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Defunct literary magazine Pop Cult, Essential Reading for the Bathroom turned novelist, songwriter and musician. Skilled at tpyos. https://popcultmag.wordpress.com/ Acid Folk Impossible Mule https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCQMHuN4D16RSlbzoUFwvO_w
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11 years and one month after, what better time to share an essay on football in January 2013 and the time Raheem Sterling bigged up his mum’s coaching ability. soccerpunk.wordpress.com?s=Sterling&s...

I don’t suppose being contaminated with microplastics and god knows what else has helped the clarity of our collective thinking and tolerance. Then there’s so many available TV channels to choose from that you’re paralysed by choice. That’s probably contributed too.

When you see images of Musk on stage wielding a chainsaw flanked by the Argentinian president who looks like an artist’s impression for Teen Wolf set in 1973, I defy anyone to tell me we live in perfectly normal times.

Received an email this morning where I was called an “asswipe” and told “I hate you.”. Just another run-of-the-mill day in the life of Pop Cult.

I wish he’d taken that chainsaw to the Argentinian leader’s 1979 hairdo before losing his grip and dropping it on himself.

I have hit the magic figure of 750 sales of Unsung Unsaid. Thank you everybody. ❤️ Anyone with half a brain in the publishing industry should have seen the potential of this book. It was the 50th anniv of Nick Drake's death ffs. Luckily there are plenty of readers with more than half a brain.

Man alive, I thought the American elections were insufferable, but this is getting ridiculous now. I don’t block, but I’m starting to think I should. It is only the fear of wearing out my fingers that is preventing me.

Listening to the Stones in the car and the 6-year-old kept asking to play this over and over. Unsure if repeated listening made me go funny in the head, but I swear this is the musical blue print for some of Arthur Lee’s songs. It really reminds me of Forever Changes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=0xBG...

“No noise can be made, no colours only black white and grey, when you’re not round.” m.youtube.com/watch?v=EpXQ...

Well, as Alan Bennett famously once said, if you have to go to the toilet for your humour then the writing is on the wall.

This is exactly how I clean the toilet bowl when someone who has a sprinkler system attached to their butt has just used it.