Robin Allender
@robinallender.bsky.social
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Walk into the pub and it’s playing Songs Ohia, decent energy. Have a good Friday. Imagine if I ended this with bosh haha.
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Ha! I don’t even know that one!
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Spotted a classic music journalist getting 4/4 confused with four on the floor today
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The only thing Taylor Swift should have beef with is horseradish!! I live alone.
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Just saw an ad for the new Nigel Slater book A Thousand Feasts and thought it said A Thousand Fears. Might be time to give the Aickman a break.
robinallender.bsky.social
Was this prompted by playing Connections this morning?
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One of the more interesting Beatles covers I’ve heard, which I was introduced to on KMHD tonight. youtu.be/Kp0n-461fg8?...
Counter Points Come Together
YouTube video by wilt234
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Ah great I don’t know that story, will check. Aickman is great, have a go on The Hospice
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I’ve started reading Robert Aickman’s ghastly little stories
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This whole thread is absolutely peak Bluesky. Dear Americans, not everything is about you.
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Announcing this on a board where Americans are in the fight of their lives against a fascist takeover may be a pointer....
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How is it possible to do anything when there are simply so many word games to play each morning
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The End of an Earring – Pam St Clement
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.
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I decided to take my first album off the streaming services (because I think it’s awful!), but it is still on Bandcamp if anyone wants to listen to it

robinallender.bandcamp.com/album/the-bi...
The Bird and the Word, by Robin Allender
11 track album
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robinallender.bsky.social
Why does Dolly Parton spoonerised sound like someone you went to primary school with
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Just dropped ‘rich as Croesus’ into a conversation for the first time, think it went well, and I really enjoyed it. Would recommend!
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"My name's Kitty. I could have married, I've given gallons of blood and I can't stomach whelks, so that's me for you."

RIP Patricia Routledge.
Patricia Routledge Kitty
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Fascinating cover of Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room on the new Taylor Swift album
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Was listening to the new Joanne Robertson album on the bus this morning when my bluetooth headphones stopped working, which meant that I gave my fellow travellers on the number 40 a quick blast of some of the vaguest music ever recorded
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Ah yes, I love this album! I love a lot of their stuff. Also really like This Is Lorelei, the guitarist’s solo project, my fave album of last year. Really interesting band.
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Sometimes I put an apostrophe in an Excel spreadsheet just to watch it disappear
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A simple, haunting poetry in this information from a medical musuem website.
The museum’s floor has a gradual slope. Our displays reference life and death. There are mannequins.
robinallender.bsky.social
Incredible book. I gave my copy to Cass McCombs. I wonder if he read it.
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I bought a remaindered copy of All the Devils Are Here ('local interest') in 2005, recommended it to my editor at Penguin, who in turn recommended it to Rachel Cooke, who wrote about it and made a podcast with us, which led to it being republished, which led to this. open.spotify.com/episode/6ZlW...
All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook part 2
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Has a bloke ever managed to take off their jumper without also pulling up their T-shirt to reveal their bare midriff