DJ Punctum
@djpunctum.bsky.social
"Modern medicine is not a line where you left your fossils." Married to an American so watch it. Co-author of the now completed Then Play Long blog (https://nobilliards.blogspot.com).
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'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
I wrote about that album on my shortlived Ogun Records blog in February. So far 76 people have read it. That's why it was shortlived.
Always nice to find an OG Ogun in the wild. A hidden gem in the vocal jazz section at Newcastle’s Beatdown. Jaimie Cullum it ain’t!
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I wrote about that album on my shortlived Ogun Records blog in February. So far 76 people have read it. That's why it was shortlived.
Guardian Opinion | Jacinda Ardern's Covid policy for New Zealand was the correct and most successful approach. But her refusal to exempt fascists from wearing masks marks her down as a failure.
By Gaby Hinsliff
By Gaby Hinsliff
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Guardian Opinion | Jacinda Ardern's Covid policy for New Zealand was the correct and most successful approach. But her refusal to exempt fascists from wearing masks marks her down as a failure.
By Gaby Hinsliff
By Gaby Hinsliff
I'd rather not watch, thanks. I think the people of Britain have had more than enough of scripted quips. Pull the entire edifice down and go back to proper socialists versus capitalists, you knew where you were etc.
Watch as Rachel Reeves brands Greens leader Zack Polanski a 'keen hypnotherapist'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I'd rather not watch, thanks. I think the people of Britain have had more than enough of scripted quips. Pull the entire edifice down and go back to proper socialists versus capitalists, you knew where you were etc.
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RIP Jack Shepherd. A very fine actor indeed.
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
RIP Jack Shepherd. A very fine actor indeed.
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In which I dissect the 2022 Best Actor race: the worst winner in this category in years vs the most deserving nominee in years. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/m...
My Alternative Oscars: Best Actor 2022
The nominees: Austin Butler – Elvis Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin Brendan Fraser – The Whale Paul Mescal – Aftersun Bill Nighy – Living The worst acting wi…
humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
In which I dissect the 2022 Best Actor race: the worst winner in this category in years vs the most deserving nominee in years. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/m...
#NowPlaying and it really is as good as everybody's saying it is, unlike certain other recent albums I could mention:
open.spotify.com/album/0yBlUg...
open.spotify.com/album/0yBlUg...
Cabin In The Sky
open.spotify.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
#NowPlaying and it really is as good as everybody's saying it is, unlike certain other recent albums I could mention:
open.spotify.com/album/0yBlUg...
open.spotify.com/album/0yBlUg...
Let's confine lists to being aids to shopping, and rankings to the Army, eh?
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Let's confine lists to being aids to shopping, and rankings to the Army, eh?
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The first - splendid! - reviews of Telenovela by Gonzalo C Garcia have started arriving:
Telenovela by Gonzalo C. Garcia
Review by Victoria Best
The telenovela is a uniquely Latin American creation. It began as the radionovela, a drama told in episodes of 15 minutes that was broadcast during the daytime as enter
shinynewbooks.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The first - splendid! - reviews of Telenovela by Gonzalo C Garcia have started arriving:
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Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
many rivers to cross
jimmy cliff on saturday night live, 1976.
vimeo.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
What a delightful day out we had for our eighteenth wedding anniversary today. Just goes to show that London still possesses that magic - you have to work slightly harder to find it these days, but it is still there.
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
What a delightful day out we had for our eighteenth wedding anniversary today. Just goes to show that London still possesses that magic - you have to work slightly harder to find it these days, but it is still there.
UK album chart early midweeks (no stats yet) and technically the number one is an E.P. but anyway:
1 Aerosmith & YUNGBLUD - One More Time
2 James - Nothing But Love: The Definitive Best Of
3 Olly Murs - Knees Up
4 The Beatles - Anthology 4
5 Madness - Hit Parade
1 Aerosmith & YUNGBLUD - One More Time
2 James - Nothing But Love: The Definitive Best Of
3 Olly Murs - Knees Up
4 The Beatles - Anthology 4
5 Madness - Hit Parade
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
UK album chart early midweeks (no stats yet) and technically the number one is an E.P. but anyway:
1 Aerosmith & YUNGBLUD - One More Time
2 James - Nothing But Love: The Definitive Best Of
3 Olly Murs - Knees Up
4 The Beatles - Anthology 4
5 Madness - Hit Parade
1 Aerosmith & YUNGBLUD - One More Time
2 James - Nothing But Love: The Definitive Best Of
3 Olly Murs - Knees Up
4 The Beatles - Anthology 4
5 Madness - Hit Parade
What a pity Haircut 100 only recorded one song, as oldies radio would have you believe.
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
What a pity Haircut 100 only recorded one song, as oldies radio would have you believe.
The smiling future versus the snarling recent past. No contest.
Kuenssberg and Polanski face off over who runs the UK
flip.it/DP0zmA
Didn't watch it, but have heard how brilliant Zack was - as we all knew he would!
#GreenSurge 💚
flip.it/DP0zmA
Didn't watch it, but have heard how brilliant Zack was - as we all knew he would!
#GreenSurge 💚
Kuenssberg and Polanski face off over who runs the UK
Zack Polanski and Kuenssberg went face to face, and finally a politician asked why Britain is at the mercy of unelected financial traders
flip.it
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The smiling future versus the snarling recent past. No contest.
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How to make the front pages without taking Russian bribes or being performatively cruel to desperate people.
Make hope normal again!
Make hope normal again!
Things move quickly in politics. The idea of a Sunday broadsheet dedicating it's entire front page to @greenparty.org.uk is huge, and let's be honest, a sign of changing times.
People are sitting up and noticing @zackpolanski.bsky.social
join.greenparty.org.uk
People are sitting up and noticing @zackpolanski.bsky.social
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
How to make the front pages without taking Russian bribes or being performatively cruel to desperate people.
Make hope normal again!
Make hope normal again!
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This week’s listening.
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This week’s listening.
Boom Vintage Charts playing selected Top 20 hits from next week in November 1981. Listening to it didn't feel like November 1981 but that's mainly because it isn't November 1981 any more.
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Boom Vintage Charts playing selected Top 20 hits from next week in November 1981. Listening to it didn't feel like November 1981 but that's mainly because it isn't November 1981 any more.
That new Olly Murs album is quite perky, which in 2025 is a very good thing to be.
November 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
That new Olly Murs album is quite perky, which in 2025 is a very good thing to be.
Right-wing tosspot annoyed that people don't want to listen to right-wing toss on the radio shock. Scolding people for not listening to you, that's the way to attract figures and justify the licence fee.
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Right-wing tosspot annoyed that people don't want to listen to right-wing toss on the radio shock. Scolding people for not listening to you, that's the way to attract figures and justify the licence fee.
You keep on talking about a television programme that's intended for children, I'm going to keep muting you. It's more than a little creepy doing that at your age; just saying.
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
You keep on talking about a television programme that's intended for children, I'm going to keep muting you. It's more than a little creepy doing that at your age; just saying.
Record players and guitars aren't going to cut it in 2025, old chap.
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Record players and guitars aren't going to cut it in 2025, old chap.
I love how the stamping feet on "Jeepster" are slightly but gloriously out of sync. Humanity, you see. That's what we used to have. It would all get ironed out now because it would detract from the "lore" that would enhance the performer's "career path."
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I love how the stamping feet on "Jeepster" are slightly but gloriously out of sync. Humanity, you see. That's what we used to have. It would all get ironed out now because it would detract from the "lore" that would enhance the performer's "career path."
How about reducing them?
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
How about reducing them?