Jeremy Worth

There was an obit yesterday for the "inventor of the frozen burrito". He looked very pleased with himself in the picture.

Samuel West | Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

A lovely interview with Sam West, part of GB's podcast series about formative experiences and memories. Their conversation, recorded between Timothy West's memorial service and Prunella Scales's death last week, is touching, thought-provoking and thoroughly uplifting.
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Good for Terry - but to be fair, that was obvious to all of us!

During a hot summer holiday it was much more bearable. Families could purchase a pass from the bursar. It could even become a bit crowded on a sweltering day; I remember my mum diving to the bottom of the deep end and surfacing with the Head of the Science Sixth (Terry W) sitting on her head.

Good God. Sometimes I miss my old Nokia. Also my Mac Classic II, with its occasional recalcitrance and its big plastic Y-fronts. Most salacious communication I ever got from that was a "Happy Mac" icon (phwoar).

Recommend Jonathan Daube's _Educator Most Extraordinary: The Life and Achievements of Harry Rée_ and _A Schoolmaster's War_, writings by HR edited by his son Jonathan (regular LRB contributor). Both part of my small expat library of Watford/WBGS-related volumes! An extraordinary man indeed.

Ah, of course. He did - albeit a bit slighter in build! I'd forgotten about the 2CV!

Trying to work out who that would have been. Any chance of initials? ;) I had Dr Diane Kermack and the late, great Dave Evans. Biology was the best of the three for me, too. Great teachers.

I lick the spoon, though.

Bolero, me.

How proud he must have been of you. Thinking of you today.

I agree with you, but I've seen it done. It's a thing. At the other end of the madness scale are those who wash, rinse clean, and pop the now-spotless plate straight into the dishwasher.

Where false professions of Christianity by the likes of Trump, Vance, Kirk, Huckabee and White-Cain are concerned, the writings, witness and example of Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (arrested by the Nazis in 1943 and murdered in 1945) might and should be brought back into strong light and focus.

No argument about disagreement, censorship and attack, Mr #Poilievre. But if you think it reasonable to characterise Charlie Kirk's bigoted positions as "a contrary point of view", and if you think the USA is currently a healthy democracy, you need to reexamine your senses of reality and morality.

But don’t say we have to grieve Charlie Kirk. No one HAS to do that. Hate that he was murdered, sure. Condemn entirely the violent direction of US political discourse, yes. But grieve that guy? THAT guy? No way.

Charlie Kirk should not have been murdered. Charlie Kirk was a dangerous and repulsive bigot. Both of these things can be true.

I know it's all too easy to point out hypocrisy but are we seeing a great outbreak of Republican 'thoughts and prayers'? Are they urging people not to rush to politicise this? Are they insisting that the shooter was mentally ill rather than ideological?

Charlie Chaplin could have heard Anarchy in the UK.

This is the Britain I recognise. Not a country where courageous migrants are shouted at by home-grown fools and desperate inadequates from outside hotels. Farage and every single immigrant-scapegoater can go to hell. I want to be as proud to be British as I once was. (Thanks, Dan, for the link).

Timeline cleanse

I remember his tweeted appreciation:

So atmospheric. Logopolis has many of my favourite Adric moments, with him questioning the Doctor and reacting to revelation after revelation as that sepulchral atmosphere builds in the first two eps. You took this 8 yo right along with you. As for Castrovalva: "Me! I'm the trap..." Marvellous.

Condolences, and thanks for your huge contribution to the season that blew my 8-year-old mind.

So sorry to learn that CHB has departed, @andr3wsmith.bsky.social. Like you, he responded so kindly and thoughtfully to tweets years ago expressing gratitude for the seeds sown in an 8yo mind by Season 18. Your mutual admiration and affection were evident in interviews and DVD extras. Condolences.

Surely their movements, on all axes, are voluntary rather than subject to gravity or any other normal force. They don't fall, but they can pass...it occurs to me that we don't see enough ghoulies' goolies descending through ceilings on stage, page, or screen...🤔

This guy, I swear.

Right. He doesn't hanker after peace. But he hankers like a wanker after the prize.

This doesn't count as "produced", perhaps, but the judicious use of AI for "demixing" in creating The Beatles' "Now and Then" yielded a result that made me cry.

Voice as primary input? They're having a laugh. Bullshit. Disaster.

Kids on our street would watch ant colonies up close and happily flick them off our custard creams, but when the flying ants appeared we'd all leg it indoors. I remember the trauma of one crashing into my 99 Flake, which I immediately threw into next door's garden. Ants with wings. Ain't natural.