Enjoying some pre-Christmas Statutory Right of Entry to My Home

Due to the irregular nature of the cuboids in this diagram, this game could only rotate on a single axis. Renderering it dull at best.

The joy in the finding

I have a small bookshop that has run out of shelves and you’ve given me an idea for another section…

James Cossins ahoy!

Rewatching the Thriller box set starting from disc 1? Including the weird American credit sequences? With cheese and wine and all the candles on? And no work tomorrow? Yes, sir.

Anna Själv Tredje - Mossen [Sweden, Abstract, Ambient]( 1977)

Anna Själv Tredje - Mossen [Sweden, Abstract, Ambient]( 1977)
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https://youtu.be/bUaPLETVDgM

Expand my bookshop into Victorian premises with a dark, Stygian Belgian beer bar in the cellar that sells moules frites, and a nice nook for our pugs next to my desk upstairs.

YouTube video by British Cryptids (1974) British Cryptids: The Moon Man

My favourite YouTube channel has made a new episode. British Cryptids are stylistic documentaries from the 70s on ghosts, monsters and folklore. Think Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World meets the first series of Look Around You. youtu.be/XTTw5jquP-k?...

Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

I had no idea Billy Connolly was in the Christmas Worzel Gummidge. He gets to sing a song and later his head falls off (but it’s all good) #tptv

YouTube video by FreakSceneNet Dinosaur Jr. Take A Run At The Sun

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Pure bliss everyone .

Now available in paperback, just in time for Christmas.

The sheer care that went into putting together the theme music for Bertha makes me weep as I watch my kids looking at shit on YouTube. “Let’s give it a swooning 30s dance band pastiche!”

Shami kebab, lamb madras, kulcha or butter naan, garlic rice. Now salivating in bed

BBC Two - Man Alive, The Office Party Documentary made in 1969 about that year's Christmas office party at a London ad agency.

This was incredible

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Who doesn’t love a mime of a Frankie Laine song?

I felt like I was actually watching through my grandparents eyes - Jimmy Cagney, Deanna Durbin and cowboy skits!

I’m officially old enough to identify a Max Bygraves impression #WhoDoYouDo

Two impressions in one - James Stewart through the body of Alan Partridge #WhoDoYouDo

TV Heaven attained #WhoDoYouDo

The Benny Hill impersonation looked like one of Archibald Macindoe’s Guinea pigs

James Mason is an amazing Dr. Watson. And also David ‘Blimey, he’s changed!’ Hemmings is good too.

Yes! And Sydney Tafler’s false sunniness.

Watching the noncommittal “I’d never sell it” responses on #antiquesroadshow when their watch is valued at £1000 and that’s almost their monthly mortgage payment

A Personal Anthology, by Ray Newman At the start of 2023 I set myself a target to read 365 short stories, which I’ve now done – and which is why Jonathan asked me to contribute to this ongoing project.

If you're after suggestions for a short story or two to read for Halloween, here's the list I put together for A Personal Anthology a couple of years back. Not all horror or weird fiction, but mostly.

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They truly are the gift that keeps on giving.

A great idea, and it allows me to ponce on your music taste and stop
listening to the same 3 albums over and over again!

I’m really enjoying these, Nick - thanks for doing it! Lots of new albums for general autumn perusal.

I think the overarching scale of it doesn’t match the budget - it’s like a cheaper version of Dr Who, but it has so many good actors and writers involved that it sort of overpowers its shortcomings and ends up mixing serious drama with unintentional camp. And I’m absolutely ready for that.