Marc Burrows
@20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk
Writer/musician/comic. Pratchett biographer.✏️: Guardian, New Statesman, Big Issue, Independent, Radio Times & more. Used to work at Twitter. Always writing a book. NIRVANA — A detailed guide to the band changed everything OUT NOV 30! He/Him 🏳️🌈
Got an EasyJet flight from Bristol to Edinburgh without showing any ID at any point. Surely, surely that’s not right?
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Got an EasyJet flight from Bristol to Edinburgh without showing any ID at any point. Surely, surely that’s not right?
Smelly man in the swimming pool,
Where have you been?
Did you not have a shower before you got in?
There’s a waft of sweat and cigarettes when I overtake
And a suspicious tang of ammonia
That you’ve left in your wake. #poetry
Where have you been?
Did you not have a shower before you got in?
There’s a waft of sweat and cigarettes when I overtake
And a suspicious tang of ammonia
That you’ve left in your wake. #poetry
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Smelly man in the swimming pool,
Where have you been?
Did you not have a shower before you got in?
There’s a waft of sweat and cigarettes when I overtake
And a suspicious tang of ammonia
That you’ve left in your wake. #poetry
Where have you been?
Did you not have a shower before you got in?
There’s a waft of sweat and cigarettes when I overtake
And a suspicious tang of ammonia
That you’ve left in your wake. #poetry
If I ever become a millionaire i’m going to Ballad Of Wallace Island Slow Club (who it’s definitely based on anyway) and it’s going to be proper awkward.
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If I ever become a millionaire i’m going to Ballad Of Wallace Island Slow Club (who it’s definitely based on anyway) and it’s going to be proper awkward.
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Cybercuck
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Cybercuck
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
When did bitter disapear from pubs? When I first started going to pubs the chilled pumps were always lager, cider, stout, mild and bitter. What happened to the last two?
October 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
When did bitter disapear from pubs? When I first started going to pubs the chilled pumps were always lager, cider, stout, mild and bitter. What happened to the last two?
The word “migrant” is unecessary rage bait here and the BBC fucking know it. They’re pouring petrol on a fire.
October 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The word “migrant” is unecessary rage bait here and the BBC fucking know it. They’re pouring petrol on a fire.
Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness was released 30 years ago this week, so it’s a nice time to pull this piece I wrote for The Guardian back in 2015 out of the archive: www.theguardian.com/music/musicb...
Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, 20 years on
Billy Corgan took a risk by demanding his band’s third record be a double-album, but it went on to become the last great alternative-rock record of the 90s
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness was released 30 years ago this week, so it’s a nice time to pull this piece I wrote for The Guardian back in 2015 out of the archive: www.theguardian.com/music/musicb...
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I don't think I've ever in my life seen an ad less likely to sell me on a product
October 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I don't think I've ever in my life seen an ad less likely to sell me on a product
Delighted to find that Lilly Allen has filled the "bitter masterpiece" gap left by Taylor Swift's happiness.
October 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Delighted to find that Lilly Allen has filled the "bitter masterpiece" gap left by Taylor Swift's happiness.
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I cringe every time I send a follow up email because it's like, "hello, I understand you're likely overworked, underpaid, and juggling 500 things in work and life and everything but just seeing if you saw this." 🫠
October 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I cringe every time I send a follow up email because it's like, "hello, I understand you're likely overworked, underpaid, and juggling 500 things in work and life and everything but just seeing if you saw this." 🫠
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
October 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
Nothing like being woken up at 5am by the stench of the cat shitting on the carpet on your side of the bed.
October 17, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Nothing like being woken up at 5am by the stench of the cat shitting on the carpet on your side of the bed.
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OK there's my Unhinged Literary Opinion: Pratchett is the greatest humanist/philosophical writer of our era.
and since he really does have a quote for everything, in the wise words of Sir Terry Pratchett: “Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book.”
October 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
OK there's my Unhinged Literary Opinion: Pratchett is the greatest humanist/philosophical writer of our era.
I honestly think Melanie’s new book is astonishing. I read the first half over three or four days, im not a fast reader, then I hit the mid-point when the revolution kicks in and couldn’t put it down again. I devoured the last 150 pages that day.
More lovely reviews of my new book about Marie Antoinette!
It's now officially available from all the usual places but if you're after a signed copy or can't wait for it to be released in America, I still have a few copies left that can be bought via us.
www.marcburrows.co.uk/product/pre-...
It's now officially available from all the usual places but if you're after a signed copy or can't wait for it to be released in America, I still have a few copies left that can be bought via us.
www.marcburrows.co.uk/product/pre-...
October 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I honestly think Melanie’s new book is astonishing. I read the first half over three or four days, im not a fast reader, then I hit the mid-point when the revolution kicks in and couldn’t put it down again. I devoured the last 150 pages that day.
The first write up of Mistletoe & Vinyl was in, and it's LOVELY. You know where to go if you want to get hold of one. www.hintonmagazine.com/post/the-sto...
The Story of the Christmas Number One – A Cultural Obsession in Vinyl and Glitter
Every December, Britain turns its gaze towards the charts. For a few weeks, the pursuit of the Christmas number one single becomes a national sport. It is a competition that has drawn in rock icons, m...
www.hintonmagazine.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The first write up of Mistletoe & Vinyl was in, and it's LOVELY. You know where to go if you want to get hold of one. www.hintonmagazine.com/post/the-sto...
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor hits out at transphobia: “These people make trans people their whole personality and spend their entire day being angry” 💯
“There was a time when Pride felt like a celebration of the shoulders people were able to stand on, but now it feels like an absolute political necessity”
“There was a time when Pride felt like a celebration of the shoulders people were able to stand on, but now it feels like an absolute political necessity”
Sophie Ellis-Bextor hits out at transphobia: "These people make trans people their whole personality"
Sophie Ellis-Bextor has criticised increasing levels of transphobia in the UK and overseas in a new interview.
www.nme.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Sophie Ellis-Bextor hits out at transphobia: “These people make trans people their whole personality and spend their entire day being angry” 💯
“There was a time when Pride felt like a celebration of the shoulders people were able to stand on, but now it feels like an absolute political necessity”
“There was a time when Pride felt like a celebration of the shoulders people were able to stand on, but now it feels like an absolute political necessity”
I keep reading that em dashes are a “big AI tell” and now i’m worried everything I have ever written is AI because I bloody love an em dash.
October 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I keep reading that em dashes are a “big AI tell” and now i’m worried everything I have ever written is AI because I bloody love an em dash.
MAFS but it’s for men over 35 looking for other men to be friends with.
October 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
MAFS but it’s for men over 35 looking for other men to be friends with.
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Our Hogfather episode references:
- @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk 's Terry Pratchett show, since 2 quotes he uses early on are from this book
-How to stop future humans from tampering with nuclear waste
-Nightmare Before Christmas
-Live Aid, which might have aged badly
-so much Christmas stuff
- @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk 's Terry Pratchett show, since 2 quotes he uses early on are from this book
-How to stop future humans from tampering with nuclear waste
-Nightmare Before Christmas
-Live Aid, which might have aged badly
-so much Christmas stuff
Hogfather
Death is covering for a festive figure. Despite wanting to be normal, Susan investigates the Hogfather's disappearance. Meanwhile the wizards find household spirits popping into existence. We discuss Christmas - er Hogswatch- traditions, & cool mythic stuff.
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-z95n2-...
Death is covering for a festive figure. Despite wanting to be normal, Susan investigates the Hogfather's disappearance. Meanwhile the wizards find household spirits popping into existence. We discuss Christmas - er Hogswatch- traditions, & cool mythic stuff.
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-z95n2-...
Dining Table Discworld - Hogfather
Death is covering for a festive anthropomorphic personification, coming down the chimney with presents, a cushion up his robe and attempted jollity.
Despite wanting to be normal, Susan investigates wh...
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October 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Our Hogfather episode references:
- @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk 's Terry Pratchett show, since 2 quotes he uses early on are from this book
-How to stop future humans from tampering with nuclear waste
-Nightmare Before Christmas
-Live Aid, which might have aged badly
-so much Christmas stuff
- @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk 's Terry Pratchett show, since 2 quotes he uses early on are from this book
-How to stop future humans from tampering with nuclear waste
-Nightmare Before Christmas
-Live Aid, which might have aged badly
-so much Christmas stuff
Drums. Drums in the deep.
September 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Drums. Drums in the deep.
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Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the railway by travelling via Euston
September 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the railway by travelling via Euston
In England we call it Paracetemautism.
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
In England we call it Paracetemautism.
Like all Muppet revivals (except the 2011 movie, oddly) this will be roundly panned as sub-par when it comes out, and then about five years later everyone will realise it was genius. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t...
Seth Rogen Revives ‘The Muppet Show’ as a Disney+ Special Starring Sabrina Carpenter
The 2026 event is meant to serve as a backdoor pilot.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Like all Muppet revivals (except the 2011 movie, oddly) this will be roundly panned as sub-par when it comes out, and then about five years later everyone will realise it was genius. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t...