Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

Kris Kristoferson left us a year ago. When I met him on the Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman stage he pulled one over on me. In 1977, I was on my way to my dressing room to change for that afternoon's taping. There was a long table outside of hair and makeup with a bearded man sitting at it... 1/

In #JapaneseFolklore gashadokuro is a #yokai who takes the form of a skeletal giant. The name is onomatopoeic for the sound of their rattling bones and teeth. This yokai is created from a conglomeration of many vengeful spirits of soldiers who have died in battle and remained... #FolkyFriday 1/4

#KevinKeegan and #KennyDalglish

The first episode of Danger Mouse was originally broadcast on this day in 1981.

The brief summary of the “coppers storming Nicola Sturgeon’s house” stuff is that the police were told the SNP had spent donations they were given for a second referendum on day-to-day party maintenance. I’m not even sure that is a crime. Now, look at what these clowns have done.

Pedestrians Using Payphones (1970s; 1980s; 1990s) Source: Hennepin County Library The individuals are not identified.

Good morning. Here's Gareth Hunt demonstrating the dangers of trying to work whist nursing the mother of all hangovers.

George DeGidio (1940) Source: Hennepin County Library

#France (1981).

Edinburgh this evening #Edinburgh #Autumn

it is 2:23 am and we just spent 4+ hours with our Easterly night crew. the sights. the sounds. the smells. the silence. the service. honestly we won’t be able to truly capture it all in the content coming soon. but we’re sure as sewage gonna try. and you won’t want to miss it. stay tuned.

Storyboards for The Wild Bunch (1969) by Tyrus Wong

ScotRail’s train service, *renationalised* in 2022 by the Scottish Government, has the lowest cancellation level in the UK - just 2% compared with a UK average of 3.3%. That means a train elsewhere in the UK is +65% more likely to be cancelled. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I stand by this piece. crimereads.com/is-altmans-t...

GOODFELLAS was released 35 years ago today. Acclaimed as one of the great Hollywood gangster movies and among the most popular films of director Martin Scorsese, the story of how it was made will have you carrying Henry Hill’s mother’s groceries all the way home… 1/56

The Hollywood Reporter just published a nice oral history of Ron Howard's Apollo 13 (1995) by @aaroncouch.bsky.social I recommend that all fans of this film read this article, but in the meantime, here are some good quotes. 🖖 1/18

11:10am TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social The 1946 French #War film🎥 “THE BATTLE OF THE RAILS” (originally “La Bataille du rail”) directed by René Clément & co-written with Colette Audry Narrated by Charles Boyer 🌟Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand, Jacques Desagneaux

Wow. From an article in The Guardian.

Good morning! It’s Saturday September 20th 2025! Already? Crikey! (Dated this very day in 1980, just 45 years ago, 2000AD #178, with its cover featuring Judge Dredd by Mike McMahon and a free JD badge to boot. Oh happy, happy day!) You be careful out there among them English, Joanne Book.

Alan Barenberg on Michael David-Fox's latest book, "Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule" in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. A timely take on life under authoritarian rule. lareviewofbooks.org/article/micr... 🗃️

Just in time for Halloween

#France (November 1981).

A young fan in a kilt meets the #Beatles at the ABC cinema in Edinburgh, 4/29/1964

Windsor Castle Tuesday night. Four of us arrested for 'malicious communications'. Now released. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...

> @newyorker.com

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Is sharing this image a crime?

Windsor Castle tonight. #Trump #Epstein

Fuckin magic. This odious piece of human excrement is about to start his state visit to the UK. Anything to keep the FBI away from Prince Andrew. #Trump #Cunt #Epstein

It’s Dejan Savicevic’s birthday today. You remember him. Left peg that could peel a satsuma.

Picked this up today at the Central Fife Artists Showcase. Artist is Susan Smith who's based in Burntisland. The Showcase continues tomorrow at the Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy. #ArtSky #Fife #Kirkcaldy #Hare

Today's charity shop haul. Courtesy of the PDSA Kirkcaldy. #BookSky #Books #Fife #Kirkcaldy

Oop.

"In the civilized jungle which is a contested city or town, windows are bushes, houses are trees. Every one of the thousands of windows, like every tropical bush or plant in the jungle, is a potential source of danger." rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2023/06/char...

Wake up! It’s 7am and the yellowtail parrotfish snoozing behind the staghorn coral couldn’t be roused even by the spotted moray slithering right under it! #spottedmoray #moray #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

Carl Josephson with Trachea Tube (1935) Source: Hennepin County Library Josephson, a patient at the Veterans' hospital, is shown with his artificial larynx, installed after he was operated on for malignant cancer of the larynx. The artificial larynx was developed in laboratories of the ...

I had no idea that the phrase “Back to the old drawing board” comes from this Peter Arno cartoon from March 1st 1941’s New Yorker. It’s rather splendid to be able to date the birth of what would become part of everyday speech with such precision.

Mick McMahon

#HamburgerSV #HSV

Kenny Dalglish in action for a Glasgow Select v English League Select at Hampden for the Silver Jubilee. (1977)

Thinking about the family of Representative Melissa Hortman & her husband who were assassinated at the hands of a radical MAGA shooter in June. Melissa was doing such important work for the state of Minnesota & this country-we grieve her loss & demand strict gun reform legislation.

2/2 Pieter Bruegel's harvesters enjoy a well-earned lunch in the fields. Where's that guy with more beer, they are thinking.

Pausing from harvest labor on a hot summer day, Pieter Bruegel’s Harvesters, in 1565. Today is his day.

Here's Jimmie Rodgers with an unbilled Louis Armstrong & Lil Hardin Armstrong: youtu.be/9BFbY9Vw8DM?...

In 1950, ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey moved to Kenya & started doing field recordings of the Kipsigis. Missionaries had left a gramophone & a bunch of Jimmie Rodgers records for the tribe, who ended up composing 3 songs about Jimmie Rodgers or "Chemirocha". Chemirocha 3: youtu.be/rhi9mKVQFKs?...

Happy Birthday to the great Jimmie Rodgers, born 128 years ago today

It's the middle of the night, and a young fireman confronts a fire the like of which he's never seen before. It is the night of 7 September 1940, and 24-year-old Frank Hurd is fighting fires on the first night of the London #Blitz. An illustrated thread... 🧵 1/19