Martin Scorsese remembers his friend Rob Reiner. “He had a beautiful sense of uninhibited freedom, fully enjoying the life of the moment, and he had a great barreling laugh.” [nytimes.com]

every illustration of a christmas cracker is a lie

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

it’ll be hard to put a lid on this

today in homophone trauma, apparently there is no such thing as ceiling wax, what did I even think ceiling wax was

every illustration of a christmas cracker is a lie

TRYPTOPHAN

BAG ONE

okay but is christmas a christmas film

He's been..!

Matthew Kelly said I looked lovely.

He's not actually tiny, he's just far away

Just bumping the link for donations, if you can spare any moolah #DuvetKnowItsChristmas www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

absolute steal in the toast sale

Reminder: NASA’s holiday yule log fireplace video is delightful — it’s a rocket engine (in a fireplace). “8.8 million pounds of total thrust…” [kottke.org]

these brian eno crackers are weird

love reading recipes online

Every Christmas gift since lives in its shadow

So excited for Brian Harvey to touch my face while I’m sleeping, comes around quicker every year

horses horses horses horses

Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Snuffy, Al, Leo, Little Moe with the gimpy leg, Cheeks, Boney Bob, Cliff and Rudolph

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday

How I'm turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party.

all of your tentfold christmas cards

One of the most delightful holiday traditions 🎄

just going to ever so slightly turn up the brightne— Samsung: OKAY MOTION SMOOTHING TURNED ON why

Reminder that Christmas TV peaked in 2018

The Highway Rat is on. I know these Donaldson/Sheffler adaptations are beloved festive classics but I've always felt they kill the wonderful rhythm of the books by drawing them out to half an hour.

Reminder that Christmas TV peaked in 2018

Christmas is a beautiful time when we can all put our differences aside and families can come togeth MUM IS USING THE RADIO TIMES AS A COASTER WHAT THE ACTUAL

Anyway, any excuse to expose those that have never seen it to the wonder that is Dermot Canterbury's LIVE ACTION Ulysses31 intro www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMpf...

Escape the Dark Castle – any good?

Watching Days of Future Past with the boy and having to explain this whole situation. This is my offside rule.

*chickens kicking down front door* WE’RE BACK, LET’S ROOST

Sad to hear that he will have to find another publisher for his next book, The Boy Who Was Poor But People Tolerated Him, Also He Was Mildly Queer Coded But Only Enough To Justify Chapters Where He Gets Bullied, Not Enough To Count As Actual Queer Representation

I’ve written about Lux, the Guardian’s album of 2025 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

just finishing up for the year but now my editor needs me to return to my small rural home town to report on a gingerbread house contest run by a soon to be married childhood sweetheart and their presumably charmless sibling, TYPICAL

boshing out some fresh clickbait headlines for that sweet sweet listicle content

As Dorothy Parker once said, "I don't like writing, I like having asked a computer to write it."

these brian eno crackers are weird

Reupping this very lovely thing from last year, for anyone who's in the market for a new Christmas song, or who's watching Stranger Things (cc: @bethanyblack.bsky.social)

Wrote a little piece for Star Wars dot com celebrating ten years of The Force Awakens, ten years of Abrams Books’ The Art of The Force Awakens, my first book, and the incredible work all of the concept artists did on the film! www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...

INTRIGUED

the poster had better say A Shears Out Mystery

has the farm foods thing happened, when does the farm foods thing happen

studio tunes

Today in image research discoveries: Members of NASA's Lewis Research Center’s Educational Services Office pose with one of the center’s Spacemobile space science demonstration units, 1964.

My last commission of the year just disappeared with a pop, so to console myself I'm rereading this. Aside from anything else, this is the best cover from all Amis's novels when they rejacketed them in a series look about 20 years ago. It's just perfect.