Craig Hamilton

AI is so bleak.

For example, I can see a world where Ramsey goes to Newcastle, Barnes goes to West Ham, and Bowen goes to Villa. Everyone trousers ~£50m, and all three sides are roughly where they were when they started in term of their squads.

Might it be a two-way blood sacrifice, with someone homegrown of a similar price range coming our way, but actually both clubs are just adding £s to the books to fund purchases of other players. Both are hamstrung by PSR, so both magicking up a £60m profit would be very handy.

There was a great article in @wsc.co.uk at the time, reviewing this very first Monday Night Football and deliciously pulling it apart, along with some (sadly unheeded) warnings about the whole Premier League razzmatazz experience that was then only just unfolding.

Well, of course.

+1 for this. Everton under Moyes are a terrific working unit but have no quality. 10 players working their socks off and then giving the ball to Grealish is gonna be box office.

(Would have liked him back here at Villa for a swansong, but not to be)

Today in Good Name For A Band: The Chinatown Hooters

Sounds like a group Bonnie Prince Billy would make a record with.

🎶 TROFEU CERAMICA YOU’LL NEVER SING THAT 🎶
#AVFC

An 8-track cartridge of CSNY, American Dream (1988)

Mitochondrial dna analysis won’t give you as much information about a person as learning that they purchased an 8-track cartridge of CSNY’s American Dream album in 1988 will.

He played well, unfortunately. Marseille are deffo the dark horses for Shithouse FC this season.

I watched it. Marseille are prime shithouse FC. Just as it all looked like boiling over after the 9th booking, they sent on Neal Maupay as a sub.

What this unnecessarily feisty pre-season friendly needed to calm it all down was *checks notes* Neal Maupay being sent on as sub in the 85th minute. Les Handbags. #avfc

Cowboy chilli for tea, lads.

No tomatoes. Just beef, brewed coffee, brown sugar, and few spices, and of course yer 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns

Possibly my favourite pop biography. I read it again every few years to remind myself how good it is. A very bad man but a force of nature.

Had never heard of Evann Guessand last week but I am now 💯 convinced he is brilliant and about to storm the Premier League with #avfc

Terminator: “I need your clothes and your motorcycle”

Me: “How many Bs are there in blueberry?”

Terminator: “Fair play. You’ve absolutely done me there”

#gpt5

We’re all gonna feel pretty stupid when it’s revealed that Ed Zitron has been GPT 6.0 in Beta all along.

TBF, that’s accurate.

Nope. It was when ITV cancelled The Bill.

Jason Statham in the Sean Connery role or we riot.

Good fun over at Bescot. Villa much too good for Roma. For the first time in my life, I filmed a free kick that went in! #avfc #topbins

Nope.

That goes without saying, but you’re absolutely right. Dogs is a dogs does.

What’s got four paws, stole and ate a bar of dark chocolate last night, and cost their humans £600 in a trip to the Emergency vet?

As someone with a very low tolerance for anything with the slightest whiff of new age hippy quackery, I enjoyed this book on the various grifters who created Yoga.

Home stops in the ‘70s, which is a shame because he sets up a skewering of modern InstaWellness culture that would’ve been a hoot.

Sad news about Terry Reid. Seek out the footage of his 1971 Glastonbury performance. Him and the band are HEROICALLY wasted on the marijuana bifters but they absolutely kill it, and wipe the floor with everyone. What a voice.

The Ice Cube War of the Worlds movie is as bad as everyone says it is. A 90-minute, cheap and nasty advert for the Tech Bro Industrial Complex. Stupid, too, as it hinges on the Internet remaining up during a global attack on critical infrastructure, specifically data centres. Holy shit, it’s bad.

Wanted to have my @grok companion Ani-chan by my gaming rig and my engineers prototyped a holographic stand with far field mics (with a @Razer Chroma RGB base). What do you guys think? Is this something gamers would want on their desks? A permanent desktop anime waifu?

you couldn't torture this out of me

Always a joy to see a genuine BOFA in the wild.