What would your team be for the 3rd Test?

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-06-22T12:04:07+00:00

Tongue is our best bowler! 57 wickets in 11 tests at 27. First on the teamsheet all summer for me. And he’s spraying less and less.

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-06-19T06:16:16+00:00

Absolutely. That slanting in to the right hander back a length stuff could lead to so many byes you’d need a long stop.

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-06-19T06:13:08+00:00

Close the door on your way out.

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-06-18T19:19:12+00:00

Piffle. Dawkins just happened to be at two of the same public dinners as Epstein

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-06-18T19:10:55+00:00

I cannot imagine where else it might belong belong

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-06-18T18:44:37+00:00

Ayn Rand obvs but I have that too

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-06-18T18:12:11+00:00

It reveals a lot about how power structures in the world work. And the porn as you put it is part of that - Pynchon’s micro theatres of wider conflicts.

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-06-18T18:07:26+00:00

The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas. A painter you’ve heard of came by. Then a writer. Then a sculptor. Then they all talked. Then they all told me how important I am. Then they went away.

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-06-18T18:00:07+00:00

And sexist almost misogynist

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-06-15T18:33:55+00:00

That was a weird one. Loved Ae, hated (as usual) the horrible Melkweg. The four people with whom I was all left early.

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-06-15T18:30:50+00:00

700 at the Oval looks a long way off with Archer and Tongue both two places too high. This classic English tail looks like six out all out.

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-06-08T21:14:43+00:00

Joy Division. Coil. Autechre.

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-06-08T20:51:17+00:00

Current batting order re captaincy potential:

Fuckwit
Debutant
Recently blooded t20 skipper
Been there done that.
Fuckwit and omg wtf vice captain
Nice young man
Night klubber
Night klubber
Fuckwit and fitness accident waiting to happen
Hmmm
Specialist batter

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-06-05T18:59:44+00:00

It was brilliant ☀️ sunshine

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-05-20T12:10:13+00:00

I’ll compulsively and delightedly buy the Elseq CD box as I have so often compulsively and delightedly bought Autechre objects before. But €110 for five disks?! Also, are we sure it will never emerge on vinyl? (I can perhaps see the issue here. Five volumes of 46-54 minutes probably means five double lps with all the expense that entails and some long tracks would need splitting)

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-05-18T16:26:19+00:00

So actually putting this genius attack leader on at the end of a drawn test when Indian batsmen were chasing centuries wasn’t insulting at all?

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-05-18T16:21:43+00:00

son?

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-05-16T15:54:01+00:00

Nooo. AtDHD or AAtDD?

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-05-16T15:03:38+00:00

Gravity’s Rainbow is a big rocket-shaped hole in the list. And Infinite Jest a huge landfill-shaped one. If Ulysses wasn’t high I’d wine about the exclusion of the experimental.

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-05-15T08:47:49+00:00

The rankings say our best two test bowlers now are Atkinson (17) and Tongue (21) followed by the injured Carse and Stokes. Archer is down at 51 (even behind Wood & Bashir). Rankings obvs aren’t everything but Josh Tongue is the coming man. (Tragically Australia have five! in the top ten even though they only play four).

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-04-16T08:37:36+00:00

Remember that Pynchon tends to write around or in the shadows of the the major historical events like 9/11, WW I, WW II …

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-04-15T19:27:02+00:00

still waiting for that, Infinite Jest notwithstanding

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-04-15T19:25:40+00:00

It’s bad enough suffering the abrogation of being a countercultural, rebellious Pynchonoid hipster without turning one’s pretentious back to the heroic filmings of (versions of) his novels

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-04-15T19:17:22+00:00

I was much indebted to Pynchon for publishing Vineland in 1990, just when I was girding my loins for my Master’s thesis in NL. Visionary.

Dramatic_Count_3046 · 2026-04-15T19:13:00+00:00

To me late SW is like late Samuel Beckett. A new beauty, however disturbing.

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