Okay, then Jane Austen never wrote a single love story, only eulogies of the construction of bourgeois nuclear families as the economic base of capitalist society at odds with the calcified remnants of the noble class rule over social mores.

I bought a book

Lester worked with the Goons, the Beatles, *and Superman*! You couldn't really get a better set of icons to work with.

If you lived in London in 1970, you could be a keen TV viewer *and* a hipster - programmes close around midnight, then you can go to Ronnie Scott’s and hangout with John Le Mesurier; as programmes don’t start until around 4.50pm, you can sleep all day #Jazz625

I’ve had Gen Z students who have done projects on Chinese Dreamcore - eerie, nostalgic evocations of millennial aesthetics in China. There’s definitely a hauntological aspect to it. aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Chinese...

And yesterday I was watching #DoctorWho The Aztecs. Ringham gives the best villainous performance in the whole first series...and that's a series that introduces the Daleks.

In view of this news, a reminder that the original designs for the Diddy Men were the work of D. C. Thomson artist and Bananaman creator John Geering. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Had a conversation with my 13-year-old niece about Hauntology (the GenX aesthetic, not the political philosophy) and she did not recognize the unnerving air of childhood I was talking about to. I just think it's interesting.

John Ringham was so bloody good.

He was fab.

‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms. ‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms. But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…

Now this is a story all about how My trip got flipped — turned upside down, And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, To tell you how I found a plinth of the king, ye mighty: despair!

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

I've commissioned another piece of artwork for my Doctor Who production counterfactual. I would show it to you, but it would remind you that I'm writing a Doctor Who production counterfactual.

Mainstream rock radio formats are such a war crime for treating certain artists as one hit wonders. I appreciate Bang A Gong (Get It On) WAY more hearing it in the context of songs like Jeepster. I *get* T. Rex now in a way Big 105.9 never cared about.

As noted in the episode, for viewers who tuned in to the final broadcast of the Monkees' TV show, the last thing they would have seen was this: Buckley performing an early version of "Song to the Siren"

Hydration break

Hydration break!

The intro to Pat Boone's version of "Song to the Siren" is so misjudged as to be admirable.

Now up for paid backers only, an hour-long bonus episode on Tim Buckley and "Song to the Siren".

Paverotic. #TOTP

A seminal moment in music.

Sparks on Crackerjack with a song about sperm.

Carol Kane and Gene Wilder for The World’s Greatest Lover (1977)

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I've finally seen the trailer. It's the Sunday Fear. The whole trailer is cut to the That's Life theme.

One of McCartney's sweetest melodies. A gentle little children's song that sounds like it's been around forever. Other people would give entire body parts to be able to write a song this beguiling. I love it dearly and I hope *many* other people do as well.

“Saw a museum exhibition of nudes in London yesterday.” “Really? The V & A?” “Yep, some boobs and balls too”.

Did someone say ‘Hydration Break’? #WorldCup

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Did someone say ‘Hydration Break’? #WorldCup

MARIS

Time for your regular reminder:

I remember Tanguy Destable. That was one of the many flavours Metal Mickeys Sub-Atomic Thunderbusters came in, surely.

I’d completely forgotten that I’d pre-ordered this. Present Me is giving Clever Old Past Me a high five.

Willem Defoe is Harry Worth

Watching Pardon The Expression and despite being pompous little men played by Arthur Lowe, you couldn't mistake Swindley for Mainwaring. Fantastic. Bonus for Sherlockians, Swindley mentioned the polyphony of Lassus.

On paper, I'm a trillionaire.

Also bonus Water Beatles

You know what this episode needed? Jamie Farr.

Throwback episode of Just One More Thing, a podcast about Columbo, is the patently misguided A Case of Immunity, an episode I think we ended up all agreeing was "one of the episodes of Columbo." Also, talking about Sal Mineo made us depressed. You know what? You have my permission to skip this one.

Oh man. I’m such a nervous norvous today. I want to be loved on social media and sell one hundred art to cure myself

I once watched this with @mooncatandco.bsky.social and told him "If the end is to make sense, you must pay close attention to the opening. By the way, the opening that makes sense of the ending has been edited out."

The kids will soon be demanding Trevor Baker gifs

Post a logo, emblem, or title (with its original font) that remains as perfect today as when it was new.

Yes, I like the version with the straight boxes.

I hate when you're digging a grave and it feels like you've been doing it forever, you uncover a coffin and open it and the corpse is you and it takes your shovel and pushes you in the coffin & buries you, then climbs out of the grave & starts digging another next to it, in a row of infinite graves