Ed Gamble: [Clearly exasperated] Before you pick your dessert, I‘m going to remind you that you don’t have to choose… Scooby Doo: Rooby Snacks!! James Acaster: [Smashing his microphone into the table and brea it] God DAMMIT!!

just heard kids go by outside singing "sorry miss jackson" enthusiastically, which is like if me and my friends went round yelling Lily the Pink

Burnham devolution programme continues as Miliband to be Chancellor on Cybertron; Mahmood to be Chancellor for newly-formed "Earthforce"

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 45 6. The New Pornographers - Letter From An Occupant (2002) The first NPs I ever heard. Newman shoves a whole wardrobe-full of instruments and techniques into one suitcase and jumps up and down on it like in a cartoon while Case performs a 4-minute warning youtu.be/wCc_8HuWlQo

Oblong and rectangle don't mean the same thing. Oblong is from the latin for "towards long", meaning more long than broad. Whereas rectangle means right-angled. A square, therefore IS a rectangle but is NOT oblong.

Imagine deciding to approach a comics creator with a pitch to use generative AI to make a slop movie of their characters and picking Erik Larsen. Next stop, Bill Watterson

I think it looks quite good?

You can just tell he's thinking "My god, they must really hate Gianni"

I think after this Britain should give the Falklands to Spain, as a treat

Now now, there's still time to take that off them again

Argentina trying to curry favour with the President by organising another UFC event concurrently with the match

The one upside is that if it does go to extra time and then to penalties, that one arsehole will have to sit through way more football than he's been expecting to have to suffer

Winning 3rd place should be like winning money in the bank in WWE, England should get to run on and play whoever wins this right there and then

This youtube video has a completely new point here that I've never seen raised before about cultural appropriation, specifically regarding Salman Rushdie's controversial statement

There are a lot of people selling fake thousand year old tapestries right now. Bayeux beware.

I've never seen Shirley Jackson before but if I were Siobhan Thompson I would be on the phone to my agent asking if there were any biopics in development

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 44 7. Dragonforce - Through The Fire And Flames (2006) If they catch you they will kill you, song of a thousand prechoruses, but first they must catch you. Not the best song on my list but absolutely the most song, the doof doof at 2:38 is my favourite bit youtu.be/DZyYapMZSec

FML is one of the most sincere, funny, uplifting, heartbreaking, heartfelt, wry, life-affirming (its an absolute torrent of emotions that will absolutely sweep you away) comics out there right now, & cheers to my brilliant pal @kellysue.bsky.social & @davidlopez.me on a stellar first arc. READ IT.

After fixing a glitch, my Wonderbook website is now up after being down for weeks. Apologies. Lots of additional writing materials and exercises there. wonderbooknow.com

Greg: I put it to you, Pandora, that your approach to the task of literally just holding a closed box is basically that of - and I've written it down - "a baffled old grandma who can't remember where the top of the stairs is" Pandora: I did it though! Alex: We do have one more bit of footage

I was watching telly with my kid this afternoon, and I know I've said before that the licence fee would be worth it for just CBeebies, but I think it might actually be worth it just for CBeebies Bedtime Stories

Also, and entirely separately, isn't it a minor miracle that War Pigs is such an amazing song even though Ozzy rhymes "masses" with "masses"

Does anyone else get absolute goosebumps with the minor/major change at "everywhere" in the chorus of Here, There and Everywhere?

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 43 8. Okkervil River - Unless It's Kicks (2007) I do love a song that builds, that picks up beats and instruments as it rolls down the mountain, getting bigger and noisier, until it crashes into the village and everyone is sent flying like ninepins youtu.be/PCMIVbNDFnY

Looking at character bios on the Marvel wiki and I have to give respect to a character whose list of affiliations includes MI6, Excalibur, O*N*E* and BBC Radio 1

Imagine not encouraging your kids to be their own weird. Why on earth would you not want them to completely know themselves, own themselves, be themselves? The only arguable downside is that some kids will grow up to do things we would never do, like Pilates

This is grim. If you show children that they're not allowed to enjoy something because people will make fun of them; all they learn is to hide what they like and to make fun of others. Your children are not a blank page on which you decide what to write.

If I were the Big Finish app I would simply download the audio plays that someone had paid good money for instead of not doing that

I wonder if San Pellegrino misses its little hat

The Odyssey is another great film in the genre of “let’s try to get Matt Damon Home”

a man and his son are in a car accident; the father dies but the son is taken to hospital. the surgeon says, “i can’t operate on this boy - i am a horse”. how is this possible? find out on DOCTOR HORSE, thursdays at 9pm on cbs.

Looking at character bios on the Marvel wiki and I have to give respect to a character whose list of affiliations includes MI6, Excalibur, O*N*E* and BBC Radio 1

The movies that are free on YouTube are not all bad www.youtube.com/feed/storefr...

Was reminded of this issue of THE DEFENDERS from the early 2000s today that used the pull quote "the worst comic ever produced" from a Comics International review of the time. Sublime! That's the way to deal with a bad review! (For the record it was a very fun run that I personally enjoyed a lot.)

The focused totality of 48 assorted donuts

Watching House of Fools and wondering what Daniel Simonsen is up to this weather

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 42 9. Shakira - Objection (Tango) (2002) The tango accordion/surf guitar combo help conceal how many times Shakira goes to the "o i am just a smol tiddy girl" lyric well. The bridge is the noise you hear before the invading warriors break your siege defences youtu.be/JWn74SXsPy0

A mate put up a thing on insta that said "A reminder that you don't have a soul, you are a soul", and I was like, maybe I don't have a soul but there's no need to be rude

nyc friends be careful outside today. its even worse than yesterday, the 2019 film about a man who remembers the beatles

Looking at these photos, all I can think is how versatile Jon Culshaw is

Turns out it's actually laughably easy not to buy comic books written by someone whose own boasts place them at a minimum as war criminal adjacent

it's so funny that he's the one who started that rumor too. I do think people get a little "finally, a moral reason I can dislike someone" about him but he absolutely started this and said he was in the room!

One big missed opportunity these days is to do something properly special with Silver Sable. Too often she just gets wheeled out as "hardass lady spy assassin" when she's actually "what if Grace Kelly were Derek Flint". I could imagine it easily under Wacker in the 2010s, though not at all right now

these cover comparisons give a hint at why folks are so psyched about Wacker coming back to Marvel—look at how much more interesting visually their books used to be! And a broader range of genres too

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My only hot take that I'm going to put out there is I think Stephen Wacker is a really good editor

*sees news* okay. Okay okay okay

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 41 10. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights (2003) "I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned" is simply a staggering combination of words youtu.be/0wrsZog8qXg

There's a journalist with a big following on here who writes mostly about the AI industry from a detractor's perspective, and I would be more inclined to take him seriously if he didn't use phrases like "it has already begun to start"