David O’Toole

@thespectacle.bsky.social

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Arsenal fan, south Londoner. I really don’t like Thatcher, still. Machine gun socialist. I demand champagne. The profile is me and my good chums the Ambiguous Dance Company. Larger picture is what socialism gets you.

Ex-Tory Zahawi in an England football shirt which has a multi-coloured collar and looks a bit like a necklace.
Picture of Tate Turbine Hall and notice. Notice reads: YVONNE RAINER TRIO A 10-11 July 2026 at 14.00-20.00 Turbine Hall, Free Experience Trio A, the landmark dance by one of the world's most influential choreographers, Yvonne Rainer. First performed in 1966, Trio A challenged traditional ideas of modern dance. At the time, conventional dance was led by the plot, characters or musical score but Rainer wanted to instead focus on the body's energy. The dance features a steady sequence of movements, such as toe-tapping and rolling Rainer choreographed the dancers to avoid eye contact with the audience, so they became more 'object-like, but not objectified. The dancers do not try to match their movements with one another - each dancer finds their pace based on their own bodies. Rainer developed this dance after she co-founded the Judson Dance Theater - a collective of choreographers, filmmakers and artists - in the flourishing avant-garde art scene of early 1960s New York. The group was inspired by the minimalist ideas of North American choreographer Merce Cunningham and composer John Cage, who centred chance and repetition in their work. Redefining dance for a new generation of artists, Rainer's radical methods are now standard features of contemporary dance today. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Trio A, Tate Modern is hosting free performances and screening the 1978 film of Rainer dancing Trio A in the Tanks Lobby, Blavatnik Building, Level O. DANCE BY EFLECTIONS Suppers cy Dac Belectors by Van Geet 6 Arpe celaboraton with Saders Wiels for the supply of studio space and dramanu
The Sun, an art installation from the Tate Modern, UK circa 2003
GIF from the film Clockwork Orange when the hero, possible Alex and not a hero, has his eyes pinned open while he is forced to view mind-altering violence.
A still from the cartoon Invincible where the eponymous superhero is about to smash someone in the face.
Celebrating Arsenals championship outside the Emirates stadium.
Photo of upset Spurs fans with legend “wolves have won as many home games this week as Tottenham have won since April 2025”
A panel from NYT’s Connections game explaining I played the game in a one in a million way. Go me!
An AI generated news headline from X about the resignation of Robin Ince is illustrated with a picture of a Bee Gee, presumably Robin Gibb.
A close up of a big tree trunk that looks vaguely like it has eyes and a shocked face. If you squint.
Exterior of The Tankard pub on a London street corner. A Union Jack waves, there are many bright blue parasols above wooden tables on the pavement. A cyclist passes by close to the camera.
Street view of the Tankard Kennington Road. Shows rooftop which once was a viewing gallery where patrons could watch mental health patients in the nearby hospital, now a park.
Deactivation notice from X
A scene from I’m Alan Partridge when Alan makes a series of desperate pitches to the BBC. Here, it’s Monkey Tennis.
John McCane from Die Hard as a Christmas tree ornament, he’s in an air vent with his Zippo lighter replaced by a fairy light.
Five sherberts, possibly raspberry strawberry lime orange and lemon. Christmas colours. English pleasures.