Hugh Odling-Smee

Hugh Odling-Smee

@smeeho7.bsky.social

'You never saw so many phonies in all your life' Cinema/history/books. Dundela Loyal. Belfast.

441 Followers 375 Following 387 Posts Joined Sep 2023
19 hours ago
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Confused immigration protesters at Julie Goodyear's old mansion Protesters falsely thought the former Coronation Street star's old home was going to house immigrants.

Well, this is my headline of the day.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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3 days ago
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The Fantastic Tale Of Duncan McKenzie, The Footballer Who Jumped Over A Mini (This first appeared in Sabotage Times) Let’s go back in time. It’s November 1978 and I’ve been promised a trip to my first ever live football match to celebrate my 10 birthday. I’d been pestering …

He could jump over a Mini. somegreengrassandaball.wordpress.com/2019/05/29/t...

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4 days ago

The real winner here is Wrexham's sponsorship officer.

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5 days ago

All good wishes to you both Conor.

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1 week ago
A homonculus out off of Small Prophets.

“Are Tottenham going to be relegated or what?” #SmallProphets

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6 days ago

Odd times indeed, the news just told me to 'look out for possible blood rain'.

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Modest Mouse - Float On (Official Music Video) YouTube video by MODESTMOUSEVEVO

Small Prophets was wonderful. Deep, weird England.
youtube.com/watch?v=CTAu...

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The Secret Agent was absolutely terrific. A paranoid 70s sort-of-thriller, packed with magic realism, brilliantly performed and shot, but also full of black, disturbing depths.

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1 week ago

At least Ayatollah Khamenei didn't get to see Brewdog sold for just £33m.

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1 week ago
The Lonesome Dove Cinema Club presents, Open Range For our second screening, The Lonesome Dove pays tribute to late great Robert Duvall.

New screening from the club - 'Open Range' featuring the late, great Robert Duvall in one of his last roles in the saddle.

“Cows is one thing,” he says, “but one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.”

📅26th March
⏰7pm
🏟️The Beanbag Cinema

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1 week ago
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Dooneen Check out Dooneen - <p>Bartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that – there are no cars; there are moving fo...

You can pre-order my debut novel Dooneen on @bookshop.org here. It's my sixth debut novel. Pre-orders, as I'm sure you know, are essential to the healthy continuance of society. If you don't pre-order right now, you're basically destroying everything beautiful.

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This is an absolute corker.

'I want you to understand: it does not matter if you cannot imagine the future. Still, relentless, it comes.'

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2 weeks ago

A friend was raving about 'The Loneliest Man in Town', so I'm glad to hear it was one of your picks as well.

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The 10 best Berlinale 2026 films to look out for | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games From fractious family dramas to queer resistance and pensioners with fire in their belly, here are our top picks of the 2026 Berlinale International Film Festival.

My fave films from this year's Berlinale bit.ly/4aZLVwe

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Winter Olympics must tackle environmental impact before the snow runs out | George Timms With the rhetoric not matching the reality, future Olympics hosts must forge clearer sustainable standards

'By the end of the 21st century, only eight of the 21 cities that have hosted the Winter Olympics are projected to be cold enough to reliably host the Games due to climate change.'

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

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2 weeks ago

“…beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made.”

(Beckett, Molloy)

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2 weeks ago

I've definitely seen archive about it at some time Brónagh, but I couldn't see it on the DFA.

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2 weeks ago
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE WOMBLES CONCERT IN BELFAST? DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE WOMBLES CONCERT IN BELFAST?

This is all I could find, 1974 apparently, but these memories seem bone fide. www.belfastforum.co.uk/index.php?to...

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2 weeks ago

It was the Wombles at the old ABC I think in the 80s. Nobody does disgruntled like we do.

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2 weeks ago
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM.
BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

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2 weeks ago

Most of my job doesn't involve staring at a computer, it involves talking to people and reading books, and both of those, in different ways, tell me that we will have big problems if *30 per cent of working people in the UK* lose their jobs in the next 15 to 18 months.

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3 weeks ago

I’d say he’s sweating now

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3 weeks ago
A photograph of a football ground in Belfast, with players on the pitch and the floodlights are on. In the background is the Cave Hill or Ben Madigan, looming over the city.

Great photos of Dundela and their mystical home at Wilgar Park, the Hen Run to you and I. It's been a wick season so seeing the place in the pages of @wsc.co.uk has been a bright spot.

Up the rip roaring Duns.

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3 weeks ago
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Love and Death YouTube video by Ebo Taylor - Topic

To my shame I'd never heard of Ebo Taylor before I read his obituary last week, so I went looking for his music. This is just extraordinary - highlife, Shakespeare, profundity and funk.

'Brothers and sisters,
Lend me your ears,
Listen to my story
Of love and death...'

youtu.be/ZkHzk07vb_w?...

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3 weeks ago
B/w image of almost completed Azteca in 1966, the unmarked field almost uncanny, disturbing in its big flat emptiness

many many images of the Azteca stadium under construction

this may be my favourite, c. 1966, almost ready..

the pitch laid out but still unmarked, like a dark void

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3 weeks ago
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Pints, prayers and horse racing on the beach: Martin Parr in rural Ireland – in pictures The iconic photographer believed his two years shooting horse fairs, pubs and dance halls in the 1980s had been overlooked. A new exhibition aims to put that right
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3 weeks ago

A student venue in Glasgow called Qudos. I saw some things Brónagh, I can tell you.

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3 weeks ago
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Frederick Wiseman, Oscar-Winning Documentarian, Dies at 96 The 'silent auteur' tackled troubling social and economic issues in such films as 'Titicut Follies,' which exposed brutalities at a hospital for the criminally insane.

Coming thick and fast. Rest easy the king of the documentary, a humane, watchful scalpel taken to the institutions that define us.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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Robert Duvall, Chameleonlike Actor of Film, Stage and TV, Dies at 95

“Somebody once said that the best life in the world is the life of a second leading man,” Mr. Duvall told The Times. “You travel, you get a per diem, and you’ve probably got a better part anyway.”
(gift article)

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3 weeks ago

I worked at one of their gigs in the 90s. Carnage. I presume they must have mellowed in 25 years.

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