Colin Smith 💙 🇺🇦 #Xdissentersさんのイラストまとめ

Four fine comics from 2005, just a mere 15 years.

Current listening: Ryuichi Sakamoto's 'Neo Geo'. My favourite RS LP. So many gems, including this smouldering, and all too often over-looked, collaboration with Iggy Pop;

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That doesn't mean I'm saying those stories were always, or even often, successful. (I'm looking at the 'Lady Liberators' here in particular.) But the relevancy trend had a considerable effect upon my young mind, &, coming from a less-than-radical background, I'm grateful for that

So it's here, Ships Of Battlestar Galactica, & I get to read myself to sleep in its company, safe in the knowledge that at least one of the fantastical franchise fictions I loved as a 14 year old still retains all the absurd wonder that it once did, long ago. #onlyAdamacanjudgeme

Some of others I think I can work out. Is that p'haps @seanpphillips - it was his cover! - & @mccreaman? Then (2) Alan McKenzie & Graham Higgins, (3) Dave King, and is (4) Steve Pugh?

I wonder who Vicki was? I do genuinely hope she enjoyed the book.

This isn't how I expected to be spending my days in lockdown. Rather than missing the sport or obsessing over the news, I'm just working my way through a pile of classics that I'd put aside for a rainy day & feared I might never get around to. Small mercies,silver linings etc etc

I've posted the photo before. Forgive me. But then, it was a snapshot from a largely forgotten day. I've always been a touch dubious of the benefits of personal diaries & mundane personal details. But 'yesterday' soon becomes 'long ago', & I'm glad for the record now, 36 yrs on

Barely any mail in weeks & then the welcome subscription copies of @empiremagazine, @SFXmagazine & @MOJOmagazine all arrive with a thump. Hurrah! It's grand to have a pile'o'mags to read. One more lockdown afternoon instantly transformed into something to look forward to.

A new ritual of ours that really helps: at 3pm, whenever possible, we stop for an episode of a classic serial together. We've just finished 1979's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - which is still wonderful - & start 1982's Smiley's People today. Alec Guinness: so breathtakingly good.

Richard Fletcher's book on the centrality of blood feuds to Anglo Saxon England makes for fascinating -& somewhat terrifying- reading. In places, hard going for general readers like m'self, but there's so much to appreciate, as here, on how boredom can keep blood feuds festering: