Sean

Thank you and go well, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.
#AfricanLiterature

Leonard Cohen on Moonlight - Blank on Blank A lost interview with the iconic musician and poet from 1974. Hear Cohen read a mysterious poem and wander through the experiences that shaped his work.

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Either you do something properly, or don't so it at all. This is how people get killed and at the end of the day, those who make the ultimate decision to deploy do not take responsibility, just platitudes.

Literary Magazines on Bluesky.

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Again? So soon?

From “Crow’s Account of Battle” by Ted Hughes.
1972.

A science lecture. A scientist stands on a stage holding a pointer and gesturing to a slide depicting the earth on fire. In the audience one member turns to another amd says “I prefer her earlier, funnier theories”.

A recent New Scientist cartoon:

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,345,537, Sean ‪@seanro.bsky.social‬, joined on Dec 4, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,345,537!

Title: Some exciting new literary genres 1. Romantasy. A warrior says to a goblin prince “I love you but I must slay the dragon who ate my father!” 2. Gothicookery. A vampire in a kitchen says “Step one: slice an onion by the light of a full moon” 3. Dystopiano music. A figure in a hazmat units sits at a piano in a blasted wasteland playing Beethoven’s pastoral symphony. 4. Whodunnitalian phrasebook. A detective stands by a corpse and says “Assassinato! In una stanza chiusa a chiave!” 5. Sci-Finance. A robot says to a bounty hunter “Our shares in the evil galactic empire are up ten percent!”

‘Some exciting new literary genres’
My latest Guardian Books cartoon.

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“I’m disillusioned, empty-breasted.
For what I think, I’d be arrested.
I am not sick, I am not well.
My quondam dreams are shot to hell.
My soul is crushed, my spirit sore;
I do not like me any more.”
- From Dorothy Parker’s Symptom Recital

The image: Two scientists look on as a robot messily paints a canvas. The robot says “My practice both radically questions and steadfastly reaffirms the viewer's inherent non-spatial hierarchies by expansively recontextualising liminal narratives.” The caption: “ArtBot 2.0 still can't make good art, but its facility for bewildering explanations has improved exponentially.”

A recent cartoon for New Scientist.
#art #science

Nick Cave performing A Rainy Night in Soho at the funeral of Shane MacGowan

Nick Cave Sings "A Rainy Night in Soho" at Shane MacGowan's Funeral

"I sang you all my sorrows
You told me all your joys"

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