Stagger Lee
banner
staggerlee68.bsky.social
Stagger Lee
@staggerlee68.bsky.social
Just drinking margaritas at the mall
I've only read her Drive Your Plow.. so far but I thought that was phenomenal
January 24, 2026 at 7:45 PM
This prompted me to see if The Stockpot was still there. Sadly not 😕

Goodbye to the Stockpot – the last great Soho cheap eatery | Food | The Guardian share.google/VRu2Opcl0PY4...
Goodbye to the Stockpot – the last great Soho cheap eatery
This ‘utterly, ineffably London’ restaurant, purveyors of moundfuls of broccoli cheese and bargain set meals, was like something out of a Muriel Spark novel. Now it’s gone, victim of a mix of Instagra...
share.google
January 24, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Amazing record. Fills a kinda Purple Mountains-shaped hole for me
January 23, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Amazing book. The film, sadly, not so much. The Sisters Brothers is brilliant too
January 23, 2026 at 10:02 PM
There's a great documentary called Soundtrack To A Coup d'Etat that has lots of great jazz clips, particularly Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln doing stuff from this. It's incredible
January 23, 2026 at 9:49 PM
The cost of all those tealights soon mounts up though
January 23, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Exactly!
January 23, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Bought it off the deck in Daddy Kool in Soho in the late 90s for probably far more than it was worth because I had to have it 🙂
January 23, 2026 at 11:23 AM
clearly the correspondent is on the wrong side of the county line but they're right about this.
January 23, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Golf
January 23, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Actually, that's a bit harsh. It leans harder on the sociopolitical context than usual..
January 22, 2026 at 5:57 PM