He’s in the huff because he can’t watch The Simpsons.

This Christmas Do Say: We got you this voucher because we weren’t sure what’s current & cool Don’t Say: we couldn’t find a suitable gift because you’re so secretive and tell us nothing about your life, so you can put this money towards whatever perverted pastime you’re currently engaged in 1/

Bought a new car yesterday. Filled it up for the first time this afternoon. The gas dispenser handle got stuck in the car. This sort of thing only seems to happen to me.

In ‘Never Too Much’, when Luther Vandross sings “Woke up today, looked at your picture just to get me started/ I called you up, but you weren't there, and I was broken-hearted” Is he masturbating?

I had a brief fling with a woman in the early 00s who was obsessed with Brand. We went to see him live and the only time I have been as unnerved as that night was at Newcastle Dance City for a night of avant garde dance when the performers began micturating on and in each other.

Back on the road after a week of buses. I’d take the bus more but the people sniffing phlegm up through the back of their throats, or playing loud music without headphones, or bringing dangerous dogs on, or having loud phone calls, or vaping, make it an intolerable experience.

I knew Peter Holmes, the ex police officer and postmaster who was convicted of false accounting in 2009. He died a convicted man in 2015. Prison is the only option for those who lied so that Peter- and many like him- were brought to ruin. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Happy Birthday Mr Richard Edwards, wherever you may be. #manics #richeyedwards

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Fallout feels like a bit of a disappointment. Again. The production design is ace, it’s well made, the references are all there, they’ve done a great job of replicating the world and Goggins is great as the Ghoul (who has the same story as Maeve in Westworld)…but it’s all a bit soulless and thin.

At least somebody is comfortable.

Starting to work up sketches for a Michael Caine portrait. I really like his face as an increasingly frail old man, and the 60s era feels too easy. When you think of Caine which era comes to mind? @caiross.bsky.social @mrenglish.bsky.social @thestrovinator.bsky.social @www.johnbleasdale.com

This has to be my book of the year. Highly entertaining. ‘Unwise But Not Illegal: My Life As A Philip Schofield Impersonator’ by Petter Phillips

I had a wonderful afternoon yesterday with TPTV, just like the days when my late stepfather would park himself in front of the television for the afternoon and we’d watch some great stuff together- often films he’d seen in the theatre in the 50s. It was almost like having him back for the day.

This has to be my book of the year. Highly entertaining. ‘Unwise But Not Illegal: My Life As A Philip Schofield Impersonator’ by Petter Phillips

Coppola is the associate producer on this. It’s ace.

I’d like to be able to buy cd singles. They could do a print on demand style service for old sods who still love physical media, and I’d happily pay a premium just to own the song forever in a nice crisp package. Digital is too transitory, too impersonal. It means less. There’s no theatre.

New From Us 2025 Roundup - The Best New Home Video Releases: midcenturycinema.org/2025/12/16/n...

An early Christmas present from @househammerpod.bsky.social - a repeat of my chat with the great @barryf48.bsky.social , now available - for a limited time only - to everybody!

The idea of “imported” violence against women and girls is a deeply comforting fiction - one that allows people to avoid looking at where it actually happens: within our homes and behind closed doors.

Hello, my name is Hugo. My purpose throughout December is tree-based chaos.

Meanwhile Mrs Rex has been busy… please take a look and consider donating this festive season…👍🇮🇪

I hate Christmas. I hate the pornographic levels of consumption and greed, the forced inclusion, and the pressure people feel- financially, emotionally. I always spend the day alone. But the one thing about it that I do love is this. Unironically. It’s my favourite song. God I miss George.

Lord Nash and other unelected fools (Hilary Cass- hello again) are pushing us further towards the surveillance state of our nightmares, and we all just sit on our hands. We must reject this at all costs. Read this docs.reclaimthenet.org/children-wel... Watch this

I delivered my latest book cover design to the client today- it’s some hot shit because I’m really good- but it pales in comparison to this beauty in its elegant simplicity. I didn’t design this, but I had the huge pleasure of painting it. Pre-order here plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/pro...

Can you please all preorder CONNERY My novel. It is out in February but the more preorders we get the more my publisher likes it. plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/pro...

Small cat imitates big cat.

Baby Cat.

@variety.com relegating Michelle Reiner- when they mention her at all- to ‘wife’.

Awful

Nothing says “I love you” at Christmas like a picture of a hanging carcass for the bedroom wall. christopherjamesart.bigcartel.com #manics #manicstreetpreachers #richeyedwards #seanconnery #joanofarc #thepassion #columbo #peterfalk #artprints #art #prints #jamesbond #connery #richeyjames

Spotted on instagram. Where’s Mary Whitehouse when you need her?

This is really good. The influence of American Christian nationalism on this country is deeply sinister. Alongside Jesus Bro’s- who are always pricks-we have the rapid erosion of progress in terms of attitudes towards women, minorities, same sex relationships, science, and so on. No thanks

"Invisible and Deadly!" #MargueriteChapman #DouglasKennedy in... 📽️ THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN (1960) 12noon sci-fi thriller #TPTVsubtitles

When I was a paperboy I worked for a newsagent who had a huge VHS rental section. I took films home every night. The Assassin was an erotic favourite. First rewatch tonight in 30 odd years. I considered marrying both Kylie and Bridget Fonda back then, but eventually decided against it.

One week left on my studio. There may be a break in service until I sort alternative lodgings. If anybody wishes to buy the following paintings do please let me know (short thread)

‘What’s A Monarchy For?’ (BBC) is an excellent argument against the institution.

Claire Danes is absolutely *superb* in The Beast In Me. Superb.

£336 per MONTH to insure The Boy on my car. Unbelievable. I pay that for a year.

Negative Reaction (1974) is not the best Columbo episode, but it has to be one of my favourites. Certainly one of the first I ever remember seeing, and DVD playing against type is absolutely delicious. Great YouTube channel- Watch It For Days @caiross.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=83Nr...

The Boy has his driving test right now, in high winds and the heaviest rain that is coming down vertically. The conditions couldn’t be worse. I haven’t been this nervous for him since…his first day at school.

The best film of the year? Maybe The most beautiful? Certainly. I wrote about Train Dreams here www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...

Haven’t watched this in years. The first film I ever remember watching. It looks handsome on Disney+, but I despise the additions- the musical number in Jabba’s palace is particularly egregious.

The Times, Friday 1st October 2010.

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Is part of the appeal of Stranger Things that it depicts the analogue age so well? Instamatic, Walkman, Cassette, CB Radio, BMX, a handful of tv channels, corded telephones. Letters. Paper. You had to work harder for information. Libraries. Books. Word of mouth. It was slower. Is that it?

I spent a thousand days in this room. Now it’s over. The next place is much bigger, isn’t owned by a toxic sociopath, and will allow me to unleash the plan I have up my sleeve. I am so bloody excited.