Ian Walker
@fenlandgent.bsky.social
A recent review of Capitalism, A History by Sven Beckert in The New Yorker eviscerates it: too vast a subject to be held in one bk
Ok, I get that, but I then saw how a Martin Parr photo in the FT’s review of the book uses immediacy, detail & wit to create space to think, to be,
He was brilliant
Ok, I get that, but I then saw how a Martin Parr photo in the FT’s review of the book uses immediacy, detail & wit to create space to think, to be,
He was brilliant
December 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A recent review of Capitalism, A History by Sven Beckert in The New Yorker eviscerates it: too vast a subject to be held in one bk
Ok, I get that, but I then saw how a Martin Parr photo in the FT’s review of the book uses immediacy, detail & wit to create space to think, to be,
He was brilliant
Ok, I get that, but I then saw how a Martin Parr photo in the FT’s review of the book uses immediacy, detail & wit to create space to think, to be,
He was brilliant
Today’s advent calendar seems to be Peter Wyngarde seeing if it is warm enough for him to wear his fancy dressing gown to ASDA so he can get some stuffing & eggnog.
December 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Today’s advent calendar seems to be Peter Wyngarde seeing if it is warm enough for him to wear his fancy dressing gown to ASDA so he can get some stuffing & eggnog.
Didn’t know that being bored and not finishing things entitled me to a refund.
I’m about to cash-out big.
I’m about to cash-out big.
December 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Didn’t know that being bored and not finishing things entitled me to a refund.
I’m about to cash-out big.
I’m about to cash-out big.
Sorry, strange algorithm, I just wouldn't know which one to chose
December 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Sorry, strange algorithm, I just wouldn't know which one to chose
Though its edges sometimes look nice, especially if filtered
December 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Though its edges sometimes look nice, especially if filtered
Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery
December 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery
My phone is full of photos like this
December 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
My phone is full of photos like this
But great hats and frocks
December 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
But great hats and frocks
Maybe a different hat
December 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Maybe a different hat
Bollocks. As a true son of the South Coast, I claim that Chawton is practically The Midlands
December 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Bollocks. As a true son of the South Coast, I claim that Chawton is practically The Midlands
Fox film crew on Hollywood & Vine.
I moved here after this stuff stopped being commonplace.
The pace of change over the last decade, of things being dismantled, of things disappearing, is dizzying & scary.
And I know people always say that as they get older, but that doesn't stop it being true
I moved here after this stuff stopped being commonplace.
The pace of change over the last decade, of things being dismantled, of things disappearing, is dizzying & scary.
And I know people always say that as they get older, but that doesn't stop it being true
December 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Fox film crew on Hollywood & Vine.
I moved here after this stuff stopped being commonplace.
The pace of change over the last decade, of things being dismantled, of things disappearing, is dizzying & scary.
And I know people always say that as they get older, but that doesn't stop it being true
I moved here after this stuff stopped being commonplace.
The pace of change over the last decade, of things being dismantled, of things disappearing, is dizzying & scary.
And I know people always say that as they get older, but that doesn't stop it being true
Spent most of first half reading about Irish businessman Sean Quinn. (I think the Quinn family own QuinnCasinos who sponsor Dundee).
Quinn started out flogging gravel from his farm, diversified, became richest man in Ireland, then bankrupt. A folk hero of the Border, set against Dublin & Belfast.
Quinn started out flogging gravel from his farm, diversified, became richest man in Ireland, then bankrupt. A folk hero of the Border, set against Dublin & Belfast.
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Spent most of first half reading about Irish businessman Sean Quinn. (I think the Quinn family own QuinnCasinos who sponsor Dundee).
Quinn started out flogging gravel from his farm, diversified, became richest man in Ireland, then bankrupt. A folk hero of the Border, set against Dublin & Belfast.
Quinn started out flogging gravel from his farm, diversified, became richest man in Ireland, then bankrupt. A folk hero of the Border, set against Dublin & Belfast.
Watching Dundee vs Rangers. Don’t care who wins. Much more interested in the Dundee weather, in the players’ biographies, in Googling the businesses being advertised on the hoarding.
I’ll get back to you if I find anything interesting during my calming dull drift through this game. I expect I won’t
I’ll get back to you if I find anything interesting during my calming dull drift through this game. I expect I won’t
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Watching Dundee vs Rangers. Don’t care who wins. Much more interested in the Dundee weather, in the players’ biographies, in Googling the businesses being advertised on the hoarding.
I’ll get back to you if I find anything interesting during my calming dull drift through this game. I expect I won’t
I’ll get back to you if I find anything interesting during my calming dull drift through this game. I expect I won’t
I think it’s pretty cool. My 13-year-old daughter was baffled by my new fake-retro tape recorder (which I’m listening to at the moment). Zero interest in my walkman either. I think teenage girls can be pretty fierce for vinyl though.
December 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I think it’s pretty cool. My 13-year-old daughter was baffled by my new fake-retro tape recorder (which I’m listening to at the moment). Zero interest in my walkman either. I think teenage girls can be pretty fierce for vinyl though.
The raptor that rules this LA suburb is back again, starring down its domain from up high on its treetop throne
December 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The raptor that rules this LA suburb is back again, starring down its domain from up high on its treetop throne
Because I hate Uber Eats, streamed content, and Amazon wishlists, I bought an advent calender from 1987.
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Because I hate Uber Eats, streamed content, and Amazon wishlists, I bought an advent calender from 1987.
Today’s Californian supermarket photo is of the duck, elk, wild game & ancestoral protein freezer cabinet. The in-store music is Christmas Tree Farm by Taylor Swift.
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Today’s Californian supermarket photo is of the duck, elk, wild game & ancestoral protein freezer cabinet. The in-store music is Christmas Tree Farm by Taylor Swift.
But this is the best thing in my ongoing deceit that art and culture will protect me from the horror.
Gainsborough’s Blue Boy, which is in the Huntington, near where I live.
So much C18th English mercantile arrogance, so much twisted proto-Romantic English sly subversion.
I’m feeling homesick.
Gainsborough’s Blue Boy, which is in the Huntington, near where I live.
So much C18th English mercantile arrogance, so much twisted proto-Romantic English sly subversion.
I’m feeling homesick.
November 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
But this is the best thing in my ongoing deceit that art and culture will protect me from the horror.
Gainsborough’s Blue Boy, which is in the Huntington, near where I live.
So much C18th English mercantile arrogance, so much twisted proto-Romantic English sly subversion.
I’m feeling homesick.
Gainsborough’s Blue Boy, which is in the Huntington, near where I live.
So much C18th English mercantile arrogance, so much twisted proto-Romantic English sly subversion.
I’m feeling homesick.
I think this is good. A few chapters in & it has traced the modern edgelord neo-nazi bro twattery back to that turn of the century NY/Vice mag heroin and porn schitk. Also, a line is drawn in the ‘anything goes attention-economy’ from Paris Hilton & Kardashian to the current political debasement
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I think this is good. A few chapters in & it has traced the modern edgelord neo-nazi bro twattery back to that turn of the century NY/Vice mag heroin and porn schitk. Also, a line is drawn in the ‘anything goes attention-economy’ from Paris Hilton & Kardashian to the current political debasement
For reasons I cannot quite fathom, but which instinctively feel like the correct path to follow as the Internet drags civilization into the abyss, I downloaded my Twitter history.
This is a photo I took of Ely Cathedral in the spring of 2011
This is a photo I took of Ely Cathedral in the spring of 2011
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
For reasons I cannot quite fathom, but which instinctively feel like the correct path to follow as the Internet drags civilization into the abyss, I downloaded my Twitter history.
This is a photo I took of Ely Cathedral in the spring of 2011
This is a photo I took of Ely Cathedral in the spring of 2011
Reasons why Americans voted for Trump, number 978.
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Reasons why Americans voted for Trump, number 978.
Y’day, I went to Langer’s, the famous Jewish deli in MacArthur Park. Opened in 1947, it feels other-worldly - MacArthur Park is a challenging neighbourhood. Where LA does hold on to its past, it is often by accident or with indifference - but this felt defiant.
I had pastrami on rye. It was good.
I had pastrami on rye. It was good.
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Y’day, I went to Langer’s, the famous Jewish deli in MacArthur Park. Opened in 1947, it feels other-worldly - MacArthur Park is a challenging neighbourhood. Where LA does hold on to its past, it is often by accident or with indifference - but this felt defiant.
I had pastrami on rye. It was good.
I had pastrami on rye. It was good.
Ten quid for a Carpenters record. The horror, the horror.
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Ten quid for a Carpenters record. The horror, the horror.
