Jim Finnis
@jfinnis.bsky.social
He was astonishing. Did you ever see his anti drink driving ad? So many characters in just a few seconds. youtu.be/-clmBuxBIMY?...
It's a fun book and you should all read it.
Holy carp y'all this is amazing for a book that came out nearly six years ago. I wonder if we can get it into the Kindle Store top 100!
ICYMI, ANCESTRAL NIGHT is $1.99 in ebook at US and Canadian outlets!
www.bookbub.com/books/ancest...
His poetry is neglected - "Lean Sideways on the Wind" is just so beautiful. And who could fail to fall for the charms of Squat Ursula?
My wife (Welsh) drinks tea with the bag in all the time. She calls it "tê tramp" in polite company, or "tê tampon" in less polite.
But there's also an association to determine the appropriate number of guilds
oh gods.
Oh hello scintillating scotoma, it's been some time. I was planning on getting stuff done, but you do you.
And if you don't cry like a baby at Chapter 75 of Gormenghast you're dead inside.
Yeah, it wasn't great. It was a brave attempt at the unattainable. Human beings can't look like Peake's pictures, really. And, of course, the pictures in one's head can never match up with TV.
But I saw a stage production once and let me tell you, that was *diabolically* bad.
He was fading fast when he wrote the third book - dementia with Lewy bodies. A lot of it still holds up, but you have to bear in mind he wasn't well.
Ham's part of London. Have they made Cameron the Baron of Ham to get him into the cabinet? I hope so.
(I'm not doing the "ham" thing because of the pig thing - there's a good chance that was made up by BJ. Instead I'm doing it because he looks like C3-PO wrapped in ham.)
Well yeah, and also no. I looked into this in my PhD - I'd argue (with Maturana and Varela) that life is autopoiesis: responding to the environment in a way that maintains the ability to respond to the environment in way that maintains... (etc. ad infinitum) (a gross simplification).
4. Or 11. (Art by Lily Seika Jones (@rivuletpaper on IG))
I'm hoping Chuck goes "fuck this - I'm not reading this," thus precipitating a constitutional crisis.
Well, a man can dream.
I've often wondered about that "jukebox baby." Is it a giant doll? Does the dime go in its mouth?
I can't stop laughing at this.
God no, I tried it once and I look like a bloke called Martin on the town council who's obsessed with bin collection times.
Excellent work!
Hello - does anyone want a thread on lawyers in horror films (entirely subjective and non exhaustive)?
Do I have other things that I should be doing - absolutely...so lets go!
My (UK lawyer) wife refers to LL Cool J as "Mr Justice LL Cool."
An awful lot of musicians have said the same thing - it's much harder to write a happy song that isn't trite. Here's Beck for example: www.thatericalper.com/2017/09/09/b...
"Limerence" is a useful concept here - that intrusive, involuntary and obsessive desire. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence