I was surprised by how much I liked him as Scotty.

I mean it was very much a 'What if Scotty was Simon Pegg?' performance, but his accent was on point.

And like I always say, if it was up to me we'd all just be using myspace still. I hate having six social media accounts. It's analagous to how streaming has fucked up television viewing, possibly for good.

I have never willingly deleted any of my social media accounts. I want (most of) the people who want to find me to be able to find me.

It felt like an incredibly hostile environment in the two months I tried to be active on it. Not the people, just the interface.

What's the issue with Bluesky now?

singing 'the POPE is WOKE' to myself to the tune of Ace of Spades

Exactly 10 years ago today it appears I was having a very rare Good Hair Day.

"Donwood can't do the poster this time I'm afraid, but we've got the guy who used to work with Steps?"

Big 'Summertime Special, Live From Butlins' vibes too.

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

My dad would always wait until I had just stepped out of his car for a night out before saying shit like "Remember the story in the paper about that wee boy whose face got smashed in so badly he had to have reconstructive surgery? It happened just where you're standing"

Same energy.

It's a pretty sad story. He was an early victim (well, for our generation) of the anti-vaxxing mindset. Died a completely preventable early death by refusing treatment for liver cancer, believing that natural remedies would be more effective.

Which they were not.

There's a Doug Henning trick that I saw when I was about 8 that I still think about at least once a week.

Saw it again within the last year or so and it still knocked me out. He stands behind a curtain with his head poking over, dips behind it for a FRACTION of a second and now he's his wife.

a group of people in red shirts are standing in a dark room playing instruments . ALT: a group of people in red shirts are standing in a dark room playing instruments .

To be fair...

Fascinated by your usage of 'Anglo' here. Can you explain what you think it means?

Has anyone that follows me had an experience with a cult/guru?

My friend is looking for people to talk to about their experiences.

It will be thoughtfully and sensitively done, not sensationalist.

Details in the thread.

Please repost to help her find someone 🙏

There are two more equally compelling and atmospheric episodes to dig into and you definitely should.

In a sea of Joe Rogans, be more like Our Wendy.

www.sodisappointedpod.com

finally listened to this on the drive back from Scotland yesterday.
Apart from my unstructured thoughts about Bowie dying (a wee bit at the start, a wee bit at the end) I just want to shout out @wednesdaygj.bsky.social and @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social for putting together such a terrific podcast.

That's me with Home Alone.

At this point I feel that seeing it would be less fun than continuing to not see it.

Visiting Hours

Maurice Noble background art from "Road Runner". View from the top of a cliff, looking down into the distant valley below. Plummeting coyote not pictured.

Vertiginous Road-Runner background, by Maurice Noble. Watch long enough and a Coyote will come plummeting past your view, descend into a vanishingly small point and impact with a distant "paf" noise.

Andrea has just reminded me that the camera work in the car chase at the end is the closest thing to actually being in a car going up and down at speed on a hilly road that you'll ever see on a big screen. It actually made my stomach go 'whoop' a few times.

Going through a few things at the moment I can't really talk about on here (inevitable, depressing family stuff that everyone faces at some point or another), but we decided to snap out of it for an afternoon and I'm glad we did. One Battle After Another is like Star Wars for ageing lefties. Much as Cronenberg deliberately made Videodrome to demonstrate what it might be like if violent media really DID make people violent in life, so OBAA offers us a world in which Antifa A) actually exists B) is organised enough to actually get shit done. Di Caprio is always much,much better as a hopeless wanker going through some shit than as a serious, tortured hard man. Sean Penn made me sad I went bald instead of grey. Chase Infiniti doesn't just have an AMAZING name that sounds like a surreal science fiction epic and/or streaming app, she is also an instantly compelling screen presence in much the same way that, well,Leonardo Di Caprio was at her age. It's the first film I've seen ages that starts in high gear and doesn't let up for a second. Not a moment of screen time feels wasted. In PTA's filmography it FEELS closest to Magnolia somehow: a sprawling landscape painting, only this time with car chases, tasers, high-velocity firearms, dope-smoking Commie nuns and an underground white-power militia with a delightfully whimsical name. Jonny Greenwood makes it twice the film it already is (as usual). Check it out, homie.

A short review (after a fashion) of One Battle After Another.

Welcome distractions from the reality of an intolerable situation

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2016: Annus Horribilis In this episode we’re looking at 2016, a profoundly disappointing year in which the Grim Reaper culled as many beloved celebrities as they could, while also finding time to oversee Britain’s disastrou...

Our latest episode - 2016: Annus Horribilis - is now available from wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy! #SoDisappointed

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Trailer for Episode 3 and a gentle walk through all the celebrities who passed away in 2016.

We’re still looking for a contributor for episode 4 - Cults and Gurus. Have you had a brush with a cult or a run in with a wannabe messiah?

Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)

I never saw them live, but my favourite-ever urban myth (which no one else recognises, so maybe it was made up by this one guy at a Greenock house party in 1991) is that Lux Interior's day job was being Big Bird in Sesame Street.

"I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities." -- Charles Schulz