The worst film I've ever seen that I'm fairly confident nobody else I know has seen is The Shouting Men (2010). Bought on DVD and watched out of a bizarre sense of duty since it's notionally about a group of #Gills fans and I am one. 38% Rotten Tomatoes. Only memorable thing: a John Barnes cameo.
My personal conveyance for the day is "Paddington Bear"
Map showing my progress northwest towards Oxford at the giddying speed of 124mph
Choo choo, I'm a train. Almost as fast as the Hitachis on HS1.
US soldiers fighting and dying in an unpopular war. Civil rights tensions rife. And a polarising figure in the White House.
Just as America sends a mission to the moon.
57 years.
Daily Mail front page attacking Keir Starmer for Donald Trump’s disgusting behaviour…
This is an extraordinary front page for a British newspaper to run. Donald Trump’s delinquency, derangement & imperilling of international security is somehow a stick with which to beat our own Prime Minister, who has negotiated the current horror show rather well. It is actually sickening.
Connections
Puzzle #1025
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Me in my Museum Nerd T-shirt which I bought at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa
My John le Carré tote bag, bought from the totally outstanding West End play version of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
I've got my Museum Nerd T-shirt and my John le Carré tote bag and I'm on my first train of three on the way to the esteemed seat of learning that is Oxford. I didn't go there myself you understand. But I hear it's great.
My two favourite food groups!
Thanks awfully for this, kind Internet stranger! I have packed lactase tablets accordingly!
Thanks! My train home isn't until the evening, but I can make a museum last for hours and hours. Just ask my family.
Hey there everybody. I'm visiting Oxford tomorrow for the first time since my 16 year old daughter was a year old. Mainly to visit the John le Carré thing at the Bodleian before it closes, but what else should I do? Things I like: museums, craft beer, vinyl, not necessarily in that order.
This is all the pick-up most pick-up owners need.
The rest of that shit you see on the road is for the driver's insecurity.
Well after weeks of watching OO Bill on YouTube, tonight I pulled on my big boy pants and decided to have a stab at servicing my Class 47 'Lady Diana Spencer'. I gave her a good "skoosh out" with his beloved WD40 Contact Cleaner and then lubricated everything with light oil. Now runs much better!
Heartburn?
No, it's not a bit like heartburn. It's nothing like that.
Sisyphus pushing that rock up the hill on repeat with text that reads "remember me on this device" over and over.
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Two Bengal cats are sharing my bed. One is in between my legs and the other is sitting on my foot
Apparently I'm meant to go to sleep like this
Kind of went off Weezer after seeing them at Shepherd's Bush Empire in July 2001. I bought some more of their records, but I don't think I'd see them again. They seemed bored and unhappy, and it was a lopsided set where they played the Green album basically in full before deigning to play the hits.
an image from the film This Is Spinal Tap Paul Shaffer, playing music promoter Artie Fufkin, is at a failed album event that he organized for the band Spinal Tap he is saying “I’m not asking, I’m telling you! Kick my ass!” he is a short, slender, balding white Jewish man with wearing a glittery silver jacket, a black Spinal Tap t-shirt, and an ill-advised gold chain with a razor blade on it his whole outfit conveys incompetence and sleaze
Ok. This will need you to take a seat. Paul Shaffer, Letterman’s long standing (and suffering) sidekick and house-band MD. The bald guy with the funny laughs and tasty keyboard set-up. Are you seated? Paul Shaffer is Artie Fufkin. Of spinal tap fame. Ok I’ll let you put your brains back in. C
HOOKSTRATTEN: These haircuts wouldn’t pass military muster, believe me. Although I shouldn’t talk I, my hair’s
getting a little shaggy too, better not get too close to you, they’ll think I’m part of the band, I am joking, of
course.
A bunch of Hot Wheels, mostly Minis, sitting on my desk
A man after my own heart
I recently joined a Facebook group for people that collect models of Minis. These maniacs not only buy multiple copies of the same model, they also leave them all in the packaging. If you don't get them out to go brum and beep what is the point?!
Two snow lynx Bengal cats, mother and daughter. Daughter Tiffany top, mum Luna bottom. They're asleep on a bed, curled up opposite one another in near mirror image.
Happy #Caturday every buddy!
I actually weirdly love it when Ken Bruce seethes with barely-concealed contempt at a contestant who has the temerity to exceed their allotted 30 seconds of shout outs. #popmaster
I suppose I probably could have inferred that "clock it" means "To recognize, identify, or expose a truth"
RIP Robert Duvall, a true titan
If you haven’t seen THE APOSTLE (1997), I strongly recommend it. One of his best, most challenging performances 📽️
