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My Stuff

You already know about my Internet HQ

From the Desque of Robert Wringham is an occasional newsletter

New Escapologist is a small-press magazine, blog, and monthly newsletter

Covered in Seafood is my photo reel

My Garfunkel Library is a reading record

Rob Throws a Pot documents the time I threw a pot

Some Friends and Collaborators

Samara 💜
Alan Dimmick
Landis Blair
Jonathan Simons
The Iceman
GingerBeardMark
Unclef/Sisyphus
Ryan Vance
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

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

Some Bookshops I Like

These ones

Some Living Writers I Like

Dan Rhodes (Timoleon Vieta Come Home)
Melissa Broder (Milk Fed)
Magnus Mills (Restraint of Beasts)
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 and Herring of Lee & Herring
Siân Docksey
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
Dwarfcasts
Dr Buckles
RHLSTP has been rubbish for years but the archive is good

Some Radio I Sometimes Remember Is On

Freak Zone
New Music Show
Late Junction
Johnston on Clydebuilt
Alexei Sayle’s Imaginary Sandwich Bar

Some archived radio oddities

Momus: Hearspool (Basic FM, 2013-14)
Baconface: Global Globules (Resonance FM, 2017)
Daniel Kitson Archive
Old Chris Morris Tapes
Stewart Smith’s Jazz Police on Repeater Radio
NTS collections

Some Living Bands/Groups I Like

The Nightingales
Joe Howe
The Necks
Sons of Kemet
Trees Speak
Timber Timbre
Komodo Kolektif
Truck Violence

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

Sweet Montreal Hangs

Librarie Drawn & Quarterly
Librairie Résonance
Librarie St. Henri
Librairie L’Insoumise
Bily Kun cream ale
La Banquise poutine
L’Amère à Boire beer
Vices & Versa beer mayo fries and beer
Cheskies hamantaschen and rugelach
Sonorama disques
Phonopolois disques
Westmount Public Library
BANQ
Anarchist Bookfair
Expozine

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.)