The Pillar-biter, 1509-1517 seen on the lower part of the choir screen of St. Bavo Church in Haarlem, the Netherlands.

Good morning, Twitter.

the Quebec woman who rented a horse-drawn hearse in 1871 just to ride around town while smoking her pipe.

Please tell us which medical facility? I have a procedure due and long to hear Old English being spoken

LOST SOUL: This vampiric demon is experiencing limbo, he's cast out of heaven or possibly confined to the underworld in this magnificent painting by Spanish artist Bartolomé Bermejo (1440-1501).

via @drsamgeorge1

Me in 20 years

The Nature Table

Artist: Harry Wingfield
(Going to School, 1959)

confused as to why this man isn’t on every morning news segment going

Tippi Hedren having her cigarette lit by a crow on the set of The Birds.

Beauty for a Sunday morning …

There is also a Freud one but you need to show id

Every farm activity sounds like an indie band from 2008

This used to be a country.

When poets meet

Beats by Dre and a duck of your own. Jacobean women really knew how to live.

'Woooaaah Black Betty ...'

(It's a 70's thing )

Thank you to everyone who came to the LRB Bookshop Hagstone event last night. Douglas Stuart asked great questions, Claire and the staff were so welcoming, and Siobhán McSweeney, Maxine Peake and I are forming a band.