Moon is a film about how annoying it is when people make you keep repeating yourself at work
Showing mum Big Jim's Big Boozy Bike Trip, as she hasn't seen it before. youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...
1976: BIG JIM's Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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Remembering when I was in Stupid Stupid Stupid & Steve and a reviewer said “this band call themselves ‘brassed-up punk’ but they are, IN FACT, skacore”.
Art Of Coop@artofcoop.bsky.social · 5d agoI saw someone on threads seriously trying to claim Rocket From The Crypt as a ska band because they have a horn section
That no interesting music was made before 1988, the year I got properly into music. This was one of those things I said first as a Bit that I then felt compelled to double-down on. My entire late teens/early-20s personality was based on a succession of these.
Dave Moore@otherdavemoore.com · 5d agoHot takes are annoying, tell me a strong opinion you had about music at some point in your life that changed
It's totally ok to let other people enjoy things even if they have terrible taste.
a lovely little story about people keeping fountain pens alive in my city
Let the ink flow: Collectors and craftsmen keep fountain pens alive in Hyderabad
As writing goes digital, Hyderabad's fountain pen enthusiasts and veteran pen makers are keeping alive the enduring craft and culture of fountain pens.
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trying to choose a freudian therapist but they're all just sex of one and half a dozen of your mother
Like @harrysword.bsky.social, I love the andouillette, even if the smell is reminiscent of being stuck behind a tractor hauling a muck spreader in autumn. He’s written a superb ode to this most particular sausage & why he was a fool to have one sent from France: open.substack.com/pub/harryswo...
The Andouillette Does Not Travel
Misadventures with a sausage.
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When asked if this happened often, the police replied that it’s not unusual.
NationCymru@nation.cymru · last wk.South Wales Police have issued an urgent warning on social media about the dangers of fake online profiles - including the Welsh superstar.
The Across the Spider-Verse one was particularly fine.
Chinese poster for the new Spider-Man film makes me want to start buying film posters again.
A few years ago I wrote about Pandorum in the context of space horror. (www.deadofnightletter.com/space/) Not a classic but definitely a big swing.
Space 🪐 | Event Horizon, Pandorum, Sunshine, & Life
Floating free, trapped inside. I’d been thinking about a film that terrified me as a kid—Event Horizon—and it spurred me to put myself through a little festival of horror movies set in space. It’s ...
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You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
When Sobers Invented CricViz On Sir Garfield Sobers' 1967 novel about computers, spies and cricket analytics
When Sobers Invented CricViz
On Sir Garfield Sobers’ 1967 novel about computers, spies and cricket analytics
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#RaymondChandler was born on this day 138 years ago. 'What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that.' - The Big Sleep (1939). #OnThisDay
They couldn't make The Sopranos today, because of woke up this morning