Ian Martin
@ianmartin.bsky.social
The Thick of It. The Death of Stalin. Veep. The Hartlepool Spy. Epic Space. Broken English. Avenue 5. Unhinged, and other books. Guardian, Architects' Journal, iPaper, Observer, whatever. Grandpa. STATE PENSIONER.
Today: crisps are offline; nests of tables are rebooting; begonias have crashed; scourers are being hacked; shoes are down; there’s a fork outage.
Two days in a row, stupid stupid FUCKING Wordle solutions, now Spelling Bee 'doesn't exist' New York Times have a word with yourself. Oh, unless it's all AI's fault, in which case we totally understand.
Tall Tales and Murder is 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Woop! All episodes available now on iPlayer and RTÉplayer.
PSA: Sean Shibe's playing the Great Hall at Lancaster Uni, December 3rd. Including the new Thomas Ades piece for guitar. Saw him premiere this at Wigmore Hall, Ades was there to congratulate him. Giddy times. Seriously, the lad's a genius.
A friend of mine who worked with him a lot said to me that in the bad old days, there was one senior bit of male talent who always spoke up for junior colleagues, particularly women. He knew he was unsackable and used his power well. If he heard of anything, words were had. Wogan.
Some people might think Friday 13th is not the best date to release a new album. Challenge accepted ‘Phases II:Further Moons’ available now via castlesinspace.bandcamp.com & your favourite independent record store Thanks for your support on the pre-release already - you’re heroes x
I did get the e-mails you sent me. However, I don't know an e-mail address for you so can't e-mail you back.
Oh Wordle, how I'd love to whack you upside your ba-donk ba-donk, ya goddam persnickerty smartass.
Upended some tree roots left on a wide beach by a low tide to scare myself
It is 5.15pm on Friday 12th November 1982 and you are watching Channel 4 . . .
Gary James@garyjamesactor.bsky.social · 2d ago44yrs ago today 12/11/82 at 5.15pm on #channel4 a 22yr old bleach blond me made his first live TV appearance on #thetube in the 2nd show of Series 1. Despite a dodgy interview with Andy Summers (who wasn’t in a good mood) it was a surreal experience. Happy memories of all the fabulous #TTTV team ☺️
back in the day if u did a tv show called nvidia ceo you'd see that fool cheating on his wife every week in new adventures... but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the leather jacket until you finally get to see him cheat for 5 min in the finale.
One more joke with the word 'chips' in. I double-dare you, motherfucker.
Veluti in Speculum https://www.wikiart.org/en/hans-hofmann/veluti-in-speculum-1962
The Garden https://www.wikiart.org/en/hans-hofmann/the-garden-1956
👏 A spectacular victory. 🔵 Mississippi has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1982. It’s been much longer – not since 1875 – that the state sent a Black senator to Washington.
Democrat Scott Colom unseats Cindy Hyde-Smith in stunning Mississippi Senate win
Colom takes victory by razor-thin margin in state that has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1982
theguardian.com
No coincidence the rapist Brand went to the US when he realised the game was up here, and turned alt right. Last year alone made £4m from broadcasting about Jesus, and was welcomed by Trump administration officials.
Must be a different America to the one that embraced Brand with open arms and gave him a career after the UK rejected him, and where the president’s son ranted about how unfair it was that Brand had been sent to jail for rape
The Americans are like sure, this guy's our President, everyone knows he's a rapist and a crook, we can't get rid of his ass for another two years but we love him because he represents Freedom - mostly for whites - and if you insult him I will massacre you and some strangers with my assault rifle.
Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3d agoThe British are like oh yeah this guy is our beloved celebrity, it's been an open secret for my entire life that he's a sexual predator, it's literally illegal for any of his victims to go to the cops or for anyone to mention this, I will get sued into dust just for telling you this. His new series,
Oh dear, how sad, never mind, fuck them, let's build a shitload of proper council homes to rent cheaply instead.
The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 2d agoThe capital’s high-end postcodes have been hit by the abolition of non-dom tax status, higher stamp duty and rising borrowing costs
TV and film shoots are too often their own self-policing units, where it’s not clear who to take concerns to, or if there’ll be consequences. Safeguarding needs to be independent of the production. And shouldn’t be relying on Lucy Beaumont and others to speak up, in fear of their own careers.
Love Ivor Cutler so much, this will be epic.
Ian Greaves@greavesian.bsky.social · 3d agoI feel like two weeks out we are now IN PRODUCTION. A flurry of emails this morning from participants. Much excitement. And I see there are just a 'few tickets left', so get on it if you want to experience a bumper night of Ivor Cutler in London on the 25th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creamy-pum...