You cray-cray. Go listen to the I'm Your Man & apologise.

I suspect that 2016 will eventually be known as the beginning of the Great Reaping. It's 2016 all the way down from here on in.

Me too. I dare say it's superior to the original.

and the video also takes it to another level.

I was at my local hardware store on the weekend, and there was a group fundraising by selling sausage sandwiches out the front (we do that in Australia). I could tell they were some sort of men's group, and they seemed like really nice people. But, without having a decent talk with them, I had no way of knowing if…

Oh, Stridey. Will your distastefully ill-timed comments never end?

It's hard to be tolerant of someone who hates the Kinks or Violent Femmes

I've been to a show where he plays the animal slaughter videos. The videos weren't too bad (I mean, I could easily look elsewhere if they were), but the music was deliberately grating and unpleasant. (The original post may have given the impression the band wasn't playing. They were.)

I started with Robert Forster quasi-autobiography "Grant & I", moved on to David Nicholls' "The Go-Betweens" while listening to Go-Bees bootlegs.

I'm so looking forward to Providence but I can't justify buying the hardcover. Maybe I should try Jerusalem while I wait.

It would have to be up there, wouldn't it. I also re-read Nine Stories this year and most of it held up pretty well.

Every shit you take…

I couldn't agree less. I quite like some of his stuff (Invisibles, WE3) but Happy is a muddled mess. One of the few TPBs I couldn't even finish.

If I entered the Woman Booker Prize, people would accuse me of being sexist. Reverse sexism yet again.

It's time for one-eyed Johnny to go apeepin in a tuna store.

"Everything happens for a reason."

I prefer, "As Marshall McLuhan said. 'There is no such thing as a totally false perception.'"

Ooof. Nothing like a music reference to make you feel old.

I'll give them a go just because I loved Umbrella Academy. I am a little worried about him meeting the workload though.

When I was kid the local stores were limited almost entirely to mainstream super hero comics, so I was pretty surprised and grateful to discover Shade.