Double Indemnity BBC2

I sort of thought the only reason for video podcast was largely so they could be streamed on YouTube (and listened to and vaguely half watched) and also to be clipped for insta etc, I didn't think folk watched them for extended periods

It's our blended family get together this afternoon which is genuinely a fun thing. It does seem to be filled with people who used to run around in their pajamas waving Ben-10 watches who are now gangly industrial chemists

"something wicked this way comes" is one of those Disney (?) that's greatly under watched although I hear it has many merits

Ah I see the cricket has provided that sporting essential, to its fans: a hard won paltry meaningless victory , I trust they are suitably happy

Sharing recipes and food culture is a good thing , but grannies aren't as old as they used to be , one of the ladies in the story was cooking for her family in that forgotten time of ...the mid-to late 70's and 80's.

You got a DryRobe off of yer mam.

"You will be visited by three spirits..."

"Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures." M. F. K. Fisher

A pleasingly ziggurat of physical media , poetry and prose, my kith and kin are kind and generous.

Boxing Day 2025: Floodlands "we kept close to the wall, to escape the worst effects of the fresh air"

Looked in my parents cupboards for lentils or similar to cook for dinner. The pack of split peas cost 29p from Waitrose. I’m faintly terrified to try and work out the year.

Just read my "new" copy of the "Snow Man" by Raymond Briggs, the drawing is so beautiful , free and really quite delicate. One major difference from the film is most of the story is set inside the boys house. The flying scenes are still there but he doesn't visit Santa.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched An 80's oldie , 2 modern classics and some solid historical action. #filmsky

Doesn't seem like a day for wired, angular M.E.S so here's one of his more measured even gentle songs #fallfriday youtu.be/p9zTSvEpt_8?...

"Guest editors " on Today the truly mediocre, supply teachers of radio.

We all love Big Thief in our family, so loved that my Bro even though he loves the music was so appalled by the incredibly poor sleeve for "Double Infinity " (it looks like a mediocre club flier from the '90's), that he printed up bespoke slip covers for my SIL and nieces copies .

I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.

The supplements I’ve been taking have caused me to put on weight and grow a big white beard. I’m giving up the Santagen.

Whey pour manger

Also this Radio Four programme on a Christmas Carol is v good. It's by Prof Christopher Frayling who always has good insightful things to say about film as well as being called Chris. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Ok let's get this show on the road

Happy Christmas from Shawshank!

Merry Christmas! Here's the best Christmas song ever youtu.be/_JhVkWNHaU4?...

He's been ! he's been! A random Tom Hiddle-Stan has been and replied to an old post of mine. TBH I'd rather have had a football sock with a tangerine , some new coins , some soap and a Mars selection box/net etc but hey we all love opinionz about old Etonian posh boy actors !

Think we should start using "excelsis" more in everyday speech , would make us sound more Stan Lee

Have Yourself a Merry Sci-Fi Christmas!

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Altogether now...eaten trifle ...eaten trifle

Calamity Jane's just been "femmed up" joint first , worst makeover in film history

The "Christmas card- room at Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique is amazing

I'm at my Bro's, his house smells pleasingly of cloves

#advent 24: Happy Christmas Everyone! peace, love and joy to you all (yes even YOU!)

Here's a Christmas treat for you which always cheers me up, Christopher Frayling's heraldic motto.

It's no Fallen Madonna with the big boobies.... just saying 😉

If you're driving to see your family , in the kitchen pottering or just like listening to nice things this edition of Podessy is perfect 🍏

Made a dash to the shops to get the things I'd forgotten .. cranberry sauce , lemons , bread , a copy of Tina by John Henry Lynch ....

Wish there were still TV programmmes interviewing French critical theorists

Ha he destroyed it's reputation before most of us watching had even had it

I miss my mother's Christmas cakes.

Mushroom Risotto and the Duval's own

"These are my lawyers. All Harvard men."

Not a bad way to start any film

Happy Advent everyone !

I need to connect with more comic book editors on here. Anybody done a starter pack or something?

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