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Evening chaps. There's a 1960s office building in Gateshead that the council are preparing to demolish as the beginning of their regeneration program. It was built circa 1965, when the future was possible. In the spirit of midcentury futurism, they called it Computer House

@bat020 @surfskatethrash Likewise. Especially (iirc) Jonathan Richman in tears while reading William Blake out loud to Tony Wilson.

@surfskatethrash I saw that on Channel 4 in 1986 aged 15 and it's been seared in my brain ever since. youtu.be/sTqm4qPCjKs?si…

Please help SAVE TAYLORS BUTTONS, Maureen Rose's legendary shop in Cleveland St. They will shut in November forever unless they can pay their rent arrears from the Covid lockdowns: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/taylorsbutto…

@hellothisisivan I feel compelled to confide that I bought both vols of The Penguin Book of Lost Worlds! Best bookshop in town, and the reason I always take some loose change to Tesco.

An intellectual day at the Tesco charity bookshelf

No she wouldn’t

Going insane having conversations about who “feels safe” here in America when our electrician told us recently he lost twelve family members in Gaza

Trip today to St Crispin’s Wokingham, (1950-3) an important post war school by the Ministry of Education (Mary & David Medd and Michael Ventris worked on it), applying the Herts system to a secondary modern; the integrated murals by Fred Millet recently uncovered, & glorious.

"Listen sweetheart, I couldn't give a SHIT about the solid state circuitry," bellows Alan Lake.

#OnThisDay 1984. The Daily Express devotes its entire front page and centre spread to an imaginary speech made by Arthur Scargill.

Jean Marsh (83 today) in a 1959 episode of The Twilight Zone when she was 25.

"Their world is a world of pop groups ... railway sidings." Left behind in the charity shop.

How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

The guy I buy birdseed from is ripping me off. He and I should be selling equal amounts of birdseed to each other

@OSaumarezSmith The inside's been very compromised, unfortunately.

A powerful building, both bloody minded & simultaneously civic, almost weirdly traditional. Rejected for listing in 2014 - incomprehensibly.

Concrete, heraldry, & sunshine. Hove Town Hall, John Wells-Thorpe, 1970-3.

78 South Hill Park, Hampstead 1963 Brian Housden buff.ly/UDK1Ikg

Is it true that if you get a parking ticket in Salt Lake City and you refuse to pay it in writing, using a 13 foot high typeface, they'll reconsider it? That's four metre "NO" and Utah fine doubt.

@rachelcohen7 Yeah, not to hold them up as masterpieces of satire but Dave Spart and the People's Front of Judea were ridiculing this tendency some decades ago.

Love the idea that Left meetings being derailed by myopic bores is somehow an invention of Woke, like there wasn’t some guy bringing up an esoteric point of order at every leftist meeting since the first international was a twinkle in your great great granda’s eye

'Wedding at Twickenham Parish Church' (1948) by Osmund Caine (Orleans House Gallery)

@MichaelRosenYes Yes. One year at the Richmond Theatre panto, Bernie Winters chucked some toffees into the audience. I turned to my mum in horror to report that there was a lump of metal in mine, and after a brief inspection she broke it to me that it was my new filling from the previous week.

I found a bit of broken tooth in my muesli. Disgusting. How the hell did that get there? Disgusting thought of someone gobbing a bit of their broken tooth into the muesli when they were making it. Then I discovered that it was mine.