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“The Specials were something you couldn’t plot on a graph; their revved-­up combo of punk rock and Jamaican ska planted a seed that wrought unlikely blooms.” Ian Penman on the story of 2 Tone.

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🧵 On 17 December 1976, Thames TV aired a debate about paranormal beliefs. And it turned out to be one of the greatest half hours in British television history. Believe me: it's the best thing you'll see all week. First off, host Sandra Harris gets things rolling: (1/12)

At a time when I am feeling tremendously despondent about the future, these words from Alan Moore provide a reason to continue:

I can't think of a word for this. It's Aickman-weird at the outset, then in a way awe-inspiring. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...

PROBLY MY FAULT - dashare.zone ADMIN

In case you keep seeing J Saul Kane’s name popping up today and you don’t know why everyone’s banging in about him, here’s my old Kanetiquette mix featuring 30mins of his productions from the early years of his career, roughly 89-95 www.mixcloud.com/wrongtom/kan...

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor

think about what the men on that ship are seeing. god holding a lion the size of the sun

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AI is going great

THRILL 1 in the series is DAN DARE - awkward hangover from a previous era or psychedelic Bowie clone with a mole gun? #2000AD freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2024/0...

Just an amazing body of work.

So, happy 46th anniversary to this surely unimprovable diary entry from Peter Hall in which a young Dinsdale Landen tries to impress an ageing Donald Wolfit, and doesn’t altogether succeed

oh, you think you have free will?

So @jahaza.bsky.social showed me this amazingly misbegotten cover for Hazlitt, and it led me down the rabbit hole of the terrible publisher Namaskar. Join me, won't you?