Tony Hannan
@tonehannan.bsky.social
Writer, editor, half-owner of Scratching Shed Publishing empire. Books, fillums, music etc. Live and let live. Attended same school as Mr Blobby
‘Sky’s name is Harr Worth. I don’t know why but there it is…’
Historian, author, songwriter, poet, humourist, man-about-town, lexicologist, Society of Antiquaries stalwart, President of Newcastle upon Tyne's Lit & Phil and a canny bit besides, Oliver Heslop was the Toon’s Victorian culture vulture, now sadly all but forgotten. Or he was! New book out October 8
Groovy! I’ve waited 130-odd years for rugby league to become cool and it’s finally happened
Freeview (UK) #film of the day : Les Yeux Sans Visage/ Eyes Without A Face (1959 86mins.) Georges Franju's magnificent surreal horror, starring Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli and Edith Scob. [ @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 12.50AM Saturday] letterboxd.com/dukenfield/f...
A ★★★★★ review of Eyes Without a Face (1960)
From the opening scene, in which a woman is seen driving through the countryside at night with a look of intense concentration on her face and a mysterious passenger in a hat and coat in the back seat...
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
That weren’t just any phone alarm… that were a NORTHERN phone alarm…
Via @jakethackrayfan.bsky.social: For my music-loving friends in/around #London, I cannot recommend this event highly enough. • JakeFest 2026: Celebrating the comic, poetic, and storytelling genius of #JakeThackray • Aug 15, 2026 • Jamboree, 6 St. Chads Place, London More info: jakethackray.com
Coming soon! Sunday 30th August, 2:30pm FREDDIE DAVIES: A LIFE IN SHOW BUSINESS (2017) #FreddieDavies allows film maker #MartynTott a candid insight into his life story with rare clips and photos from his exceptional career #TPTVsubtitles
This is wonderful - ‘South: Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Glorious Epic of the Antarctic’ - watch it via BFI Player when you’ve a spare hour or so. Lovingly restored by BFI with a smashing new score by @neilkbrand.bsky.social Great penguin and husky action too.
I’ve actually been to Ceuta. About 42 years ago. Little backstreet cafe there, did a very nice fish soup. You can have that, Lonely Planet
Great tale. That’s Leslie Howard to Karloff’s left, I think, not long before his plane was shot down by the Nazis www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
The Spin | Boris Karloff’s unlikely love of cricket lives on with foundation in his name
Actor known for his haunting film roles was president of Hollywood CC and his estate helps to fund the Windrush cricket festival
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Bring back lead pars that grab the reader with ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘when’, before cracking on with ‘why’ and elaborating further from paragraph two. Thank you and good night.
I first read this as couscous. Which AI could just as certainly be with a dash of lemon and sprig of coriander
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoCould AI be conscious?
This analogy might work a little better had motor cars not gone on to play a big part in ****ing up the planet
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoGeorge Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts
Agree completely re Captain Binface. But surely Tarquin Fin-tim-lim-bim-lim-bin- bim-bin-bim bus stop F'tang F'tang Olé Biscuit barrel is alright?
When family history is a mystery... My grandmother told my dad that when she was younger she’d been held against her will in a clinic in Switzerland. I've started to explore to find out more. And it’s turned into quite a dark story. davehaslam.substack.com/p/a-beautifu...
A beautiful girl locked in an attic
Investigating my grandmother’s barely believable story
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That 2pm Farage statement in full: Прекратите меня придираться
You read it here first: FIFA to give USA special trophy for coming 16th
Walked to the 'office' and now sat wiping my forehead like Mike McShane halfway through the props round
Still think the bloke who blasts music over every announcement is an absolute prick.
‘𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘷𝘦, of course, is a bittersweet elegy – for the old Western way of life, for the era of American expansion, for the cowboy. It’s also, perhaps too subtly, a critique of those things.’ @jrobertlennon.com revisits Larry McMurtry. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
J. Robert Lennon · Buffalo Bones: Larry McMurtry’s American West
McMurtry bemoans the fact that readers take his characters at face value and misidentify cowboy selfishness as heroism...
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Two of the absolute greats. One of whom I am now proud to call a friend
Caught an old Corrie. It reminded me why I used to watch it. Blanche thinks Ken's gay: 'He's started drinking camomile tea and having assignations with a confirmed bachelor...I've nothing against the gays, I'd walk over hot coals for Paul O'Grady.' Written by the ace Carmel Morgan.
This is genuinely an excellent film, and I'm not just saying that because it also contains time-lapse footage of cartoons being drawn by me.
Ali Catterall@alicatterall.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy and Jane's little film SCALA!!! is now FREE to watch for 14 days via this link, thanks to our lovely distributors, the BFI. And it has a terrific intro by Kermode too. player.bfi.org.uk/subscription... But do consider taking out a BFI player subscription too!
