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Andrew Crowther

@andrewcrowther.bsky.social

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Unprofessional writer, author of "Down to Earth" published by Stairwell Books and also "Stupid Stories for Tough Times" published by Renard Press, Secretary of the W S Gilbert Society, brunch liberal, and twit Bradford, Yorkshire

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Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · Aug 17

It's no use denying that part of the reason I'm on Bluesky is to publicise myself as a writer. I don't really know how to do it, but I'm guessing the best thing is to let people know what my books are like & how to get them; give an idea of my style and viewpoint; & warn them that I look like this:

A picture of me. I wear glasses and I have a little beard and moustache. I am smiling faintly and I stare into the camera with an expression that says, "Trust me with all your money." The picture is by Mark Bailey.

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Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 2h

I’m convinced they’re just having us on.

Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 10h

(defiantly) Well, *I* thought it was funny

Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 14h

Thinking of starting a fantasy and dystopian science fiction magazine. I’d call it “Warlocks and Morlocks”

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 21h

People coming down with Covid all around me. We're in a big wave - protect yourself. Studies show chance of Long Covid/ other damage rises with every infection.

A month after school starts...who knew. And classrooms with no hepafilter units bec govt/schools disallow it. #bcpoli

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Dan O'Hara @skeuomorphology.bsky.social · 15h

Shrewbury & Telford NHS Trust reintroducing masks as of today.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Charles M. Schulz Museum | The home of Snoopy & the Peanuts Gang @schulzmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on October 7, 1958.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 3d

Aquarius: Some good old fashioned rest and relaxation would do a world of good for your physical and mental well-being. Oh well.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 3d

Cancer: You will be the worst possible version of yourself today, but no one will notice the difference.

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Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 2d

I feel knackered,
Oh so knackered,
I feel haggard and jiggered and jinxed,
So cream-crackered
That I jumble all the thoughts I've thinksed

Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 3d

It is remarkable how much of the most powerful literature consists of writers finding new and ever more urgent ways of saying that people should be nice to each other. So obvious and banal, and so necessary to say again and again, in all ages.

Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 3d

My BORDERS plan in full:

Bring back Borders bookshop
Oh, bring back Borders bookshop
Really, bring it back
Dagnabbit, we need Borders bookshop back again
Especially in these times
Reiterating the above, bring back Borders bookshop
So, are we getting it back?

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Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes I wish I was less irritatingly stupid, but then I think, why tamper with perfection?

Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 3d

Always ready to notice the obvious, me

Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 3d

Always ready to notice the obvious, me

Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 3d

Hang on... James Tarbuck, Liverpool comedian, born in 1940????

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Emma™ @cockremover.bsky.social · 3d

if you went back in time and showed a caveman an iphone they would shoot you with a gun

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Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know why this strange “argument“ has appeared in the past few days; there is, of course, no contradiction between the two statements.

A post stating: I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists."

The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 4d

A book I have very much enjoyed this week: "And So Do I" by Bradford writer Malachi Whitaker, a sort of chronicle of 2 years in the late 1930s, first published in 1939 & newly republished. Irreverent, humorous, often startlingly honest, with an undercurrent of existential bewilderment and searching.

The cover of the new Recovered Books edition of "And So Did I" by Malachi Whitaker. A dark green cover, through which two eyes stare out at us.

Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 4d

Lyrics for Arvo Part's Spiegel im spiegel:

Spiegel im spiegel im spiegel im spiegel im spiegel im spiegel im spiegel (bom) im spiegel im spiegel im spiegel im spiegel im spiegel im spiegel im spiegel (bom) im spiegel im spiegel im spiegel im spiegel im spiegel im spiegel im spiegel im spiegel im sp

Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 4d

I think you would need an extremely dark and cruel sense of humour to find it hilarious. Sometimes I am baffled by other people's sense of humour, and this is one of those times.

Good book, though.

Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 4d

This week, I've been reading this book, described on the cover by Dorothy Parker as "wildly funny", by Edmund Wilson as "a miniature comic epic", and by the publishers as "intelligent and hilarious". It's good, but in my opinion not at all funny; in fact the exact opposite, grim & joyless & tragic.

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Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 4d

R3 keeps going on about the "specially recorded performances" it broadcasts; as opposed, presumably, to the accidentally recorded performances available on inferior stations

Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 4d

It does work sometimes, e.g. Waugh's second novel "Vile Bodies"...

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Webrarian @webrarian.bsky.social · 5d

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Dame Patricia Routledge, Peter Pratt and Alan Dudley in the Patter Trio from 'Ruddigore'

YouTube video by Christopher Goddard

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