Paul Cornish

James Bond fans: does anyone have any recommendations for good Bond books that aren't by Fleming? So far I've enjoyed Colonel Sun, Horowitz's trilogy, & Higson's Young Bond series. I'm currently enjoying Faulks' Devil May Care but did not care for Deaver's Carte Blanche. What else would I like?

James Bond fans: does anyone have any recommendations for good Bond books that aren't by Fleming? So far I've enjoyed Colonel Sun, Horowitz's trilogy, & Higson's Young Bond series. I'm currently enjoying Faulks' Devil May Care but did not care for Deaver's Carte Blanche. What else would I like?

Every time I hear about a Spike Milligan sitcom from back in the day I think "wow this must have been the most racist sitcom ever made!" And every time, there's another Spike Milligan sitcom that's even more racist.

Let's hope Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 is on those lists. :D

I watched a French movie today where the main characters had one small scene set in London and that scene opened to the sound of London's Calling by the Clash. Lazy movie tropes - the one thing that unites us across all international borders.

When I was a young child in the 80s I asked the adults around me if Boy George was a boy or a girl. Their answer - "he's a big girl's blouse" - left me more baffled than ever. These are only difficult conversations for kids if adults make it difficult.

Sweet Smell of Success: 4 stars. Buckaroo Banzai: 4 stars. Friendship: 3.5 stars Paul McCartney - Man on the Run: 5 stars.

#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched (a day late)

Screenshot of "your ai slop bores me," a site where you can larp as an llm to answer other people's prompts. I asked "please draw me a horse that's also a cowboy" and someone did a shitty ms paint drawing of a horse in a cowboy hat. 10/10

This is the greatest website ever made.

youraislopbores.me

Jenny is making avocado toast, so obviously I'm devastated because now we'll never be able to afford a house. We already have a house but I suppose they'll be taking it off us now.

There were so many great movies released in 1981, but it's always gonna be Excalibur for me.

Yeah, I've ever been really looking forward to this one. Flash #206 was the first Flash story I ever read.

A ★★★★ review of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) It's the latest issue! These days DC & Marvel Comics are obsessed with origins, first issues, & "jumping on points." But once upon a time, picking up a random comic and having to figure out who the he...

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DC Finest: The Flash, the Fastest Man Dead.

Flash #206.

Flash #207.

Flash #203.

Delighted to receive this Flash collection in the post, five days before it's officially released. It represents my all time favourite era of Flash comics, with some of my favourite stories.

Bob Hoskins on Super Mario Brothers:
‘I didn’t even know it was a game, my kids told me. ‘What are you doing next, dad?’
‘Super Mario Brothers.’
‘Oh, that’s a game.’
‘What?’
And they showed me this thing jumping up & down.
‘This is you.’
And I thought: ‘I used to play King Lear.’

Me: "Oh great, the trailer for the Lanterns series looks really good. The online buzz for this exciting new show will distract me from all the hideousness in the world."

*online buzz is exclusively grown adults whingeing like babies about the costume being the wrong shade of green or something*

I once corrected Will Self's spelling of the word 'Aquaman.'

I recently reacquainted myself with the episode where Sulu is famously delighted to find a random gun on the floor and I wish we'd seen more of that Sulu.

And Devil in the Dark is so great. It feels bad to praise Shatner's performance in that epsiode as it was influenced by him just hearing about his father's death, but he's so damn good in that episode.

I've only ever really watched the famous episodes before and I'm enjoying watching them again for the first time in years too. Balance of Terror might be one of the best pieces of telly ever made.

I'm being careful what I say cos last time I posted that I didn't enjoy it I got blocked by two people! :D (It's fine though, it's just not my humour.)

I'm watching some episodes for the first time & they're absolutely amazing. Time travelling Spock getting horny in a cave was a highlight. And although there are obviously aspects of it that have aged poorly I absolutely loved The Paradise Syndrome. Shatner's great in that one.

Regrettably I've had to file Starfleet Academy into the same "not for me, I'm afraid" folder as Lower Decks & the last half of Discovery, but I've been rediscovering the Original Series & it's resonating with me in a way it never has before...

It absolutely does my nut in that the country that was SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED to not have tyrannical kings that nobody can get rid of has a tyrannical king that nobody can get rid of.

It was a Woody Allen joke! A famous one too.
"I was married by a reformed Rabbi. He was very reformed. He was a Nazi."
Doesn't quite have the same nuance coming from Frank Butcher.

Me & @madeley.bsky.social were just talking about how decades ago it was acceptable for comedians to steal each other's jokes & it reminded me of a friend who told me a joke that he saw Mike "Frank Butcher" Reid perform live. It was a joke that I recognised, & you'll never guess whose joke it was...

Is the punchline "where do you want this wood?" Jon Ronson has an anecdote about Chris Evans driving Frank Sidebottom's band's van to a gig in London and doing that to a passerby. I had no idea it was a Ryan Davies joke. :D

Reminds me of the old Welsh joke. Chap stranded on a desert island for some time, builds a chapel. A few years later he's rescued - the rescuers find a second chapel. Why, they ask.him, are there two? "Ah, that one over by there's the one I don't go to..."

YouTube video by The Comics Cube with Duy Tano Vladimir Nabokov's Superman Poem: The Man of To morrow's Lament Recited

What do you need right now? If the answer is "A dramatic reading by @paulgcornish.bsky.social of legendary Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov's 1942 poem about Superman's sex life," then you're in luck! youtu.be/kinpu_MDZTc

Superman in 1878, with his hair parted in the middle and a fake mustache, still in his Superman costume.

Superman in 1824, with his hair brushed forward and fake sideburns, still in his Superman costume.

Superman in 1779, with long haired wig tied at the back, still in his Superman costume.

Here's Superman on a time travelling mission, making sure to style his hair in a manner that's appropriate for the era so he doesn't look like a complete freak.

In honor of today being FOC for the first issue of our new run, THE FLASH 31, the folks at DC gave me the all clear to share some images pulled from my original design sheet.

@ryannorth.ca and I hope you take the ride with us! Tell you your local comic shop to reserve a copy for you today!