Morning all. Girl with bicycle, Dublin, Ireland, 1966. Photographer Evelyn Hofer.

It's officially Autumn!

Rory (aka Lee Marvin) update: Still cute. Still silly. Still tiny.

What I’m wearing to the Rapture

Good piece on the forthcoming drama The Hack. My phone was hacked, as was my dad’s, so this one is personal. As the piece says, the Tories dropped all investigations. Hopefully after this Labour will pick it up again. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

A moment, please, to appreciate @mariephillips.bsky.social amazing one sentence @letterboxd.social review of Max Ophuls’ Madame De… boxd.it/b8tLrh

I’d heard of this letter and always assumed it would be cloying and sentimental. In fact it’s beautiful. Yes! There is a Santa Claus!

what if the criterion channel IS the solution to all problems though

I can’t remember who recommended it to me, but we just watched The Earrings of Madame de… and I am simultaneously heartbroken and swooning. What a gloriously beautiful tragic waltz of a film.

Found a baby picture earlier. There’s a reason this guy is spoiled rotten

Brown hare backlit by early morning sun anxiously watching signatures on the petition heading for 30,000. I'm sure you've signed the petition to protect hares from shooting in the breeding season, but any more family and friends to sign? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... #UKwildlife #mammals

The box for the 8mm 1960's release of the 1943 serial featured Batman's summer weather uniform of cape, cowl, and gloves and skin. #BatmanDay

10 Favourite TV Comedies Flight of the Conchords Green Wing Cheers New Girl Better Things Somebody Somewhere Northern Exposure M*A*S*H (UK broadcast with no laugh track only) Parks and Recreation Obviously hugely tarnished, but Father Ted

I love The Hope. There is a man in here talking about a prospective date: “I told her to buy a copy of The Real Ale Guide and pick somewhere where we could meet halfway.”

Great, thoughtful piece about the role sex has and has always had in cinema

Ah thanks. The piece is here: inews.co.uk/culture/film... Will dig out the extra bit when I am next near my work laptop!

the whale car wash, n. 50th & meridian, oklahoma city, oklahoma, 1979

Morning all. ‘The Bottle Throwers’ 1968. Photographer Fergus Bourke.

Oof, tonight I am weary. A balm for tired eyes with one of my all time absolute favourites. It is mid #1950s Madame Grès in pink velvet sculpted onto the body. And relax…… #palaisgalliera #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Aftersun had such an impact on me that I felt unironic tears come to my eyes at the sound of this. Yes THIS.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Guess I am regretting booking tickets to see A Big Bold Beautiful Journey at the cinema tomorrow morning. Richard Brody on the film

Exciting!!

"I like to play the guy that has no self-awareness." -Fred Willard #BOTD

“The aggressively reactionary Col Steven Lockjaw – played by Sean Penn with all manner of lizardly head-jerking, chin-jutting geezer mannerisms…” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Thursday Afternoon

The index for the Complete Peanuts volumes is a source of joy. These entries are from the 1987–1988 volume.

#25: Football

Love this tidbit from Mojo’s fantastic oral history of Rocky Horror

It’s publication day for The Glorious Dead, my dark, twisted melodrama on grief, greed, and deceit. Buy it wherever you like. And if you enjoy it, please leave a review on Amazon (even if you don’t buy it there, it helps a lot). Links to buy: geni.us/TheGloriousDead ♥️♠️♦️♣️

Real life Andrex puppy alert!

London-based film fans, November is EPIC at the BFI. Currently narrowing down from 13 films I want to see, which was already narrowed down from a longlist of 20.

Cops getting fuelled up before the Palace-Millwall game lets out.

DEAR LIZ HAVING A FAB TIME. WENT TO GUILDFORD CATHEDRAL TODAY IT WAS GOOD. ON MONDAY I FAINTED I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT IT WHEN I GET HOME GIVE THE GIRLS MY LOVE TELL SUSAN I AM LOOKING FOR A DIRTY CARD FOR HER. TESSA AND ME ARE GOING TO A PARTY TONIGHT. LOVE SANDRA

Somebody just sent this in the group thread

not an exaggeration to say I am WEEPING with laughter at this reply from someone who hadn't seen that Robert Redford died today

Goodbye, Sundance.

Sending the enclosed files with my late copy.

Overheard, three teenage boys on their way to school: One: Best Dog. Two : Which one is the best dog? One: [pointing at Nico] Golden retriever. Three: [under his breath] Golden retriever. Fool.

Whenever I play the piano, the cats like to come and listen. Today Hildy was singing along with tiny little miaows

Today's targeted ads: bunions, cremation, and garden furniture

*snif snif*

Tokyo (1979) photograph by Anne Billson

m.youtube.com/watch?v=L2m6... She keeps the vibe but also changes it

A favourite cover version? Listening to this just now and you hear so many of Andy Partridge's interests collide - his pop voice, his dub experiments, his spitting Edward Lear synesthesia, even his later ambient work in how he spaces himself out. Plus Barry Andrews! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qXx...

Share your favourite cover versions (my god I wish I’d seen this tour) youtu.be/ag4Mu4IqL1Q?...

What our dog smells of today: A tea and coffee kiosk situated midway between a car boot sale and a travelling funfair.

Young Erich von Stroheim klaxon #sunsetboulevard