Can we get him for being DB Cooper during his week off from murdering?

High fives to my son’s teenage friend who brought round a home made tiramisu today in exchange for a book that my kiddo was giving away. The kids are alright ❤️

This is the first time in 35 years that I haven't been delivering at Christmas. The relief is absolutely immense. It's really hard to put into words how stressful it can be. Be nice to your postie, they're doing an exceptional job in terrible circumstances.

Liz Oyer, former pardon atty, DOJ: "A few weeks ago, FIFA gave Trump a made up consolation peace prize to placate him re not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 4 days later, Trump's DOJ abandoned a major prosecution involving decades of bribery/corruption against FIFA."

With no UK home video of this, I'm hitting record...

It's honestly just WILD how fun a master animator's work is to just watch.

“Sit still. You’re only here for scale.” “Throw the stick!”

"Um yes hello thank you for coming to worship me"

Sadly, the most relevant Christmas movie ending for this year.

Giving this a rewatch. Didn't really like it when it came out because Henry is such a dick in it, but 45 or so years later I think we might get along better.

Comoros showing us the way.

Alissa Wilkinson on Paul Feig's The Housemaid, and the fun of seeing a juicy melodrama with a game audience--there's nothing quite like it. Incidentally, if you have PBS Passport, I recommend the Lea Salonga/Amanda Seyfried episode of Finding Your Roots: www.pbs.org/video/larger-than-life-wz3hsi

Happy birthday, Jane Fonda!

Yes, this is bog standard Trumper stuff: people who are just normal stroppy arseholes finding friends online and driving each other completely insane, alienating their own friends and family as they become increasingly wacky and difficult to be around.

Sneaking admiration for those BetFred ads that identify their two types of customer as annoying gobby gits and very annoying gobby gits.

My word, a new form of proof of life made necessary by the ingress of slop into books! (Impressive though)

An amusing, and presumably temporary, addition to Paul Raphael Montford's statue of Philosophy on the Kelvin Way Bridge in Glasgow. I guess it makes a change from a road cone! #glasgow #sculpture #kelvinway #glasgowhumour #scotland

If you're in the UK, you should be able to watch it on Talking Pictures Encore service.

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Tremendous stuff, best viewed After Eight.

Re-watched BORDER INCIDENT (1949). What a great thriller this is. George Murphy's death scene is such an agonising watch - got to be up there with the best ever. And John Alton's camerawork here is truly fabulous. There's a sequence of shots at the beginning which are just stunning.

The only thing crazier than the illustrations is the synopsis of The Apartment.

I believe that I have every book about Billy Wilder that has ever been published in English, so when I saw that there was a new children’s picture book about him, I couldn’t resist – even though it looked like the cover was AI generated.

No, you're crying. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...

Blows my mind it hasn't even been a full year of congestion pricing in NYC yet. Years of cranks whining about it and then you just DO IT and everything is instantly better and everyone gets used to it and moves on. We should do good things more often! PS - T-minus 12 days to Streets Mayor Mamdani!

Cows v. a single Canadian goose: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

Sounds like you will appreciate the legendary pre-gentrification 'barred list' from my local.

I’d rather leave my body to the hot dog factory and you can have me for cheap with mustard and a large soda.

I was having a bit of a moan about nothing to my sister, who I always view as the world’s least analytical person, and she effortlessly dismissed me with, “Your problem is you live on your own and overthink things.” I’d have preferred hearing it from an algorithm.

The Proposition is an excellent film. I first saw it while I was doing a post-grad film journalism course with the BFI. I find it rather scary that that’s 20 years ago; it feels more like about two minutes.

I asked it to show me the cover of my novel (the one I can't recall having written):

ChatGPT says that I wrote the novel The Darker Side. If anyone has copies, I'd love to read it.

Panto casting session at Tom Daley's local theatre

Bank robberies in Sligo up 600% www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

Hat tip, NOLA.

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

I long for a tile on BBC iPlayer called something like Play-For-Today-niverse or whatever. And you click there are all 306 episodes just there for anyone to watch. And the 28 missing ones have been lovingly animated. Why is this too much to ask??

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. FFS!

What?! This is a real thing? Jeezo.

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. “Boy, do we need it now.”

He saw the light.

“Fairly confident” reads as “oh my fucking god they’ve taken everything!”

No. Several cinemas that held test screenings had their seats destroyed by high velocity “sex juice” so they decided to cut the scene.

Fun fact: the wonderful Wunmi Mosaku played my love interest in Deadpool & Wolverine and then played Michael B. Jordan’s love interest in Sinners! So she’s gotten to kiss both of Hollywood’s biggest sex symbols! Dare to dream! youtu.be/ejYVUL22sfc?...

I honestly can’t remember if it’s turn of century slang or just my father being who he is, but I’ve always liked “fry me and fritter my wig!” as a term of surprise.

Ten archaic English slang phrases… 10. Got the morbs (sad) 9. Bumpsy (drunk) 8. Whittled as a penguin (very drunk) 8. Scandal water (tea) 7. Bitch the pot (pour the tea) 5. Sauce-box (mouth) 4. Cupid’s kettle drums (breasts) 3. Dash my wig (OMG) 2. Poked up (embarrassed) 1. Not up to dick (unwell)

Finished Anthony Hopkins’ memoir “We did okay, kid”. One of my favorite bits is Mickey Rourke being too rough in a scene filming the Desperate Hours and Hoppers telling “Do that again and I’ll smash your face into the back of your head.”