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how it feels to be tipsy and happy on the train home in too-warm weather you’re overdressed for

#walked to the bus stop via streets i used to live right next to

two pints and two cigarettes deep + listening to ella fitzgerald’s ‘you do something to me’ on the bus to the train station. I Love My City

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david mitchell, unruly

#how it feels

museum exhibition preview night tonight

#god yes

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people who knew blair in the 1970s describing him as being ‘very girly-looking and sort of prettyboy’ and ‘asexual…. [with] a kind of helplessness’ ?????

nulabyaoi

What on earth was going on here

#we could have saved her

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plans for the wicker man (with original drawings proposing facial features) and the remaining legs of the edifice as they once stood in the wicker man: making of

#just saw this nicked on instagram. my caption and all. very strange #i knew it was my caption because who the hell says edifice like this #they didn’t link to the documentary though so. i am a river to my people #they were going to fill the eyeholes with daisies :) day’s eyes

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got my other grades back for the final taught term of my master’s. so all told, one book review and three essays: 78, 76, 75 and 74

#really proud of myself. letting myself be so so proud of myself #i know it’s gauche to talk about grades and i don’t mean to sound vain.. i just never ever give myself any credit and i’ve worked #hard as fuck and i’m trying to let myself feel just. Proud :)#i’ve only had one essay mark under 70 and that was right at the start. so :)#i love english literature i love academia i love it all #The Dissertation Awaits (<- has been doing so much bibliography compiling / reading / presentation prep)

got my other grades back for the final taught term of my master’s. so all told, one book review and three essays: 78, 76, 75 and 74

#which well. a 70 is a first :)#You’d Better Believe It Baby

taskmastercaps

[ID: Three screencaps from Taskmaster. Alex Horne says worriedly, “I’ve done a lot of reading and I just can’t… I just can’t stand it any more.” Greg Davies glances at the camera with concern. End ID.]

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the thick of it 4x07 | samuel beckett, endgame

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-> tony blair playing mark anthony in julius caesar as a schoolboy and ‘visibly swell[ing] when he went on stage for the first time as if he had found his calling’

-> alastair campbell watching richard ii at the national theatre and writing in his diary that richard ‘reminded [him] of peter m in resignation when he was being unkinged’

-> peter oborne beginning his chapter on ‘blairites and brownites’ in alastair campbell: new labour and the rise of the new media class with the ‘civil blood makes civil hands unclean’ part of the chorus at the start of romeo and juliet

-> the endless comparisons by the media of new labour to macbeth— cherie blair to lady macbeth, gordon brown particularly to the thane himself. john reid in blair and brown: the new labour revolution summing up the tbgbs thus: ‘the prince couldn’t wait for the king to die. it’s the essence of many shakespearean tragedies.’

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