Tonight’s viewing, ‘Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things’, high camp horror.

Brains, only 25¢. 🧠

Time for an Oktoberfest beer

Ich habe Festbiere!

I challenge you to find a more depressing closure and re-opening than this one:

Click on this link and get this story about Nathan Gill up into the public eye - it's not showing on the UK news for some reason even though they usually love Reform UK news. Ex-Reform politician admits Russia-linked bribery charges www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Time for some Agnes Bernelle

@mulgraveaudio.bsky.social Patchwuff seems to have arrived!

Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Mo Chara thrown out by London court share.google/fmebj5ZckcQo...

In the office today as my WiFi router has ceased functioning

Pamphlet published by the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Antisemitism, Melbourne Australia, 1944

Renaissance, c. 1550 — the striking "Camino di Satana" 🦁🔥, a fearsome hellmouth fireplace, designed by Venetian architect Michele Sanmicheli at Villa della Torre, Fumane, Verona, Italy.

In nearly all of those 148: Tesla doors remained .. closed Meanwhile: Nissan Leaf, on road since 2009 and best sold single EV model worldwide on 1-1-2020: Zero fire deaths .. Picture from Germany 12 days ago: Tesla driver + two 9-year olds burned alive. All doors closed, rescuers helpless ..

Wifi router has ceased functioning, so a couple of days unscheduled leave will have to be taken until its replacement turns up.

“Asian shop, Saltley”, Birmingham (1976) 
Photo: Nick Hedges / Indiana University

The Pillar-Biter (1509–1517), located on the lower section of the choir screen in St. Bavo Church, Haarlem, Netherlands.

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

On this day (24th September) in 1983, the Scala Cinema was showing Flesh For Frankenstein and Blood For Dracula as a double bill.

City Bacteriologist

Where do baby mermaids come from? Find out at Dublin's Museum of Curiosities. 🧜‍♀️

"Tylenol tempteth demons into thy soul to curseth thee with the Goblin Autism Pox. Verily, a forest spirit hath told me so in dreams" #ASD #Autism #paracetamol

Final Festbier of the day, well, I’m back at work tomorrow…

Nächstes Festbier, 6%abv

Well, it‘s Oktoberfest so a Festbier it is

In the late 19th century, millions of migrants left Germany as a result of religious persecution, economic hardship, and political uncertainty. Among them was Nikolaus Schrod, a cabinet maker from Frankfurt who - along with his wife Bina - moved to London to start a new life in the 1850s. 1/3

Fuck off, it’s September.

Today’s Memrise Russian, always useful

Lobby card for ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932), based on the 1896 novel THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU by H.G. Wells - BOTD in 1866

Mister Merry's Play Lighter, Cigarettes and Bubble Gum toys, 1960s. 🚬

This afternoon’s film

The year of Our Lord, 2025, & a former British PM is championing the views of a Neo-Nazi, as he attacks students for not genuflecting to fascism. I think, if we were to believe in horror movies, the flatulent & incandescent corpse of Churchill must be searching for Johnson now…

The Digitorium 🎹 This 19th-century finger exercise machine was designed for amateur pianists to improve strength and dexterity, though it was often blamed for causing hand injuries.

Patience is a virtue. #WorldBollardAssociation

INCREDIBLE WORK FROM THE NETHERLANDS! #Disney

Brothel candles, purportedly used in 19th century establishments, burned for a set time to determine the length of a client’s visit. 🕯️

A lot of truth in that, and a clever depiction of Starmer. From yesterday’s Stop Trump protest in London.

Abandoned Film Theatre in Dresden Germany.

If you enjoyed the story the other day about flying saucers, you may like to know that 59 years ago today, the ringleader of the UFO stunt marked Rag week by unveiling ‘Rodnee’ the Robot

#25: Football

when serfdom was the predominant system of social governance in europe back in the middle ages, the poor worked land leased to them by dukes and barons, barely scraping out enough to live, while the wealth 'tirckled up' to the lord. tell me how that's different from renters and landlords now?

M. Triley’s Nose Shaper – a small metal device used to gently press and shape the nose, popular in the early 20th century 👃

This afternoon’s WFH CD, Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘The Axe Manual’

Thinking today of Scottish feminist & comedian Janey Godley (1961-2024)

Czech film poster for THE OMEN (1976 - Dir. Richard Donner) Cast: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Patrick Troughton