Missed a few weeks in the shop because of work (and our tills went down across half-term so we had to shut) but here’s a BOY’S OWN ANNUAL from 1890, that was donated. Bye now.

I have added some prints to my ko-fi page. It took a long time but I've found a good UK based print service to supply UK/Europe folks with bird portraits. Hahnemüle eco paper, 10+ colour giclee prints, if it wasn't my own artwork I'd say they look pretty good! ko-fi.com/aliceduke/shop

you know this is not bad going for a traditional media hater who hates touching paper

One Battle After Another (1986) Director: Yu Suzuki Publisher: Sega

Falling asleep last night to a nice relaxing audiobook about north sea raiding between 950 and 1041 CE, but actually I can't relax because it's trying to tell me this silly guy was REAL??

It’s been a barren season for interesting book donations, but yesterday a bunch of those leatherbound ‘retirement home’ hardbacks came in, with these frontspiece portraits of various thriller authors.

good apple year

So now that it’s confirmed that none of the messages on the bullets were pro-trans, maybe we should have a national conversation about how multiple newspapers repeated a lie about us on their front pages hours after doubts had already been cast over it?

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Who is committing all these Naval Crimes? How are Naval Crimes so prolific? Are the Naval Crime stats being fluffed up somehow for bigger Naval Crimes budgets? (Should I be pitching NCIS:IA with that exact premise?)

🏅The #britishpodcastawards2025 is taking place at the 02 on 2nd October, and we've got some great projects in the mix: #theskewer Money Gone Strangers on a Bench Jon Holmes Says The C Word 👋 Congrats to all nominees! We can't wait to see you there.

Compo, Clegg and Foggy at the 1984 Royal Variety Performance.

I was excited to see Norwood and Sydenham represented at The National Gallery. Pissarro, no less. I had no idea. I cycle past that church on my way to get fancy cheeses.

the holy logos

From Animage magazine (november 1985) : Masayuki (22 years old) of Studio Giants is in charge of all key animations. He also did the storyboard. There are around 1,500 cels for 75 seconds. kenshoanime.blogspot.com/2019/07/blog...

This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.

THE CAT CONCERTO ON BLU-RAY (and Mice Follies, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Mouse, and The Flying Cat, and Jerry’s Cousin, and…)

Today’s donations: dozens of lyric sheets, seemingly pilfered from the BBC TELEVISION MUSIC LIBRARY. Highlights include these Sandie Shaw ones that look like she was the main PI in a series of racy detective novels.

“Okay. Listen. When we shoot it, leave the tray on his desk, don’t take it with you. I’d like to try something.”

If you’re a writer who regularly works with animators, why would you work on a project designed to put most of them out of a job? Did you not like the ones you met? variety.com/2025/film/gl...

“Okay. Listen. When we shoot it, leave the tray on his desk, don’t take it with you. I’d like to try something.”

(reading a book about movie fights and this still was in it) ALSO I didn't know that Benny "the Jet" Urquidez trained Swayze for Road House, created a style based on how Swayze already moved, and set it to music to capitalize on Swayze's dance background, which is rad as heck.

Maybe because he feels so lean, I don't always think of Clint Eastwood as a physically imposing fella, but he's 6'4 and Jiminy Christmas, look at that arm, I sure don't want to get hit by him

I think TV shows should also have reshuffles. One arbitrary Friday they just decide to move Adam Woodyatt to be the new Jay Mitchell while someone else tries out being Ian Beale for a bit. Patsy Palmer is now Alfie Moon.

Today’s donations: dozens of lyric sheets, seemingly pilfered from the BBC TELEVISION MUSIC LIBRARY. Highlights include these Sandie Shaw ones that look like she was the main PI in a series of racy detective novels.

My tin foil hat conspiracy is that studios are pushing this narrative to make it harder for VFX artists to unionize

I thought I’d broken Wikipedia. That in looking up Prester John I’d hit upon some sort of forbidden knowledge and my phone screamed at me.

Oh shit. Time to turn the tape over in the ZX Spectrum game that is all your lives.

Travel in England is basically the opposite of that classic wormhole demonstration with a folded piece of paper.

Do you remember in 2016 when we all thought haha this is shit.

Breakfast lads.

No. We have stringent checks in place to make sure we don’t accidentally use AI images. We use stock images & exclude AI results from the search & check they have signed model releases before we download. If anything slips through we will of course delete but we very consciously don’t use AI.

My first Sister Boniface is on the iPlayer. The cast of a legally distinct, bawdy comedy find a stiff on set. Can Sam and Felix finger the killer before the credits roll? (The actors on this one understood the assignment, it’s worth it just for them.) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

ah yes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

My cautionary report to Starfleet

Just because:

The TRUE story about a nasty little goblin cat who went to jail for committing poop crimes. (1/6)

My first Sister Boniface is on the iPlayer. The cast of a legally distinct, bawdy comedy find a stiff on set. Can Sam and Felix finger the killer before the credits roll? (The actors on this one understood the assignment, it’s worth it just for them.) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

When I was announced as the lead in a Doctor Who spinoff in 2023 Graham Linehan tweeted about me for TWO DAYS, tagging the BBC and others to say that I am pro-child abuse and they shouldn't work with me.

Rolo yogurts are nicer than 90% of restaurant desserts.

PALPATINE: Did you ever hear that the Pixies recorded a second, much slower, version of “Wave of Mutilation?” I thought not. It’s not a record they would sell you at the mall. It’s a slow jam for real heads, and you can only get it in European imports

Making western car nations look like pathetic piss babies