Off topic but on the subject of clothes: does House BBSP have any thoughts about raglan shirts? The slanty-sleeve colour blocked baseball t kind that is.
I feel like streetwear has hyped every other kind of tshirt there is - rugby shirts, quarter zips, graphic ts, jerseys, you name it ...but not the raglan, is it that they're torched or are they just so mundane that American people don't even consider them a separate category of shirt or notice them at all? They always read as peak sporty American style to me (non American here) so I'm curious.
Wodehouse is GOAT no matter what the covers look like but my favourites are still the orange-spine Penguin paperbacks which are helpfully not much bigger than a hand and weigh less than a phone.
A++ selections btw, Leave It To Psmith is top tier comedy especially during the Great Flowerpot Attack. Actually, Jeeves gets all the hype (and deserves it! All those trousers and marriage-dodging) but any Blandings book gives him a run for his money, LITP is a great sample but anything with Uncle Fred in it is equally dynamite.
A low friction place to start is Vintage Wodehouse, a Penguin primer edited by Richard Usborne. It's a collection of short stories and chapters (including the first chapter from his first published novel.) "Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend" is a great jumping off point, which famous racist Rudyard Kipling called the perfect short story.
Coming through to drop a heater of a book rec for others out there who list TV as persona non grata:
Amongst the Thugs by Bill Buford (1990).
A wild journalistic approach to football (soccer) hooliganism and crowd violence in Europe. Helluva fun read. Hope another member of the Spyplane fam enjoys as much as I did.
Off topic but on the subject of clothes: does House BBSP have any thoughts about raglan shirts? The slanty-sleeve colour blocked baseball t kind that is.
I feel like streetwear has hyped every other kind of tshirt there is - rugby shirts, quarter zips, graphic ts, jerseys, you name it ...but not the raglan, is it that they're torched or are they just so mundane that American people don't even consider them a separate category of shirt or notice them at all? They always read as peak sporty American style to me (non American here) so I'm curious.
Wodehouse is GOAT no matter what the covers look like but my favourites are still the orange-spine Penguin paperbacks which are helpfully not much bigger than a hand and weigh less than a phone.
A++ selections btw, Leave It To Psmith is top tier comedy especially during the Great Flowerpot Attack. Actually, Jeeves gets all the hype (and deserves it! All those trousers and marriage-dodging) but any Blandings book gives him a run for his money, LITP is a great sample but anything with Uncle Fred in it is equally dynamite.
The most humanely comical take on the comedie humaine this side of Trollope, not to mention his phenomenal taste in protagonist names.
A low friction place to start is Vintage Wodehouse, a Penguin primer edited by Richard Usborne. It's a collection of short stories and chapters (including the first chapter from his first published novel.) "Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend" is a great jumping off point, which famous racist Rudyard Kipling called the perfect short story.
seems like its time for a BBSP book club
Coming through to drop a heater of a book rec for others out there who list TV as persona non grata:
Amongst the Thugs by Bill Buford (1990).
A wild journalistic approach to football (soccer) hooliganism and crowd violence in Europe. Helluva fun read. Hope another member of the Spyplane fam enjoys as much as I did.