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All I’ll say about PRIMETIME is there are some very good actors in it, & if you want your nose really rubbed in the moral questions, watch the documentary (PREDATORS) instead

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The exhibit has almost nothing personal about Pollock or Krasner - they wanted you to see the paintings for themselves, after all. This moving & wise condolence letter from Pollock’s brother is one of the few exceptions…

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Can’t tell you how thrilling this was. To see either one clearly you have to look at both together; maybe the first time they’ve both gotten their due. Not collaboration, more than influence - explosion.

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At Krasner/Pollock, of a Krasner - MAN. So this is yours, huh? WOMAN. Yes. MAN. Pretty cool. 🙄

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The missing piece here is the Smiths which I agonised over.. TQID would be #10, I ended up striking it because I never quite played it *all the way through* as much as these…

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On the anniversary of Brian Friel's death, Seamus Heaney - 'The great thing about him is his total grip on the home ground and his attentiveness to it, and at the same time his sense of intellectual and artistic responsibility drawn from the farthest horizons.'

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The Idiot is very much a Bowie record… I debated that or Low but truthfully I got into The Idiot first… Low I owned but it took a while to settle on me. The two together made me realise the Bowie classic rock radio sold was a big lie

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Shocking, I know. In rough order of getting into them…

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Like I said about Sliwa: I disagree with him on a lot of things, but he’s a particular kind of old Brooklyn/Bronx nut who I understand & can do business with.. he genuinely likes people & animals, he loves the city, & he’s not a racist

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Stephen King is a freak genius; he seems to read everything & draw power from it without ever seeming imitative. No one who writes that much is always great but he can be, & he’s never boring. JKR appears to read only what’s useful. She can tell a story but it’s always in someone else’s territory.

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there's a whole series of YouTube videos of isolated bass & drums ... one of my favorites

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The Beatles - Something - Isolated Bass & Drums

YouTube video by jorgeparedes26

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Hope it’s no time soon but when Paul & Ringo go I think you get Beatles rhythm tracks sampled into club music, some of them are made for it

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Saw the other day he’s 86. He is not 86. I know he’s vegan, teetotal, he meditates, etc. But remember he almost died as a child, then just didn’t. Something else is going on with Ringo. Always was..

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rubber soul but it's only bass and drums

Excited the Rubber Soul remix/special edition is finally out but if you really want to get weird & look at the songs in a new way listen to just Paul & Ringo - www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSgF...

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YouTube video by RBStems2

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'Rush Hour Rain' by Diana Croft dianacroftart.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was just revisiting this Berger essay the other day: "I am among not the conquered but the defeated, whom the victors fear."

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John Berger · A Moment in Ramallah: in Palestine

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The London fox is evolving in real time. I'm serious. His snout is shrinking. He doesn't need to smell so well when he lives near Greggs. There is evidence he takes the tube like pigeons do, which is to say with purpose...

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Seen/known plenty of semi-tame London foxes but saw video of one walking up to people on a dark street, wagging its tail & begging for pets… they obliged, it rolled over…

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Out of Context Biffo the Bear @oocbiffo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I read Bernard Lefkowitz's OUR GUYS, about the Glen Ridge rape case, when I was 21. I didn't know what it was. Picked it off a shelf. The most chilling book I've ever read, seminal, crystal-clear sociology about exactly the type you find at Cornell & how society (women included) protects them.

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Beano #561, April 18, 1953

Biffo shoves a sharp stick up a hobo's bunghole as a giant strip of bacon leaps from a nearby bush.
HOBO: Careful there!
BIFFO: S-sorry!

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They’re not inside - I’m working on getting them better outdoor shelter - but they don’t mind if I wake them, & they like hanging out with me independent of food - they’ll allow my neighbor to feed them (they hang out there too) but they come when I call, sit at my feet..

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Come Saturday morning I'm locking myself in the massive new Pollock/Krasner exhibit at the Met, not touching my phone & leaving only to feed my kittens

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Got my first ‘You must be proud to have devoted a parody account to MAGA’s new patron saint’ in a while… if you’re tempted to do this, perhaps look for the many thousands of words I’ve written on it elsewhere. Perhaps go for a walk…

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Christ Church Spitalfields is the best Hawksmoor church & the best building in London I think, but at St Mary Woolnoth he lays his cards on the table - he’s not unsettling but scary. For the optimisitic a statement about the fear of God, for others (London doesn’t foster optimism) rather different..

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Passed a chimney sweep van 🫡

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Again, JCO has written 29 hrs a day, 8 days a wk for the past 457 years. This is her strength & weakness. It’s a silly statement but I can see how she specifically would make it. One of my old professors, major Shakespeare scholar, is a world-famous romance novelist. Reinventing the wheel is hard..

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I was accused of plagiarism once, or committed it unconsciously - as a student I was given a play to read 1000 times. It seeped into my work. About half a dozen non-consecutive lines in my play were similar to the other one. The dean - one of the worst people in the American theatre - admitted to

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The latter happened to me once. Song was insufficiently mean, really 🙄

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I am not sure what the Dramatists Guild is up to, or if writers even care anymore in the name of blah blah ‘collaboration,’ but it’s in the fucking contract that no name but an actor can go above the title

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Maxine Peake’s father & his partner don’t really like the theatre, but they came to see her Hamlet. She asked the partner - - Did you like it? - Not really. - Why not? - I didn’t like t’ story. Maxine was rather thrilled.

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KITTENS. We would like to sit with you, but there are sounds. Let us investigate. (They listen at the fence, disappear. I walk away, stop. Kittens materialise like ghosts.) KITTENS. We didn't say you could leave. We are trying to protect you, idiot. (They sit at my feet.)

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She & Jeremy Irons did Betrayal on 2 wks rehearsal. The first scene is notoriously difficult. My pal says it’s ‘like Mozart.’ (He’s done opera.) Their first scene is a master class, it can’t be bettered. She ended up working with Harold a lot, she loved him so much she gave him a full Wisden.

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(Kitten sits a foot away.) JS. Yes, treats. KITTEN. Hnnngh… no, no, that’s ok. (Treat drops accidentally.) KITTEN. Hnnnnnghh… (Sidesteps, approaches treat tactically.) No, no, that’s ok. (I toss treat so it’s in basically the same spot anyway.) KITTEN. Hell yeah brother

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I knew whatever promise the 90s had was dead & buried when No Way Sis had a hit with I’d Like To Teach the World to Sing. They were on TOTP. I wanted to drink bleach.

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I am known & apparently well-liked at this pub, this is a nightmare

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Mike Leigh at NYFF tonight: ‘I’ve said it before, and I don’t mind saying it again: film directors who make long speeches about their film before a screening should be taken round the back & shot in the head.’

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