Remembering Mark E. Smith on his birthday. Here are The Fall performing Big New Prinz live on Tony Wilson's The Other Side of Midnight in 1988
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Remembering Mark E. Smith on his birthday. Here are The Fall performing Big New Prinz live on Tony Wilson's The Other Side of Midnight in 1988
Hebden Bridge, 1975, photo by Martin Parr.
Oh, yeah. I hadn't thought of that. 05:11 S02E03 Mettle March 9 2001
Graham Kritzer (@GrahamKritzer) on twitter: "Guy inventing Accordion: I'm gonna make this suitcase so fucking loud"
Happy birthday to the magnificent Robert Wyatt. Here he is performing I'm a Believer on #TOTP in 1974. The show's producer asked him to perform in a wicker chair because a wheelchair "was not suitable for family viewing". Robert told him where to go
People walk and one car drives across a snow covered street with classical buildings in the background.
Christmas Day in Rome (1965)
Photo: Tony Vaccaro / Monroe Gallery
Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day.
"Where there any other contenders?"
"Um, no?"
"A hollow victory, then".
www.ft.com/content/5937... From sheds to super-stadiums, the football ground is bigger than architecture. Including Home Ground, curated by @petecollard.bsky.social
penguin classics cover for the magician's nephew by CS Lewis, but the cover image is george michael bluth
Two young girls sit by a New York window as a giant Snoopy float passes by in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, 1988.
Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
Gift of Angela Westwater
On Kawara, I Got Up..., 1977
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137593
two houses build up against a warehouse wall, people sit on the steps of the houses.
Peter Sekaer, New York, c 1934.
Rétro Station Service ⛽️ TOTAL ⛽️ avec pompiste & Citroën Ami 6 de juillet 1965
If I said the last of the great twentieth century British film directors died last night, and very few people even remembered him by the time of his death... would you know what I'm talking about?
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...
Saturday's Start over Chicago's Lake Michigan.
landscape with dotted trees and kites flying over it
Utagawa Hiroshige
digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/mgvk1...
I disgraced myself.
whats Pinocchio's favorite pizza. "Dominose." (the crowd applauds weakly but with an awareness that i have consolidated power and begun my invasion of the Low Countries)
He stood and thought. The pub, he thought. Oh dear, the pub.
Young cowboy, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1950s, photo by Jimmy Forsyth.
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
view master, disk of slides showing how to beakdance
The Woodchuck The Woodchuck in my backyard doesn't trust me. & he's right. Because the first chance I get I'm gonna put this tiny witch hat on him. Stupid piece of shit.
When two words sound the same but have a different meaning it’s called a
FOR SHAME
Ten years later I still stumble and trip when asked this question
Restricted gift of the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation
Hester Street https://www.artic.edu/artworks/205565/
The main problem with kids nowadays is that almost none of them have heard a drummer get wicked
