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Why do people keep depicting cyclops with a nose under the eye? the olfactory nerves would have to go all the way down and round and up behind the eyeball and get all caught up with the optic nerves. If they had evolved the nostrils would surely be more on the cheeks. Welcome to my TED talk.

In Iceland he is called Lyklaborðsgubbi or "keyboard goblin". He lies in wait in gullies, green rooms and recording studios and uses his grotesque boogie woogie piano to befoul perfectly good songs and steal the limelight from other musicians. Arrival December 31 Departure January 1

'...Odd Man Out is outstanding; literate, achingly beautiful, a haunting score, wonderfully acted and deftly directed. It is probably Carol Reed’s masterpiece...' boxd.it/8Wp0ot

I could not love this transport poster more.

Snoopy Art by Moebius

Dec 27th - The Department of Defense issued a paper, claiming no evidence of UFOs. 📽️📅 The Thing from Another World (1951)

It’s the 32nd anniversary today of one of the greatest chase sequences in the whole history of the motion picture, which means it’s also the anniversary of the single greatest sound effect 🧵👇

Never seen him so happy

Aww no, not Teddy!

“SELL IT TO WHO, BEN? FUCKING AQUAMAN??”

There's been a lot of talk about ghost stories in the run up to Christmas, but one that never gets mentioned is "The Return" (1973). Essentially a 2-hander starring Peter Vaughan & Rosalie Crutchley (cinematography by Douglas Slocombe) it's wonderfully creepy. Avoid reviews: they're full of spoilers

Watching 'Puss in Boots: The Last Wish' for the first time and it's the perfect choice for a lazy Boxing Day.

Izzat snow? Gonna go up to THAW on ya! #2000AD

🎶Am a lyrical cat flap🎶

After a remarkably underwhelming day of terrestrial TV offerings, BBC2 are attempting to make amends from 21.15 onwards with possibly the first showing of 'Jaws' on any of the BBC channels - which thankfully means no ad breaks - followed by the documentary 'Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story'.

Dec 25th - Ralphie gets his Red Ryder B.B. Gun for Christmas. The family then go for a Chinese dinner after a pack of dogs ate their turkey. 📽️📅 A Christmas Story (1983)

Happy Christmas to all you lovely people in my phone!

Can we get this to 5,000 for Christmas. www.change.org/p/demand-fai...

OBLIGATORY PICTURE

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

I've genuinely lost count of how many Christmas Eve's I've spent in the company of George Bailey, but "It's A Wonderful Life" remains, for me, the perfect cinematic balance between light and dark.

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New on my blog: An MR James-esque ghost story that came to me in a dream earlier this year. (I woke up and wrote it down). A Christmas treat for you all, you have until New Year to read it. The Fourth Door underthreehundred.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Dec 24th - Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by ghosts of his former business partners, who tell him he will be visited by more ghosts to teach him the error of his ways. 📽️📅 The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

From this day in 2022.

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

It's a festive ode to the incredible work of @moonjam.com

"And Hypothetical Tim, who may be considered to be simultaneously both alive and dead while unobserved, as a result of his fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur." 🎁

From me and mine to you and yours - have yourselves a merry little Christmas. x. 🎅

Bring the whole edifice down on their unworthy heads, John.

Just had a taco and the only limit on what fillings you choose to stuff 'em with is your own imagination. Unfortunately for those fillings, tacos are absolutely the worst possible delivery system imaginable.

Story from Joolz Denby over on Facebook. A bad day at TotP in 1985 with New Model Army, and Chris Rea suddenly appearing and being compassionate and gernerally decent.

It’s the Ghost of last minute Christmas Shopping come to help you pull your hair out.

And from this day in 2014.

"Jolly" (23.12.1982) - The Young Ones Christmas Special that never was. From this day in 2021.

Photographer Hannes Kilian, Cat Nero in the Snow, 1953. Printed 1973.

It's a Winter Solstice celebration!

Don't usually put the decorations up until the solstice, but we went a whole week early for some pre-Xmas visitors, so it all feels a bit strange, this year. But one midwinter tradition I'll always stick to is the start of festive ghost stories & today's choice is 'The Amazing Mr. Blunden' (1972).

The Goodies - The Goodies Rule O.K? (21st December 1975). The trio fall foul of the puppet government ....

Shocking oversight that there isn't a Christmas Columbo episode

Dec 21st - Screenwriter Joe Gillis, who forgotten silent film star Norma Desmond hires as a script doctor, was born. 📽️📅 Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Seeing as it's Bod night, have the long lost 2000ad Special youtu.be/CFVq7vPtWno?...

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