3: Pieces of a Man
2: Every Picture tells a Story
1: Tapestry

I'm not sure if the famous flying Ottoman scholar Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi was actually as fabulous as this painting by Adem Başpınar makes him look, but legend has it that he did manage to fly over the Bosporus strait in 1632.

Whereupon he was sent into exile for being "scary."

3: Desire
1: The Pretender
1: Small Change
1: Tejas

There is a clarity & simplicity to the style of mid century English writing that allows the author to breath and have their own voice. You can see it in peeps from Woolf - CP Snow - G Durrell - E Newby. It’s a lot harder to emulate than I thought

For the uninitiated. One of the things our world lacks is consequences for mouthing off, and very briefly Piers Morgan discovered you can’t bullshit or front your way out of a fast bowled over

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Thanks for the sweet juxtaposition MJ

He’s an instinctively heretical Catholic, so it tracks

That’s what I get for being lazy & checking Bluesky before emails

Soz

Sorry Grog, voting opened about 10 this morning

The Drover’s Boy was my introduction to him. Came on the radio when I was sweltering away on a central NSW sheep station

Not bad for a couple of “Fuck, we need a Warnie replacement asap” selections

Congrats to the pair of em

The only Joys I still have is Duck Soup

Didn’t get to those, Uni bar & the Youth Centre in Civic, I think was where I saw em, got Duck Soup tho