Jamie Beckwith
@terriblezodin.bsky.social
One half of the team behind The Terrible Zodin fanzine, Yes Virginia, This is a Podcast and Black Archive: A Christmas Carol http://doctorwhottz.blogspot.com https://m.soundcloud.com/user-420543381/sets/yes-virginia-this-is-a-podcast
FM: “Why are you telling me about the ghost when I’m here alone?” Me: “Well if the ghost is here you’re not all alone are you?” FM: *glares* Me: “Anyway I’m not telling you to scare you. I’m telling you because you’re Facilities and it’s your job to call Ghostbusters!” #hauntedofficebanter
If Delta and the Bannermen was made today it would be nostalgia for the late 90s.
I don’t understand colleagues who are friendly over Microsoft Teams but unfriendly in person. What’s the psychology of that?
Booked to go to a German Chocolate Museum for my birthday!
38 years ago today I became a Doctor Who fan. Thank you Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, John Nathan Turner, Andrew Morgan and even Keff McCulloch. You sparked decades of imagination and indirectly set me on the path where I met my wife and became a published writer
Films watched in September 2026 The Third Man (in a cinema in Vienna!) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Dune (1984) In the Mouth of Madness Event Horizon The Lost World: Jurassic Park Majestic Christmas The Boys from County Hell The Adventures of Prince Achmed The Dead Are Alive
How many stories has Doctor Who done that rails against soulless machines that went to enslave human imagination and profit of their creative labour? The idea that the BBC would even contemplate generative AI episodes of Doctor Who is a tone deaf soul destroying idea
Can’t believe they cancelled Vivaldi after just four seasons
I am asking every man I know to think about this question honestly. If someone found a magic lamp and wished for every rapist on the earth to drop dead, how many obituaries of men you know do you think you’d end up reading and why isn’t that number zero?
How many Matts could Matt Smith Smith if Matt Smith could Smith Matts?
How many Eccles cakes could Christopher Eccleston bake if Christopher Eccleston could bake Eccles cakes
In Derry Girls did they ever explain what happened to Orla’s Dad?
#NowWatching a centenary screening of The Adventures of Prince Achmed at Cultplex
What did Michael Jackson put on his food at the Colombian restaurant? Ajiji
Myself and Leslie, along with many other talent creatives are published in the anthology A Year of New Mexico Poetry, available from Casa Urraca Press casaurracapress.com/bookstore/p/...
Why is the reward for being good at your job more work?
It’s the time of year where the early morning sun hangs low in the sky and is reflected off all the puddles
Quotes from the pilot episode of Derry Girls that live rent free in my head “Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not enjoying this bomb.” “I'm not being an individual on my own.” “He's a wee Ethiopian fella from Ballybofey”
When the ladies sing “He did the mash” and that guy chimes in and says “He did the MONSTER mash” that’s basically Wolfmansplaining
Euro city break spring 2027 - 4 days max, hit me with your suggestions
I was encouraging my friend to watch Deep Space Nine but he said he wasn’t sure seeing as he hadn’t seen the previous eight
I wanna see the adaptation where Samuel L Jackson plays Heathcliffe and says “Hey Wutherfuckers” (This is the Heights of my comedy today)
I went to a Star Trek convention and there was just lines and lines of Encounter at Farpoint cosplayers. I'd never seen so many Qs.
In honour of 60 years of #StarTrek #NowWatching Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home on the big screen at the Vue in Salford Quays
Tell me why in Bratislava there’s a Tesco Express right next to my apartment 🤣
In a few moments my train from Vienna will cross the border, making Slovakia my 26th country I’ve visited
#NowWatching The Third Man at the Burg Kino in Vienna