Turns out the irritating gentleman is actually the guy on the train trying to stealthily paint the woman's portrait.

Why does this read like the beginning of a Shirley Jackson short story?

Intrigued that Joel Coen signed but not Ethan.

Arthur Rackham - Watercolor of a cat - 1911

That woman who is dressed in all black who is always in the corner of my sight. I get it, lady! I know I'm cursed. 😡

I do agree in principle with the "don't call art content" crowd but content is a very useful word for certain things, like this post for instance!

Imagine if the rapture happens but it's just Bluesky users

I mean he did specifically make a TV show mocking the Catholic Church in a predominantly non Catholic country so I wouldn't be declaring myself Jonathan Swift any time soon if I was him.

Oh I can name many films today before ten to eight!

A "The Blind Owl" nod?

It's either Leonard Cohen or Tommy Fleming.

It's probably not the greatest sign that whenever this guy turns up, my first thought is "why is he doing this again?"

I can’t remember who recommended it to me, but we just watched The Earrings of Madame de… and I am simultaneously heartbroken and swooning. What a gloriously beautiful tragic waltz of a film.

Rapture is tomorrow but don't worry, Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's fly. DJ's spinnin' are savin' my mind. Flash is fast, flash is cool. Francois sais pas, flashe' no do

21st September is the feast of St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist. St Matthew is depicted here looking at us and perhaps appearing a little glum. Bodleian Library MS. Auct. D. 2. 16; Gospels; 10th century; France, Brittany, Landevennec; f.28v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

I saw the trailer for the new Tron and the prominent placement of the NIN soundtrack makes me wonder if Quake is on the big computer too.

1. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon 2. Carrie 3. Needful Things

About to watch Weird Science in the arthouse screen of The Gate ☕️

The Blank Check episode on The Ladykillers is great but also confirmation of my suspicion that comedians are the worst judge of what makes for a good comedy.

Me on this bus going through the suburbs listening to The Sound of Silence

Do Disney Adults mind being called Disney Adults?

Sure it may be effective but sad to see they didn't follow the more mature lead of X, The Everything App Adults and continue to pay for the service while arguing with a chatbot.

Disappointing to see this kind of nepotism happening. Getting a film made with the star of There Will Be Blood and Lincoln just because he is the grandson of Arthur Miller 😡

Top 10 comedies as of today. 1. Dáil Éireann!! (350K likes on X, a permanent column in the Phoenix, RTÉ asks me personally to revive Scrap Saturday)

Listening to "The Times They Are A-Changin" while strolling down the Bodega Cats feed.

This isn't a defence of Bluesky's excessive moderation but I think the "we need to move to Mastodon" posts I think is a) forgetting how you were still at the whims of inscrutable moderators there and b) I think it's a general conceptual flaw in social media. There is no way around it.

Enjoying the opposite of Culture Night by watching a hour long video on "Easter eggs of Silent Hill 3"

i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand.

Forgetting that you put the Friday the 13th music on your playlist is good for adding a surprise sense of unease to your bus ride.

If you're in Dublin @ 2 Sunday, pop into @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social where I'll be launching @sylvialeatham.bsky.social 's most excellent debut novel, "Chaos Theory". Support real bookshops, cultural institutions of the northside, brilliant Irish writing, and love stories! 2pm! Chapters!

I can't believe Stan Lee's estate would allow this an *reads about Stan Lee* ah nevermind.

We need passwords to go back to a cool thing you only see in movies and not taking up 5% of your day remembering them.

He got Black Philip back on the big screen? Gosh!

Just learnt that Walt Disney was a descendent of Arundel Elias Disney from Kilkenny. Wild to me that other people might have that surname. Are Disneys still living there?

Oh Dustin the Turkey is a pun on Dusting the turkey. And they say you learn nothing on Culture Night...

Misread a piece of graffiti as "No Gods, No Kings, Only Bros"

I watched the Colbert monologue this morning and for someone whose show is already cancelled, I'd thought it would be a little... braver? I want to see more sour grapes!

Once again, the will of the people is being ignored by establishment parties and wedges remain off the ballot sheet 😠

Yeesh, I don't think you should call yourself a "wordsmith" if you are using anything more technologically advanced than a quill, nevermind ChatGPT.

All the current (and justified) concerns about broadcast TV censorship has reminded me of a "Very Special Episode" column I wrote 15 years ago about M*A*S*H, and how the left-leaning irreverence of 1970s TV set the stage for the ensuing decades of backlash. www.avclub.com/m-a-s-h-the-...

Moses is going to be real annoyed when he comes back down from the mountain

Not very sure what's going on here but man, we used to have real video games!

Looks fun! (Though there is an article to be written on horror movies that have what I'm calling the "Shudder Original" aesthetic)

🤫 No!! i said, we are having a gathering for Auntie Aoife!!! 😬

Boycotting Disney + will be tough, missing out on the one new/returning show they have per quarter!

To repost is human, to Alt Text divine.

Alien and Die Hard (The xenomorph is the John McClane)

Seth Meyers can't be too flattered by this "Fallon is the last late night host standing" talk.

It is funny watching the Social Network now the Machiavellian wunderkind image has sinc3 crumbled somewhat into "guy who had a good idea once."