second shelf is an excellent little bookshop, well worth a visit if you’re in soho, fantastic range of women’s and gender diverse writing.
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Sunday, 31 January 2021 12:47 (three years ago) link
yes i saw that. hadley freeman also covering herself in glory lashing out at the excellent women’s and gender diverse bookshop the second shelf is good timing as well. not sure how much of a choice you get but ew, do not want to read anything by hadley freeman even if it’s about My Favoruite LRB HERO Patricia Lockwood She Can Do No Wrong. (i haven’t read priest daddy and have no particular urge to - should i?)
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Sunday, 31 January 2021 12:50 (three years ago) link
RONG thread
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Sunday, 31 January 2021 12:51 (three years ago) link
no it’s not
― Left, Sunday, 31 January 2021 13:15 (three years ago) link
A happy(?) accident.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Sunday, 31 January 2021 13:18 (three years ago) link
patricia lockwood's books/poetry are not as good as you might hope. i think there's something ultimately ephemeral about her writing that doesn't work in those forms. i have one of her collections of poetry and i enjoyed it at first but its much more conservative in outlook than i would have hoped and i felt very underwhelmed by it.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 31 January 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
there was a poem that was very 'honoring our troops' that made me do a face
plax you're not the first person to have said that, and despite my general enjoyment of Lockwood in the LRB as a good counterweight, i'm not feeling a huge urge to go into the wider works.
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Monday, 1 February 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link
oh that's interesting, i hadn't actually encountered that said about her. disappointingly nobody i've seen writing about her has really done her the courtesy of engaging with her writing beyond 'poet laureate of twitter' laziness. i do enjoy her as a 'breath of fresh air' lol
― plax (ico), Monday, 1 February 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
just in case of any doubt that wasn't a 'plax why are you repeating that old saw about her being not as good as you might hope,' just that i've heard from other people something similar, and my response was 'ah right, yes, another person i trust basically saying this' (I haven't seen it much out in the wild as an opinion tbh).
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Monday, 1 February 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link
pouring one out for Darren "Grimesy" Grimes who is leaving London to go back to his mum's house, RIP big man
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Friday, 19 February 2021 10:55 (three years ago) link
On 13 December 2020 I made defamatory statements about @AyoCaesar, which I sincerely regret and retract and have undertaken not to repeat. I have agreed to pay substantial damages to Ash Sarkar and her legal costs. Here is my full and wholehearted apology. Please retweet pic.twitter.com/tc2aUKbCOK— Julie Burchill (@BoozeAndFagz) March 16, 2021
u loves to see it
― calzino, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:14 (three years ago) link
Lol was just coming here for this
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:19 (three years ago) link
will this affect her glittering Fleet Street career? The signs are... it won't.
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:23 (three years ago) link
would be funny if she could be made to retract all the other terrible things she's written in the same style, I do note that her anti-woke book is due to be published again though.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:32 (three years ago) link
the most normal paper on normal island
At the time, when Julie Burchill was sending me abusive and defamatory tweets, I tried to contact her editor Allister Heath at the Sunday Telegraph both on Twitter and via email.He never replied.— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) March 16, 2021
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:53 (three years ago) link
God, Allister Heath, that guy is a horror.
― Woke For Luck (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:56 (three years ago) link
weird how these things just keep happening to Julie through no fault of her own
Amazing 48hrs for Julie Burchill. pic.twitter.com/i26rHCiEmy— The Trashies (@TheTrashiesUK) March 17, 2021
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 14:32 (three years ago) link
can't wait for the book about the book
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 14:46 (three years ago) link
still haven't got over hearing Julie's weird voice tbh
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link
wouldn't be a good "narrated by author" option for audible
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
Not a journo more of a twitter grifter being utterly deranged
A very lovely man and a brilliant journalist.— nicole lampert (@nicolelampert) May 8, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 10 May 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link
astonishing that a published obituary or various commentators on twitter would omit to mention that his "lovely guy" murdered his wife
― calzino, Monday, 10 May 2021 13:51 (three years ago) link
He was a kind man though and he murdered his wife out of kindness - how could she have wished to live without him after his subsequent suicide (which he failed to accomplish at six times of trying)? Good thing they didn't have children! They'd have been murdered too. What a vile fucking misogynist, as is everyone tweeting about what a wonderful fella he was.
― I'm not eating that foreign muck *pulls face* (Matt #2), Monday, 10 May 2021 13:52 (three years ago) link
She’s definitely a journo for the Mail but ISTG spends most of her time on FB journo groups pretending she’s not part of Gnasher.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Monday, 10 May 2021 13:55 (three years ago) link
Very sad news. I had the pleasure to work alongside John as he made the world worse to enrich an awful Australian billionaire. I remember him once joking at the Wapping St canteen: “this reminds me of that time I held my wife’s head under water until she died”— The Magician’s Breakfast (@MagiciansDinner) May 9, 2021
― Neil S, Monday, 10 May 2021 14:15 (three years ago) link
One of the replies to that gives you the warning message: "The following media includes potentially sensitive content." It's a gif of a black football player saying something innocuous. Keep on, Twitter.
― I'm not eating that foreign muck *pulls face* (Matt #2), Monday, 10 May 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
I had no idea who you were talking about so had to google - I wasn't going to look at either of those tweets - and wtf?!?! If nothing else it shows why Boris Johnson's serial infidelities and fathering of children willy nilly is no biggie to these cunts.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 10 May 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
Yeah everyone above otm, it’s so awful that I saw Jeet Heer pick it up because the rationale is just off the charts
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Monday, 10 May 2021 15:01 (three years ago) link
sharon needham@sharonneedham19May 8What a lovely, sensitive tribute you have written to this man. As he helped a lot of young hacks do u fancy following in his footsteps and helping me???
john sturgis@sturgiosMay 8Nice try! Maybe on another day.
― nashwan, Monday, 10 May 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
tbh, the problem is less that they would show kindness, empathy and a belief in rehabilitation in relation to someone they knew, it’s that they would actively deny and work against even a fraction of a percentage of the same being shown to anyone they don’t.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 10 May 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
mic wright's piece good on this:
https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-suns-killer-obit-fleet-streets
― Fizzles, Monday, 10 May 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
I have always maintained that Mathew Parris is the absolute worst of this group of terrible people.
This is disgusting and just the latest example of The Times attacking GRT people — a minority who are never given a voice in the national press and are endlessly vilified. pic.twitter.com/hHOuIkr77i— Mic Wright 🏳️🌈🌋🏴☠️ (@brokenbottleboy) May 15, 2021
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 May 2021 08:04 (three years ago) link
didn't he grow up in Southern Rhodesia? Vile man. There probably were identical articles in that 30's party's house newspaper
― calzino, Saturday, 15 May 2021 08:12 (three years ago) link
he's very polite though
― calzino, Saturday, 15 May 2021 08:22 (three years ago) link
I find his "polite reasonable sensible thinker" shtick deeply fucking sinister.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 May 2021 08:29 (three years ago) link
BRWP just love telling you things have "gone too far" when what they mean is someone disagrees with them.
― remind me not to read the comments on that one (Matt #2), Saturday, 15 May 2021 08:42 (three years ago) link
It's time we stopped pandering to commentators. Indulging those who claim to be journalists by giving them designated sites and verified account status has gone too far.
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Saturday, 15 May 2021 08:57 (three years ago) link
you get some horrific guest/nominee combinations with this creep on Great Lives, but lol I still listen to it. I can't remember if the true nadir was Timothy Mallet doing Richard The Lionheart or Al Murry choosing Monty.
― calzino, Saturday, 15 May 2021 09:23 (three years ago) link
Woke Soubz says this piece is spot on, what exactly was "woke" about her? That she was friends with Chuka maybe.
― calzino, Saturday, 15 May 2021 09:28 (three years ago) link
I cannot listen to a minute of Great Lives, it judt seems like an exercise in MP setting himself up as an arbiter of worthiness, second-worst thing on R4 after The Moral Maze.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 May 2021 09:31 (three years ago) link
OTM.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 May 2021 09:38 (three years ago) link
I feel quite attacked when one of my heroes is featured on GL, but yet still I listen and know it isn't doing me any good!
― calzino, Saturday, 15 May 2021 09:39 (three years ago) link
@michaelrosenyes The Tory Party has been a party of the left since it adopted Blairism under Cameron. One day you might get it. https://t.co/Ll2UjvqKT4— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) May 30, 2021
Hitchens is having a heated discussion with Michael Rosen!
― calzino, Sunday, 30 May 2021 20:59 (three years ago) link
his completely addled version of recent history includes: that Blair was a Eurocommunist, so was Cameron and the BBC amongst many other British institutions has been infiltrated by the left. Some proof of this is that the BBC don't often invite him back these days.
― calzino, Sunday, 30 May 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3XnEdaXoAEn0rz?format=jpg&name=large
cancelled again, too racist even for the Torygraph.
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link
still trying to edgelord in your sixties - that is beyond tragic.
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:21 (three years ago) link
lol, jfc at both of those. It's such a shame cancel culture never fucking sticks.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
oh she'll still get plenty of work in the UK media. It's slightly surprisingly that the Torygraph actually have a line on racism that you can't cross, probably a difficult line to define but it's obv there!
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:39 (three years ago) link
you've got to do polite racism like Parris does.
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:41 (three years ago) link