It’s Tony Slattery’s birthday

A hell of a resumé

Beautiful version with the late Linda Allan’s soaring backing vocals shifting it into the sublime youtu.be/uYAErFChPm4?...

🎵 And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself the Director of the FBI And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"🎵

You should come back to Twitter instead of staying in a liberal echo chamber’

Panic buying has started

“Where’s your fucking poppy?”

“Where’s your fucking poppy?”

She smiles and says “I will always love you”

Apple TV promoting its latest show

Orson Welles: big fan of John Landis

‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.’

Still surprised Special Agent Will Graham didn’t go after Ben Affleck

Fascinating interview with Milly Ellis who fed Michael Gambon his lines through an earpiece on film sets as his memory started to fail him. He didn’t wear it on stage for this very good reason: www.thetimes.com/culture/thea...

‘You should come back to Twitter instead of staying in a liberal echo chamber’

Now listening to: pca.st/episode/7777...

When my son was 6, I asked him what he thought of the meal I cooked for him. ‘It’s death.’ ‘What do you mean it’s death?’ ‘It’s bad like death.’

That’s a fantastic trailer. youtu.be/8Y6yG4SgFew?...

Russell Crowe, Geneviève Picot & Hugo Weaving about to drop the best post-punk album of 1979

It’s almost as if billionaires are full of shit

Dropify

*Carpenter writes Thing$ on a whiteboard, execs cheer*

This is a 30 Rock movie poster come to life

RIP Lee Tamahori I taught the viscerally upsetting but gripping Once Were Warriors for many years as it was on the exam syllabus. A heartbreaking film about a Maori family dealing with domestic abuse, alcoholism & racism. It’s on ITVX & Prime. www.itv.com/watch/once-w...

Harry Dean Stanton would have been a great space Columbo

If Near Dark was made in the 70s, I would have cast Fleetwood Mac as the family of vampires

Pairs well with my previous Soderbergh post about working with assholes

‘It takes a lot of energy to be an asshole’ Steven Soderbergh knows the score. Interview by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social www.vulture.com/2017/11/stev...

I saw Vindicated Iguana support The Fall at Leeds Town Hall, 1987

She should have realised something was up when she first met him reading a book about metals in that bookshop cafe

Looks like Jesus will have to come back again in 3 days to get the top headline

Back to the Future is 40 Michael J. Fox is wonderful in it.

Learn to cook, fuckwit

Reagan’s finding it all very amusing

Strangers on a Train

WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S (2025)

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

Aftersun

He’s fed up because he was just about to say ‘…The Aristocrats!’

Makes sense that phrenology’s coming back now along with measles and TB

Is it Javier Bardem?

The beginning to every Morrissey lyric

I see Morrissey’s cancelled all his remaining tour dates. Again.

12 HUNGRY MEN (2025)

That’s a wrap

RFK Jr. rushing off to get some leeches

RFK Jr: