My son had eight towels in his room. Eight.

I'm a third of the way through a book that is clear to me would never have been published if the author hadn't been otherwise famous. I'm a big fan of their usual output in their main field but it seems and excellent electrician doesn't automatically make a good plumber.

How to write for men.

How to write for men.

Men have stopped reading fiction. What do I want in fiction? I want to be mansplained to. Rendezvous with Rama is a technical manual on how to land on an object travelling at a million miles an hour. Then it's a technical manual on how an O'Neill cylinder might work...

Thinking about what made the original Predator so good. I think it's because it's a simple slasher film. The team are the hot sorority girls and Arnie is the final girl. 🙂

Watching Predator 2 on itv4. It looks like comedy, but there haven't been any jokes yet.

Watched the first 3 eps of Boots on Netflix last night. I really enjoyed it. It's about a gay kid in the 90s who joins the marines. Which was illegal back then.

The new Harry Potter full cast audio book (drama?) Uses for every major role, and most minor roles, TV actors. Pretty much anyone famous will do. At the bottom of the very long list of stars is Poppy Wilson, the footballer!? I don't like using TV actors for audio- www.audible.co.uk/blog/article...

In this week's Beano Edd's mind wanders. So the Numskulls go off wiggly way. I've blurred it out so you have to buy it to read it. Words and pictures by me!

In this week's Beano Dennis's Dad is giving Dennis a history lesson. During which Dennis learns about getting the slipper! Art by @npbeanocartoonist.bsky.social Script by me.

How to beat the mould this winter.

If you’re a Gerry Anderson, Dan Dare or Fumio Obata fan, you might want to get to Oxfam’s Kendal bookshop…

I've made a concrete flower pot. By which I mean, I designed a pot. Modelled it. Made the mold and poured the concrete.

How to beat the mould this winter.

I'm not really fussed. Either way is great.

Laura Howell and I did some silly drawings at Midlands Arts Centre today based on three word prompt cards. @laurahowell.bsky.social EVIL CAT at the SUPERMARKET GIANT MERMAID LIBRARIAN ANGRY DINOSAUR at SCHOOL ZOMBIE SOLDIER in MCDONALD'S Laura's were so amazing I don't even want to show them.

You can tell my kid grew up in a cold house. It's October. The heating is off, and when he came down for his lunch yesterday, he was in bare feet!

I watched Edge of Darkness (series), and I watched Edge of Darkness (film). In the film, Mel Gibson's Craven doesn't find the vibrator. And that's the problem. There's none of those odd unexpected moments in the film. They ruined it & turned it into a great thriller...

It'll have AI in it too. Red Dwarf was spot on when they predicted there'd be toasters with AI in them. It was a stupid idea then and still is, but it will happen.

My son designed a lamp. And then we made it. The white light diffuser is 3D printed.

In 2022 BMW moved the heated seat function to a £15 a month subscription. You read that right. You had to pay £15 a month for your seats in your car to heat up. The heated steering wheel cost £10 a month. The "service" didn't last long due to low uptake. www.bbc.co.uk/news/technol...

Next year I have a twisty Brit crime thriller coming out from @markosia.bsky.social That's enough for now but rest assured, closer to the date I'll not stop going on about it!

Cool, cool. We put spikes on ours 🫠

This popped up in my feed. And I want it! Transforming it looks like a super complex puzzle box game. It takes five minutes to transform! youtu.be/Urxb4sQ1x38?...

I challenge you to open this in your browser and not be impressed and sucked in messenger.abeto.co

Brand new sentence just dropped.

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From Oct 2025’s The Fortean Times, Hunt Emerson & Rob Gandy tell the tale of Xerses’ invasion of Ancient Greece. Crikey but there’s something strangely & unpleasantly familiar about this King Of Kings …

Ghostbusters 2016 staring Melissa Mccarthy is on itv2 at 8:15pm. The film devotes a heck of a long time to designing the logo. Chris Hemsworth rocks up, and they discuss the logo. The scene meanders for 1 minute 24. Then you think the logo jokes are done with...

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

Went to an art gallery and saw an original Sonic (1925)

I think I did this about ten years ago! The Doctor's companion is there for exposition. They don't know anything because we don't know anything. They are told so that we find out...

I hear about small boats every day. Every day, I hear about it. I hear the numbers are up. I never hear why? I never hear where they are coming from? I never see those places. Would I do the same if I live where they lived? I'm never shown those places.

Star Trek Strange New Worlds is on the ITV player. The first two episodes were on ITV1 last Sunday... at 10:20pm!? And, it seems from looking at the schedule, it's not on again... at all. So it's just an ITVx thing?

Should the Black Hole tv series be filmed in black and white? I think so. High contrast black and white, like Sin City? I say yes.

Out now: King Crimson’s In The Wake Of Poseidon and Lizard. Both feature new stereo and Atmos mixes by Steven Wilson and new Elemental mixes by David Singleton. I’m pleased to have provided the 2000-word essays accompanying these transitional releases from the mighty Crim.

I still pinch myself that world class Beano artist Nigel Auchterlounie wrote and illustrated a Series D story for the first ever Cult Edge book - the #Blakes7 Annual 1982. Grab a 15% discount on this and ALL our books using code CONTENTCREATOR15 at checkout. BUY: www.linktr.ee/cultedge

"Who's this!? Your fancy woman?"

Every time - every single time - I see something from the current Beano it makes me terribly happy. They just have it absolutely nailed at the moment, don't they?

The Beano kids are investigating the haunted Pizza shop in this week's Beano. The Pizza shop on Hobbs lane. Because if there's one thing kids love it's references to Quatermass and the Pit.

They discovered it in me. Sexual magnetism.

The average uk monthly mortgage payment is currently £1200 Mine is £250. On a four bed house. Because I bought it 20 years ago. You don't need to work hard to buy a house. You need a time machine.

Welcome to our village is one of the best sitcoms ever. I love it! I think I'll listen to it again.

My phone reminding me of a "memory" showed me a slide show fading between shots over a classical guitar soundtrack. (Pics are of years old water damage under my son's flat)

Urrgh!

Really liked Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue. I particularly enjoyed its production. I'm a sucker for back projection/ green screen when driving or flying and "exterior" done on an interior set...

Jared Leto was pivotal in getting #TronAres made, but it seems he also had the script changed to turn his minor villain into its new hero… filmstories.co.uk/features/tro...

I'm four episodes into Riot Women. Loving it. Not an easy watch for a man. Every man in it is either an evil misogynist or a useless twat. But it's incredibly well written and the performances are excellent.

Number crunching: council tax hikes From the new Private Eye, out now.