You lot need Dick Van Dyke singing Let's Go Fly a Kite on his 100th birthday more than you know.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

The funny thing about Dick van Dyke reaching 100 is that I distinctly remember watching Mary Poppins as a 5 year old and my mum and grandma insisting he'd passed away in the 70s. (Babcia also used to speculate whether various celebs were secretly Polish, with a haphazard accuracy rate)

Rob Reiner's first seven films: 1. Spinal Tap. 2. The Sure Thing. 3. Stand By Me. 4. THE PRINCESS BRIDE. 5. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. 6. Misery 7. A Few Good Men. Good lord. Even Spielberg included 1941 in his first seven. And that was after playing Michael Stivic. I hope this news isn't true. But...

BLESSINGS BE UPON THIS HOUSE

Forget Spotify Wrapped, my PlayStation Wrap-Up is far more sobering. I don't want to admit my "hours played" total...

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

This cannot be reinstated enough. VIP sections are generally full of disinterested rahs neighing about their next ski holidays, or watching TikTok, whilst the actual fans are fenced away. Always diminishes the experience.

Lol, there's no way I'm getting into the States for the foreseeable!

did it in four words hemmingway

Shadow of the Colossus (2005)

This is quite normal for good, dancey gigs at RFH? Yeah, you can argue that the choice of venue was wrong in the first place, but no-one sane would argue David Byrne, War or TuneYards only a fortnight ago would have more enjoyable if everyone had sat down and nodded middle-classedly

Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts: a literal lifelong dream come true <3

hillary clinton doesn't get a lot of love on this site but let's never forget she took odo's virginity with such gentleness and skill that they made a baseball card out of it

Hegseth: Actually, I said "Kill them all? No, survivors!"

Spot Alan Moore in his 6th form Northampton Grammar School photo, taken two days before he was expelled

Going to Barcelona for 24 hours on Friday to fulfil a lifelong nerd dream: see The Seatbelts live youtu.be/UFFa0QoHWvE?...

Goodbye to the master. ❤️

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends!

This is an incredible read about how one editor at a Toronto publication uncovered the fact that a prospective freelancer was a fraud who's been getting AI-generated articles published across the globe. The kicker says a lot, too. Just give it a read. Amazing from @nickhunebrown.bsky.social.

Just seen people make the "not an anti-semite, just an anti-Zionist" argument about Grzegorz fucking Braun, directly under an article about his speech at Auschwitz where he screamed "Poland For The Poles!" and now I feel very depressed.

Off the top of my head... Five Years A More Perfect Union Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels) Stadiums and Shrines II Rubies

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Last night of a 6-gigs-in-5-days marathon, and how the hell did I ever manage this on the regular? (Was tempted by MBV as it's a rare gig on my side of London, but I chose Avalanche Kaito, as they look much more fun)

All I'm going to say is, I understand FB were even worse a decade ago...

RIP Mani. I was *obsessed* with the Stone Roses when I was 16, so this one hits hard.

The reaction to these sensible measures was extreme.. She received death threats & was told by a BBC journalist 'You're only a woman, you don't drive, what do you know about it?' This report from the time shows some of the attitudes to the change! www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_tq...

The bus stop near Watford General Hospital is situated in such a liminal space, it feels like you've glitched out-of-bounds in a GTA game.

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

Their show at the George Tavern was one of the best I've seen this year!

If you've never seen Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri today would be a good day. Not only is it one of the greatest films ever made (and one of the most beautiful) it's also a piercing critique of the ruling classes, systems of power and how oppression often masquerades as "tradition".

The Human Condition! Ran! Harakiri! When A Woman Ascends The Stairs! Seven Samurai! Yojimbo! High and Low! Kagemusha! The Tale of Princess Kaguya! What an absolute God-tier career. RIP, Tatsuya Nakadai.

Do you know what's good? Destroyer's "Rubies".

Just finished Cobra Kai. Bunch of cheesy old nonsense, yet at the same time a thoroughly enjoyable martial arts soap opera that (sometimes) tackles toxic masculinity but mostly tackles the righteousness of kicking wankers in the face.

Striking how much of the vile anti-Zohran campaign has mirrored 2016's anti-Sadiq campaign, including the claim that all women would be in burqas within a year (hasn't happened in London yet!) Just pray he receives less open assassination threats...

Being a Brit on BlueSky means seeing 1000x more messaging about an election in New York than your local council. Might as well message Zohran about my bin collection.

Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we? After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism. Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨 🧵 1/22

ah great Primal Scream are back.

November gigs: Focus (this afternoon!), Roís, Fiery Furnaces/Destroyer, Won Il, Mulatu Astatke, The Space Lady, Red Snapper, Tune-Yards, Terje Isungset, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, múm, Avalanche Kaito and either Carlos Alomar or Minami Deutsch. Always the maddest of months!

Took my (very nearly) teenage nephew to the fireworks today and it was an *education*. Apparently the youth refer to football shithousery as "Brexiting" which I found hilarious.

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

Normally I get a bit Reform when it comes to playing music without headphones on public transport, but some old boy was listening to some avant-garde jazz and I can't help but respect that a little bit.

From an article about the man in the SS uniform arrested for attacking the woman in Georgia. Just wild that we've accepted that there's a huge social media platform where an account called "@GasChambers" is allowed to openly do Nazi fundraising and that's fine, in fact all the reporters post there.

Obviously overjoyed that a London Persona 3/4/5 concert AND a London Hitoshi Sakimoto concert have been announced for 2026, but the ticket price for the former is EYE-WATERING

Les Savy Fav AKA "Where's Timmy?"

Playing Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (2010) and it's a lot more political than expected! They were certainly right about the Chief Justice...

Finally watching Severance (fantastic so far) and it's definitely inspired by Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, right?

Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline. It’s… shocking