Sean Bell

Beat up old black hat laying on the wet street

About to bring to life the most fucked up snowman of all time

That's right... Harrison Ford

This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.

i thought it was funny when the trailer for the suspense film about a dog GOOD BOY dropped and the universal response to the film was "Does the dog die in the movie?" and the distributor had to spoil the ending and admit "No"

Honourable mention: one of the books I consulted as part of the Very Serious Research for my first published piece of fiction

Next, this one I found in a cardboard box of free stuff outside a nearby storage container unit. Published in 1981, it is gloriously retro

America: The Cookbook

First, this absolute behemoth a friend got me for my last birthday, as she knows my love of discovering regional American food unknown to the UK

YouTube video by Expedient Self Neil Young – Dead Man Original Soundtrack (1996, Full Album)

Mildly hot take:

The DEAD MAN (1995) soundtrack might be Neil Young's best album

Snoopy types at his typewriter in four panels: Gentlemen, Regarding the recent rejection slip you sent me. I think there might have been a misunderstanding. What I really wanted was for you to publish my story, and send me fifty thousand dollars. Didn't you realize that?

BREAKING: The majority of executives and upper management are totally talentless hacks.

"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

maybe i am going insane

From Susan Dalgety's latest Scotsman column: "Excuse me while I stray out of my comfort zone of newspapers, social media and crime novels and into a world I know very little about – Scotland’s contemporary arts, literary and cultural scene. A world, it seems, largely populated by ‘cishet’ male poetry critics, non-binary performance artists and creative-writing graduates. Look beyond the Usher Hall and the Citizens Theatre, and you will find a publicly funded subculture dominated by a tribe of malcontents, millennials and entitled Gen Z-ers whose nose rings are as important to their standing in this milieu as their creative output."

Homer Simpson: "Oh my god! Lyndon LaRouche was right!"

Embittered reactionaries raging against the woke youth is old hat at this point, but only in Scotland could poetry critics, non-binary artists and creative writing graduates be attributed with more sinister power than the Illuminati and reptilian shapeshifters combined.

Walking through Stansted with a few kilos of Rooney in a suitcase which I drop in front of Greggs while my contact drops an identical suitcase full of banknotes. We do the switch without making eye contact.

The Pope holding the gift of a baseball bat in the aisle of a commercial flight

"Life goes on. A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms, enthusiasms. What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy?"

truth coming out of her well to shame humanity

A dinner plate with Brussels sprouts and quiche sits on a coffee table. A black cat with yellow eyes and white toes stands with his front paws on the table, staring at the food covetously.

Looking through old cat pics and

Many are doing this.

i don't think pardoning a turkey goes far enough i think they should give the turkey a gun and complete immunity for the next 48 hours

“i’m gonna go to bed early today” me at 3am: how did the uruk-hai know what a menu was

ACAB includes Elf on a Shelf and his hideous capitalist spawn.

if you steal a cell phone or wallet in paris they kick you out of the french thieve's guild for insufficient whimsy

i’m so happy for him

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Going old school and claiming I was awarded the Order of Lenin

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Keir Starmer is trying to destroy the lives of migrants. You are politically obligated to stand up for us, don’t think that you’re exempt based on vibes.