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My Stuff

Internet HQ
New Escapologist
From the Desque of Robert Wringham (newsletter updates)
Covered in Seafood (photos)
My Garfunkel Library (reading record)

Some Friends and Collaborators

Samara 💜
Alan Dimmick
Landis Blair
Jonathan Simons
The Iceman
GingerBeard Mark
Unclef/Sisyphus
Ryan Vance
Komodo Kolektif
Louise Isobel
Sven Werner
Louise McVey
Meadhbh Hendrie
Marcus Brownlow
Aefa Mulholland
Shanters
Johnston
John Dowie
Bill
Gabriel Featherstone
Ian Macpherson
Go Faster Chris
Aye-Aye Martin
Idler Tom
Spencer Wakeling
Lewd Alfred Douglas

Some Blogs I Follow

Richard Herring: Warming Up
iMomus (photos)
Dickon Edwards: Diary at the Centre of the Earth
Carrie Marshall: Bigmouth Strikes Again
Raptitude
The Whippet (newsletter)
Dirty Feed
Outside Left
Things I Find in the Garbage
Vashti Media

Antisocial Media

Cook’d and Bomb’d (phimosis support forum)

Some Vlogs I Follow

Momus: Open University
Red Letter Media
Living Big in a Tiny House
Not Just Bikes
Sunny Wu
Hige and Me
Life in Atami
Nerdburger
Digitiser
Better Than Food
Not So Blonde
Starlinc
Donkeyscratch
Jazz Night in America
My Analogue Journal
Erwin Saunders (funny)
Joe Winer

Some Publishers I Like

CB Editions
Fitzcarraldo Editions
We Heard You Like Books
Sternberg Press
Verso Books
P&H Books

Some Bookshops I Like

These ones

Some Living Writers I Like

Dan Rhodes (Timoleon Vieta Come Home)
Melissa Broder (Milk Fed)
Fran Lebowitz (Reader)
Charles Boyle (The Other Jack)
Sarah Bakewell (How to Live)
Jenny Odell (How to Do Nothing)
Jerett Kobek (Only Americans Burn in Hell)
Shola von Reinhold (Lote)
Simon Crump (My Elvis Blackout)
David Sedaris (Carnival of Snackery)

Some Living and Undead
Comics Makers I Like

Paul Jon Milne
Benji Nate
Katie Skelly
Mark Stafford
Hunt Emerson
Kate Beaton (Ducks)
Emil Ferris (My Favouite Thing is Monsters)
Michael Kupperman
Sarah Andersen
Erin Roseberry
Letty Wilson
Landis Blair (already mentioned under friends and collaborators so you have to look at him twice)

Some Stand-Ups I Stand

Simon Munnery
Lee & Herring
Sooz Kempner
Chris Lynham
Josie Long

Some Websites I Stumbled Upon and Enjoyed and Would Simply Like to Share With You

Adam’s Apples – just hundreds of apples
Ben Dakin‘s telephone boxes, boarded up pubs, handwritten food signs

Some Pods I Listen To

Greatest Generation 🖖
This American Life
On the Nose
Alexei Sayle
Dr Buckles
RHLSTP has been rubbish for years but the archive is good

Some Radio I Sometimes Remember Is On

Alexei Sayle’s Imaginary Sandwich Bar
Freak Zone
New Music Show
Late Junction
Mfriend Johnston on Clydebuilt
Stewart Smith’s Jazz Police on Repeater Radio

Some archived radio oddities

Momus: Hearspool (Basic FM, 2013-14)
Baconface: Global Globules (Resonance FM, 2017)
Daniel Kitson Archive
Old Chris Morris Tapes
NTS collections

Some Living Bands/Groups I Like

The Nightingales
Joe Howe
The Necks
Sons of Kemet
Trees Speak
Timber Timbre

Punishment Zone:
The Experimental Music Festivals I Go To

Counterflows (Glasgow)
Tectonics (Glasgow)
Le Guess Who (Utrecht)

Where Nobody Knows Your Name:
Some Glasgow Hangs

CCA
Serenity Now (Seinfeld-themed vegan brunch)
The Stand comedy club
Vegan Mafia: Mono and Monorail Records and Stereo and The 78
Old Hairdressers
Hug and Pint
Sparkle Horse pub
Glad Cafe (including my mate Fergus’ Crossmylaff comedy club)
Flying Duck
GFT
Mitchell Library carpets
Alasdair Gray Archive
Anti-Racism Community Library
Meanwhile, in Edinburgh: Paradise Palms 🌴

Causes with Effects

Right to Remain
Books Beyond Bars
Cool Earth
Hope Not Hate
Scottish Green Party
Open Lavs

Slogans to live by

Private sufficiency, public luxury
Works as if you lived in the early days of a better nation
Infinite diversity in infinite combinations
No one is illegal
Love is Love
(Britain in the 1970s was one of the most equal of rich countries. Today, it is the second most unequal, after the US.)