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Another Cinna
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Mugged Poet. Should've stayed at home. They'll win in the end: it's the only victory we've got left. A plague on all your houses.
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#BoredOfPeace
An array of DC super-villains by Alex Ross
January 22, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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Yeh, we get the point.
Stephen Miller, Trump's advisor and proto-Nazi, at the microphone, making another fascist point. A dancer dressed in an SS uniform from the satirical imaginary musical "Springtime for Hitler" from Mel Brooks' 1968 movie The Producers. "Don't be stoopid, be a smartie, come and join the Nazi party".
January 22, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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Logo:
A line drawing of a old bearded yokel in a hat, sitting on a chair, playing an acoustic guitar. To the right, the title is Rambling Syd Rumpo In Concert Kenneth Williams
January 22, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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A sad looking robot leans forward against a rocky background. It is Marvin, the Paranoid Android, from the 1980s BBC TV adaptation of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, (NOT the dreadful American movie made in the 21st century by & for the brain-dead bugblatter beasts of Traal.)
January 21, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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Throwing out all my @guardian Feasts because, however beautifully presented & rich a collection of recipes they hold, there's simply no way to find what you're looking for. Except via the web. What a waste.
A random pile of unindexed recipe magazines entitled Feast.
January 20, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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First photo of the full Board of Peace. Like Trump, they are #BoredOfPeace.
Alex Ross' depiction of the DC universe of Super Villains, an un-Justice League.
January 20, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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What’s your sign?
A London Stock brick wall. To the left, a sash window protected by a wire security grille. To the right, a Victorian white sign saying COMMIT ~NO~ NUISANCE and below that, a graffitied anarchy sign, an orange capital A encased in a circle.
January 20, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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Belated happy birthday to Richard Lester, 94. Always brings a smile.
Audrey Hepburn & Sean Connery cheerily embrace in Richard Lester's 1976 Robin and Marian
January 20, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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Little, but large.
January 19, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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"Basil?
Basil! Where are you going?"

"I'm going to see Mr Trump, dear.
Then I think I might go to Canada."
A mustachioed man in a suit (John Cleese as Basil Fawlty) is marching away from a white hotel building, holding a large garden gnome under his arm, the red hat of which threatens anyone in its path...
January 19, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Roger was right.
At lunchtime A story of love When the busstopped suddenly to avoid damaging a mother and child in the road, the younglady in the greenhat sitting opposite was thrown across me, and not being one to miss an opportunity I started to makelove with all my body. At first, she resisted saying that it was tooearly in the morning and too soon after breakfast and that anyway she found me repulsive. But when I explained that this being a nuclearage, the world was going to end at lunchtime, she tookoff her greenhat, put her bus ticket into her pocket and joined in the exercise. The buspeople, and therewere many of them, were shockedandsurprised, and amused- andannoyed, but when word got around that the world was coming to an end at lunchtime, they put their pride in their pockets with their bustickets and madelove one with the other. And even the busconductor, feeling left out climbed into the cab and struck up some sort of relationship with the driver. Thatnight, on the bus coming home, wewere all alittle embarrassed, especially me and the younglady in the green hat, and we all started to say in different ways howhasty and foolish we had been. Butthen, always having been a bitofalad, i stood up and said it was a pity that the world didn’t nearly end every lunchtime, and that we could always pretend. And then it happened… Quick asa flash we all changed partners, and soon the bus was aquiver with white mothball bodies doing naughty things. And the next day and everyday In everybus In everystreet In everytown In everycountry People pretended that the world was coming to an end at lunchtime. It still hasn’t. Although in a way it has. ___ Roger McGough
January 19, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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Share a television show that raised you:
The cast of That Was The Week That Was, the BBC's first satirical sketch show 1962-3. Fronted by (l-r) David Frost, Willie Rushton, Roy Kinnear. Millicent Martin, Kenneth Cope, Lance Percival, David Kernan.
January 19, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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Quite refreshing, a perfectly straight list, reminiscent of primary school *listening* assemblies.
A wooden record player as issued to UK schools in the 1950s
January 18, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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At 17, my pathetic attempt to dizzy up the very plain but cheap BackTrack reissues with musicassette inners scrounged from an HMV display.
Two plain LP covers from the BackTrack reissue series in 1970. The green one on the left features on its centre a tiny musicassette liner from Jimi Hendrix's 2nd album, Axis, Bold As Love; the brown one to the right has the liner for his 1st album, Are You Experienced.
January 18, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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I think it's very important for one's sanity to read all the #OrangeOaf 's Truth Socials in the voice of a Damon Runyon character. #SanityClause
January 17, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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I came to Herriman via the indispensable (at the time) Penguin Book of Comics.
Cover of The Penguin Book of Comics with the title and innumerable comic-book characters held up by Silver - age Superman, one of whose boots is cuddled by a penguin, and at the other is Snoopy, "thinking" (by George Perry and Alan Aldridge)
January 16, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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Bob Monkhouse whispering behind his hand "...well, they're not laughing now."
January 16, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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I remember looking forward to G2 for its daily dose of arts & culture. Anyway, Tamara Drew knew... All hail @theguardian.com's past glories: Posy Simmons tygertale.com/2019/05/10/p...
A Tamara Drew cartoon Next he turned to the state of journalistic writing, Oh,come on,Nick....it's not meant to be Shakespeare!.. Everyone writes drivel at some stage... ...every other word is "I"... and the clichés ₩ .."a girl's gotta do What a girl's gotta do" I ask you! And this is typical : a glamorous by-line photo above a load of self.deprecation...about how god- awful she looks in the morning.. "! needa leper's belli to warn people" ..etc,etc ... Eurchh yuk!! Could you give us, a few tips on style? It was Tamara's column he was trashing. (Actually I agree with him pretty much about that.) But Nicholas is a jerk. Why Beth took him back I don't know, she's so indulgent. But I guess I have to be glad she did. Without his payroll Stonefield couldn't exist, and then where would I be? A Posy Simmons cartoon strip entitled Daily Dose, showing a young woman getting on a crowded tube train, surrounded by newspapers read by commuters. All the headlines are demeaning of women.
January 16, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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Before that, he often graced medieval ITV. #Major figure...
Two medieval knights in mail & surcoats face eachother in front of a portcullis. One (William Russell as Sir Lancelot) is holding a sword towards Ballard Berkeley, as A N Otherknight.
January 14, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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All those hot reviews for All My Sons aren't wrong. Searing performances, gorgeous lighting/design and an enormous underscored cinema-like soundtrack. Ivo Van Hove back on top.
The cast of All My Sons take a bow against a background of a giant tree, its shadow and a sun-like opening.
January 13, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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No new pictures, where are you mentally?
Roger Rees as Nicholas Nickleby holds an ailing Smike, played by David Threlfall. He is wrapped in a blanket, recalling when he played the apothecary in Vincent Crummles Romeo & Juliet. From the RSC Nickleby 1980
January 13, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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"Who calls so loud?"
Roger Rees as Nicholas Nickleby holds an ailing Smike, played by David Threlfall. He is wrapped in a blanket, recalling when he played the apothecary in Vincent Crummles Romeo & Juliet. From the RSC Nickleby 1980
January 13, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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I made this last year as a handy aide-memoire, in case you can't take the tube.
A photo-portrait of Trump with the following text imposed on it: Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets. Epitaph On A Tyrant W. H. Auden
January 13, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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Enjoyed the playbill in Hamnet, showing actual cast names, except for The Ghost being taken by "The Play(wright, presumably...)". Pity that level of attention to detail wasn't paid to the subtitles, with an unnecessary "Mommy" and equally irksome "theater". *harrumphs*
A still from the film Hamnet showing two hands grasping an unfurled playbill saying The Lord Chamberlain's Men At the Globe Theatre, Bankside Maiden St London This present Wednesday September 22 A performance Tragedie of HAMLET Hamlet by a Mr Jupe Being his first appearance King by Mr Mas(on) Horatio by Mr Goold Francisco by Mr Gibson The Fool by Mr Marzan Marcellus by Mr Shalloo Bernardo by Mr Altin and The Ghost by The Player
January 12, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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This is Trump's world view:
A Mercator projection of the world divided into 3 zones, designated by a childishly scrawled crayon: The Americas - ME Russia/Europe/Sahara Africa - PUTIN Sub-Saharan Africa/Middle East/India/China/Australia - XI
January 11, 2026 at 1:59 PM