This has just come up in conversation, the proof that the Hugh Wisdom who co-wrote the theme tune to Sorry! was a pseudonym for Norman Wisdom.

I've done occasional tutoring for middle school and high school kids. It's a trope to blame the parents, but there has been a structural shift that has resulted in parents give 0 fucks. I was helping a kid who's mom write 9 as the answer to every question instead of helping her son. In pen.

You can, but the process is long, hard, and not appealing to politicians, admins, or students.

There are SO many culprits here (sorry, this brings out my OCD). Underfunding schools. Switching from phonics (backed by science) to "whole language/Balanced Literacy" (backed by woo-woo) to the computers in the classroom 24/7 to "ed tech" (another grift) to the screens. You can't unshit this bed.

He's done a Boyne, bless him.

I mean, I think it's good visual casting. And I'm not opposed to the idea of Poirot: The Hot Years. But they can't actually let him fuck. Poirot is ace. I will die on that hill. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Love that Hitchcock randomly catches a rare glimpse of New York's first black radio station, WLIB's offices in Topaz (Universal, 1969)

Don’t talk to me if you aren’t a Native New Yorker youtu.be/wCEmPnIJYes

David Sullivan looks like a Naples mob boss who has ordered a bowl of fresh raw peas and ricotta before being garrotted in 1970, doesn’t he?

Appears various BBC/ITV serials were shown on CBC's Saturday Morning slot, eg Nobody's House, What Katy Did

Weird how NTV, CTV Newfoundland aired Hilarious House of Frightenstein, 100 Huntley Street, Barbapapa, Circle Square -series that aired on CHSJ, a CBC affiliate in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Matt and Jenny aired on CBC Newfoundland, another Global show like 100 Huntley St

Interesting - Follyfoot was shown on CBHT CBC Nova Scotia but it was a Global TV show in Toronto, and it wasn't aired by any station in BC. CBC Alberta did.

The demented world of Canadian TV, 1977 A special about the Irish famine from the Irish Rovers starring Hollywood Renta-paddy Shay Duffin and ISLA ST CLAIR (pre-Larry) @franticplanet.bsky.social @danmcdaid.bsky.social

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"'Arold!" (One for the kids)

48 today 🎂 I coulda waited til later and got dolled up but you know what I think this picture is most representative of me. a bit tired and blasted after Pride yesterday, I might look tame but this shop steward will fuck you up if you mess with my crew and not slowin down except to eat cake

hey critic friends. wanna help a filmmaker out?

Absolute first-draft villain dialogue here. Also: big "accusation from a narcissist is a confession" stink off it.

One of James Mason's last roles as a CSO Egyptian demon head in Sesame Street. The mind boggles

Please watch the Sesame Street / Metropolitan Museum of Art collab special "Don't Eat the Pictures," where Big Bird helps Osiris weigh a child's heart against a feather. His feather, of course. It's WILD (and one of the best specials Sesame ever made). youtu.be/3RB7CkNW0YU?...

I recall when Ritchie from the manics spoke about travelling like this and it was regarded as a symptom of him being very unwell

A much weirder director than people give him credit. Closer to the likes of Robert Downey Sr, pre A Room with a View Savages is a psychotronic delight

it's so funny as a criticism, because trans works of art love to be a bit on the darker side to say the least and I found TADC to be fairly tame (by design) by those standards

This episode got only 3.5 million viewers back in 1969. The past never knew how good they had it.

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Lots of people praising yer man Caolan and the claim that Russia is widely bribing Irish politicians are unsurprisingly very pro-Israel! Imagine my surprise.

I still kind of believe the one theory floating around that the movie was largely made by AI and if it was successful they would have went "LOOK, WE ARE LAUNCHING SORA 2!" but since it flopped they are quietly shuffling it off the stage and hoping people don't look to hard at it.

for cis people, “im just trying to live my life as a teen girl but the government, backed by a vast shadowy web of fanatical religious groups, is hellbent on using its full might to destroy me bc i was born special” is an outlandish YA novel plot for teenage trans girls in america its tuesday

Left-wing journalists have said we shouldn’t travel anymore because of the environmental impacts and that’s frustrating but at least makes sense. This right-wing journalist says we shouldn’t travel anymore because we can *read it on Wikipedia* and that is demented 😮

And Marlene McFly - who is probably why I think more male actors should play female roles. Because that normalised it to me as a kid. (I didn't realise it was Fox in drag until I was maybe about 18)

Debate on RTÉ radio about migration has not once mentioned that of the three places with “return hubs” we are planning to send failed asylum claimants to, two are repressive dictatorships and one is a failed state run by competing warlords.

It’s Jadzia now, thanks.

Having seen a microcosm of this with the dismantling of sport - in editorial and product - and steady replacement of former staff with folk brought in from the Telegraph, the Sun and JustEat, all trying to remake and degrade it to their own level, it’s depressing seeing the direction of travel.

I don't know who John Boyne is, but one thing cis people commonly get wrong is this idea that we boycott JK Rowling to punish her for her opinions. The reason we boycott JKR is because of what she is going to do with the money you give her. Does John Boyne fund anti-trans legislation & hate groups?

To be clear, we do not, cannot, and will never know if that was the case. And if it was, it would not make the obscene torture the government then put gay men through any better.

It is entirely possible, given the complex stuff with gender in his published work, that Turing was actually a trans woman, experienced the correct hormone balance for the first time *when being governmentally tortured for homosexuality*, and died by suicide because he was off the hormones again.

Read this about Drag Race alumni A'keria Davenport, and I think this is how we should all approach detransitioning.

I hope Gooseworx is able to celebrate right now.

20 YEARS AGO TODAY: Jim 'Bisop Brennan' Norton plays the ageing Stan Laurel in silent film expert Neil Brand's BBC4 film Stan, making a final visit to a dying Oliver Hardy (Trevor Cooper, long time bit-parter and uncle of Daisy May and Charlie)

Horror people turn up for unfamiliar movies with unproven directors and no-name actors. Horror people are the ones who don't use "low-budget" as a pejorative. Horror people will watch horror from 100 years ago. It's not weird that horror people are like this, it's weird that other genre fans aren't.

These are career-best performances. Will never be beaten.

In case you're wondering how 1950s newspaper Daily Express is getting on, they have a shock story today about Cliff Richard's real name, a fact I knew in the late 1970s. Their first Vietnam War reports can't be far away.

there was a trans character that they handled a lot better, which is what made this part even more disappointing

This David Sullivan thing, is it another of those "worst kept secret" things again?

David Sullivan to be charged with historical offenses including fly tipping a double-decker bus on the Moon

Is David Sullivan finally getting his comeuppance several decades too late?

Flip it and make Bond a trans woman called Teresa/Tracy.