Ian Racey

Just finished rewatching Reilly, Ace of Spies, with both of them in supporting roles playing … essentially the same characters.

That’s just poor cccpy editing.

“International Stutter Awareness Day” says Colin Murray. Mate the problem with my stutter is that I feel like everyone’s already aware of it.

Exxon, words have meanings, and if you have five different grades of car wash, you cannot have “Ultimate Wash” be the FOURTH grade.

Phew, I’m juuuuust fat enough for the Covid vax.

Is there a major American movie franchise that comes anywhere close to being as Oedipal as Back to the Future?

This is one of my favourite items I’ve so far written for this project. It’s a 100% faithful restatement of Washington’s words as quoted in the replies.

There were so many previews before our showing of The Phoenician Scheme that one movie got two previews. We’d seen so many new adverts since they’d advertised Megan 2.0 to us that they needed to advertise it to us again because we’d forgot it existed.

When you laugh out loud in the middle of leading a review for the AP Macroeconomics exam, because you get an email from your daughter in the next classroom, in the middle of her own review for the AP World History exam.

A small white chocolate raspberry cake from Nothing Bundt Cakes

For the most part I am on team “if an occupation gets an appreciation week, the public should just pay that occupation more,” but one of my students gave me this today because it’s her last day (she’s a senior), and you know what? I do currently feel appreciated.

Why are Spurs wearing a change strip against a team who wear red? And why on earth do Spurs have a change strip that would be impossible to wear against a team who wear white—especially a team who wear white and punctuate it with blue?

Just saw a Steve the Fish video on TikTok that had the lyrics translated into English at the bottom, except it translated “et des jambes” as “and chocolates.”

Yes. He is orange, he has arms and chocolates.

Coolest dog ever driving the car next to us right now.

Not the reaction I’d have expected but okay.

Guys my lesson plan was set in December, but hand to God, the lesson I’m teaching for the next two days in Macroeconomics is about how tariffs are an immediate way to kneecap your economic growth.

1. Literacy
2. The skill of being able to sail anywhere in a boat of your own construction, and claiming any shore where you make landfall, without first checking if anyone's already there, and
3. How to enter foreign lands with strange customs and be acclaimed by the natives as their new rulers.

Watching Swallows and Amazons with Lisa, and I'm explaining to her that the entirety of a state education in Britain is reading this and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, so that we learn:

250 years ago: Horace Walpole talking about the power of right-wing propaganda to brainwash people so that they are actually applauding the government crashing their own economy by painting it as punishing their trading partners. (Hozza is talking about the New England Trade & Fisheries Bill.)

I wonder if before the motorisation of life, when humanity’s footprint was so much smaller on the world, that effect lasted longer than one night.

Or maybe not, since there was also much less light being generated at night.

My favourite thing about fresh snowfall is when it happens at night and the night sky is so much brighter than usual, before any of it has been ploughed or cleared away.

The challenger on today’s Countdown has the most stentorian voice I have ever heard. Just sitting there naturally talking and sounding like Charles Dance at his most Shakespearean and being better at it than Charles Dance would be.

… Why are Arsenal wearing white?

Know I’m watching too much UK TV when I know six of the eight contestants in this week’s Celebrity Pointless.

We are now literal DAYS past the point where, when I get the daily notification that school is closed tomorrow, my honest reaction is a quiet “That can’t be right,” and I go to the actual school website to check before letting the kids know.

The Sky Sports interviewer with Ruben Amorim after the Liverpool match is absolutely dedicated to asking him an answer rather than a question and hoping Amorim will confirm it.

The BEST solution to figuring out if you’re offering shipping that’s complimentary or complementary

Today I saw The Man Who Would Be King for the first time, and now I’m unreasonably upset I went over a quarter (probably) of my life without having seen this film.

A screencap from my 2024 wrapup email from Olive Garden. My top three dishes of 2024: chicken Alfredo, chicken & shrimp carbonara, Tour of Italy

All the rest of you can go ahead with your Spotify Wrappeds, but I think a true measure of a person is to go by their Year in Pasta: