I came out of Weapons ready to fight.

The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996) takes the infamous nightmarish donkey transformation scene and PUTS IT ON A ROLLERCOASTER. It was the 90s!

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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.

Now I need to know who it was...

It’s just a lot to take in on a Wednesday afternoon.

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.

She. Her.

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

(The chief drawback of being largely 'off' social media apart from Bluesky at the moment is that is turning me into a boomer.)

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.

Intrigued by the hate read (I think I’m intrigued by the concept of it - I barely have the brain space to read things I really love!).

‘People who want to make art, but can't, are very unhappy. The only thing they can manipulate is people, and a person is a very unsatisfying particle - six feet tall and fleshy and full of frustrations, while the particles of paint are smooth and tiny and so many.’

Hoovered up Isaac Fellman’s Notes from a Regicide, which had so much to say about love and art and transness and revolution that I needed to hear this week.

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.

Thumbelina 1994 uk vhs cover

New episode: Thumbelina (1994)
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"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

Gay Emmy voters struggling to pick Best Actress in a Comedy this year

#Hacks #TheComeback

The takeaway did a 'Manhattan' pizza, which was a pizza with chips as a topping, a delicacy for our times (like, 2000something, Girls Aloud 'Biology' was our going out song).

Talking to a pal about my early going out experiences: we used to tan a bottle of white wine on the bus (!) into town (it was an hour into town, we lived in the sticks) and, if we didn't get invited to an afters, sit in a takeaway til 7AM THE NEXT MORNING so we could get the bus home.

Finding it really hard to work on my little scripts and my daft ideas today given... well. That.

YES! Always lovely to see Benny, too.

Everything I need to do today relies on other people responding to emails

God, this week's episode of The Comeback was good, Lisa Kudrow should be on the currency, honestly.