Rob Palk

you can't trust anyone

It’s Friday. Buy a copy of Connery.

This evening's viewing 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

1973 so well into the Needless Saxophones and Echo Effects John era

Re mono see one of lennon's more quixotic and doomed campaigns (and terrible haircut)

Wikipedia backs up the Ringo theory and reminds me that for years I didn't hear that exclamation at all as it isn't on the mono release which my dad had

Ringo has a slightly deeper voice too, familiar to my generation from the great man's latterday career as a tank engine storyteller

(Surely Ringo's?)

Smart glasses that make your eyesight worse and beep sadly whenever you have an affair with one of your graduate students

in a parallel world where all the tech oligarchs were into lit fic instead of sci fi they are having sad affairs and ruminating on identity, childhood, and loss instead of attempting to hasten the collapse of civilisation

i think the muppets would like me. they'd probably think i was great. and i, of course, would overlook their sins

You be the judge: should my eco-conscious husband park his dislike of flying? Jenny wants to spread her wings and see the world, but Teddy is happy at home. Where do they go from here? You decide

Dump him, girl www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

the amount of Islamophobic content they've managed to generate out of a historically left-wing constituency voting for a left-wing MP is astonishing

Duke Ellington advertising Olivetti typewriters, 1969

This changes often but: Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet

Day after World Book Day, going round slapping books out of people’s hands

The House on Utopia Way (Paperback) | Stefan Mohamed The world is coming apart at the seams.Reality is relative. The concept of truth no longer applies. This is all wrong. And detective Johnny Orange is going to find out what's really going on - or lose...

it's World Book Day, so what are you waiting for? buy my book! celebrate World Book Day by buying my book! my weird cyberpunk existential detective odyssey featuring talking magpies, reality-warping jungle records, and Nazis getting dismembered by robots. hope school don't object to my son's costume

I mean yeah, but I always thought this guy was quite cool tbh. He's got a kind of a Dennis Wilson vibe going on

Sorry I shouted 'Parklife!' during the eulogy.

So delighted to be on the longlist for the @womensprize.bsky.social.

My new novel BLACK BAG comes out next week and here are some readings I’m doing from it.

Feel free to try and track it down yourself!

"Grit Bae"

Rather liking this council refuse collection version of a waiter flambéeing steak or a boozy dessert at your table, looks fancy

What are they setting fire to? Precious items of cultural memory I expect. Because of woke

One of them has a flame thrower!

Ah thank goodness it's the council's Setting Fire to Mysterious Objects day

Lost on twitter I'm afraid

I just feel, what with everything that’s going on, no one’s being horny on main anymore.