Do you know what, I had a sandwich at Glad Café - thick sliced brown bread, hummus, pickles - just before the first lockdown that I still think about, all these years later

Sorry to lower the tone but we’re watching something for an upcoming @onceuponavhs.bsky.social and Paul McGann is so fucking FIT in it I feel a bit sick.

IRIS DUANE!! And Holly Bruce. 3 Glasgow Greens! And Angus Flopertson out.

Listen, I just think he’s great

Do you know what, I really believe in Reform’s ability to fuck this up. I really think they can do it.

Fuck it, Zordon Mamdani

New episode: The BFG (1989) with Dr Liam Casey of How’s Your Head? podcast Listen: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs “Whizzpop, whizzbang, feel the bubbles go down!”

Regularly scheduled post-voting anxiety where I worry that I accidentally voted for Reform (Both votes Green, checked twice it was the right one).

Just took 93yr Mum to vote, she's registered blind. In a very loud voice she said, "Which box for boob hypnosis?" A cheer went up from waiting voters

Where do you work now darlin'?

As people get ready to vote in the Scottish Parliament election please be careful of the spoiler operation which is 'Independent Green Voice'. They are listed second on the regional ballot paper in South of Scotland with the Green Party further down. IGV is a right-wing spoiler operation.

Not firing on all cylinders this morning and look like the Wreck of the Hesperus so obviously I've bumped into just about everyone I've ever met. This Is Your Life tea.

Stretching the definition of show but all of Eurovision

People keep asking Alan Moore questions about comics he's disowned when they could spend more time asking him questions about things he actually gives a shit about—and get answers as glorious as this.

Oh no (looked at the independent candidate for my area who uses absolutely barking mad AI illustrations in his videos for so long in a sort of grimly fascinated way that now that's all the algorithm thinks I want to see and keeps pushing me similarly cursed content from similarly haunted grifters).

God, episode 4 of Hacks cut like a KNIFE but I needed to watch it.

I just love him

Me when I hear the Cats knock something over in the kitchen

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

Tony Blair

And more established culture writers help train new writers, even if only indirectly. I taught myself how to do cultural criticism by reading critics on the AV Club. I devoured hundreds of reviews and studied the craft. Without that previous generation, I could have never developed my own voice.

It's Bandcamp Friday, and Pink Pound has a new, sultry, throbbing, stormy siren call of an EP out and it's so good pinkpound.bandcamp.com/album/reacts

Got the 'as a father of daughters' Scottish Labour candidate's letter today. I wouldn't vote for that loser flop party in a million billion years but choosing explicit transphobia in the queerest part of Glasgow is so fucking weird, man.

Have been playing with this horror idea for about a year, in prose - a novella, I think - and it's been like pulling teeth; I just started writing it as a script and it's like a struck pipe, just gushing out faster than I can write it...

The end of an era, as 404 Ink closes it's doors this Summer - this might be your last chance to get We Were Always Here and Fierce Salvage, two anthologies of queer Scottish writing edited by @ryanvance.bsky.social and I, for half price!

Uncle Grogu Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Have passed a real milestone in terms of queer cries for help (the pull to bleach my hair has been replaced by the call to shave it all off).

First general in a while this morning and I currently feel like I've never had a single idea in my entire life?

Suncream has caused an eczema flare up, love this.

If you want to feel young just be mildly critical of a Madonna album and ‘cicconefan1972’ will be along any minute to say you’re too much of a whippersnapper to understand it.

Sometimes think about how now, pitching anything, it has to be about a hybrid genre, 4 quadrant idea, with world class talent attached, and in the 90s there were like a dozen films where the premise was 'a guy gets a really big dog'.

New episode: Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987) Listen: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs

God bless old gay guys who work in coffee shop, got to be one of my favourite genders, Catatonia’s ‘Stone By Stone’ at this time on a Wednesday morning, I’m here for it.

The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996) takes the infamous nightmarish donkey transformation scene and PUTS IT ON A ROLLERCOASTER. It was the 90s! Listen to our episode: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs

We’re watching a film for @onceuponavhs.bsky.social that I love on a cellular level and realise has massively influenced me as a writer. Also the film that taught me what a corsage is…

Transferring stuff from a Mini DV to a MacBook today and didn’t realise it was capturing sound from the computer rather than the camera, so all my footage has me singing ‘Golden’ from KPop Demon Hunters under it - haunting!

I'm sure there's another way of working on a documentary that isn't transcribing your interviews and then putting them into a scripted format on Final Draft because that's what you're used to but here we are.

Couple of gals in this coffee shop doing their tarot cards and an old lady having her breakfast is not having it.

Sounds like a thing I’d make up but there’s a kid currently signing ‘Hellfire’ from The Hunchback of Notre Dame on karaoke outside John Lewis in Buchanan Galleries the now.

Scream laughing in a coffee shop at Trixie Mattel doing RFK Jr on this week's The Bald and the Beautiful.

I don't know if there's ever been a less user friendly website than Zoom, every single clickable link on the frontpage intent on selling me a service I already subscribe to.

Ongoing reading slump since October last year - I’ve been reading books, just not finishing them - finally broken; I’m unsanctimonious about books - I’ll abandon them on the second to last page if I’m bored - but even I was getting a little worried.

Instead of drinking tea have you considered drinking the dirty dishwater left over after you've done the dishes because it would taste the same

Putting in two expenses claims today and god no wonder I thought I was poor.

New episode: Thumbelina (1994) Listen: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs "After the rain goes, there are rainbows - I'll find my rainbow soon."

Watched the first couple of episodes of The Testaments. I'm enjoying it - I stuck with The Handmaid's Tale til the end and, largely, loved it (infuriating last episode aside) - but what a peculiar prospect! Essentially, a YA series set in the world of The Handmaid's Tale.

This is cool, youth clubs change lives