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Shakespeare’s been monkeyed about with many times; the ending of King Lear was changed in the 18th century to make it less bleak and the ‘rude bits’ of Shakespeare’s plays were edited out in the following century. Live performances of his plays are always an edited version of the written text...

I’ve been to the Bristol show a few times. It’s very easy for me to get to. I really enjoyed my first visit, but found it increasingly less enjoyable for various reasons (getting too old to stand around for long periods, mostly) and had given up by the time Covid hit. Martin Clark’s advice is...

Is ‘enormous’ less derogatory than ‘fat’? Dahl’s humour is mostly about cruelty, and I’m not sure tinkering with a word here and there makes much difference.

Jordan Peterson flips (again) https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1628292293173342208?s=21&t=UpAXn3iLCrNPBeTP7xVFEQ

That’s why I stopped watching PMQs.

The best thing about off-topic is that it features Marchbanks a lot.

Musicals, rom-coms, LOTR, Harry Potter, Tarantino, every single ‘franchise’ ever apart from the Bourne films.

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I had a very strange experience not long after my father died; I walked into a shop near where he used to live and was greeted with 'Hello George!'. Seeing my shocked expression, the shopkeeper said 'Sorry, you're the spitting image of a bloke who used to come in here'. We established that it...

One pair of sealed standmounts (with subwoofer), one pair of ported floorstanders. But may be moving to a smaller place, and will have to decide which pair to keep.

The fundamental point that MES makes is that The Fall's songs are funny (or funn-eh, as he would have said). The book is also very funny. I had a quick browse through Julian Cope's 'Head-On' yesterday. That's another funny book, and Cope has some kind words to say about MES.

I'd suggest skipping the first couple of chapters, and go straight to the childhood/teenage years bit. Not yet. I've got a queue of books to be read that will take me through till the end of Feb!

Was: Renegade by Mark E Smith Is: White Noise by Don DeLillo Will be: Underworld by Don DeLillo Also: various detective novels on the Kindle.

All the soldiers will be driving ambulances and trains.