November Grau

@daisy@sunny.garden I haven't seen you here for a long time! I hope you are doing ok :)

@CoolerPseudonym@wandering.shop I am convinced the Fruit of the Loom logo had a horn of plenty on it but I mainly saw it in the back pages of UK lifestyle supplement magazines so I suppose it might have been a knock-off brand. I was nonetheless amazed by the claim that it never had a horn of plenty on it though

So all that Eurovision bollocks has got so bad even I will probably be giving it a miss this year, and tbh the boycott is being made easy for us since we can now only get French TV here and their commentary sucks. I did watch 3 entry videos: the UK one (terrible), the French one (even worse) and some Romanian bird begging me to choke her (when I get round to it, mummy's busy)

To be honest this Websters ad is also eerier than I remembered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebbAackG4OY

I wonder what became of this magazine Purple Moon. Maybe if we join hands and focus our energies like in The Craft or whatever I will find mouldy copies of it in Sourdeval book shelter next week

The long light evenings here have been getting me down something awful - it's the worst time of year to be alone at night - but I have found company in the form of this huge Massey Ferguson forked attachment, which has been sitting unattended for some time on a path between two fields. We have a lot in common, although I was never as useful

Talking of things from my childhood that are eerier than I remembered, I had occasion to read the lyrics of "The Boys Are Back In Town" by Thin Lizzy today, and without the upbeat music they feel very ghostly. Who are these "wild-eyed boys that had been away"? It's almost impossible not to imagine them as ghosts that only the narrator can see, because he's approaching death himself. "The nights are getting warmer, it won't be long Won't be long 'til the summer comes Now that the boys are here again"

On a less unsavoury note I have just found out that Die Haut's 1992 performance at the Berlin Tempodrom is now on the YouRethra! For years I have been forced to content myself with snippets of Blixa Bargeld and Anita Lane doing "Subterranean World" and "Johnny Guitar", but here you can see Lydia Lunch, Nick Cave, Kid Congo Powers and other luminaries accompanying Die Haut and there are also little interviews. Yes Blixa Bargeld does go into a crouch and start screaming at the end! It has everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgrzSXrMP3g&list=RDYgrzSXrMP3g&start_radio=1

Today I bought a box of Peach Signature Magnums and they are about the size of a signature. Who would ever have thought we'd live to see the day when a Magnum was smaller than the crabbed little extremity I am forced to call a hand? I was compelled to eat a second one just to feel slightly sick It was very nice though, the golden outer casing really tastes of peach

Here is a massive hearth just randomly overlooking the road to Sourdeval.

That "How Mastodon Are You? Tick all that apply"-type poll has got tme thinking, because the only two things I ticked out of about 20 were "Flower posts" and "Mental health posts". But in case I sound ike that one old priest in the feral priest's hospital in Father Ted quavering "I really shouldn't be here", the "mental health posts" thing is actually the entire reason I'm here. I can't handle the design patterns and excessive stimulation on other social media and I also detest the lack of privacy. I just can't be properly mad anywhere that doesn't have the facility to lock posts, and I'm severely unimpressed by the absence of this facility elsewhere. I'm so glad this instance exists as well because I couldn't survive anywhere near the mainstream of Mastodon. I tried that and it made me go as bonkers as Bluesky and Twitter Anyway in honour of my pathetic score in the Poll of Belonging I am now considering posting ONLY about flowers and madness. Just making this account all botany and bad heads all the time, like a socia media version of the Clark Ashton Smith story "The Seed From The Sepulchre". You HAVE read that story, haven't you? Please say that you have, it's so good. Don't ever get into a canoe with anyone without reading it first

@CoolerPseudonym@wandering.shop In the UK it was always "stamped self-addressed envelope", and SAE was even used as a common acronym Just typing it is giving me an agonizingly intense flashback to kids TV competitions my parents would never let me submit anything to

@CoolerPseudonym@wandering.shop SAE it ain't so, Joe [wistful Murray Head arpeggios] On TV they always used to pronounce it "ON-velope" too, you never heard anyone say it like that in real life. I don't know how they say it in America of course