Wildwood sure had a lot of scenes where those kids were nearly run over. The public information film aficionado in me was severely triggered.
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Diurnal scribbler, rat fancier, kitsch aficionado. Mollusc who never found my rock. Some would call me a hipster. Team Jacques. 🎳🐀 https://spirochaetetrail.blogspot.com/
We'll try & write to you from Spain with news about everyone, but if you don't hear from us it means we've died of cholera.
Spooky season is upon us, so obviously a trip to the Treehouse of Horror is in order. This October I'm covering "The Terror of Tiny Toon" of Season 10, where Bart and Lisa get acquainted with the dark side of laughing at cartoon pain. Doesn't that cilantro really give it a zing?
Treehouse of Horror '98: The Terror of Tiny Toon (aka They're Laughing At Your Pain!)
The one thing that no one ever really expects when it comes to these Simpsons Halloween specials is complete originality. Traditionally, t...
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From Finland, 1998: Toys from Brio (+Teletubbies home; Talking Teletubbies!; Teletubbies; All four Teletubbies in the same package; and Nuu-Nuu) [ENGinALT]
"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"
M a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧@marcusjdl.bsky.social · 3d ago“a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence”
The Simpsons looks to be leaving Sky One permanently as of November. I wrote about it briefly here: wesleymead.wordpress.com/2026/10/24/r... @cwickham.bsky.social
RIP, The Simpsons on Sky One
On Saturday, October 31st, at 6pm, UK & Ireland pay channel Sky One will air “Treehouse of Horror XV”, the season 16 Halloween special of The Simpsons. Nothing notable about that: Sky have been…
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You can now get plant-based meals in mainstream places, which seemed like a pipe dream three decades ago. And no one has asked me "So what the hell DO you eat?" in years. 🍽️
Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 3d agoSocial media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
All that for the bloody double vote dagger? #CelebrityTraitors
"Oh, come on, Luann. You know what this is." "Kirk, I don't know what it is." "Ah, it could not be more simple, Luann. Do you want me to show this to the cat and have the cat tell you what it is? 'Cause the cat's going to get it."
No idea why I love this photo so much. A crisp London morning, Paul and Linda heading into Abbey Road for another day, a black cab motors past them in the background. All oddly reassuring.
1993: On The Table, Glassware and Books from Habitat (+Binoculars and Cornwall)
#RodentOfTheDay Alabama Beach Mouse (Peromyscus polionotus ammobates) "The Alabama beach mouse, an endangered species, lives in coastal dune ecosystems. It’s a small mouse with a buff colored patch on its back and snowy white underbelly." #SqueeAlert Photo/info: www.fws.gov/refuge/Bon_S...
It's fucking great trying all these different cocktails.
Blog update: On learning of McDonalds part in a Government plan to feed the public if nuclear war erupted, Pop Will Eat Itself rapped about Big Macs on "Def Con One". It reached the top of the Indie Charts and was their last single before signing to RCA. indienumber1s.blogspot.com/2026/10/120-...
120. Pop Will Eat Itself - Def Con One (Chapter 22)
All the singles to top the NME Indie Charts since its launch in 1981, complete with an overview of the other music in the charts each week.
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New article is The Women Inside Ragdolly Anna, which contains essential trivia for fans of the programme.
The Women Inside Ragdolly Anna
Putting a face to the giant doll costume
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This does of course eliminate the possibility of anybody shouting out "Oh my god! They killed Kenny!" at breakfast. #CelebrityTraitors
'Green Beast and Sun' by Laura Holden, contemporary artist from Somerset in the UK, inspired by folklore #WomensArt 🌞
Use of the wrong rat in Medieval period dramas that take place before the Norway rat's displacement of the black rat across Europe. I mean, I get it. It's easier to source dark-coloured domesticated Norway rats than actual black rats. But it reinforces the assumption that they are the same species.
Daniel@deargodwhaat.bsky.social · 2w agoPrompts a fun question: whats the most niche historical inaccuracy in a piece of work that annoys you Not like 'oh they were referring to the wrong king' , more 'they had the wrong king on a banknote in one scene'
45 years ago on this day in #music the UK #no2 in 1981 was The Tweets with The Birdie Song Watch the video here : www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESVi...
I somehow expected better from the villain from Corpse Bride. At least he was a giggle while he lasted. #CelebrityTraitors
Whatever else there is to be said about "Digger", the closing punchline was frankly right up my alley. It's also the kind of punchline that you have to see theatrically in order to get the full benefit - which people obviously aren't doing, so that's a tragedy right there. Already lost to the ages.
Conference very interesting, lots of tractors.
