Did you know that when John Waters’ SERIAL MOM (1994) was being developed for Columbia Pictures in 1992, it was pitched as a satire of From Hell movies? So much so that both Kathy Bates and Glenn Close were eyed for the role of Beverly Sutphin. Susan Sarandon also nearly signed on for the ... 1/2

SUPER FLY Written by Philip Fenty

Songwriter Diane Hildebrand (born today in 1945) co-wrote (with Jack Keller) “Early Morning Blues & Greens” (performed by The Monkees) & “Easy Come, Easy Go” (recorded by Cass Elliot). She also co-wrote (with Wes Farrell) The Partridge Family’s “When We’re Singin’” Hildebrand passed in 2025.

Top theme tune. On this

One of my cartoons in Monday's Metro

He’s Jesus Christ’s representative on Earth, not the Mayor of Baltimore.

Yesterday’s Word Count = 559 IT AIN’T HALF HOT MUM (1974) w: Jimmy Perry & David Croft Back then your sets were not required to even aspire to verisimilitude. (I couldn’t find a decent quality opening title video so…) youtu.be/Hc437Q_dPH8?...

89 Candles 🎂 today for ‘The Jackal’ — EDWARD FOX

At what point did we drop the apostrophe from 'phoning? (See also 'bus, Hallowe'en etc)

Tanya Plibersek humiliates Barnaby Joyce after he claims the “safe guard mechanism” was designed to “put refineries out of business” Plibersek “the refineries closed under you, the safe guard mechanism was introduced under you.”🔥 #auspol

The Chelsea Murders by Lionel Davidson (Penguin, 1980, Reprint). TV Tie-In. #TheChelseaMurders #LionelDavidson #1980s #book #books #paperback #cover #PenguinBooks #PenguinBook #crime #mystery #thriller #thrillers #thrillerbooks #TVTieIn

Epic lives up to its name and, lawdy, are Ronnie Tutt and James Burton just phenomenal in the TCB Band. Not often you can say “worth seeing for the drumming” about a film

Just basque for the moment in this good news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

So in just one week, you threatened to nuke 93million people in the Middle East. Then you didn’t. Your wife declares she didn’t know Epstein but she did. You sent your best team to negotiate a ceasefire while you and Rubio watched UFC. Then you endorsed Orban who lost? Am I missing something here?

Portnoy’s Complaint was banned in Qld by the Bejlke-Petersen government. Mum found a copy in a 2nd hand shop, bought it and gave it to me. I was 16

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

More waste management and street space reallocation ideas for Dublin: In New York City, Mayor Mamdani pledges to containerize all residential waste in New York by the end of 2031, which will take up about 150,000 parking spaces, or 5 percent of the city’s total. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/12/z...

Remarkably, it’s the 30th anniversary of me joining the @mojomagazine.bsky.social team (I’m not just for Christmas), so this month I got busy with Musical Youth, Brother Wallace, Tamikrest, Analog Africa and Françoise Hardy - and that’s only about 2% of an extremely packed issue …

That kind of week, really

Good, let’s get a conspiracy theory up and running. I think Paul told Linda to nick the bass because he was sick of playing the bloody thing. She recruited Hawkwind to ‘make the problem go away’. There are clues scattered through their LPs. PLEASE RT.

People give Aaron Sorkin too much shit for writing a slightly naive tribue to liberal democracy in THE WEST WING and not nearly enough credit for writing — extremely early on — a sniper-bullet accurate assessment of why Mark Zuckerberg is evil in THE SOCIAL NETWORK

My book launch in Kenny’s in Galway this Thursday is free but you can reserve your seat here. Hope to see you there. www.kennys.ie/events/books... @kennysbookshop.bsky.social

Just on the train going past two horses that have fallen out.

Trumps screed on Pope Leo is truly unhinged ‘soft on crime and soft on nuclear’ - not going to share but this cartoon says it all really. What’s orange 🍊 going to do now, blockade the Vatican

Good Morning #vinylrecords #vinyl

Can the 25th amendment save us all from global disaster? | First Dog on the Moon

Today’s Berlin flea market finds #2

Say "weak on crime" again. I dare you.

He posted this right after the “Pope Leo is weak on crime and foreign policy” post

Even as a **former** Catholic l'm fucking appalled.

Post a character that starts with the letter A (First or Last) (Think about it)

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“Goddamn Protestants.” Siskel and Eibert on Trump dissing Chicago Pope. (Wouldn’t it be pretty to think so.)

If you’re anything like me, are you ever going to love this!

was once New Amsterdam.

Police Academy VII: Popes On Patrol

It's very funny that Trump thinks he can treat the Pope like a Republican member of Congress with an even more MAGA primary opponent.

New York City 1963.

#VHSunday #filmsky

It is very important that you listen, right now, to all 12 minutes of Isaac Hayes’ insanely good cover of “Walk On By”.

When he returned east, Nixon hand-wrote a 10,000 word plan called 'Wizard' that he used for the rest of his life. It was nothing less than a strategy to vanquish the press, return to influence in government, & have a great man's funeral. He achieved every word of it.

Beautiful🤣😂🤣

This is an actual line from an actual article in a nominal newspaper. "Unlike Springsteen, a New Jersey native who makes every concert these days feel like a tedious political rally, the percussionist said he takes a different approach with his current group, The Wonderful Winos."

I mean, come on.

The best film I have seen in 2026. I couldn't stop laughing. Everything about it is hilarious. And perfect.

Cue the Record is a Brooklyn-based group that hosts listening sessions at least twice a month in Prospect Heights for an influential vinyl record on an audiophile’s sound system. Like a book club, attendees discuss an album after listening to it in full.

After his high-stakes, semi-official, post-Tianenmen visit to China, Nixon, aged 77, briefed the world press for 45 mins without notes. Even those who knew him well/disliked him found it impressive.

Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis on location at Columbia University during the filming of #Ghostbusters (1984). #filmsky #moviesky @midgetmoxie.bsky.social