Paul McGee
@paulmcgee.bsky.social
Semi-pro loudmouth. No break greater than 4hrs yesterday.
"My mind ain't so open that anything could crawl right in..."
"My mind ain't so open that anything could crawl right in..."
Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.
February 14, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.
54 years ago today.
January 30, 2026 at 7:41 AM
54 years ago today.
This is at the front entrance of the apartment building in Mpls where my friend lives. Obviously there's the "that sign can't stop me cos I can't read" factor to consider, but I imagine it might cause at least a few of these shitheads to hesitate rather than immediately try to force their way in.
January 14, 2026 at 9:31 AM
This is at the front entrance of the apartment building in Mpls where my friend lives. Obviously there's the "that sign can't stop me cos I can't read" factor to consider, but I imagine it might cause at least a few of these shitheads to hesitate rather than immediately try to force their way in.
The adolescent me would have been bereft to hear of Bardot's passing, but I doubt that kid would have anticipated her all-too-reasonable disillusionment with fame & celebrity eventually curdling into hateful, misanthropic racism and her committing to that for the rest of her life. Oh, well.
December 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The adolescent me would have been bereft to hear of Bardot's passing, but I doubt that kid would have anticipated her all-too-reasonable disillusionment with fame & celebrity eventually curdling into hateful, misanthropic racism and her committing to that for the rest of her life. Oh, well.
Schöneberg's most famous daughter would have been 124 years old today. #berlinsky
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Schöneberg's most famous daughter would have been 124 years old today. #berlinsky
NME's top 50 singles of 1980. I own (or owned) 37 of these. I used to buy a lot of records.
December 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
NME's top 50 singles of 1980. I own (or owned) 37 of these. I used to buy a lot of records.
Dave Clark's somewhat sporadically scheduled version, shown in...
😏🕶️😎
...bits and pieces.
😏🕶️😎
...bits and pieces.
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Dave Clark's somewhat sporadically scheduled version, shown in...
😏🕶️😎
...bits and pieces.
😏🕶️😎
...bits and pieces.
"And that's the second one from Bovril Amphetamines, in session for us tonight, one of my favourite sessions for quite some time, as a matter of fact. Coming up next, the b-side of the new single by Bogshed - played the other side at completely the wrong speed last week... *chuckles*"
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
"And that's the second one from Bovril Amphetamines, in session for us tonight, one of my favourite sessions for quite some time, as a matter of fact. Coming up next, the b-side of the new single by Bogshed - played the other side at completely the wrong speed last week... *chuckles*"
"🎶 It is old and it is beautiful, and its colours they are fine, it was worn at Derry, Aughrim, Enniskillen and the Boyne, SING ALONG NOW!"
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"🎶 It is old and it is beautiful, and its colours they are fine, it was worn at Derry, Aughrim, Enniskillen and the Boyne, SING ALONG NOW!"
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.
"Mortimer, your brother is not well! We'd better call an ambulance!"
"Fuck him."
"Fuck him."
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"Mortimer, your brother is not well! We'd better call an ambulance!"
"Fuck him."
"Fuck him."
"Hi, Geoff. You're now in your 50s, no doubt with kids, a mortgage and chronic back pain. Isn't it time you got over your frequent public resentment of how all the creative freedom you enjoy is directly attributable to Portishead's music having found an audience amongst the kind of people you hate?"
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
"Hi, Geoff. You're now in your 50s, no doubt with kids, a mortgage and chronic back pain. Isn't it time you got over your frequent public resentment of how all the creative freedom you enjoy is directly attributable to Portishead's music having found an audience amongst the kind of people you hate?"
A first-rate collection of Eddies, to which I would add Eddie Russ and Eddie Condon, as immortalised on the front door of one of my favourite watering holes here in Berlin.
November 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A first-rate collection of Eddies, to which I would add Eddie Russ and Eddie Condon, as immortalised on the front door of one of my favourite watering holes here in Berlin.
A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif.
November 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif.
Polite reminder that the current editor of The Times is the bigoted troglodyte Tony Gallagher, former editor of The Slum, responsible for the only Twitter block I ever received that I treated as a badge of honour.
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Polite reminder that the current editor of The Times is the bigoted troglodyte Tony Gallagher, former editor of The Slum, responsible for the only Twitter block I ever received that I treated as a badge of honour.
The way 20-something me would have made a complete fool of myself over this woman.
October 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The way 20-something me would have made a complete fool of myself over this woman.
Still yet to find a better summary of the futility of "hands across the aisle" than this quote from a 2018 Playboy interview with Michael Shannon.
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Still yet to find a better summary of the futility of "hands across the aisle" than this quote from a 2018 Playboy interview with Michael Shannon.
"Such was the rhythm of British life."
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"Such was the rhythm of British life."
From 1991, this is as adventurous a record as the Bomb Squad ever made, Public Enemy included. A barely controlled all-bets-are-off collision of styles released to widespread indifference at the end of sampling's Wild West era, when rap was still pluralist enough to accommodate it. Get familiar.
October 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
From 1991, this is as adventurous a record as the Bomb Squad ever made, Public Enemy included. A barely controlled all-bets-are-off collision of styles released to widespread indifference at the end of sampling's Wild West era, when rap was still pluralist enough to accommodate it. Get familiar.
This aged well, and don't even fucking start me on the Leni Riefenstahl iconography
October 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This aged well, and don't even fucking start me on the Leni Riefenstahl iconography