Still trying to cope with somebody smart on here being dismissive of Cagney & Lacey earlier this week.

If you have a Kindle or you live in the right countries, you can grab this now. I'm waiting for Lireka to put a copy in an envelope for me but I can say, the pages I've read are lovely, full of character and gentle intrigue. Seccotine is my Tintin!

Knights of Molino. I’m obsessed.

I just heard this quite unexpected Belle and Sebastian cover version on a beer ad. I believe it's actually a song about Sunday league football in Scotland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1fa...

Quote post with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap? Seeing as Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem are a *real* band let's go with these punk kids. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqhw...

This film would have been quite... er... distinctive. Coppola marked down some scenes in the screenplay as 3D - why not all of them? A proto-Twixt! His hugely intriguing script has all sorts of ideas packed into it, including an apparent framing sequence that becomes something else entirely.

The Muses have returned @bodleian.ox.ac.uk! On show from next week in the Weston before going onto the roof of the Clarendon Building! Can and get up close and personal with them before they go aloft!

Oh, go on then. events.bl.uk/exhibitions/...

Me (blue shirt) at Jubensha Con last weekend. I was having a whale of a time, though I look very sad. Maybe that's because of what was actually happening? We were in the middle of Suspense Studio's The Sandcastle and there are a lot of big emotions and plot twists hidden in there.

I’ve just uploaded five years’ worth of Fred the Clown web strips to the incredible Webcomic Studio. Oldies but goodies. fredtheclown.webcomic.studio

I'm listening to a podcast in which the host is pronouncing Cluedo Clue-ay-doh, not Clue-doh, and this has led him to guess it's a game from Spain, though Italy surfaces as a back-up guess.

It's easy to preorder a digital version of this in the UK but seems impossible to get a physical book. Surely there's a comic shop that imports Dupuis stuff? Reason fifty-three million and eight to resent leaving the European Union.

In tribute to one of the truly perfect pop songs.

I've seen Frugit videos popping up lots today. The whole shebang seems to be run by animator and artist Trevor Van Meter and the vocals *may* be by somebody called N8tr, as in 'nature'. Several people have suspected AI. I can tell you Van Meter made the videos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH3m...

I've written a brand new Adrian Chills story (short horror stories inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles). This is #65, it's called 'Hardware Store' and it's a musical.

There is now a series of Golden Girls mystery books, starting with Murder by Cheesecake and Death on the Lanai.

I'm making a crumble, which reminded me that I was yet to post Lorraine Bowen's latest. One of this country's pure artists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=790O...

We have to wait until July for The Secret of Warden Keene to appear in UK board game shops. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRp3...

Jackie Evans now has a channel for live recordings of her songs. The Carole King and Billy Joel comparisons are obvious but there's something else going on here too. I can't believe she's not hugely popular. Surely it's just a matter of time. www.youtube.com/@JackieEvans...

Heads up, lads. It almost snuck in under the radar, but Scott Frank’s MONSIEUR SPADE is finally on UK telly. Looks like it’s on the Channel 4 app and on U, or UKDrama or however it’s branded.

I was massively excited to see David Renwick's Jonathan Creek when the first episode aired, 29 years ago today. My brain charged up its batteries for a lifetime that night - and took on a lot of dents and scratches, too. If you've never seen it, give it a go?

New episodes of Death Valley coming next weekend. It's pretty good! Gwyneth Keyworth and Timothy Spall are so likeable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyEI...

Seccotine, the intrepid reporter from Spirou comics, finally has her own series of albums, compiling strips from the Spirou weekly. My French is pretty bad! It will have to be good enough.

Ann Droid has a bit of Robot and Frank in its set up but I'm sure it will play out very, very differently.

I'm headed to this con on Friday and Saturday, keen to get more experience with Jubensha and see how I can bring my Whodunnit chops into play.

Paul Williams' New Zealand Spy looks like it might be very special indeed. There's a trailer on Instagram. www.instagram.com/reels/DXu-Ds...

Last week was a dental hellscape. I didn't sleep in days, extreme painkillers did nothing, but root canal work brought relief - though it will be a couple of months and several hundred quid before that's finished and I can really relax. Still, I'm back at it. Making up murders, haunting cinemas.

Help! Have you been through this? I'm in huge amounts of dental pain. I have slept four hours in the last 72. Paracetamol, Ibuprofen and Co-codamol have all failed to stop the pain. I have been given Amoxicillin and, five pills in, I'm waiting to feel the benefit. The only respite I can get...

Oh, Hokum just delighted me. So exciting. The more ways it revealed to interpret its own hokum, the more I was reminded of the many ways such hokum speaks to our lives. Truly fantastic.

If Tony Slattery and Terry Jones' character from The Middle of the Film borrowed a couple of extra tricks from Bob Mortimer to create some sort of modern, musical reinvention of Peter Cook you'd end up with something like these 45 Seconds with Fouracres bits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fkt...

'Already told you in the first verse, and in the chorus' - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie by Baccara.

I can't be alone in finding the Viewmaster overwhelming. I might be too scared to ever look into one ever again.

Another thing I love about my digital epaper notebook thing is that I can take all of my work outside on a day like this. There's going to be some park writing happening.

Truly looking forward to helping folks level up their #audiodrama writing knowhow with You @brendonconnelly.bsky.social There’s still some places so snag em and enjoy working with this industry’s most hard working and best folks🎉

This is a great piece by Tara Ariano and 'NCIS might be your opiate of choice if you prefer to see crimes solved navally' made me lol. defector.com/the-rockford...

If you were to put a water pistol to my head and tell me to write something called Scooby-Doo: Origins you'd probably have a first draft by 6am tomorrow morning. Velma would be the protagonist. Scooby would get screentime from the start.

Aardman x Lego. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WubC...

@markaldridge.info's book, Agatha Christie's Marple: Expert on Wickedness is OUT IN PAPERBACK TODAY (as well as ebook and audio) so we're marking the occasion by releasing a special commentary track for the 1963 Miss Marple film Murder at the Gallop! Listen here > pod.fo/e/404c4f

The new Hawthore and Horowitz is out. The sixth one, A Deadly Episode. These books amuse me no end. Also, Mark Aldridge's non-fiction Marple book is now in paperback and that's just fantastic, so compelling. There was even a new Ernest Cunningham book from Benjamin Stevenson a few days ago too.

I don't remember what I did to end up on this now-infamous AI haters blocklist but I certainly belong here. I think I'll just put my feet up and enjoy the view.

A vintage British anthology series based on purportedly true yet somewhat tall stories submitted by BBC viewers. I'm keen to have a look at these.

The Study of Comics in Academia May 30, 6 PM EDT I'll be moderating a panel for @cartoonist.coop Nib & Ink Digital Comics Festival, with @neilcohn.bsky.social @scottmccloud.bsky.social @nsousanis.bsky.social - geeking over the developments in comics studies. nif.cartoonist.coop/event/the-st...

Does @stephenathome.bsky.social know about this copy of Songs for the Philologists? www.tomwayling.co.uk/product-page...

I decided to share most of the best eyes in movies, I hope that's okay.

Lrt: drives me nuts that we can't have 3D playback on TVs just because it didn't become a big smash hit gimmick. All it requires is a fast frame rate and we have that! Give it back! It's a film preservation issue! I know nobody needs to see Endgame in 3D, but there are films made FOR it! Good ones!

If anyone fancies one of my novels in epub format they're all (except THE EX) available here. If I earn another $8 they'll pay me what they owe (has to be minimum of $20 before they do a transfer) & then I can shutter my smashwords/Draft2Digital account before they start charging me for being there.

Join @brendonconnelly.bsky.social & @saraaaaah.bsky.social in discussion re pitching & collaborating / #writing #audiodrama & so much more! Plus workshops on #voiceacting #directing and #broadcastasistant #training Brendon is a superb writer and been a superb collaborator - learn top tips with us

I'm teaming up with my collaborators at @wirelesstheatre.bsky.social, producers of Done to Death and other wonderful things, to talk about writing audio drama, all the way from first pitch to finished show. We've got a lot to tell you. Also, other audio classes! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wireless-t...

It's time to play the music It's time to light the lights

Running now at Brixton House is My Uncle is Not Pablo Escobar, co-created by my Rez High director Lucy Wray. It looks like potent, striking stuff. brixtonhouse.co.uk/shows/my-unc...