Dr Rick

I knew a kid at primary school who had this for lunch and again for dinner literally every day from age 5, and I believe he continued until (at least) passing out of my ken entirely at age 18. Whether, at fifty, he now has regrets, I could not venture.

I feel I would be more content as a dugong.

The crazy thing seems to me to be governing in such as way as to massively alienate the bulk of the actual Labour voters.

I keep a cheap heavy-strung hardtail guitar for transposing things that are awkward out of position. Originally bought it specifically to cover Kiss Me Deadly.

Three weeks later, when they were in the middle of silent work, one popped his hand up and said "sir, what IS capitalism, anyway?"

They respond as much to tone as content, like all small creatures. And large creatures, actually, us included.

This reminds me of, early on my own career, hearing a group of bright independent school year 8s joking with one another about selling each other socks, or sweets, or something, so of course I said "now, gentlemen, you know capitalism is forbidden in school". Big laugh, general assent, etc.

Two sleepy Ragdoll kittens.

One of my favourite series, to the extent that these guys are Moon and Stone:

I wasn't aware of this, but honestly it might be a good thing. Presumably TMUA would be used primarily to avoid making offers to people who really aren't going to get them, but who will pour huge amounts of energy into trying to scale the STEP mountain.

In fairness, The Fifth Element was very obviously a classic from the moment it was released. It's just an old classic, now. I'm comfortable with the idea that I am no longer young.

My hero.

Here are Moon and Stone.

Some years ago now I moved into a home whose knee-to-head-height bedroom window overlooked a bus stop used mainly by schoolchildren. Until I could get proper blinds, I hung a double duvet cover from a pack of those self-adhesive peel-off hooks. It worked.

My "Kane Gallery 1": a selection of paintings by the man himself.

My "Kane Gallery 1": a selection of drawings by the man himself.

It's beautiful. Needs some company... (I'm in recovery, at least for a while.)

I was completely unaware. I also didn't know about Fassbender and Wahlberg. I'm not exactly a celebrity junkie, but I am fairly chronically online and thought I was paying attention. Feels like something's going badly wrong with the media coverage here.

I didn't know about Fassbender, Wahlberg, or Pitt. Good grief.

We Lived Happily during the War And when they bombed other people's houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house- I took a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war.

"in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)

lived happily during the war."

- Ilya Kaminsky

A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

I was, in retrospect, terrifically lucky, because I was also an athlete and a musician, and while those came to me easily initially it's much more obvious in those pursuits that "practice makes perfect". At least when I started needing to actually work at academics it wasn't a new idea.

I am exceedingly glad you are neither dead nor post brain injury significant enough that you are no my old friend in any meaningful sense.

That must be terrifying. Wishing you a full and swift recovery x

I dunno. One for a video recorder, one for an Atari, maybe?

Thank you for the article, and also for selling new the novel (the Roberts, I already have and read the Baxter).

Ooh, I actually know this, because we were tasked with promoting them in schools for a brief and somewhat embarrassing period about a decade ago.
Democracy. Rule of law. Individual liberty. Mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.

Showing that irony IS a core B.V...

Do you ever get tired of being stupid, condescending, insulting, and morally empty all at once? Because it really doesn't seem so.

No, it will be the fault of those who took Labour in the direction that lead us here, where virtually none of their core supporters are still willing to vote for them. Which, it seems, you're completely on board with. So, yeah, your fault.

The ebook situation is just so frustrating. (And entirely not your fault, I completely stipulate!) I'm currently reading Cherryh's _Visitor_, which I had to import on paper from the US because I missed the roughly seven minute UK availability window, and no ebooks... and she's the GOAT!

I just tried to buy this, but it appears not to be available either on paper or in ebook in the UK, something which is now distressingly common.

English custard tarts can be very good. But even mediocre Portuguese ones are transcendental.

We're now returning to a time when essentially all academic-track English and Welsh people pick three subjects at 16 and do very little, if anything, else in their formal schooling. It's an interesting approach.

Very much so. I don't believe it's changed much. bsky.app/profile/rfbo...