lol i looked to see if i commented on the wirecard doc the first time i watched it and yes i did:

trying to remember if I already watched the wirecard documentary already — I feel I would have remembered this line: “it was a total deepfake — it looked like a bank, but it was actually a robbery”

I’ve been told the only true & useful fact: biggerluke.wikidot.com/bigger-luke

Nancy 6/4/26

weakest scene in SMILEY’S PEOPLE is the german crustie camp by the water & otto leipzig’s boat: absolutely a layer of society le carré doesnt understand (the ppl making the tv show are faithful his version so it’s no better)

im not as sneery abt the lads as is currently fashionable but here if you like is a VERY TERRIBLE TIDAL PLAYLIST lol

hullo bsky is facebook being weird this morning or is it me (i am always being weird but generally i can also access facebook)

“the red spots represent mr blobby” — clement greenberg

flaw in something I like is easy (it’s all flawed, everything is flawed) good thing in something I dislike is hard (turns out everything is flawed except my hatred, which is always righteous & fully justified)

TIL* that oregano & marjoram are sortakinda the exact same plant *ok it was yesterday

it's time www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hKt...

deadly mad!

this happened a long time ago but it's very funny

watching the bbc version of TINKER TAILOR again, and I’ve convinced myself the opening music is modelled after the end-credits music for THE WORLD AT WAR (it’s just one chord-change really but…)

sluggo brings down the temple

Trans: Hubba hubba

lol waking up to half a dozen wildly tendentious social media takes plus someone trying to scam me over the phone, hapy monday foax

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2020)

CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962) im sure I watched this not long ago but my memory of it is very patchy

mfw when conservatives create good art

bingeing youtubes late last night as i lay sleepless i came upon this key question: "WHY DID FRODO HATE LEGOLAS?" (apparently F never speaks to L in the films: my guess wd be long-festering thranduil-bilbo beef but they don't actually answer their own question)

nearly every day is a day to marvel at the minor-plants guys so busily active on the french revolutionary calendar committee: who else ever once celebrated BETONY

same

THE VAMPIRE LOVERS (1970)

a v funny* thing is when yr own front door decides to lock you into yr own flat** *quite annoying **anyway I was set free by SIR FIX A LOCK (actual name) (of his company)

Oh my goodness a second copy, also under a tenner! www.ebay.co.uk/itm/14730628...

A copy of my book, YOU RUIN IT WHEN YOU TALK, on eBay for under a tenner!! Be quick! www.ebay.co.uk/itm/39763513...

ilxors in knowing exactly where dunedin* is sh0ck4H *(and almost nowhere else)

you lot awaiting my skeets

too hot & tired* to read old or new books, watch futurama or scarlatti youtubes, do anything except like like a gasping fish on the sofa 😞 *hospital recovery catching up with me I think, I had to hit a big deadline too soon & then drive to winchester & back — now I have week of nothing really 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

milli vanilli: still more moxie & principle than the new york times

A BOIT DE SOUFFLE (1960)

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953)

modernising narnia so that they reboot aslan by turning him off and on again

a guide for the perplexed

SP shd review more books IMO

in a wild fit of "how bad can it possibly be" i listening to c.60s of marquee moon by geese (live version) my prior judgment has been "singer-goose annoying, backline-geese deserve a better singer" update: "backline also struggling lol" (v exposed song, needs a rhythmic crispness they dont have)

the avengers all gathered in black at tony stark’s memorial is very this

dr strange: still a knob

updated black box theory: “they should make the whole MCUniverse out of the AI stan lee cameos”

my friend @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social noted that cats are DESERT GODS FROM EGYPT (correct) so i looked up the actual gods & it's no surprise yr confused abt this bcz one of them is called MUT (wikipic helpfully shows mut's BUTT, the egyptians were FURRIES not a lie) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mut

look me out a widow, no high-flyers

just watched a brief clip of CLOVERFIELD (2008) on youtube, unfortunately reminding myself that watching it the first time generated an unusually vivid nightmare lol

my tv is too dark & too quiet probably I need to perform a reset of some kind but it’s too hot & im too lazy

tfw the stewed rhubarb u made this morning is SO GOOD needed a touch more ginger maybe but it can still be added!

i dont really have an opinion on booking dot com (the hotel i stayed in on sunday night was fine) but they can stop emailing me to ask how they did any time now

roger mcguinn changing it from six miles high to eight miles high bcz eight is a “better number” than six is a very *me* type judgment (except i think six is better than eight) here are the 10 digits in ascending order of ok-ness: 5 8 3 1 2 6 0 9 4 7

bsky I am abt to tuck into a lidl mac & cheese 3 days past its sell-by date, am I making a MISTAKE?

so the gist of this was (a) I was once again editor (b) once again fucking up (someone asked “what are the banger features in the next issue” & I couldn’t even remember the names of any of my writers lol (c) so I was petulantly resigning & walking away to fuck them up …

nostalgia is inherently reactionary but also, shit has just gotten continually and objectively worse including looking fantastic