@dirkmaggs.bsky.social
#1 New York Times Audio Bestseller. Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Superman, Batman (BBC Radio); Alien, The Sandman (Audible) and many other audio productions. Writes. Directs. Plays Drums. No AI needed. 50% 🇳🇱 50% 🇬🇧 + a smidge of 🏴 = 100 % 🇪🇺
Funny is back.
BE FUNNY OR DIE will rise again.
E-book and audiobook available now…
New paperback edition next year.
A terrific night out tonight at the Dead Ringers 25th Anniversary Tour - impressionist brilliance by Jon, Lewis, Jan and Duncan. Sweet/sad memories of the late great Bill Dare - topical gags delivered with just the right mixture of savagery and merriment. Catch it if you can - 9 more dates in UK.
I'd watch that.
One minute fifty seconds of such fast cutting that even Michael Bay has to step back from the moviola and retire
Thank you Gareth.
The BEST.
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
Hello Bluesky.
If you like Improvised Music/ Free Jazz, you can hear and buy it on my records here:
sarahgailbrand.bandcamp.com
I haven't released a new record for a while - I'm benched as a trombone player while I recover from hand and arm surgery, but my music lives on!
#BandcampFriday
That’s why we are here! x
I’m enjoying it x
You could bring a ton of lived experience and creativity to the genre. That’s worth a ponder.
Anyways.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
“See You Next Tuesday”
Hope you enjoy them Bill 😊
No worries mate
That’s very kind of you but I try and forget birthdays nowadays.
Given how clumsily Ii have expressed myself in the past I'll take an edit option. But drafts? nah.
If you know your Douglas Adams, this makes perfect sense.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
Also - you talk about “episodes”. These are *series* (seasons, if you will) of between four and six episodes each.
"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."
#AIslop #refuseresist
Yes these are the series I made. The cover art has changed since original release. If you go for the multicast Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases (Douglas’s name for Series 3, 4 and 5) plus Hexagonal (Series 6, based on “And Another Thing” with added material by Douglas), you’re golden.
Delighted to say I will be discussing the mathematical formula (Beatles+Lester=Fab4) that gave us the film A Hard Day's Night, at the Oxford Lit Fest on Sunday March 29th 4pm oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...
PS it’s so good I used excellent twice
Excellent news. If you want to write comedy, you should read this excellent book.
Super-Sunday
“Bored Of Peace”