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Went to London for first time since October. Two hour train delays, pissed it down all day, overwhelmed by all the choice in a bookshop. Think I’ll go back to the virtual world.

Dead Fashion Girl is good - ends up being about so much more than the murder. He lets his research tell a fat more varied and interesting story.

I think Powell is the better writer but Raven is quite prepared to get into the less pleasant motives of people - sex, greed, revenge. As the Jerry Burns song from the 90s had it ‘Casually Unkind’

Gilbert Adair did a kind of English version of Mythologies in mid eighties which I re-read recently. It was striking how much of the Bartesian POV had been assimilated into the mainstream between then and now.

It’s all very Everton - they’ve got some genuine talent in their squad for the first time in ages and someone who knows how to manage them and then it all goes tits up! They’d be better off getting Potter or Howes or the Wolves bloke (name escapes me) at least they’ve managed in the Prem. If...

He’s good on Sex and revenge.

Bad news for Everton who were certainly better placed than they have been for years. Tabloid talk is of Gerrard as a replacement…hmmm

I like Raven - I need to fill in a few gaps as I’ve been slowly collecting his stuff from charity shops over the years - I think he’s deeply unfashionable nowadays. Unfortunately.

Plus the shithousery to get KdB subbed.

I really liked this documentary- just felt a million miles away from Trump at the time

Michael Fucking Gove is there apparently

Fuseli who famously ate rotten meat to send him into delirious states so he could paint his nightmare visions.

Really committed myself to getting properly ready for a decent time trial season, even entering open events rather than just local club events. I’ve broken my pbs for 10 (21:25)and 25 miles (55:33) and at nearly 54 I think I’ve probably never been fitter in my life.

I listened to most of it in the way back from a bike race - the parochial nature of the bbc coverage was shocking/ not surprising (delete where applicable) Resorting to lazy cliches about Spanish football and one commentator referring to Utd as ‘we’ throughout. In terms of matches, I’m usually...

There is an irony that Man Utd, who seemingly get given more pens than any other club over the last two seasons should lose out on pens last night. Good to see Foyth actually show he can play after a dismal few seasons at Spurs.

A whole bunch of really good stuff at the moment Polly Barton’s Fifty Sounds - a memoir predicated on her learning Japanese but a delve into language, culture, identity - really enjoying it. Daša Drndríc’s Leica Format - Croatian writer whom I love - recently republished early work where she...

Bringing Isaac Hayes into the game is a bit unfair as his covers are invariably better - probably no more so than his epic 20+ minute By The Time I Get To Phoenix.

And as @luka isnt here I can post this - regularly cycle along this path but yet to see the Peregrine he talks about

I’m lucky enough to cycle near the Blackwater where J A Baker lived and wrote The Peregrine - mostly I just see remnants of their kills in the roadside but every so often I catch sight of one and it absolutely makes my day. My favourite sight recently was watching two crows taking in a buzzard...