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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 7h

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

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 9h

Wonderful reading!

Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 9h

Has anyone mentioned 'Moby-Dick'?

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 14h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Bernard Herrmann Archive @bernardherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

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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Bernard Herrmann Archive @bernardherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

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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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 1d

I write about this distressing condition in my book 'Multiple Joyce' and the extent to which Finnegans Wake, with its constant polyglot punning, might be seen as an expression of Witzelsucht www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/mult...

Multiple Joyce | Sagging Meniscus Press

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 1d

Volume IV is astonishing.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 2d

An absolutely unforgettable moment - and what a production! He was brilliantly cast against type but had the range. I can remember the shock wave that ran through the audience.

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 2d

Such a fine actor. Nobody better at portraying moral strngth and integrity. And I was lucky enough to see him play Ralph Nickleby (RSC, 1982), a villain for once. I'll never forget his reaction on discovering the paternity of Smike...

Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 2d

RIP, John Woodvine. A very fine actor, and son of South Shields

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 2d

"Britian looses" surely?

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 2d

"And all because the lady loves... Mlik Tary."

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Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social · 2d

New episode: art for art's sake, DIY culture, working for nothing, free bottle of pop, greedy buggers, punk rock, job killers, the cost of idealism, taking strike action, Mr Briggs' Toyota Yaris
shows.acast.com/round-about-...

Money and Finance | Round About Town

The Privilege of DIY Culture

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 2d

'On the Way I Lost It' (Frankie Howerd) gets my vote.
Keith 'Cheggers' Chegwin (popular telly presenter who had a drink problem) was reported to be working on a memoir entitled 'Cheggars Can't Be Boozers'

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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 2d

So if I support the woman who was arrested for holding a sign reading "I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action" should I just hand myself in to save time? Can we all just hand ourselves in?

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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