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Tindersticks dad, Belle and Sebastian mum At the Brixton Academy for the Felt reunion They got their dancing shoes They got their glad rags on They hold hands in the dark Wait for the band to come on He says “the classics will never die Like our love will never die It just cycles in and out Of...

I mean he writes things, certainly

You might like this guy D C Miller

Nowadays of course what every fibre of our being is teeming with is microplastics

Alan Garner's big on sentient landscape - the background conceit of Thursbitch is that the titular valley itself is kind of haunted: http://alangarner.atspace.org/votd.html

Verbal sparring, as described upthread, is also pretty homosexual. Ooh, get her, etc.

Who was the most heterosexual mathematician? I'm guessing Galois, who actually managed to get himself killed in a duel over a woman. Then again, duelling is pretty homosexual, so who's to say.

Make it a snow-globe, shakeable from stasis into a gelid flurry settling on alpine starkness, moulded plastic firs deep-set in dandruff, pert within their sphere. Wobble detection trips a jingle, one of those old-time tunes you’re just supposed to know - The Cuckoo Waltz, for sake of argument...

If I could teleport myself to Stoke Newington for an hour then teleport myself home again I'd go, but alas I have not reached that level of astral prowess

eh, they were putting it about that Turner was heir to a multi-million textile fortune, I doubt that bit was really a surprise

Statement from Miller on his defeat/victory: https://cryptogram.substack.com/p/result-against-luke-turner-in-harassment

It's a wonderful piece of prose, that judgement. Icy understatement at every turn.

Grateful for this autumn rain, suffusing dampness, the season's gathering itself lately in; wet grass unmowed, tufting around a plastic children's slide, a garish rocker. I put the bins out last thing before bed. Nature gets on with things, its secret ministries as Coleridge said a slow work of...

Fun fact, I have a recording of myself reading _The Gruffalo_ to my daughter over the beat from the Burroughs/Disposable Heroes _Spare Ass Annie_