Self Esteem at the Beacon tonight

Remembering FOR NO REASON AT ALL today, News Quiz writers rooms where it was always impressed upon us that we had to be as sure as possible that information on the stories we covered were verifiable as 'there will be people who get all their news from our little teatime panel show'

OMG Charles Schultz foresaw the rise of YouTube and Tiktok way back in 1989

It may be an exaggeration to say this month's Nine/Rose BF story features Chris' greatest performance as the Doctor. But only a small one.

Self Esteem at the Beacon tonight

I knew the role of Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who was recast because Jon Pertwee felt the original actress, April Walker, was too tall. I didn't know there's a picture of them together from 1968 which perfectly illustrates this height differential. www.endofthelane.co.uk/april.html

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

CAR GONE www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNb9...

RIP Jane Goodall irregularwebcomic.net/1290.html

From the 21/07/99 edition of Buster: J. Edward Oliver, the last artist still employed by the magazine at that point (everything else is reprints), is thoroughly aware that the comic is probably going to be cancelled very soon.

There are no words to describe how happy shit like this makes me. Absolutely masterful set-up and reveal from 1:07. I howled

++MAYBE IF I WIN ENOUGH I CAN GET THE HELL OFF ALTAIR IV. COME ON. BABY NEEDS A NEW GYROSCOPE++

Donkeys at my local animal sanctuary having a party to celebrate one of them living there for 20 years.

Filling some gaps in my knowledge of British comics, and I have to share the story of the banned instalment of Dare-a-Day Davy with you. kazoop.blogspot.com/2017/03/bann...

It is *very* disorienting to me that the Bunty Annual lasted long enough to have a feature about Miley Cyrus in the last one.

Out today.

So, today I encountered a piece of writing about old comics which can't really be completed without talking about a blatantly racist depiction of an Asian person. I suppose I was lucky it took this long.

Yet another set of charity shops, yet another pile of old comics.

regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

Filling some gaps in my knowledge of British comics, and I have to share the story of the banned instalment of Dare-a-Day Davy with you. kazoop.blogspot.com/2017/03/bann...

Beano #1284, Feb 25, 1967

In other Buster-related news, I have done some more work on my Cliff Hanger episode guide, and whilst I am aware the 'original run' tab is a bit bare, I am confident it at least identifies which strip appeared in which issue. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

From the 21/07/99 edition of Buster: J. Edward Oliver, the last artist still employed by the magazine at that point (everything else is reprints), is thoroughly aware that the comic is probably going to be cancelled very soon.

Freddie Fear is returning to the Beano after a 13-year absence! www.reddit.com/r/Beano/comm...

Sixty-two years ago this morning, the very first live-action shots for Doctor Who were filmed at Ealing Film Studios.

Taskmaster is in this week’s Beano! Waaaaaah!

Brand new on Dirty Feed: to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fawlty Towers, here's a look at all the various parodies of the show over the years. "Yes madam, I am frightfully tall." www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/09/herr...

Something rather brilliant. Five minute Hitch-Hiker film. Rachel Parris is The Book, Tom Bell is Ford, Greig Johnson is Arthur / Jeltz. Everyone nails it beautifully. Ford’s inability to know how to react to Arthur’s upset is superb. I love this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-431...

To anyone who feels that kids these days are exposed to too much screen violence at a young age, this is an episode of Swap Shop that ended with John Craven dying and Noel Edmonds covering his corpse. #SwapShop

One for the #DoctorWho fans - the windows in memory of Donald Wilson's parents at Dunblane Cathedral.

BBC news showing the Trump protest in London, Sylvester McCoy has just appeared on a vox pop.

Tomorrow's new Beano features a Taskmaster-inspired Minnie the Minx strip, for the interested.

Really hoping someone can pull off a miracle and help Toby out here. Fingers crossed.

The Central Line’s evidently won’t be tuning into the Spectator’s new podcast

EVENING REPOST

👇 Leadership matters and does change things. (A smaller scale version of this is watching people on here who have a red rosette where their own moral compass should be sharing a statement that only earlier this morning they thought it was Actually Wise Not To Make)

With Halloween a mere 46 days away, here is a look at the British comics equivalent of The Munsters and The Addams Family. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

Beano #863, Jan 31, 1959

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

whomst could have possibly imagined that Mr Hypnotits might be saying ill-considered stupid things that are going to upset people?

For some reason just remembering this old letter to Viz

The most esoteric game over in interactive fiction. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Another good one from @digiantiquarian.bsky.social - this on the rise and fall of the Choose Your Own Adventure series. For me, like many others, "Cave of Time" was the gateway to "Zork." Never would have guessed that I have the woman behind "Sweet Valley High" to thank for it all.

An advert from the 09/10/93 Beano, heralding the comic's first all-colour edition the following week.

Brand new on Dirty Feed: today is the 50th anniversary of the studio recording of Fawlty Towers, "Gourmet Night". That episode's famous ending is pictured here. But it wasn't the originally intended finale. Instead, things were going to get rather more peculiar... www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/09/luck...

that's right folks, Ohio also has the former HQ of the Longaberger company. it's a seven story basket and it's empty because the company went bankrupt and nobody can figure out what to do with the building

one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar