One of the five greatest singles bands of the 90s.

This is going to be a real 1998 time capsule of Cardiff too.

She should call it Not the Nuptials. (My word, that’s niche.)

TS is going to do a wedding album, isn’t she.

No, it’s not just a trend: The real reasons adult ADHD and autism diagnoses are on the rise www.sciencefocus.com... Dr Dean Burnett tackles a pernicious and harmful misunderstanding (or deliberate misrepresentation) about the rates of neurodiverse diagnoses. For Science Focus magazine #ND #AuDHD

In case you missed previous posts on this: I had hoped to do a full series this year, and this is not currently possible for several reasons, but these (eps 37 and 38) will hopefully tide over readers and listeners until there is opportunity to make more.

Three great Czechs born #otd 3rd July - Leoš Janáček, Franz Kafka & Tom Stoppard. Perhaps the stars really do align.

I enjoyed this most immensely.

Our conversation went on for hours - days, in fact - but then this is the most fascinating subject in the world. Part one coming on Sunday. God save the Kinks.

Here it is, the cover of the paperback edition of my book, Breaking: How the Media Works, When it Doesn’t, and Why it Matters. Now featuring some snazzy quotes! It’s out on August 27. geni.us/BreakingMicWright

In case you missed previous posts on this: I had hoped to do a full series this year, and this is not currently possible for several reasons, but these (eps 37 and 38) will hopefully tide over readers and listeners until there is opportunity to make more.

Putting finishing touches to a NEW #FirstLastAnything. The first of two July specials, both with excellent guests. To be published on Sunday.

The Stage & Television Today reports on a new family joining the Coronation Street cast (2nd July 1964)

I also recommend Caroline Aherne: Rebel in Disguise, a very good new book by David Scott that focuses on her body of work. It's out now on Manchester University Press.

I've written a tribute to the great Caroline Aherne for @bigissue.com, and here it is. www.bigissue.com/culture/tv/i...

‘I’ve read all “his” memes that he didn’t write’

I once went to a poetry reading where a girl sitting next to us faked a coughing fit and ran out, and we heard her run down the hallway, still coughing, and then CHONK through the big door and keep running, footsteps receding. Later she saw us and asked, "How did it look?"

The thing I took away from That McSweeney Interview is that he most enjoyed the trips away, like some Going Live competition winner. Just unedifying.

Oh look New book

Another fantastic episode of @whatgoespod.bsky.social with @eops.bsky.social and @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social. Have ordered the book, so looking forward to reading that! Also Eamon, IMDB have finally allowed your pod pic to be added and some more episodes. pocketcasts.com/podcast/what...

This is like saying the USA’s all time pinnacle achievements are CHiPs and We Got it Made.

I went to a book event so dreary earlier this week that it’s going to take me a while to untangle the boredom, anger, frustration, waste of time and sense of complacency and write a post about it that could be amusing. It’s nobody on here, I checked.

How people don’t just burst out laughing at the name Morgan McSweeney (fast food gonk mascot), and that’s before you get to the track record.

One of these days, there’ll be a question, I hope, on The Chase, about ‘Canadian rappers’ and the answer won’t be Drake.

The morning when Mayo played it on the breakfast show (it was the highest climber on the chart) and they *slightly* took the piss tbh.

And ITVRetro on YouTube if you don't have ITVX. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajvd...

Not only did I enjoy this immensely (the comparison between Clunk and Jack Douglas made me hoot) but learnt a lot too. Jokes and deep research, my bag.

An upcoming episode of #FirstLastAnything, being edited, and to be published later this month, actually touches on this subject.

One more thing about that 1974 production of Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests which Keith and Kendal (and Tom Courtenay were in). You know who directed it? Eric Thompson. Yep, that one.

Pain du Morbius

Finally. What we’ve all been waiting for.

Another BBC archive treasure!! But how, apart from the eagle eyes of @greavesian.bsky.social , are we meant to know about it? Couldn’t there even be an email server to sign up to?

I always think prog rock LPs would be less daunting to the average pundit if they didn't have such long and elaborate tittles.

Started rewatching The Good Life last night (the characters are so pleasingly complex), and I have remarked on this before, but how interesting that Margo isn't in the pilot episode at all, apart from an offscreen voice. Which makes me wonder if they'd even cast her when they were shooting it.

The only downside of Trump's inevitable croaking is that Vance - perhaps even more stupid - will remain.

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

Join me for this on @noiseboxradio.com at 9pm, I've picked out loads of great '80s stuff and hopefully I'll get through the show without being interrupted this week.

'I Like Trucking'

Here is my dad’s Sean Connery joke: “Q: What time does Sean Connery arrive at Wimbledon? A: Sean Connery died on the 31st of October 2020 and is therefore unlikely to attend any future sporting events”.

Seems it's Dancing in the Dark.

I have several mutual followers who would solve the whole of this immediately. (I think I got about halfway with my limited grasp of Welsh.)

Awesome 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Current earworm: inevitably, The Good Life theme, complete with that bit of Burt Rhodes's mice-sounding piano echoing the bit of Pink Floyd's Bike that goes 'I've got a mouse but it hasn't got a house.' And the bit near the end where it almost goes into Spanish Flea.

♪ #nowplaying Track with no name - Forgemasters (Warp10+2 / Classics 89-92 - 1989) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip

One of the greatest ‘reveals’ I’ve ever seen.

Humphrey Smith, the sort of person that people describe ‘as a right c…haracter.’

As of now: Sixteen years, freelance, and still clinging on.

The history of arts TV in Wales would be completely different without its groundbreaking features on poetry, music, literature and gun crime.

John Woo Woo’s Shoes