On the stairs of Korakuen Hall. Shocked there’s not a fuckton of ads all around it.

This week's Oktobersketch vignette. All quiet on the front.

In todays tech fails, I set up my DVD player with a monitor only to realise that the monitor doesn't have speakers...

When parakeets cosplay

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

People signed with WWE to work for WWE, not AAA. The moment it became clear that they have effectively built a new glass ceiling for Mexican talent - and it's one that also involves working somewhere many of them were glad to see the back of - it was obvious it would ruffle some feathers, at best.

I've never seen a whole episode of The Office (either version), Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Seinfeld, The Walking Dead or Breaking Bad. I've never seen a Godfather movie either.

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Did you hear about the darts fan who kept mucking up when baking? It was because everything had to be 180(C ).

@iversen83.bsky.social returns to discuss the 17th Discworld novel, Interesting Times. We talk about updating the Rincewind formula, how comedy ages, Mustrum Ridcully’s flexibility, Pratchett's middle class revolutionaries & Scottish footballers. 🟢bit.ly/4o2wHvf 📦 bit.ly/4pUa8uy 🍎bit.ly/4mEuogD

I wrote about the sensational GENERATION CRASH match from New Japan's Sep 13th Korakuen show and the frustrations of why the promotion can't stick to a presentation like that. www.pwtorch.com/site/2025/09... @pwtorch.bsky.social

Ken Campbell once used a medium to contact the ghost of Laurence Olivier. He asked the spirit who was the greatest actor in the world right now, and received the answer “Jackie Chan”. So Campbell rented as much Chan on VHS as possible and watched the lot. “And do you know, the man was RIGHT!”

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

Spiderlight by @aptshadow.bsky.social was a great, entertaining read. It feels similar to Redemption's Blade in how it looks at the "default" fantasy settings & asks questions. This borders on satire at times, with heroes seeing their perception of reality shift in the presence of a man-spider.

Whenever it comes up in cultural conversation, I wonder, what would “curing” my autism look like to the people who demand it as an option? Would my being better with eye contact be worth losing so much of who I am?

The commodification of interest, the implicit notion that a failure or lack of desire to monetise one's hobbies renders them a worthless, frivelous waste of precious time. "Witness now the fossilization of a culture that has ceased to believe in anything beyond its own capacity to generate value."

I mean, is he wrong???

Once upon a movie corny, where some boys lust, mad and horny, Over many a buxom maiden they were forbid to try— While I watched it, nearly napping, suddenly there came a slapping, As of some one gently fapping, fapping into his mom’s pie. - American Poe

Life, the Universe, and some things.

There once was a man From Nantucket who couldn’t Recognise haiku

No new edition of No Scrubs this week as we're on a break between seasons, but while you wait for Season 2, you can catch up with Season 1 here 👇 open.spotify.com/show/7kfrYFM...

You should do this. Comparatively short, punchy and frequently hilarious episodes with the best intro tune in wrestling podcasting. These were day-of listens for me.

So I'm interested in watching/listening to The Phantom of the Opera for the first time. Is the 2004 movie the right choice, or are there better options out there?

In the dying days of old Twitter, I posted a thread trying to determine who the oldest wrestlers to ever compete were. Let's revisit that today. 🧵🤼‍♂️

As it's currently #invertefest I've unearthed some old art and I give you... the palaeozoic invertebrates of the revolution! Part of a sequence of historical/palaeofauna images I did a while back.

I don’t hope for much out of life, but I really hope a lot of you will check out our silly book when it comes out next year. It’s gonna be gay and smart and emotional and, with no false modesty, very funny

You probably couldn’t make Life Of Brian today. I mean, for a start, it’s pretty short notice and even starting at this time of the morning, it’s probably pushing it to get it done in a day. I don’t even have a camera and nowhere is open right now.

Sea lions are seals that are missing an electron

"Can you do me a portrait of Vince McMahon and John Cena?"

People are sharing photos of themselves with wrestlers that they took on Saturday or Sunday. Instead, this weekend, I got something truly unique. I must be the only person on the planet who owns an Italo Calvino novel signed by a Mastermind finalist ( @puropodcast.bsky.social )

I knew a wizard whose magic only worked on the beach. He was a shoreceror.

It's 11am and I have already realised the folly of wearing a black shirt and jeans today. Mistakes were made and they cannot be rectified.

I'm off to London for a big weekend of hanging out with friends and watching wrestling. And yes, due to popular demand I am wearing the wrestling shirt that I bought for 180 yen.

Packing for AEW weekend and I don't know if I should attempt to wear my 180yen Yuji Okabayashi shirt which is both the best and the worst shirt that I own.

It’s an unimaginable amount of money. He could have bought two - maybe even three - Warhammer armies.

Man, procrastination and distractions are really not helping my need to write up my notes on Soul Music. Especially as I'm away all weekend and recording on Monday

Three stars in a trenchcoat

It's not just his booking patterns that he re-uses...

@maffewgregg.bsky.social When at first it doesn't succeed, try again. Then try again despite getting it right. Then Try a third time. Then fucking hit yourself in the head for no reason.

"Hey, I managed to get a signed Adrian Tchaikovsky novel for 99p!" "Great, so where does it sit on the Tchaikovsky Arachnophobia Index?" "Well, about that..."

When I decided to grow herbs indoors I didn't realise that the positives (fresh herbs, greenery) would be offset by the main negative: hundreds of tiny flies getting everywhere and commiting mass suicide on any surface with the barest hint of liquid.

Okay, I know the idea here was probably "wouldnt it be cool to have a bunch of techinical wrestling lads face each other to see who faces ZSJ" but this is an insanely funny lineup of people to potentially challenge for New Japan's top belt.

I think this photo shows that it's not just humans who are capable of being absolute dumbasses in terms of ignoring obvious dangers.

This is great. Praising what is good and why it feels like a breath of fresh air, but also explaining why and how it could be better. I completely understand Snowboiiii's points & agree. It was like a good chicken dish after a week of burgers: flaws meant less because it was something different.

Wow! Yuya Uemura vs Ryohei Oiwa is very much my kind of wrestling! An incredibly well done progression from opening arm work vs headlock that ramps up to a counter heavy finish where every counter felt logical, earned and completely logical. Yuya just feels like he cares about logic and details.

I was dubious after the first trailer but I gave it a go, and man, I lived The Naked Gun. Almost exactly what I wanted out of that. So many homages to Police Squad, so many daft bits. Not everything worked, but it was better than I hoped it could be. I was just grinning and fist pumping at times.

Arachnophobia.