Bring a ruler so you can assess which novellas are slim and devastating
09.03.2026 10:53
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Bring a ruler so you can assess which novellas are slim and devastating
It's 2003 and I'm listening to Fugazi while the US plunges into a military boondoggle in the Middle East
It's 2026 and I'm listening to Fugazi while the US plunges into a military boondoggle in the Middle East
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
I have not read the review or the book but it touched my bitter, twisted heart to see an article by a guy called Rahul about another guy called Rahul
as they used to say on twitter, I just can't...
Like anyone who didn't jump for joy and punch the air when they got this in their inbox is not worth following
Think I've finally found my people on Bluesky
Stop literally everything.
Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.
fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...
just googled it and it's closing in april 😭
Spending a week in Bantry in August so this is very much whetting my appetite!
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do not, I repeat, do not attempt Hainesmaxxing
yeah!
yes, that's exactly what i was thinking, the untouched brains pubs can be great. cf. also the royal oak on newport road (which reminds me of some of the victorian pubs in dublin!)
of course, I forgot the river goes kind of round rather than through (or are there two rivers?) Extremely jealous! I'd rather have just Maureen's than all the pubs in Cardiff (a low bar I know!)
the southside being the bit with all the shops in yes? not the shandon bit? I love shandon and maureen's is one of the coolest pub's i've ever been to so in principle i agree with you (UCC campus is on the southside tho isn't it? And that's really nice?)
the fact that Goodwin isn't a social pariah who can't leave his house without a bag on his had, the fact that he's amounted to anything at all (in a manner of speaking) and could have potentially been an elected politician is a stunning indictment of British society.
Corbyn (though being Jewish hasn't helped Bernie Sanders) Nick Robinson trying to pain Polanksi as using 'racism' because he mentioned a man (Modi) who has never shied away from his murderous hatred of muslims also felt a bit pathetic.
Fash: bashed. But listening to r4, so many red flags: constantly framing reform as the party to beat when they didn't come close in G & D or Caerphilly; and how much Polanski will be monstered the more of a genuine threat he becomes. Hopefully the anti-semitism won't wash as much as it did with...
non-stop happenings today. My translation of another one of José Henrique Bortoluci's Generation Democracy pieces is up now on the amazing @equatormag.bsky.social . Essential reading on the fight to save the Amazon: www.equator.org/articles/des...
Vicente's masterful novel Centroeuropa is out in the US in March, in my new and improved translation, from Bellevue Press. In the UK you can get it from Peninsula Press! It's totally unique and unclassifiable, easily one of the best novels I've read in the last ten years.
My conversation with the great @vicenteluismora.bsky.social is up on @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social! We talk about the challenges of translating experimental literature, spanish golden age poetry and the difference between archaeological and historical novels; pghrev.com/a-writer-tal...
#jesuispikachu
pikachu is a mouse? 🤯
also 'well done you'
amazing Beth, must be so gratifying!
Pleased to have mine and Daniel Hahn's translation of Michel Nieva's incredible essay collection Technology and Barbarism in this month's @wwborders.bsky.social watchlist:
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
also, some of the silver/grey classics have such bad print and paper quality that it feels like you're seeing double
A truly great composer and artist - one who redefined composition and left behind a body of work of extraordinary profundity and beauty. She changed how people listen and, I genuinely believe, people’s entire sensory relationship to life.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
Amen, RIP. I've had the 14CD box set for years now but never listened to all of it. Perhaps now it's time to do a back-to-back listen!