Phil Bryer
thebryery.bsky.social
Phil Bryer
@thebryery.bsky.social
Writes for money but doesn't go on about it.
Latest effort, 'Life: The Guidebook' available now
ISBN: 978-0956154453
Collecting a new laptop earlier:
"Would you like to sign up for the Care & Repair package? It's on special offer at the moment."
From the expression on young lady's face when I said, "Yes, please," I can only assume that most people aren't so keen.
January 1, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Reposted by Phil Bryer
Bob Dylan wrote it, Jimi Hendrix brought it into full colour, and Rick Lollar channels Jimi’s approach as the band and I crash through “All Along The Watchtower” at the Bowery last November. The most fun you can have invoking an apocalypse, I reckon…

Robyn Hitchcock - "All Along The Watchtower" (Live at the Bowery Ballroom, November 22 2025)
Robyn Hitchcock + band live at The Bowery Ballroom in New York on November 22, 2025 Band: Robyn Hitchcock: guitar + vocalsRick Lollar: guitar Julia Rydholm: ...
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December 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
First sighting of 'revellers' in a news story today. #wordsonlyusedbythenews
December 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Tremendous turn by Peter Serafinowicz in the latest #MidsomerMurders, which remains as satisfyingly daft as ever. If only they'd retire that bloody dog.
December 31, 2025 at 8:04 AM
NEWSFLASH! I've despatched an investigative reporter to Tidal HQ...[ed's note: insert tickertape thing here if we don't have to pay for it] ... more as we get it from our on-the-spot team.
#bobbyvalentino
December 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It wasn't Watergate that did for Nixon; it was the cover-up.
December 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It wasn't Watergate that did for Nixon; it was the cover-up.
December 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Reposted by Phil Bryer
December 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Don't do as I did and read this without your glasses on, eh?
December 18, 2025 at 7:40 AM
"In a world of John and Paul, I'm Ringo Starr"

youtu.be/YqZbsU376Nc?...
Pinguini Tattici Nucleari - Ringo Starr (Testo/Lyrics)
YouTube video by ItalianTunes
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December 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I looked up 'operator error' in the dictionary, and the definition was 'same old aussies, always cheating'.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

#ashes
The Ashes 2025-26: Australia's Alex Carey reprieved by Snicko operator error
The company that owns the Snicko technology takes
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December 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Well, that was definitely the first time that my eyes have been pricked with tears while watching the finale of a comedy series. Mind you, #TheGoodPlace was something else.
December 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Damn. I'm going to miss Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, Michael, Jason Mendoza (Go Jags!), and Janet (maybe Janet most of all), for tomorrow I'll be watching the final (for me) episode of #TheGoodPlace - a towering work of staggering etc etc.
December 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Or go somewhere more welcoming.
December 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It's official: AI is useless bollocks.
Heaven forbid that we don’t trust our entire futures to artificial intelligence, however, if you ask ChatGPT what the best episode is of Nothing Is Real to listen to, it suggests a load of episodes that have never existed! Ok, computers…
December 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Mrs B before Anthology Episode 1:
"Haven't you seen and read everything there is about the Beatles?"

Mrs B after Anthology Episode 1:
"Shall we watch the next one?"

#Beatles
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Top-drawer punditry bollocks from Michael Vaughan*. I mean, think we can all work out that as the score stands at 2-0, it means 5-0 is most definitely on.

*He blocked me at the other place, you know.
December 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Reading Steve van Zandt's revealing autobiography, and I must correct him. Peanut butter *was* widely available in the UK when you first visited in the 70s. It was on the kids shelves with rest of the American food.
December 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Proof that reading the NME throughout the seventies wasn't a waste of time because we we were learning geography too.
November 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
'Speaking outside his chateau in France'
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Bolloxed. But I can't go to bed until I've seen Bully's Prize Board on #Bullseye. Which includes a Corby trouser press.
November 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM