My local shop is playing the Alien soundtrack which has added a certain frisson to picking up my semi-skimmed

Wintry Mix sounds like a three-piece girl-band from the early 2000s

A US-backed coup? In Latin America? Unprecedented!

Wintry Mix sounds like a three-piece girl-band from the early 2000s

My local shop is playing the Alien soundtrack which has added a certain frisson to picking up my semi-skimmed

Well, the FIFA Peace Prize people really have egg on their faces

New Years, new me. Not like those other 42 times.

Ah shit, I nearly went the whole year without thinking about the Roman Empire

READING 2025: Enjoyed the always compelling (if sometimes problematic) BALKAN TRILOGY by Olivia Manning, especially after briefly visiting Bucharest a couple of years ago and falling a little bit in love with it.

I’m very tired from all this sitting and eating

I think about this a lot

READING 2025: Went on a Kazuo Ishiguro run in March filling in some of my blanks from his back catalogue: PALE VIEW OF THE HILLS, WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS and re-read the wonderful, dream-like THE UNCONSOLED

THEM: We’re looking for a film that feels more… authored. ME: it was authored. By me.

A special day, on which we celebrate the noble box, that lets us carry the many as though they be but one

Never seen this so devastatingly and lucidly articulated.

THEM: We’re looking for a film that feels more… authored. ME: it was authored. By me.

Putting turkey in sandwiches, curries, pies, using it as cavity wall insulation, stuffing mattresses with it, putting it beneath acrobats to break their fall

The prosthetics in this Colin Firth movie are incredible #KingsSpeech

There were reportedly tensions on set between Caine and Rizzo the Rat, a notorious method actor, who refused to break character even when the cameras weren’t rolling

God bless us, every one.

Bit sad (especially at this time of year) but we had an accident at ours last night. Everyone’s okay, but I’m santa now.

Maybe the grinch just hated capitalism?

Maybe the grinch just hated capitalism?

In accordance with the tradition

In accordance with the tradition

THE FLY (1986)

He wants to murder you.

Shit. I just realised that I am the same age and LOOK EXACTLY LIKE Alan Rickman in Die Hard

THE FLY (1986)

And when you saw only one set of footprints on the beach? That was the invisible killer robot I invented to wreak revenge on my enemies.

I’m now so old I don’t recognise half the Knives Out cast

Going to like and retweet this

Why “water sommelier” when M’aitre d’H20tel was right there

*sits backward on his chair* Sabrina Carpenter? You know who else was a carpenter?

The plural is Carls Junior — like Attorneys General

*sits backward on his chair* Sabrina Carpenter? You know who else was a carpenter?

Happy Skynet becomes self-aware day, don’t forget to leave out your chatgpt prompts tonight or the machines might not come

She’s a 10 but she doesn’t outline

She’s a 10 but she doesn’t outline

I quite like “Ground Control to Major Tom”

Is he using THE SUBSTANCE?

Question asked in complete earnestness: is it the demons who are KPOP and they are being hunted? Or the demon hunters who are KPOP and the demons they’re hunting are just standard everyday demons?

Is he using THE SUBSTANCE?

If he’s male, then strictly speaking he’s a draculo

“Welcome to… JURASSIC PARK!”, I say, opening the door to the room my cat is in.

BTW all of Snoop Dog’s family have names that work on Smurf rules

“Welcome to… JURASSIC PARK!”, I say, opening the door to the room my cat is in.

If he’s male, then strictly speaking he’s a draculo

I think my favourite period of English history is the early nineteenth century, but that may just be Regency bias