Ten minutes ago: never heard of Look Mum No Computer Now: I would lay down my life to protect this man

Greetings and good morning it’s the Friday farm rush hour with Willow, Squirrel, donkeys and toast

I'm not denying that this flat is cool, but 890k for a glorified studio flat in Clapton? London is insane. themodernhouse.com/sales-list/d...

Such poetry in “Scotland’s last pissoir”

CANNIBALS.

I'm told today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ShoutItOut so felt like a good time share this one. #birds

Vaudeville performer dressed as a Bonzo Dog ca 1910

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They is great but McCoy’s other Hollywood-related book I Should Have Stayed Home is worth seeking out too. (Always thought that those ‘Hard-Boiled’ and ‘Perverse’ tags would be great on a t-shirt)

Great piece here on Joan Cusack by Jen Johans. She's never not one of the best things about a movie

This is Frankie. She just got a fancy new puffer and thinks she’s better than everyone now. And she is correct. 13/10 (IG: frankielasaucisse)

Now all we have is that weird hill they built near Marble Arch that one summer for tourists to walk up and down

Ordered a first edition US paperback of James Dickey’s Deliverance (for work) and was sent the wrong book. But I really can’t be disappointed as *this arrived instead.

Highly recommend watching this documentary if you enjoyed the series. If you think you couldn’t love the kid who plays Piggy more, wait till you find out who he’d want to be stuck on a desert island with.

that dull bang you hear somewhere off in the distance is the sound of Martin Lewis’s head exploding

Found this great piece on misheard words and phrases while looking up the old “knowledge is power, France is bacon” story (after a Grauniad article today mentioned “times in memorial”). The videos at the end are really worth watching too. thehabit.co/knowledge-is...

Man on the Run: if you love Paul McCartney, and want to keep loving Paul McCartney, give this one a miss boxd.it/dmdjun

Finished Lord of the Flies. Falls off a bit at the end, but remains a magnificent achievement boxd.it/dm4YYl

Liz Taylor Willy Rizzo, 1949

We have met a lot of Welsh people.

The Full Moon this month is known as the Worm Moon. The Spring soil is warmer & earthworms start to appear. (Astronomical diagram of the Worm Moon in orbit, by Richard Scarry, 1970s)

For Jake the Cat, a big moment has arrived. A robin has landed outside the window. This is something that Jake has long dreamt of, but what should he do now? Much as Jake would be interested in eating the bird, he is content just to imagine his success, and everyone goes about their daily lives.

I accepted a decade or so ago that The Brits is really not for me, and I only knew about 10% of the acts nominated this year, but I sought out the Rosalia performance – because Björk – and fuck me, this has made my weekend. youtu.be/7fyufPkXLbs?...

Oh for goodness' sake.

FYI: available on Channel Four (UK) for 24 more days

Marisa Mell in Ken Russell's 'French Dressing', 1964

The Fabelmans has gone straight up there with my favourite Spielberg films boxd.it/dlboGl

Haven’t made plans for my 50th yet, this is looking good

So tired of the hypocrisy.

Saw Nico’s ridiculously fluffy paws and laughed and inhaled at the same time and now I can’t stop hiccuping. How’s your Saturday going?

A new Alice Rohrwacher on the horizon! ✨ #FilmSky

Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos

The American accent on Anna’s fiancé in the Walsh Sisters is so bad that I hope his hidden secret is that he’s not really American

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched A really good quartet, even though I found Sentimental Value frustrating

"While speaking at an A24 social media event, Pillion director Harry Lighton shared that, not only was his gay awakening Groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons, he hoped to make a biopic about the foul-tempered cartoon Scotsman at one point." www.them.us/story/pillio...

Green Vinyl, Kleber Mondonça Filho’s early short “horror movie for children”, is on Mubi if you fancy a deeply unsettling fifteen minutes… boxd.it/dk7rNn

This mesmerised me for a while. An almost delightfully perverse abandoning of first principles of wet paint signage. It’s like a Hollywood prequel that unnecessarily complicates a previous blockbuster with extra lore, characters, and motivations.

Extraordinary piece of artificial “intelligence” from yesterday’s Connections Bot

When I open my Bluesky and this is the first thing I see, I remember that all is not bad in the world

This is Beau. He is a textbook example of a golden retriever. They really will try to be friends with anyone. 13/10 for both (IG: beaugoesoutside)

Reposting this due to the incredible news that I, just this minute, had a full, half hour catch up with Sr Veronica for the first time in over thirty years. I can confirm that she is back in Glasgow, still extremely lovely, and one of the funniest human beings alive.

Morning.

Yesterday we met a silver Labrador called Goof. Today I hope that you all meet a silver Labrador called Goof.

Safety Not Guaranteed: save this lovely film for when you need a pick-me-up boxd.it/diRPr5

Overheard in Walthamstow: "the wetlands? Yeah it's alright. It's just ducks innit"

i bought an annotated copy of the odyssey. i love it so much

Perfection 💫

Working from home proving more stressful than I feel is necessary