David Collard

@davidcollard.bsky.social

2962 Followers 467 Following

Autheur. Unfluencer. 'The Beckett List' (2027) 'A Crumpled Swan' (2025) 'Multiple Joyce' (2022) All published by www.saggingmeniscus.com (No DMs)

Some of the audience at the online launch of 'Foulness' by David Henningham.
'Boris' Johnson in Liverpol, wearing a tie and looking like a knobhead.
Letter to the Times Lit Supp from the British author C D Rose (too long for AlT Text).
A letter to the Times Literary Supplement by the author C D Rpse in response to a review of Guillermo Stitch's novel 'The Coast of Everything.' Too long it include in Alt Text.
The front cover of 'I Don't Like Your Tie' by Marc Moss-Jones and Kevin Core.
Trump attempting to hog the limelight at the World Cup Final.
Enamel sign saying "NO SKYLARKING ON PLATFORM OR TRAINS" on display in Armley Museum, Leeds
Monster Raving Loony Party Leader Alan 'Laud' Hope. Irritating clot, and one of three MRLP candidates standing in the Clacton by-election.
The front cover of 'The Coast of Everything' by Guillermo Stitch https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_coast_of_everything/
The front cover of 'The Coast of Everything' by Guillermo Stitch https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_coast_of_everything/
The front cover of 'The Coast of Everything' by Guillermo Stitch https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_coast_of_everything/
Pubisher Jacob Smullyan (left) and James Joyce (incarnated by John Shevlin) at Hodges and Figgis in Dublin for the launch opf 'The Coast of Everything' by Guillermo Stitch.
The Terrible Trivium in Norton Juster's 'The Phantom Tollbooth' (1961) as drawn by Jules Feiffer. A man in a smart suit and derby and head without a face.
Francois Truffaut and Richard Dreyfus in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' gazing up at the Mothership
Poster for summer exhibition at POTHOLE in Muswell Hill. Sat 18th and Sun 19th July from 11am to 2pm
A still from 'The Colour of Pomegranates' (1969)
Mick Jagger with a peaked cap
Still from Sergei Parajanov's 'The Colour of Pomegranates' (1969)
Badge with the face of Walter Benjamin.
Author, artist and publisher David Henningham
The front cover of 'The Coast of Everything' by Guillermo Stitch.
A map of the UK and Republic of Ireland showing London, Huddersfield, Bethesda, Belfast, Dublin, Southampton, Brighton and Paris. The places are linked to produce a very approximate heart shape.
Barry Humphries in character as the Australian diplomat Sir Les Patterson, cultural attaché to the Court of St James.
The front cover of Tony White's latest novel 'Phantom at the Feast'
Guardian website clickbait headline "Why are we so obsessed with taylor Swift's wedding" by somebody called Dave Schilling.
London Author Tony White
1970s promotional badge saying 'The Jesus of Cool is a testament to the Church of Aural Sects'
Nigel Farage in mustard yellow corduroys and other cosplay country toff clobber.
Jean Gabin and Simone Simon in Jean Renoir's 'La bête humaine' (1938)
The delightful Nova Pilbeam in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Young and Innocent' (1937) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUkE_v8l4K4
The original decimal currency - six coins in all.
The front cover of 'The Wire Cutters,' a novel by M. E. M. Davies (1899)
Dorothy Malone in 'The Big Sleep' standing in front of a copy of 'The Wire Cutters' by M. E. M. Davies. Published in 1899 and perhaps the first western novel. Interesting post here: https://buddiesinthesaddle.blogspot.com/2013/08/mollie-e-davis-wire-cutters-1899.html
A moment in 'The Big Sleep' (1946, directed by Howard Hawks). Philip Marlowe (played by Humphrey Bogart) in Geiger's Bookstore asks for 'a Ben Hur 1860,' which doesn't exist. The bookseller, Agnes (played by the uncredited Sonia Darrin) is unimpressed.
A cartoon strip in 19 frames by Pia Guerra entitled 'On the Day It Happens' showing different Americans reacting in different ways to the same (unspecified) news.
The front cover of 'British Rail Designed 1948-97' by David Lawrence
Steve Buscemi as Seymouir in 'Ghost World'
Guardian online headline: '229,000 excess deaths: the cost of US-UK trade deal?' with pictures of Keir Starmer and Donald Trump, the latter wearing a fucking stupid 'USA' baseball cap
Painting by Jean Arp (1886-1966) - an attractive grey-blue blob with a lime green blob in the middle and two grey-blue blobs above.
Emily LaBarge (left) and author Sara Baume at the LRB Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London this evening for the launch of Sara's book 'Opening Night'
The front cvover of 'Opening Night' by Sara Baume
Daniel Day-Lewis (left) and Hywel Bennett in David Rudkin's 'Artemis 81'
Sting as an angel in David Rudkin's BBC TV drama 'Artemis 81'
My favourite books of 2026 (so far), alphabetically by title: As If Isabel Waidner Attention-seeking Behavior Aea Varfis van-Warmelo Barabus S J Fowler The Coast of Everything Guillermo Stitch The End of Everything M John Harrison Found in a Context of Destruction. Tim MacGabhann Phantom at the Feast Tony White Post-It Notes from Underground Simon Crump Thin Places in Hard Concrete Ray Newman
The front cover of 'THE.' a concordance published by Uniform Books
Cartoon strip called 'On the Say That It Happens' by Pia Guerra showing different people reacting to the same news.
Poster for the dire 1969 movie 'Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?'
Kathy Burke. The People's Choice for the next Dr Who, James Bond and PM
From the Daily Mail: image of crowded open-air pool captioned 'Swimmers enjoy the water at Charlton Lido in south-east London during the heatwave today.'
Screen grab of part of the audience for the online launch of Guillermo Stitch's 'The Coast of Everything'
The front cover of Guillermo Stitch's 'The Coast of Everything'
The cover of British Rail Design 1948-1997 by David Lawrence
DC failing to explain the difference between a lectern and a podium
John Shevlin as James Joyce in Hodges and Figgis bookstore, Dublin, for the launch of Guillermo Stitch's 'The Coast of Everything'
Dennis Price (left), Anna Palk and David Spenser in 'The Earth Dies Screaming' (1964). Spenser appeared (uncredited) as the boy who grows up to be Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, played by Price in 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (1949).