Robert Shaw

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Carbon-based bipedal ride-or-die Zevonhead. Just zis guy, you know? Dad / Allotment / Gills

A copy of Kevin Rowland's autobiography hand signed in person and dedicated to me
Kevin Rowland and Paolo Hewitt
A 1981 Austin Morris Mini Pick-Up in front of a current Mini Countryman. Marlon Brando as Don Corleone is saying "Look how they massacred my boy"
In which a skeet talking about whether the author Terry Pratchett is or isn't in danger of slipping from the public consciousness is juxtaposed with a skeet rudely punning on his name.
Screenshot from a browser's address bar. The URL contains an unbroken string of As, like a scream
7" of Let Loose's 1994 single 'Seventeen'
barnacles have developed extraordinarily long penises. Barnacles possess the largest penis-to-body size ratio of any known animal, up to eight times their body length, though on exposed coasts the penis is shorter and thicker. The mating of acorn barnacles is described as pseudocopulation,
DVD cover of the 2010 film 'The Shouting Men'
My personal conveyance for the day is "Paddington Bear"
Me in my Museum Nerd T-shirt which I bought at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa
Two 1980s BR Blue locomotives going around and around my layout. A Class 86 'Phoenix' and Class 47 'Lady Diana Spencer'. The former is hauling a Motorail train and the latter a rake of Mk2 coaches.
Two Bengal cats are sharing my bed. One is in between my legs and the other is sitting on my foot
A bunch of Hot Wheels, mostly Minis, sitting on my desk
Two snow lynx Bengal cats, mother and daughter. Daughter Tiffany top, mum Luna bottom. They're asleep on a bed, curled up opposite one another in near mirror image.
Today's NYT Mini crossword, featuring a description of a winter jacket a British English speaker would not use
Two Bengal cats Luna and Tiffany dozing on my lap
An Orval glass filled with Orval and an Orval bottle
It me. Wearing a 25 year-old David Devant And His Spirit Wife T-shirt
Björn Ulvaeus from off of ABBA making a cameo as a Swedish newscaster in the Kylie Minogue XMAS video
A Diamond Rio PMP300, I think the first widely available portable MP3 player
A blue Mini Pick-Up from 1981.
A screenshot from Nitter with four scammers offering non-existent tickets to tonight's Danko Jones rock show
A picture of Andy Samberg portraying the character Steve in the music video for the song We'll Kill U by The Lonely Island. The image is captioned "You're still a cunt Steve, go fuck your snake" (these are lyrics from the song)
The 4CD version of the 20th anniversary reissue of The Darkness' second album One Way Ticket to Hell ...and Back
Burning cut tree branches at the allotment in an incinerator. Photo taken an hour after sunset using Night Sight on the Pixel 8.
Mother and daughter adult Bengal cats. Luna is grooming Tiffany
A Bengal cat called Tiffany is sitting on a copy of At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers
The cover of the Ronnie Lane compilation album Just For A Moment
Album cover of the ZZ Top album Eliminator featuring the eponymous Ford hot rod
I reached Level 130 on Duolingo French
Luna the Bengal is sitting on a stack of LPs. On top is Cher O'Bowlies, the pick of The Undertones
Four glorious 7" singles from my youth: Beatnik Girl by Snug, If You Really Want to Know by Ether and Mansun's Two and Seven EPs
Austin Mini Van and Pick-Up brochure illustration
Luna the Bengal cat reporting for duty on her perch next to my desk at 20 past eight in the morning
The pitch at the Priestfield and me, my daughter and nephew
20 years ago I had a ringside seat as The Darkness climbed to the top of the UK music tree. Now I've written the sleeve notes to the 20th anniversary reissue of their second album One Way Ticket to Hell ...and Back
The 4CD version of the 20th anniversary reissue of The Darkness album One Way Ticket to Hell ...and Back, with liner notes by yours truly
A Bengal cat named Luna chilling in the v made by my legs. Yes we're both still in bed, don't judge me, you've not had my life.
Justin Hawkins of The Darkness as Screaming Lord Sutch in Nick Moran's 2009 Joe Meek biopic 'Telstar'
Guardian headline that suggests that Emma Radacanu, in action on day four of the US Open 2025, has beaten Tjen, Norie *and* Djokovic
A Goldstar model GT212. A 35 year old IBM compatible PC with a desktop case, AT keyboard and CRT VDU
Yesterday's NYT crossword, naming Croatia as the land where much of Game of Thrones was filmed
A very unflattering picture of Kenneth Williams with flared nostrils
Panel from a 2002 Achewood strip. The ghost of Billy Idol is instructing Philippe to henceforth call the bicycle his mom gave him a "sex bicycle"
Happy Anniversary Husband greeting card with a design featuring two hands, one on each side of the image
A blue 1981 Austin Morris Mini 95 Pick-Up
Purchasing flow from a train ticket app, showing that people 16+ are adults
Challenge yourself with a farmer's carry, which involves holding and walking with kettlebells or dumbbells by your sides for a minute to improve core and shoulder stability and grip strength. Women and men should aspire to carry 75% and 100% of their body weight (half in each hand) respectively, says Vaux, who adds that you have to build up to it.
An evergreen tweet of mine from 2018. "I would subscribe to The Guardian tomorrow if they would allow me to hide Simon Jenkins' articles from the app."
A picture of my Spitfire-shaped kite, flying over a beach in France for added authenticity
A photograph of Doors frontman Jim Morrison's grave in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
Today's New York Times mini crossword, 7 across is Bluesky, clued "left-leaning social media site"
CD album, the best of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
Aztec Camera aka Roddy Frame's 1993 LP Dreamland
Trust Me, I'm A Fuckface T. Emery Lolsworth on July 16, 2007
Brothers in Arms [Warner Bros., 1985] "Money for Nothing" is a catchy sumbitch, no getting around it, and the first side moves with simple generosity, not a virtue one associates with this studio guitarist's ego trip. But it's too late for the old bluesboy to suck us into his ruminations of the perfidy of woman and the futility of political struggle, and "Money for Nothing" is also a benchmark of pop hypocrisy. We know Mark Knopfler's working-class antihero is a thicky because he talks like Randy Newman and uses the same word for homosexual that old bluesboys use, a word Knopfler has somehow gotten on the radio with no static from the PMRC. I mean, why not "little nigger with the spitcurl" instead of "little faggot with the earring," Mark? And while we're at it, how the hell did you end up on MTV? By spelling its name right? B-
1981 Austin Morris 95 Pick-Up. It's blue with 12" Minilite wheels and a grille from a MkI/II Mini has been fitted.
Bengal cat Luna snuggled up and dozing in her new DIY blanket bed