Alan Barnes

Just been watching a Cathy Gale Avengers, written by John Lucarotti, with Henry "Haisman and" Lincoln made up as an Arab sheikh and... oh dear.

When I saw it in the cinema, quite a few people got up and rushed out too soon...

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Doctor Who and the Iron Legion · The Comic Strip Adaptations Volume 1 • Episode 1 1979 AD! Led by the terrible General Ironicus, the mighty Iron Legion - robot veterans of the Eternal War - have come, seen and conquered the English village of Stockbridge! Caught up in the mayhem, t...

Enjoyed listening to The Iron Legion from @bigfinish.bsky.social adapted by @senrabnala.bsky.social. Thought the added elements worked really well (particularly enjoyed Doug and Viv) and Tom Baker seemed to be having a good time.

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I'm afraid I've been writing things again.

Anyway, Rosalie Craig as Doctor Who.

6.66 km

So I went for my usual weekend 12k round Oxford this morning. Listening to a podcast about Aleister Crowley, the Great Beast himself. You know, just because. Coming out of Uni Parks, there's a humpback bridge you can't run up or down, so I pause there. And I swear, I swear this is how far I'd run:

Excited that my new book got into this Waterstones promotion. 25% off til midnight tonight. www.waterstones.com/book/new-you...

No, he but he'll only drink vintage wines and Napoleonic brandy. It won't be a cheap night.

Dance off! Dainty vs Gaga!

Stranger Things. People keep telling me it's absolutely my sort of thing and I'd love it, which automatically trips my contrary switch.

YouTube video by Words Without Restraint Tried it once

I mean, even she tried it once before she decided she didn't like it.
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Eight word horror story.

Hand Held in Black and White is, in many ways, the record that determined the course of pop music for the following four years. It is AMAZING. #totp

Poster for Conan the barbarian

Poster for Flash Gordon

Poster for Dune

Poster for Rambo

Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2

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Riverside Studios doing a New Avengers 4K/blu-ray launch on 9th November. I shall be making the pilgrimage

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Thank you, Matt! I'm in!

What a cast!

Absolutely fascinating thing here.

Lovely Chris Achilleos covers!

My radical idea: do a sitcom in an actual theatre, eg the Palladium, and record it as live. Or even two different sitcoms, either side of an interval. A different show every week for six weeks, record the last performances. Make the live audience a selling point, not an irritation.

The obvious outlier is Mrs Brown's Boys. It's pretty dreadful, but the live audience gives it warmth, and that's what people respond to, I think. It's mad that something like Amandaland is single camera. It should be the biggest, broadest comedy du jour.

Can't remember. I doubt I'd have gone there, that wasn't the point.

There's a first time for everything! I daresay 'comparing falls' will be a big part of all our futures. 😀 Still, my knee's OK now – it's the bruised ribs that stopped me going for a run this morning, annoyingly.

Me with a bit of a black eye

Hadn't realised that my fall on Monday left me with a bit of a shiner, chiz

As times get weird, there's a Doctor Who audio drama from 2002 that I think about a lot called Neverland.

In it the Doctor discovers that his own people, the Time Lords, used to have a method of execution called "the Oubliette of Eternity" which erases the convicted person from time completely.

I am! Yes, it was recorded January 2001, I think. I'm glad it still has life. It's all a CIA* operation, of course.

*Celestial Intervention Agency, what else?

It comes with a facsimile of the shooting script!