Rob Hinchcliffe

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

A separate music streaming service that only has AI-generated stuff on it?

And we can call it Sloppify...

No? Okay, fine.

The new issue of mine and @sizemore.bsky.social's heist film newsletter is out. This time it's Mike on 1968's THE SPLIT .

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New Jersey Theme Park Puts Animatronic Dinosaurs on Facebook Marketplace as It Shuts Down

Does anyone want to join me in a whip round for an animatronic dinosaur? gizmodo.com/new-jersey-t...

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London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

Patrick 'Empire of Pain' Radden Keefe has written a book about the death of Zac Brettler... And that's all you should need to know really.

bookshop.org/p/books/lond...

43 more things I love in London still just filled to the brim with wonder

subsequent to the orange man shooting his mouth off about London, I did the second part of my 100 things I love in London. because I mean, really:

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US: "So taking Tylenol is, uhhh, not good."

UK: "So, yeah, we can treat Huntington's now."

The Steal 002 Malcolm (1986)

The second episode of The Steal is up. It's me writing about one of my favourite movies from the 80s, and I think one of my favourite ever feel-good comedies: the brilliant, Malcolm... thesteal.substack.com/p/the-steal-...

Had polio as a child, "drifted aimlessly" in high school, was arrested for “borrowing an automobile that had stolen jewellery in its trunk,” ... and then became Robert Fucking Redford.

Coming out of social media retirement because me and @sizemore.bsky.social just launched this.

If you like heist moves then you'll like this...

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What Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Took from the Tornado The legendary folk artists discuss rescuing their tapes from a catastrophic storm, singing as if they have one mouth, and making music that’s like a pebble tossed in a river.

"These songs obliterate notions of time and place, focussing, instead, on the threads of joy and sorrow that make us human."

Yeah they do. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

"Sorry I've been drinking wine" is what I'm thinking of having written on my gravestone.

Someone just subscribed to @londoninbits who also reads "597 other Substacks". I'm not really sure what that says about the way we consume media today, but it definitely says something.

I joined twitter almost exactly 16 years ago (November 22, 2006). I'm user number 15,573 (think it was @tomcoates that invited me - thanks Tom). My only claim to fame is inviting @sizemore in like some beardy vampire.

Pretty sure @substack are just trolling Elon with these new 'bestseller badges'. But I am here for it. https://t.co/ydf2Xkyytq

My copy of @ian_livingstone's Dice Men arrived so if I accidentally spend a couple of hundred quid buying Blood Bowl on eBay later, it's not my fault. https://t.co/a2LLIVYZ7n

God love Bradley Whitford. https://t.co/1SIIhnZWDJ

Really sad. I remember reading Julie Powell and being amazed at this new 'blog' format. Such a great writer.
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#BBCQuestionTime got out of hand tonight. https://t.co/0OsBFqzKm0

And if you haven't seen the original https://t.co/Vh0glJlUfM https://t.co/rbBIBi6f2t

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck https://t.co/z0utHlQb3n

Does the lettuce become PM now? Is that how it works?

I suspect the sign language guy on BBC News knows what's going to happen. https://t.co/neQYX3wbQq

This is a terrific classic British horror film that was retitled Burn, Witch, Burn! for the US release (and also had an intro by Orson Welles impersonator Paul Frees, which cast 'a protective spell over the audience'). https://t.co/F11BpjqocS

The cabinet earlier today https://t.co/dDc6bc6M9j

Mike Schank and Robbie Coltrane in 24 hours? Fuck this week.

You did an amazing job here @jester. I can't imagine how hard it is to write something like this, but you nailed it. https://t.co/1szInRrvVg

I was going to rant about Zuckerberg's hijacking of the term 'metaverse', but Anil did a good job of it already: https://t.co/y4ipB51ndJ

This man knows a thing or two about online journalism. You should definitely listen to what he says. https://t.co/HynDaJtyO4