I think the National Trust could sell a lot of merch with this on it (text and logo). Aging introvert heaven.
Glennyrodge@glennyrodge.bsky.social · 2w agosame
Philip Marsh
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Runs the A Plunge Into Calvino podcast (@aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social). Sometime writer / editor. UEA graduate. The views expressed here are personal, and not that of my employer.
Glennyrodge@glennyrodge.bsky.social · 2w ago
I took a screenshot of a screenshot of a couple of tweets posted on here to WhatsApp to a friend and WhatsApp refuses to send it (although it happily sent a photograph of my parents' cat). Is this some new privacy/security measure I'm unaware of?
Five of my favourite black & white films. Island Of Lost Souls Hell Is A City Hellzapoppin Night of the Demon The Trial
Jayce@jayceb.bsky.social · last yr.Five (of many) favorite black & white movies: Carnival of Souls The Trial Kuroneko Beauty and the Beast Ivan’s Childhood
On the other hand, we're not brought up to know how to accept compliments and end up feeling awkward and uncomfortable when someone compliments us.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 2w agoA thing I learned a while back that blew my mind is that men almost never receive compliments, especially cishet men. Giving a man a compliment will literally make their year
It would be nice, but unless he actually goes to prison I'm far from confident. Do Reform voters really care if someone gave Farage money? I'm honestly not sure they do.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is surely curtains for Farage's political career. I don't think there's any coming back from it. I hope not, at any rate. Looks like there could be a strong basis for a criminal case as well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This is a much better offer than it looks because the prices in the list are not the actual offer prices - you have to click in to each one to see the offer price, some of the discounts are absolute bargains. I got Forty 2, Cass, What Lies Inside and Connections www.bigfinish.com/collections/...
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If you like your true crime documentaries on the truly bizarre side, I recommend The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga. Elvis Impersonators. Local politics. Family fueds. Martial Arts. Attempts to poison the POTUS. A constant string of *what*??? moments.
What's your concert history? First concert: Gene Last concert: Gene Next concert: unknown. Seen most: Manic Street Preachers Haven't seen but want to: Bruce Springsteen
Christian Lipski@christianlipski.bsky.social · 3w agowhat’s your concert history? first concert: The Beach Boys last concert: A Bowie Celebration with Mike Garson, Corey Glover etc next concert: unknown seen most: tie between Brian Wilson solo and Muse haven't seen but want to: The Darkness If you see this, do it maybe 🫶🏻
Watching Robocop: The Series. The pilot episode has a very similar set up to The Rise of the Cybermen with homeless people being kidnapped and so their brains could be merged with cybernetics, while episode 3 involves the negative effects of a new weight loss drug (albeit not living fat creatures).
I do find it odd that, given that he produced one of their best characterisations on TV and his friendship with McCoy and Aldred, Marc Platt has only written two 7th Doctor audios for Big Finish. Seems a massive wasted opportunity unless he doesn't want to return to those characters for some reason.
Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)
Things I hope to see from Big Finish some day; A 'Lost Stories' release for the rejected Chris Bidmead 'Trial' segment. An audio adaptation of Lungbarrow. An animation of Spare Parts. Marc Platt, Ben Aaronovitch, Ian Briggs and Rona Munro to write 7th Doctor and Ace audios.
I'm trying to decide if I'd swap Grimwade and Cummings round so that Grimwade did Castrovalva and made it feel of a piece with Logopolis and Cummings doing Kinda. Cummings would have made a solid Kinda but would Grimwade have escalated Castrovalva to a high enough level to make it worthwhile?
Nigel Farage finally comes out against people being harassed because of things he did.
Politics UK@politicsuk.com · last mo.🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage threatens a Sky News journalist who asks about his undeclared gifts from convicted criminal George Cottrell "You harass my family anymore, there will be serious consequences"
Destiny of the Daleks is no classic but it is very well directed. It's a shame Ken Grieve didn't direct any more Who. Lots of really interesting shots, the location footage is striking with lots of great angles, but he manages to do a lot with the huge studio cameras as well.
My favourite moment of Inside Llewyn Davis is when Davis plays one of his dreary songs in a car and Jon Goodman's character instantly starts to fall asleep because, like the film as a whole, it's so fucking dull.
I've not written any fiction for the last three or four years I don't think, but now I have to again - which is a lovely but worrying development in case it turns out I've forgotten how to do it (and some would argue I never knew how).
Finally watched Stargate and it feels more like a mid-90s American version of Dr Who than the McGann film does (and I say that as someone who has always liked the McGann film). James Spader could have been a really good Doctor with Kurt Russell as the US version of the Brigadier.
Upgraded to the Edge Of Darkness bluray and watched it again for the first time in a while. There's some seriously weird sexual stuff going on in it that doesn't go anywhere or feel particularly necessary, and I find Peck goes a bit OTT at times for my tastes, but genuinely great apart from that.
Italo Calvino, writing home after crossing the Atlantic on a luxury ocean liner filled with aging rich people: “Long live Socialism. Long live Aviation.”
There's a film adaptation of a Virginia Woolf novel out starring Lily Allen and Jack Whitehall. I think my own paternal Hell would be being forced to watch it for eternity.
Right-wing anti-woke Dr Who fans next month; 'Of course, the Daleks were right to want to exterminate those freeloading Thal refugees. They had to protect their city from being over-run. Also look at the make-up they're wearing. Clearly trans.'
Is there a German word for finally working out what film it was you can remember a scene from, and the two days later stumbling across it being broadcast on a streaming app but with only 10 minutes left? ('The Long and the Short and the Tall' on Pluto TV in case anyone wonders).
On a different but related issue, I was re-watching Frontios on bluray last night and noticed another AI artifact at the end of part 2 - the same vertical lines visible on the Doctor's costume in Resurrection are visible on him and Norna as the Tractators capture them in their gravity beams.
'It's Wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey.' 'Am I six?' Thank-you Russell. Thank-you.
