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David Collard

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Autheur. Unfluencer. 'A Crumpled Swan' (2025) https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/a_crumpled_swan/ 'Multiple Joyce' (2022) https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/ (No DMs. I block anonymous followers with no bio or original posts)

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 8h

🎶 "One of these things is not like the other / One of these things just does not belong..."

David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 8h

"William Golding's beloved novel" FFS. Let's ban the use of 'beloved' in any context apart from the liturgical phrase 'dearly beloved'

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

First images emerge from new BBC adaptation of Lord of the Flies

Adolescence writer/producer Jack Thorne is behind the first TV adaptation of William Golding’s beloved novel

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 1d

People shouldn't study rip off degrees like English, all you do is get to explore the towering beauty of the human spirit, how is that going help you slog away at a job you hate, working for vicious idiots until you die?

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 10h

Ignore my quation. Just read Alt Text. You should come and see it at the Muswell Hill Everyman! Big screen, fab 1930s interior.

David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 10h

You're at IMAX? I find the steep rake of the seating very unsettling! Is it worth the extra quids for the full VitaVision experience? planning to see it again. And again.

David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 10h

'Thinking man's crumpet' was the term applied by Frank Muir to Joan Bakewell and subsequently adapted by lesser hacks. 'Crumpet man's thinker' was the term applied (brilliantly, I'd say) by Stewart Lee to Mariella Frostrup.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 15h

Surrounded by gilt.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 17h

Come to our place tonight. We're having an accordion party.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 17h

Hell, it's worth sharing the whole clip
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satantango dance in bar - Google Search

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 17h

Celebrate!

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 18h

Visually and acoustically this is like the hotel room at the end of 2001: a Space Odyssey.

Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 announcement about to begin

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 19h

Take a look at City & Guilds qualifications available locally. www.cityandguilds.com/en/qualifica...

Hairdressing

City & Guilds offers a wide range of qualifications in Hairdressing and Barbering, including Introductory, Higher Level and apprenticeship options. Learn more.<br/>

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 20h

Asking people to pay for goods would kill the shoplifting industry ...

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 1d

A late thought, but among the very best immersions: 'The Speakers' by Heathcote Williams, written when he was 22. OMFG.

David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 1d

Wonderful reading!

Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to Michael (who you might have spotted recently in #houseofguinness) for doing this.

Michael Hughes Reads From Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING

YouTube video by Sagging Meniscus

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone mentioned 'Moby-Dick'?

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 1d

I write about launches in 'A Crumpled Swan' (see the essay 'On brouhaha'). I organised one last year for Kevin Boniface's 'Sports and Social' and we had readings, an interview, a performance, brilliant stand-up @johnnywreallyx2.bsky.social and a raffle. A great night out and we sold a LOT of books.

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Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to Michael Hughes, currently appearing in #houseofguinness and author of COUNTRY, for reading this passage from THE COAST OF EVERYTHING by Guillermo Stitch.

Preorder the novel at https://thecoastofeverything.com.

Michael Hughes Reads From Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING

Thanks to Michael Hughes, currently appearing in #houseofguinness and author of COUNTRY, for reading this passage from THE COAST OF EVERYTHING by Guillermo S...

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 1d

It's disappointing I know (which is why I prefer to run online gatherings - there are no overheads). Outside London and festivals I think it's very hard to build a community of loyal attendees willing to pay, say, £10 for an event unless it has added value (music, stand-up, perfromance etc)

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 1d

40% is a pretty good turnout in most contexts (as is a 40% response to an online questionnaire). Thing is, if an event is free people register, but have no stake so may not come. If there's a fee fewer will regiiter but most or all of them will come, because they've made a real investment.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 1d

The reports of the UK Mass Observation Movement of the 1930s, which observed the customs and behaviours of the British working classes under a surrealist anthropological lens. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass-Ob...

Mass-Observation - Wikipedia

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 1d

If not too glaringly obvious: Orwell's 'Down and Out in Paris and London'

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 1d

This Saturday/Sunday: a two-day show of new work by six contemporary women ceramicists. PV on Sat (from 6pm). All welcome.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 2d

You've enriched their lives, and ours, immeasurably, and you should feel a warm glow. So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 2d

The role of Harry was played by the uncredited Philip Truex.

Bernard Herrmann Archive @bernardherrmann.bsky.social · 2d

Publicity still for Alfred Hitchcock’s THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955), featuring: Mildred Natwick, Edmund Gwenn, Jerry Mathers, Shirley MacLaine, John Forsythe and “Harry.”

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