Will Salmon

Hell yeah. I think that's the show that has an episode on Skinningrove near Middlesbrough which introduced the phrase "it's just boredism, isn't it?" into my lexicon.

I've seen a barn owl every day for the last three days. Gonna be annoyed if I don't see one tomorrow.

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

A SKELEATEN IN CYBER WORLD AND DA TEXT SAY'S "THE MEDIAS GENTLE CRITICISM OF THE RULING CLASS IS MORE INSULTING THAN IF THEY SAID NOTHING AT ALL, AND FOR SOME REASON I CANT EAT ONIONS ANY MORE, ONE DAY THEY STARTED RIPPEN MY GUTS UP AN D THE DAMB DOCTOR SAID JUST QUIT EATEN EM, THATS NOT A SOLUTOION!!!! ITS NOT A SOLUTION MOTHER FUCKER" - YOU LIVE FOR 30 OR 40 YEAR'S ON THE PLANET AND YOUR BODY STARTS CRAPPEN OUT AND ALL THE DOCTOR WILL TELL YOU IS "THAT HAPPENS" YEAH BUDDY IM AWARE IT HAPPENS AND ITS COOL TO BE BAD AT YOUR JOB BECUASE ITS A WAY TO SABOTAGE CAPTALISM BUT ALSO I NEED HEALTH CARE SO IDK WHAT TO DO EXCEPT SMOKE MORE WEED "ITS SORT OF MEDICINE" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

MOTHER FUCKER - dashare.zone ADMIN

SUN - NIL.
SEA - NIL.
SEX - NIL.

Go get this album right now, it's fantastic.

The one thing that doesn't stand up in Josie & The Pussycat is where Josie says "great ramen!" and she's eating a bowl of obviously plain noodles. But that's THE ONLY THING.

Josie and the Pussycats still extremely good

Unrelated, but this feels like the perfect thread to note that I was diagnosed with OCD last year.

It's been a while since I've read it. I recall it being fairly entertaining, but I don't consider it being "official", even though it is!

Whiffy as in not so good. It was written much later (1988) and retcons some stuff. Plus it has all this odd stuff about the Masters hypnotising humans with a TV programmed called The Trippy Show!

The seller also threw in the first book in this TV tie-in edition (which I'm pretty sure is the edition I first read the series in). So I guess I'm collecting these next.

I now have four copies of The White Mountains. Five if you count the audiobook.

I also ended up with the omnibus edition, in the same style.

At some I ended up picking up the slightly whiffy prequel novel in exactly the same cover art I remember from school. So I started collecting that set too. Got the last one today.

I love John Christopher's Tripods novels, so a while back sought out the trilogy with these funky early 70s covers.

Revisiting the '80s version of Day of the Triffids and lemme tell you, it's still an absolute banger. One of my earliest memories of being scared by TV.

Come to 'At The Back Of The North Wind' in Whitby's Flowergate Hall this Friday 6th March! Folklore and fun, pay what you fancy, and I'll tell you all about THE BEATING BLACK HEART OF WHORLTON CASTLE, a terrifying ghost story relayed to me by my teacher Mr Hirst in this very spot in 1984.

Really good album, this.

Mandy, Indiana - Urgh album cover. A human head with different layers illustrated in differing colours.

'Where Mandy, Indiana’s 2023 debut, I’ve Seen A Way, had a hazy, cinematic quality; Urgh is heavier and stranger, with Alex MacDougall’s expressive drumming bringing a Lightning Bolt-like intensity'

Mandy, Indiana - Urgh is a Quietus Album of the Month for February 2026

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Yeah, I've heard it a few tomes now and don't know what to make of it. Feels like it might be a grower.

Nice one! Quite affordable, too. Will check that out.

What software are you using there, Luke?

Lots of people saying Gorton and Denton represents this and that in ideological, policy terms. But, really, I don't think I can stress enough how much of a draw "a normal person who lives round here and has a normal job" is compared to "careerist toady bussed in from the Westminster circle-jerk".

YouTube video by MitskiVEVO Mitski - Where's My Phone? (Official Video)

Happy new Mitski album day to all who celebrate.
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Threads is the worst social media app. The most conspiracy-pilled, and home to the most performative bad takes for engagement. I have an account to keep my username, basically, which also autoposts my Instagram pics. Now getting weird men thirsting on a photo my Dad took of my mum in 1962.