Get a little shot of perfection.

I just got the washing out of the oven, I mean off the clothesline. It’s 35 out there, at 7:00 p.m.

Make a Bond movie casual: Diet Another Day

OUT NOW! Another year's worth of hard-hitting short fiction from some of the best crime writers around. Welcome to Stone's Throw 2025. Get your copy today: bit.ly/4jaRnjw

Here’s the stupidest article I’ve ever read about acting. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

‘Just a spoonful of death helps life go down.’

My picks for the best crime of 2025 including: @michaelconnelly.bsky.social @deonmeyer.bsky.social @michaelrobotham.bsky.social @adrianmckinty.bsky.social @paulvidich.bsky.social @fionathehardy.bsky.social @anthonyhorowitz.com @mbrisso.bsky.social murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/the-years-be...

Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.

This is a good interview.

Wordle 200! (Achieved with an uncomfortable 6.)

If the Wallabies had a better defence plan and could catch a kick, they would be a chance here. I doubt they can do it on guts alone. #irevaus

This week in the Canberra Weekly I reviewed three good, end of year crime novels by the Queen of Cold Case Crime @valmcdermid.bsky.social & Australian authors Alan Carter and Matthew Reilly. Good books and great potential Xmas presents murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/canberra-wee...

A halloween books cartoon for @theguardian.com

I know -- another Substack? If you're so inclined, here is my first post: open.substack.com/pub/billjano...

An extra special pub day because we also have two new Len Deighton spy thrillers out, HORSE UNDER WATER and TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE SPY!👀

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of.

2 months to Xmas and here the 10 best crime titles coming our way @michaelconnelly.bsky.social Lee & Andrew Child, Jack Heath @peterjamesauthor.bsky.social @valmcdermid.bsky.social Jo Dixon, Matthew Reilly @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social @harlancoben.bsky.social murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/forecast-fri...

They flew Will Skelton back from France for this match and he played 14 minutes. #ausvnzl

All right. It’s time for the last #Wallabies home test match in 2025. #ausvnzl

Wordle 150 streak achieved 🎉

Nice Pan cover @sulli864.bsky.social

After next week’s test in Perth, there is no higher priority for the #Wallabies and Australian rugby than rounding up every pro contracted player who wears 9 to 15 and putting them through a two-week punt kicking clinic. #nzlvaus #bledisloecup #itsnotthathard #itscalledfootballyaknow

I wanted to not mention Piardi (or Jonker) this afternoon but those successive penalties against Wilson (maul) and Hooper (jackle) were just the ref’s gifts to NZ. Three points for free. This stuff leaves the Wallabies unable to risk competing for the ball. #nzlvaus #bledisloecup

Who slips a better pass than Len Ikitau? Nobody. Try after try comes from his beautiful short pass to the left. #NZLvAUS #BledisloeCup

I’m geared up for Wallabies vs NZ. Anything could happen. #nzlvaus #bledisloecup

I haven’t heard of this novel or the author. Am intrigued.

Towards the finish line, mate.

I remember seeing this wanker on TV after the trial and thinking he was way out of line with his commentary. Nobody wants a public health system doctor playing up for media attention. #erinpatterson #mushroommurders #medicalethics www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Would you like your own 1960s astronomy station with a giant cross telescope? #hoskinstown www.realestate.com.au/property-hou...

Here’s a wild and dark crime scenario: start a sham whale welfare operation, obtain a veterinary euthanasia drug (in whale-sized doses?), sell it to suicidal humans. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

27% primary for the bad guys and 12% for the worse guys. Australia’s tectonic plates are grating.

My thoughts after two #ausvarg matches. Wallabies’ weakness is the kick-chase. They make no metres on the box kicks, then win no possession. Argentina’s weakness is their inability to score tries through an organised attack. They can’t hold possession and apply pressure.

Argentina’s discipline now falling apart. Will they panic again? #ausvarg

The Wallabies are getting outplayed. They can’t get any field position and can’t keep possession. Argentina can’t score tries, but they don’t need to. #ausvarg

Hunter Paisami is looking very Ikitau-like in attack and defence – which is great to see. #ausvarg

I hope Edmed’s afternoon improves. #ausvarg

Joseph Suaalii is very hard to stop from 10 metres out and he doesn’t always need a pass from Len Ikitau. But that kick by Tane Edmed was an embarrassment. #ausvarg

The Wallabies-Argentina rugby Test match broadcast starts with Stan’s Sean Maloney saying last week’s result came in “injury time”; the ground announcer asks the crowd to “be upstanding” for the anthems, and calls ours “Advanced Australia Fair”. OK, enough negativity – time for rugby. #ausvarg

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains. Are you still aware? Guess that you don't care about it now.

This #snipetember thing has gone up a notch.

There’s a new Cosmic Psychos video. Might be their worst song ever, but it’s good enough. #cosmicpsychos youtu.be/ku0HKJDmgFQ

One for the Australians – though it’s from a TV series, not a movie. ‘Sweet and Sour’ was a show about an indie band who record and release a single. Released in the real world, the single hit no. 13 on the national chart and the soundtrack album was no. 4. youtu.be/DZElbix-nf4

This is absolutely the title I would give a parody of Dan Brown. This must be the Danbrowniest of Dan Brown novels.

Slightly diminish a book: One Hundred Minutes of Solitude

Watched CAUGHT STEALING (2025) a perfect example of Chekhov's seatbelt.

Addendum to item 1): especially for authors talking or writing about their own stories. When I read something like ‘I decided to have some fun with the genre by subverting the tropes,’ I reach for my 🔫. Just write your story in the shape that works.

Recommended reading. A great portrait of human complexity, achievement and collapse.

The #Springboks have glaring faults that can’t be fixed quickly. They just don’t look like a dominant champion team now. #nzlvrsa

Tuning in for the Australia vs Argentina rugby Test match in Townsville. Go Wallabies! #ausvarg

You start the day as an answer in the NY Times crossword and end it in the obits. #armani