@ros_kumagai my best one is 'oh you're German - did you see the Body Worlds exhibition by Gunther Von Hagens?' 3 times. To the same person

@ros_kumagai he came over here for comfort afterwards but I told him to stick it up his dialectics.

Throwaway blog ideas: A history of leopardskin. Or, why I can't take leopardskin seriously any more, even on leopards.

The Complete Spring Heeled Jack Page - Explore the mystery of a 19th century London terror ow.ly/gEifj

'Pipe dreams... they're the things that can really poison and ruin a man's life and can keep him from finding any peace' The Iceman Cometh

I may have to get facial surgery so I can become one of the Sons of Lee Marvin jim-jarmusch.net/miscellanea/th…

A stroll through cholera-stricken Soho in 1854 catsmeatshop.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/soho-1…

@ros_kumagai ha!

I should really plug that blog I wrote a month ago on a subject that is being tweeted about a lot today

@ros_kumagai or an apricot, if you're on a diet

+1 MT @gregg_sh: Really interesting piece: Defoe and information technology theatlantic.com/technology/arc…”

The 2010s? More like the 1880s... (riots, occupations, jubilees, economic depression, Old Etonian Prime Ministers...) wp.me/p2DdFs-1L

Cracking pic. RT The League Magazine Everton at Abbey Road, 1985.

A short rant about the prices charged by museums etc to reproduce images in the public domain in little tiny books that nobody reads anyway

God bless the Library of Congress.

How London in the 1880s mirrors the present day - wp.me/p2DdFs-1L (me jumping on the #RipperStreet bandwagon)

We need a change in copyright law, and an easy one: 'The digitising of works in the public domain cannot be regarded as a “new” work.'

Just thought of a new class system: the fixers and the fucker-uppers