nicklambrianou.bsky.social
Recovering academic. Modernist. Book on art, time and errancy will exist one day.
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When I read H’s painfully purple prose over the peasant shoes I knew he was a wrong ‘un
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‘I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier’ - how no one thought to veto that I’ll never know
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Gosh they’ll be paying performers next 😜
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Can you provide a trigger warning before posting any pics of TY please.
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They were so good live regret I was too you young to catch them.
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Oh no! Great building - worked there in the BIS days just as it became BEIS (remember the big debates about how to pronounce that). Loved cycling down the villains-lair carpark ramp. What happened to the BIS Bees who lived on the roof?
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oh god really? Was PCS member for many years (when in civil service) - how very disappointing.
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If McDonalds did Venice Biennale
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Republicans. Though in the UK we say 'Conservatives'
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Yes! I suspect Reviewer 1 is the editor who is just super happy they have some readable copy by the deadline and reviewer 2 is some angsty undergrad in the same subject area who want to kill all competition
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My only regret is i taught minimalism art history classes for many years and this joke exists now and I can’t use it
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I worked with a guy who played in the Burntwood Bluebirds (marching band based where I grew up) and was in the film in the big finale scene in Birmingham
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I too will be writing much of my early novel from now on
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One way to avoid overdue fines I suppose.
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If only there was some sort of mechanism for having a say in rules created elsewhere which will impact us. Some type of political and economic union with other countries for example.
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Well CRMEP have the former Archbishop of Canterbury giving the Gillian Rose memorial lecture assets.kingston.ac.uk/m/1816388ebd...
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Phrases we are going to hear a lot in next few days: ‘we are where we are’ and ‘Bexit bonus’
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Brilliant. They should do this for all academic lectures, translated or not.
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Jacque Tati meets Vic Reeves
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‘Must get new hammer, old one broken’
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Lovely Tony Hatch/KPM vibes… I imagine slightly tipsy post lunchtime trumpet players knocking out those high note effortlessly
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Surely the think about The Great American Novel is it’s an allegory you don’t actually have to make it real America
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Once I worked out there had been three separate Walter Benjamin operas and a novelisation, so the others need to catch up ...
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David McAlmont
Miki Berenyi
Jacques Derrida
Slavoj Zizek
Goldie
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We were always being gifted shoes that didn't fit or buying them in the sales in bigger sizes and then missing the brief window where they actually fitted, and every time I took the unused shoes to charity I thought of that trope...
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On #Politicslive today they were discussing the impact on the market and Greg Swenson (Chair of Republicans Overseas) actually said "I might even be a buyer today if the market's down 4%"... they can't even pretend they won't make a killing out of the impact.
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but neoliberalism gets rid of boom and bust!
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Total exports to the world divided by number of penguins
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Remember watching this as a kid and being totally confused. Will be interesting to see if it makes any sense now.
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Flood 2?
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Tbf someone does try to bring that up in the show