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Killing Dad (Berg by Ann Quin) is on NeTfLiX Julie Walters and Richard E Grant brilliant physical comedy in this Relocated from Brighton to the Southend of my youth (paging @davidcollard.bsky.social )

Perhaps the most authentic thing about Christmas is how many people return to the town of their birth to be taxed

Watched A Man For All Seasons and it showed up how historical films have become sludgy and as tiring as they are epic This was tight. 2 hrs and felt pacey king and cardinal played brilliantly by Shaw & Welles. Stars, but they're in it for about 15 mins Bright colours Explanations brief & subtle

Watching A Man For All Seasons. No goretex yet

Imagine being a British actor and seeing Thursday Murder Club and you're the only one not in it. All your pals are there and you weren't invited. You're having to smile through it, but you are full of doubts and questions

An image of the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool. I lived beside it for so many years when I directed plays on the Unity Theatre stage and taught community film workshops. Looking across the Mersey when I captured this photograph years later made me proud and emotional. A wonderful city.

"NOT" is in caps in the original book, which is also swell

I think the TARDIS goes to random destinations because the Doctor hasn't paid for premium

Happy Winter Solstice everyone. One of my first oil paintings from 1996 of Avebury where I went to primary school. Being there had a profound influence on my work. Lighter days ahead.

I was remembering when I was an emerging artist. I guess I decided to slink back out of sight again

"Lost Mary" sounds like my mother trying to remember the name of Mary Magdalene

The visit of the Three Kings is the first example of trickle down economics. The holy family were the deserving poor

SEN panel: it would be inclusive to get the AuADHD child to describe their self, hopes, and dreams over the first dozen pages of this document in their favoured method of communication Me: it's also a good way to find out if my kid can throw a laptop into the heart of the sun

Avatar is just a pretentious Smurfs reboot

An estate agent with two offices on the same High Street is getting high on its own supply

When the UK govt say to artists "you are so valuable to me because you make me look good and earn us lots of money", then also treat us very badly indeed... these are the same utterances and actions of an abusive partner

I've been saying this will happen for last 24 months. Production and distribution costs alone made it inevitable. Indeed, my imprint was based upon the idea (7 years ago) editions had to cost more but deliver on the price I've got other formet ideas on the way share.google/F71JOQyh4pp9...

HMRC: Do you want to claim super equine bas relief? (Optional) 🔽 Help about: super equine bas relief *clicks 🔽* HMRC: If you are eligible for super equine bas relief just answer 'Yes' *another massive sigh*

First CD I ever bought

Damn. All this time I've been keeping my friends close and my enemy's closet...

The BBC has very few inquisitive minds in its shows. It looks like they keep it that way deliberately I saw this show live when I was on the same bill in 2010, and it was full of the liberating, exhilarating promise of science. Freedom The BBC is full of jolly posh people who crave crayfish wraps

I wrote a review of post-punks #Protomartyr playing at #ICA in November for 3:AM Magazine "A crowd celebrates as they recognise the caustic chords, tumbling drums, and bouncing roundwound bass sound that will whip sweaty air into the song Processed By The Boys" www.3ammagazine.com/3am/all-the-...

I wrote a review of Protomartyr playing thru The Agent Intellect at London's ICA for 3:AM Magazine For your weekend's information, education, and entertainment www.3ammagazine.com/3am/all-the-...

Ozymandias Unwrapped Your ruling age: 3238 years In 2025 you had 2 vast legs of stone 0 trunks (oops! someone has no body to dance with) Your shattered visage was 50% sunk You streamed 1734 works Your tribe are: ye mighty Your followers are mostly dis pair: goth/new romantic

I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people. I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇

One lucky family will go somewhere nobody knows about Mr sodding Bean for a whole blissful weekend

Men who say things like "that's okay, it's no trouble" to signify that they feel you ought to have thanked them: they are being rude They are not standing up for politeness and common decency. They are taking their thin skin out for a walk

My listening mushroom is Devil's Hubcap #wrapped

Look on Mrs Dalloway going to buy the sweet cold plums herself, ye mighty, and despair

Listening to Murder On The Orient Express, and I'm pretty sure I've solved it. The blows suggest a murderer who is both strong and feeble, passionate and reluctant, ambidextrous... it's clearly a centaur

[Scene: a stable surrounded by shepherds. Angels hover above, bathed in the light of a single star. A man and young mother look on as three wise men offer presents to a baby in a manger] *record scratch freeze frame* God: "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation..."

There's a recruitment advert for the police near my house that says "be the change you want to see..." which I find a little jarring given that Ghandi was arrested several times by British police (Actual quote "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.")

In Star Trek, why don't we see the crew having to rub the touch screen with their jersey sleeve to make the touch screen responsive ?

A discussion about whether my grandfather had adhd culminated in this observation: don't diagnose the dead

5 Bands I've seen in (relatively) small venues: Soundgarden Dirty Projectors Arcade Fire Sufjan Stevens Protomartyr

[Scene: Loki fastened to three rocks with iron entrails, a poisonous snake on a rock above his head, where it drips venom onto his face] *record scratch freeze frame* Loki: "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation..."

I didn't know that Johnny Depp played Gary Oldman in Fantastic Beasts

I don't know how to explain this, except I was born in Romford

A movie that takes place where you’re from.

Ticket going for Shame tonight at London, Kentish Town O² Forum secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/3E0062BC6...

The actual Greatest Story Ever Told was the one about the guy who droned on about how fuel efficient his new car would be so, when it arrived, his pals crept up the driveway at night to top up the petrol. "200 miles per gallon, guys, I mean, c'mon...!"

Statistically someone you love is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Chances are if you can’t think of anyone, it’s probably because they don’t feel safe telling you. Consider this before making your jokes about the Epstein shit.

Goon a movie The Goongoonies

Why are some people called Drinkwater, but nobody is called Eatfood?

Sainsbury crisps are too weak to eat houmous with

When I was a child at school there were a pair of oystercatchers who returned annually to nest near the humanities department, and their chicks would follow them around somehow avoiding all the students. I used to watch them out the window instead of listening to lessons

If you see this, post your bird art 🐦 #birds

PITYSAD sequence of poems by @sashadugdale.bsky.social were my way of turning my thoughts towards veterans and their families #PTSD #poetry

Walked for two hours in a busy park this morning. Saw one poppy, on a dog, and another on a man carrying a guitar... I've never seen so few. Are people not wanting to be associated with the flagtivists?