Martin Shipp

There's a new issue of Viz out this week. Somebody's in it.

Just got the bastard out.

I may or may not have had a contact lens stuck on my left eye for two days.

Asda delivery yesterday, none of the fresh or chilled items in it. Morrisons this morning, very little on the shelves. Supply chain problems? The beginning of a food crisis? I'm up for a riot if it comes to it, who's joining me?

Thelma and Louise

Don't bother with The Roses, watch the original Douglas/Turner version (which still isn't great). Riot Women on iPlayer: meh plot, crap songs but two astonishing performances from Joanna Scanlon and Rosalie Craig.

A few days ago I discovered that Wesley and I have a mutual professional acquaintance. Has this photo been shared with said acquaintance? You bet your ass it has.

Summer Holiday (Peter Yates, 1963)

You know what would be nice? A decent Parker movie. That'd be nice.

OG Mary Poppins. I was 2 and remember nothing.

You have to pay 20% VAT on a hot woman to take away, but not on a cold one.

Roy Wood has to shop *somewhere*

Sometimes, just sometimes, Geri Wiley shows up in the Only Connect question-setters credits.

Cat2 has started running up to the TV as soon as it's turned on. This is why.

YouTube video by Meat Dept. Duster | Opening Title Sequence

Recent fave: the opening credits of the atrociously short-lived Duster: each episode's credits were re-edited to incorporate a reference to the previous one.

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I made the terrible mistake of bodging together a playlist of my all-time favourite tracks and now it’s pretty much all I listen to. Or indeed want to. More than 7 hours of bliss & it’s darn hard to step away from it in search of pastures new.

Black and white cat laying on a blue mat, recovering from having his nads cut off.

Cat 2 (Trevor), realising what happened at the vet this morning.

Tintin and Snowy the dog peep out from a Chinese pot to confront a scary, sinuous red dragon, against a dark background with swirls

In 1936 Tintin creator Hergé’s original multi-colour cover art for The Blue Lotus was too expensive to reproduce, so it ended up being given to his editor’s 7-yr-old son. In 2021, it was sold ~ for almost $4m (Herge Moulinsart)
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The scene with Lumley where she got to use her entire face was a delight.

When we were kids one of the doctors at our GP practice was Dr. Rosengarten. If we were given an appointment with a different doc, Mum would always sing 'I beg your pardon, I never promised you Doc Rosengarten'.

However: the nature of Ortega's character demands she keeps deadpan while everyone else over-emotes like billio, so she expresses emotion purely through infinitesimal movements of her forehead, which I find both amusing and fascinating to watch.

M3GAN? M3GAN 2.0? Quite enjoyable.

Wednesday S2 disappoints so far, the writing's flat, the kiddies - excepting Ortega - can't act (especially the Pugsly chappie) and CZJ's face is CGI'd smoother than a 2-year-old's testicles.

The only answer of course is to dismantle capitalism by any means necessary and redistribute the property base to those who would use it in the interests of the many.

(Rally starts in Red Lion Square at 10am and we march to, I dunno, the nearest pub probably)

Awwww, cheers Bernardo. Gosh still has a vibe to it but it's difficult these days to maintain any kind of retail presence, let alone one that relies on a small, specialist customer base who buy products that have a short shelf life and low margins.

Terrible news about Dave Edmunds, the man had a hand in so many great records.

Four countries in just about five hours. Modern life can be not rubbish.

Conquérir le monde, un pays à la fois!

Sunday evening vibe

More! Cheers Bernardo.

A massive scarlet bruise about five inches wide at the top of a leg

Tripped on Thursday. Broke fall against a metal post. Today: