One of the best men is rapping now. I don't know what to do.

@chillbabysatan it's definitely comforting to learn that you have a regularly shaped skull. Anyway, it kicks ass.

The wedding is in a Roman bath house, built over an ancient hot spring. I have drunk the spring water. It tastes of blood!

I'm at a wedding, and there's a guy who -visually- occupies the exact middle point between Donald Trump and David Lynch. There's another guy, presumably a relative, who occupies the middle point between Donald Trump and Joe Pesci. It's incredible.

@libbymiller Apparently so: https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/make-bristol-shit/ I'd assumed it was some kind of anti-gentrification thing.

For this reissue, they have -- unforgiveably IMO -- inserted a previously unreleased track between 'Sweet As a Candy Bar' and 'You Sweet Little Heartbreaker'... one of my favourite one-two punches, which opens side 2 of the original LP.

@chillbabysatan Strong look!

Today in I Would Prefer Not to Pay £32.99 for the Deluxe Edition of an LP that Cost Me £6.99 When It First Came Out...
https://airmiami.bandcamp.com/album/me-me-me-deluxe-edition

While researching a caption for these pictures, I was disappointed to learn that the slogan "Make Bristol Shit Again" -- which could be seen on stickers around the city a few years back -- was part of a viral marketing campaign by a fashion label. #Bristol

No.

Just finished a continental breakfast that included roll mops stuffed with raw onion and pickled trout salad... and I could not be happier.

Also, shout out to the wolf-cam scenes in An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World. (When I watched this one, the subtitles gradually went out of phase with the dialogue over its 3-hour duration. By the end, there was a two-minute gap between the words appearing on the screen and being spoken.)

#RIP Juraj Jakubisko. The Deserter and the Nomads (1968) is magnificent, even if I've only ever been able to see it in a dubious rip from Slovak TV, with fan-made subtitles.

Sorry, it was a One Big Sunday, not a Radio 1 Roadshow. https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/sunday2001/2000/bristol2000.shtml

Probably worth mentioning that I didn't get to meet members of the band before the show, nor did I receive a commemorative VIP laminate and lanyard.

I'll look back at this post in a year and think: *why* did I write that?

I saw S Club 7 at a Radio 1 Roadshow back when they were properly famous... and it didn't cost me a fucking penny.

This industrial action isn't just about pay (it's also about pensions, precarious contracts, workloads, and pay gaps on the basis of gender and ethnicity), but here's an interesting new piece that looks at whether UK universities can afford to give their staff a decent pay rise. (Spoiler: the answer, with some provisos, is yes.) https://hitchcockian.medium.com/university-challenge-paying-your-staff-699e6bf7c15a