Early Live Performance by Talking Heads (1976). This “must-watch” 90-minute show is more than a year before their first album and includes songs like Psycho Killer, Thank You For Sending Me An Angel, and Love → Building On Fire. [kottke.org]
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Local Tesco with a Generous interpretation of a Fruit Cup
Brimstone last weekend at Heartwood
This is a great book.
I’ve written more about statistics of the Guardian’s 100 best novels list, including:
– Books that just missed out
– Two errors in the data (Cather and Camus lost out)
– Best novelists
– Alternative rankings
– Weirdest and least-weird ballots
mpaldridge.github.io/blog/guardia...
A Painted Lady this morning. Paused just long enough to photograph, moving through Kew Gardens at a good clip. @savebutterflies.bsky.social @kewgardens.bsky.social
Yesterday at Heartwood Forest with @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social and The Woodland Trust. Pictured Small Blue, Large Skipper, Painted Lady, Small Heath. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/c...
Can we please have a late Swallowtail surge in Britain's Favourite Butterfly poll? If you haven't voted yet, please use your democratic power before June 7th! britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk
The website of Dr Matthew Aldridge, Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Leeds
Matt covers the bonkersness of it all superbly. And hilariously.
In March 1976, Talking Heads played a show at The Kitchen in NYC; you can watch the entire show recorded from two angles in this video. The band had formed the year before and was more than a year away from recording and
Enjoyed this beautiful Swallowtail at NWT Hickling yesterday. Also counted 253 Painted Ladies on a 75m stretch of brambles. It's an epic migration year! There are a couple of places left on my Swallowtail tour @greenwingstours.bsky.social next Tuesday 10th. Join us! greenwings.co/our-holidays...
Patrick Barkham
Banning children from social media?
Video
Matt Green
Hello Americans. My book is out in the US now, as well. And it's a perfect Father's Day present for a loyal Beatles fan. You might even say such of the choice that It's Trad, Dad!
