearly a month. Please help if you can. Venmo: C-Kelley-2 PayPal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/cke...

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Pay Christine Kelley using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/CKelley379 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm as surprised as anyone, but, once again, the greatest show of all time is the 1997 Craig Charles pirate sitcom Captain Butler.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

With the extremely honourable exceptions of Prince & Leonard Cohen, I don't need my cis-het songwriters on the topic of being horny. Saying that, I listened to the Ed Sheeran songs I like and, even with that allowance made, the way the guy writes about about vanilla sexuality kind of grosses me out.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Kicking the day off with Devo, a band that's only now clicking with me after finding the vocals off putting for years. Playfully intense, intensely playful style.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

'Prices At Auschwitz' sounds like a track left off a Gang of Four album for being too unsubtle.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Mary Wallopers are really hitting their stride. I've liked them from the start, but I'm loving their growing confidence.

Paddywhackery album cover by the Mary Wallopers 2026

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Morning bike ride fuel. It's got to be doing something...

Creatine water. Protein shake. Supplements including omega 3s, saw palmetto, pomegranate husk, vitamin b, two vitamin ds, vitamin c, coenzyme q 10, calcium, probiotic bio cultures. Oat milk coffee. And my current read to stop me from just instantly expiring from boredom.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm forever telling the Mrs that she's never seen the Hitchcock film Gaslight, which we've watched together twice. I'm not anywhere near as cute as I think I am.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I wonder when the archetype of super shred Jesus began.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Room to thrive?" It's fucking dead, mate. *I'm* thriving more than this chicken.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ME, aged 14 in 2003, listening intently to Never Mind the Bollocks: Yeah! Fucking EMI. I hate those guys.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Nicki Minaj voice: Beans on my hat Beans on my hat

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Guess who has at least one thumb, lay down to rest his eyes for 15 minutes and failed to wake for two magnificent hours? Hint: he'll be working til 7pm tonight.

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Kit Gonzo @kitgonzo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New book news! October! blackshuckbooks.co.uk/fish-hooks/

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Fish Hooks – Black Shuck Books

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 16/09/2026

Volume 2 of Last War in Albion is now available in print. The story of how Watchmen set off a magical war for the soul of Britain. Also featuring The Cuddled Little Vice, my Hugo-nominated history of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. Written for neophytes and deep fans alike. www.amazon.com/Last-War-Alb...

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Let's start the day with the most gorgeous of live albums.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh yeah. This is my kind of book. The best books have these guys.

had a bipartisan tradition and a conservative Democratic leadership. It was another story in the eighty-member Assembly, which was led and often ruled by Jesse Marvin Unruh, its flamboyant speaker. Unruh had been such a thorn in Pat Brown’s side that a Brown aide told me that the one solace in Brown’s crushing defeat was that “the Unruh problem” was now Reagan’s.

Unruh would have been a handful for any governor. Nicknamed “Big Daddy” for a supposed resemblance to the rotund and domineering father in the Tennessee Williams play _Cat on a Hot Tin Roof_, Unruh was a contradictory figure with gargantuan appetites for power, food, booze, and sex—especially power. He was alternately principled and devious, sophisticated and crude, thoughtful and impulsive, visionary and myopic. Unruh delighted in the exercise of raw power; his fellow (also powerful) Democrat in the State Senate, George Miller Jr., once called him “Little Nero.” In a notable display of pettiness, Unruh refused to replace the broken typewriter of a secretary for a Republican legislator who had voted against him on a minor bill. But Unruh was also the leader of a national movement to improve the seedy image and second-class status of state legislators. Even his numerous enemies acknowledged that he had upgraded the quality of the California Legislature and equipped it with a capable professional staff.

Unruh was as self-taught as Reagan, with even humbler roots. The son of Texas sharecroppers with limited schooling, he had enlisted in the Navy during World War II and improved his language skills by reading self-help texts such as _Thirty Days to a Better Vocabulary_. After World War II, he attended the University of Southern California on the GI Bill of Rights, plunged into campus politics, and wrote for the _Daily Trojan_, then an excellent collegiate newspaper. As a dirt-poor liberal, he was attracted to left-wing causes and had a brief flirtation with the Communists, whom he respected for their organi…

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I do find Chaucer's Canterbury Tales great company and it succeeds in raising quite a few smiles, but the earliest, so far, that's *very* funny to me is Don Quixote. It's asinine to call it modern feeling, but it has moments that are funny like a variety of my favourite humourists.

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Lee Russell (TMBDOS! Podcast) @tmbdos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Lee & Daniel are joined by Gary Hill to pay tribute to two singular talents who have recently left us, Dolly Parton & Tim Curry. In this episode they talk about Parton's debut in Colin Higgins' "9 to 5" & Curry bringing his star power to Allan Moyle's "Times Square". www.podbean.com/ew/pb-rdqe2-...

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"So sorry I had the Mandela Effect for your birthday, babe."

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's totally fine for the Kids, an imaginary construct built out of the attention seeking cream of an unhealthy social media ecosystem, to dislike the creative work that opens an escape for me. Nobody's paying me to do PR for the shit I like and nothing external will change how I feel about them.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I compare having an LLM do your writing for you to having a Star Trek transporter beaming a digestion ready dinner directly to your waiting stomach. Saving you the messy unpleantness of chewing and tasting and swallowing your food.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Late 60s, early 70s Dylan records are a clear attempt to dissolve the worrying cult of personality that he had purposely built & then become scared of. They are "Get away from my bins!" albums & sometimes bad. Springsteen made some "Get away from my bins!" LPs post BitUSA, but kept the quality up.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I remember Ted Cruz claiming that 9/11 made him realise that country music was "his people" due to how they reacted versus how the rock world did. This is just as meaningless.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I got home from school at about 4ish and my aunt called the landline to tell me.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Paul Schrader isn't the type of creative 2026 can sustain. His biography was bound for an early death by drugs, drink, or his own decision sometime in the Reagan administration. The guy using AI is a historical error. Like receiving an email sent by Ernie Wise.

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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

NEW IDSG. The Deadly Persecution of Dr Jason Arday. I prepped an episode for @danielharper.bsky.social on this disgraceful and tragic story, tracking the lynching back to its true source, the Thiel funded elite UK far right. idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/147-the-camp...

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I Don't Speak German: 147: The Deadly Persecution of Dr Jason Arday

Jack preps an episode for Daniel about the sinister, unhinged, bloodthirsty persecution of Dr Jason Arday in the depraved UK media, which led to his tragic death.  The real story leads us through...

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

London night transport was enviable, man. It wasn't SAFE but it was usually reliable. I could be drinking a pint in the smoking area of a Croydon night club, see the N68 coming, finish my beer and, in theory, be dropped off within 4 minutes walk of my ma's flat.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The employment situation appears to be settling, so I'm very grateful to get time back where I can write, instead of fighting two hours a day looking to support us. Watch this space.

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

this reminds me of the very strange time in high school I got really into Echo and the Bunnymen and a friend of mine thought it was Jive Bunny and the Master Mixers and got super snotty about it

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

NEW | I took at look at where ‘mega-dinghy’ came from and why it’s all over the media… THE BALLAD OF THE ‘MEGA-DINGHY’ With the number of irregular boat crossings in the Channel at a seven-year low, the use of a new term is reaching an all-time high. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-ballad...

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The ballad of the ‘mega-dinghy’

With the number of irregular boat crossings in the Channel at a seven-year low, the use of a scary new term is reaching an all-time high.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Played the most recent Helen Love album from 2022 for the first time, because I needed some music to speak comfort to me. The pure alcopop adrenaline of the first flush of teenage enthusiasm. But, no, it's about staring down middle aged depression. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Helen Love - This is my World (Full Album) - YouTube

The full album for This is my World / Music by Helen Love playlist Helen Love - This is my World / Helen Love Full Album This is my World tracklist (Helen Lo...

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thinking about Johnny Ramone's grave. I don't know if it's the lamest or the coolest, but it's certainly the Johnny Ramonest.

A life size statue of his playing guitar

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Shouldn't have accepted emojis for work emails. This is an evil endeavour. Don't you try and cuten this up. The lads at Enron were acquisitive vultures feasting on the carrion of twentieth century capitalism, but at least they didn't respond to an outline of their upcoming fraud by clicking a heart.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Let me tell you: there was such a paucity of the rich actual Black-British culture allowed to transmit from the mainstream in the UK at the time the original Ali G series and film were on, that my South London afro-carribean 14 year old peers 100% unironically got onboard with the character.

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Am I a birthday party for the producer of SNL? Cos I am For Lorne!

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This month's "cheer myself up" haul.

Governer Reagan - Lou Cannon. Sweet and Tender Hooligan - Ian Pattison. A life of Muddy Waters. The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear

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James S Murphy @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

After putting off the for as long as we could after the initial trauma around the first, reduced acceptance, we're working on getting my Mrs the amount of PIP she's legally entitled to. This system, as you'll know, is so absurdly sadistic that even the hold music is pitched beyond the pain barrier.

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Good Squiddance @squidfromspace.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Despise my first name, so: Sinister Prevenge Await Further Instructions Caveat Enys Men Southbound Quatermass & the Pit Unfriended It Follows Day Of The Dead (1985)

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