Neil Grayson

Notable takeaway from Louis Theroux’s Steve Coogan interview today: Keith Harris would sometimes go home and punch Orville.

Blimey, so many stories in that photo. What I love the most is Berardi’s on-brand black eye 👌🏻

I suspect you don’t care how your email finds me. Stop it.

Geek corner: the local carrier of the EFL isn’t very competent and just runs the whole raw game feed from KO -10 to FT+10. But it’s great. I love the ambient shots when the game isn’t in play. You can even hear the conversations in the crowd.

Harrogate v Crewe broadcast to the entirety of the Middle East and North Africa tonight. I say this like I won’t watch

My phone is only for watching 1000c metal balls destroying stuff now.

As a scholar of full-time graphics - which seem to have taken on a wilful level of awfulness in search of engagement - I’ve got a new favourite.

YouTube video by Nikola Tesla Wireless Radio The Day of the Triffids (1968 Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic Radio)

The 1968 radio production of Day Of The Triffids is superb, and does more of the grim stuff that was in the novel and left out of the 1981 (also good) TV version. If you start listening to this, you will be gripped. www.youtube.com/watch?v=itUv...

Futurology is a fine return to form by the Manics.

WHO COULD HAVE POSSIBLY ENVISAGED

Yep, except Arsenal we’ve been in every game. Spurs didn’t like it for big periods today.

Chris Wilder to be replaced by Chris Wilder by Xmas I reckon.

Used to do radio. Absolutely any mention of her triggered absolutely mental texts etc, all finding offence where there was none. We simply stopped back announcing or mentioning her after a time 😄

That ref seemed to let everything go and then nothing 🫠

It’s one of those games you anticipate in this league, I guess. We are competing though. They definitely didn’t enjoy it at points.

Spurs are just better, aren’t they 🤷‍♂️ Some daft mistakes from us, but a fair result.

Scooch: For Sure

Yes, it’s brilliant that this competition might be the thing that stretches them too far as well!

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Sorry to hear about your Mum - it is a truly strange experience. As you say, the best outcome is that we appreciate we have limited time and use it well.

That’s exactly what it is for me. Scarborough is still there but we are not. I have no reason to go anymore either. It is very strange.

100%. Copywriting was always a race to the bottom, the cheapest option - and we know what that is now. I’ve lost a ton of that work.

I notice people are often impressed when it performs any skill they do not possess: writing is the obvious one, no matter how mediocre. Proper grinds my gears.

This isn’t a “poor me” post. More that losing your parents really makes you understand how temporary this all is. We’re not even a Scarborough family anymore: only my sister remains. A radical change in just two generations.

Anyway. We are not here for long. Don’t be a dick and Do The Thing.

Was thinking about how until the ‘00s, my Dad always used to pick me up from Scarborough station. He’d be there on the platform. Then it became my mum. I realised that the next time I arrive, there’ll be nobody standing there. Probably the first time my mum’s absence has truly hit me.

I know that synagogue in Manchester. The Hasidics who attend are for the most part anti Israel/anti Zionist. That’s why they live together around there.

They have ancestors in 18th century Poland and places like that, which is the basis of their old fashioned outfits.

It’s always “Super Nintendo Chalmers” for me.

As a treat, go and have a look at what Chris Wilder was sent off for tonight.

Congratulations, Daz. I remember being in one of my first jobs and taking a walk in the afternoon, went in to WHSmith and doing a double take at the words “Commodore” and “Spectrum” on a magazine cover again! It’s a special magazine, I know it can’t always be easy - thanks for your work.