Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Who is cleaning the seats? That’s what we want to know 020
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Ten points for every famous artist, writer, or philosopher you can name who used to hang here, extra points, if you know where the name comes from… 010
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Les Deux Magots, brunch spot of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway. Albert Camus, Pablo Picasso, James Joyce. The name refers to a popular 19th century play entitled Les Deux Magots de la Chine. The two original Chinese statues [magots] can still be found inside 020
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Bullsnake vs rattlesnake. I wouldn’t advise picking up either of them, but the rattler on the right has a distinctive arrow shaped head and is poisonous, the bullsnake is not but it mimics the rattler’s tail-shaking antics. 010
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Meanwhile, at the gloriously named Bevy’s Liquor World, I am caught with a bear behind… 010
Reposted by Tony BulmerRichard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat 246122932391
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 24/11/2025My local PD keep updating me on how things are going: Looks like it has been one of those days again… 010
Reposted by Tony BulmerThat Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 24/11/2025Step 1: Sign up for a FREE library card at your local library today. Step 2: Enter a world of possibilities. Step 3: Share some of the library joy that is sure to come.media.tenor.comfry from futurama says " and it 's all thanks to the books at my local library .. "ALT: fry from futurama says " and it 's all thanks to the books at my local library .. " 01563393
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Here’s another one of Guillermo del Toro’s crazy waxwork sculptures. Do you know who this is? 030
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Guillermo del Toro has a bunch of crazy waxwork sculptures dotted about his house check out his Edgar Allan Poe also note the bloodstain red decor… 040
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 22/11/2025When you know for a fact your bestie’s not buying you a birthday present… 140
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Here’s something to sheer you up PBS super artist Bob Ross had a personal pocket squirrel… 040
Reposted by Tony BulmerMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/11/2025Autocorrect has become our worst enema. 328124472469
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Guillermo del Toro's father, Federico del Toro, a businessman who owned a car dealership, won $6 million in the lottery in 1969. GDT says his pops spent the money on a massive house, a fabulous library and a menagerie of pets including a lion. 020
Reposted by Tony BulmerMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 17/11/2025How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time. 583709655
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 16/11/202513 years ago. I wrote a few books before this and many more since, but this one still has a special place in my heart. 011
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Frankenstein in the news again recently due to the awesome Guillermo del Toro movie. Here is a picture of the author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Richard Rothwell, find it in the National Portrait Gallery, London. 020
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Charles Dickens by Daniel Maclise 1839. National Portrait Gallery London. The sight of Dickens in his younger day is surprising to many I am sure. 010
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 16/11/2025T.S. Eliot another one of the writers who lived in my old neighborhood of Marble Arch, London. Others include P.G. Wodehouse, William Makepeace Thackeray, and the awesome Edward Lear. 010
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 16/11/2025The design of the British editions of the Chandler classics is far superior to the current American designs. 010
Reposted by Tony BulmerTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 16/11/2025My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages. 181162298
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Galleria Colonna in Rome’s Palazzo Colonna. Original design by architect Antonio del Grande and later enhanced by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Johan Paul Schor and Carlo Fontana in the final decades of the 17th century 010
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Are you watching the new Clare Dane show the Beast in Me? 010
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Smart move for the Mexican drug cartels sponsoring the Republican bill to make Cannabis illegal again, they are going to make billions. 010
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Here’s the other book I am reading this week. The title is obviously a ‘hilarious’ irony as Cameron Crowe is the dude who interviewed Led Zeppelin [ for Rolling Stone magazine ] while he was still at school. 010
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 08/11/2025One of the best books you will ever read. The fact that it was cheated out of a Pulitzer prize by Updike’s yawnsome Rabbit at Rest is of course a total travesty. 010
Tony Bulmer @toneblue.bsky.social · 08/11/2025How to know when Dirty Donny is ahead of you on the trail 020
