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Rick Burin

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I write stuff (i Paper, Empire, Sight & Sound, Guardian, Line of Best Fit, Indicator Blu-ray). I like old movies, old books, old buildings and new music. Rep’d by The North Lit Agency.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · Aug 11

I sat down with my favourite writer, and her band. We talked about love and language and healing and sex. inews.co.uk/culture/musi...

Big Thief: ‘We want to take the shame out of sex. It’s been trashed in our culture’

The alt-folk band say their latest album is 'a record about everything': birth and death, grief, love and longing – and reclaiming the gentler side of lovemaking

inews.co.uk

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 14m

Yes, true enough. The celebration of the left’s violence in the ‘30s (much as I would love it to have been right) overlooks the fact that it was what he wanted and often counterproductive. By 1951, of course, hitting him in the face with a brick had no downside and was to be entirely encouraged.

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The story is more complicated than we tend to paint it: Mosley provoked street battles with the left (including the Battle of Cable Street) as a conscious recruiting strategy *and it worked*.

Having said that, I am glad that he was hit in the face with a brick.

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 4h

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 4h

I wrote this quite a few years ago now. CW: what you'd expect. richarddsmyth.com/2020/11/03/o...

Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 1d

Today marks the start of Baby Loss Awareness Week.

This year, it comes as the UK is about to pass a law guaranteeing the right to bereavement leave for miscarriage, making us one of only 4 countries in the world to offer it.

My heart is with everyone who experiences the heartbreak of baby loss.

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INDICATOR @indicator.bsky.social · 46m

Our January releases are now available for pre-order: tinyurl.com/krbpbs6x

Don't forget to use the code BUNDLE at checkout to get 10% off when you order Ivy, All My Sons and Undertow.

Which are you most looking forward to?

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 42m

Joan Fontaine + @pamhutch.bsky.social! The dream! Always enjoy Phil's essays too (and of course the entirely convincing father-and-son duo of Edward G. Robinson and his enormous, athletic blonde son). Lovely work as always.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 13h

We need a Susie Dent ruling on this. Until then I’m just assuming it’s another word Americans can’t pronounce.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 13h

Are you high

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15h

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 13h

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 13h

I’m quite good at guessing the exact time when it’s been a few hours since anyone checked

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted both that Dolly is OK, and that young culture journalists have to keep mentioning the forgotten 1930s character actor, Jean Hersholt.

Parton did not elaborate or specify on the “health challenges” that also forced her to withdraw from November’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Governors Awards, where she was set to receive the Jean Hersholt humanitarian award. But she made clear that she was undergoing medical treatments near her home in Nashville.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Oct 27

teashoesandhair on tumblr:

"Stellar conversation on BBC Wales today"

Caller: I live in America now, since the '80s, but I'm visiting family in Wales this week, and I thought I'd ring in.
Host: Why did you move from Wales to America?
Caller: I actually moved because of a woman.
Host: Who's the lucky lady?
Caller: Margaret Thatcher.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 14h

Hahaha

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 14h

I have reason to send the visual round a couple of times a week

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 14h

No, absolutely not. Poorly phrased by me – hard, but essential, to see it on its own terms.

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 14h

“A second Albanian plane has hit Aberbaijan”

Marco Rubio whispering to Trump, a visual echo of Bush on 9/11

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 14h

I feel like it’s good in itself and would have been an interesting stand-alone, but the slasher craze it inspired was almost entirely negative, regressive and moribund. Similar to Tarantino’s first two in that respect, only more so.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 15h

This tweet is superb. Thx

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 15h

I remember reading the pieces at the time and thinking, “What the fucking hell is this, who cares about Glitter’s rights this much?!” Makes more sense now

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 15h

Keep it light, Rick

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Guardian could use this stuff maybe

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 16h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 23h

Happy Hearts of Fire day to those who celebrate! I talked to Beau Hill, Music Director of the movie and producer of the soundtrack, about months of chaos working on Bob Dylan's infamous flop

And I got an answer to the question we've all been asking: How much did Bob really know about Ratt?

Producer Beau Hill on Chaos and Confusion Making Bob Dylan's 'Hearts of Fire'

"Let's see if Bob can remember his instructions from fifteen seconds ago"

www.flaggingdown.com

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 15h

Nice try

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 15h

Dave sends his best, comments on your good-egg-ness

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