Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.

I've been terrible at promoting this, but last year I launched a brand new A.V. Club column called Women of Action, all about the history of women-led action movies. And it just celebrated its one-year anniversary with a piece about Ripley and her seismic place in the canon!

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's peddants.

Just woke from a dream where the world had been taken over by a hyper-sensitive party that would only approve sitcoms with all-white casts, shut down all the “woke” frozen yoghurt shops and removed all walls from toilet cubicles because “people with nothing to hide have nothing to fear”.

Went to see @joznorris.bsky.social do his show “You Wait. Time Passes.” at the Soho Theatre and in a year when I’ve seen Stewart Lee and Daniel Kitson it was easily the funniest and most deliberately constructed hour of comedy I’ve seen on stage. Just fantastically, powerfully unhinged. You must go.

Gorillaz say FREE PALESTINE

Who would have guessed that a party made up of disagreeable splitters would find themselves disagreeing and splitting.

Gonna write a Victorian-era Bond AU where the love interest is called "Ankles Galore"

I started reading The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon which is a collection of observations, lists and diary-like writings by a lady-in-waiting in a Japanese court a thousand years ago. It is honestly devastating to read it and go "yep, that bothers/delights me too." A thousand years, but it's nothing.

On the one hand, £150 for a gig ticket seems like a lot of money. On the other, bands that used to make money off selling albums have been forced by tech companies to treat their recorded output like a loss leader for the live shows. In conclusion: techbros have made everything worse once again.

Had to email three months of bank statements to my mortgage broker so I'm fully expecting to get questions like "Presumably Hasbro Pulse is some kind of healthcare?" "Given how much you spend there can you confirm that Forbidden Planet is not a betting shop?" and "Do you have shares in Deliveroo?"

When the future arrives we must not welcome it timidly, but with the red hot heart of one whose past has forged them for this moment [installing iOS 26 voluntarily]

Today in actual Batman panels that look like jokes but are not jokes: these. Taken from Batman #1 (1940).

Em (11) just got me out of bed because “the egg in the fridge smells weird” so I went to check it. It was A) still fully intact and B) did not smell weird. I had to be like… even if it did smell weird, I’m not sure this was something that needed IMMEDIATE attention at 8:45am on a Sunday.

Watching the bit of Paddington where he sleeps rough on a bench in the rain and thinking what a rose-tinted idealised view of Britain it is to have a bench you can sleep rough on.

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

Just saw an article where a 20yo was quoted as saying “feminism has really hurt the nuclear family” and I want them to yell at them that FEMINISM PREDATES THE NUCLEAR FAMILY. THE NUCLEAR FAMILY WAS INVENTED IN THE 1950S TO SELL YOU HOUSES AND CARS.

Well, that was a complete shitshow as ever but somehow I did get two tickets. Although it did involve screwing my face up and shouting "MONEY ISN'T REAL" as I clicked the pay button.

I’ve never experienced ticket meltdowns like the ones you get for Radiohead gigs with any other band, but I guess that’s what happens when you take the most anxious fanbase on the planet and tell them “these seats are limited!”

I’m having one of those weeks where I feel like the only sane way to live is to be a sandwich maker for the local community and never look at a screen again ever.

I love how this makes it sound like he’s somehow unleashed a great evil. This guy is honestly the gift that keeps on giving.

Reposting this from 2017 to upset a new platform

I got an invite to a press event that I definitely want to go to, except it's almost definitely meant for a different James Hunt (one who is still a journalist). Do we think I could style it out? It would involve a three day international trip that the PR company is paying for.

Spotted at Highgate today: the grave of a husband and wife pair, identical except that his epitaph was “loved by all” and hers was “loved by many”. You can practically smell the family drama that went into picking that wording.

Just spotted that taking about 18 months to put out 12 issues following a massively hyped relaunch, Jason Aaron seems to be off TMNT with #13. I would LOVE to know the story there.

The solar panel installers have arrived! In a few hours I will be living fully off-grid (except when it's a little cloudy). I would like to thank my ALCS payments for giving me the lump-sum payment earlier this year that made this financially viable.

Was just laughing at how much Graham Linehan’s jet-black dyed hair makes him look like Hitler, only to encounter an article where the Independent’s picture editor has selected one of him raising his right arm in a sort-of salute. Extremely funny tbh.

I just learned that because I bought two tickets to see AMSTERDAM at the Alamo Drafthouse (Lower Manhattan) roughly three years ago, I'm eligible to receive some money as part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit against the cinema.

Just got in from the Gorillaz Mystery Show which was a live debut playthrough of their new album. Absolutely great night, though even playing to a group of fans who explicitly bought mystery show tickets there were people complaining they didn’t play the hits. Being an artist must be so depressing.

Radiohead announcing dates at the O2. We’re so back. I can’t even remember the last time I saw them live but I will do whatever it takes (e.g. pay a lot of money) to be at these shows.

28 Years Later is probably the best movie I saw this year and the sequel looks like it’s gonna be just as out there: youtu.be/EOwTdTZA8D8?...

Of the many writers to predict AI, only Douglas Adams got the tone right

Two absolute A+ reads in the latest New Yorker - first this one about the evolution of music criticism through the 00s to the present: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

TFL charged me for my travel yesterday and sent a little birthday cake icon with the Monzo notification. Thanks guys, that really takes the sting out.

Before installing Aircon: “I imagine we’ll only use it on the hottest days of the year, and sparingly.” After installing Aircon: “Darling, activate the machine, I simply cannot sleep in a room that is not precisely 20 degrees Celsius”

@stuartcb.bsky.social happy birthday!

On the one hand, it drives me nuts when people start celebrating christmas in November. On the other, I declared it autumn two weeks ago.

Any day now the fash will be like “only true Englishmen drink piss” and Starmer will get behind that lectern like “I love piss. Ever since I was a child I’ve loved tasting piss.”

The House of Kong exhibition in Hackney was brilliant. I’ve been a Gorillaz fan since they barely existed and it was basically my Disneyland.

if Bluesky dies it will be because it's yet another app that failed to monetize. not because its users weren't sufficiently deferent to media wonks and the fash

Anna and I watched an awful Megan fox movie and it, ironically, sent us down a rabbithole. People are quoting this, unattributed, EVERYWHERE, as if it came from the book. Except it didn’t!

This week’s Strange New Worlds was SO GOOD, I love how much fun they’ve made this show. There’s a post-credits scene that’s just beautiful.

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The interview with Kate Beaton in the latest Comics Journal somehow makes DUCKS feel like an even more bleak read 😨

Simultaneously thrilling and devastating to find one of the first computer games I ever owned on display at the Pirates exhibition at the National Maritime Museum. Rare to see the Plus 4 get the spotlight. #commodore #plus4

"We didn't come here to listen to a load of stuff about famine and colonialism and genocide and being forced into exile, we came to hear some Irish folk songs!"

Deeply hilarious to me that the print is worn away on this picture of an iPhone at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. The people yearn for the menu button.

Alternatively, sign up to a VPN with this link and we’ll both get three months free: nordvpn.com/refer-a-frie...

In another genius move, Labour's current message regarding the chronically unpopular Online Safety Act is "Nigel Farage wants to abolish it" which is the kind of PR that deranged facist would actually pay for.