Nice to see Kieran Richardson there.

45 Seconds with Fouracres | SNL UK YouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK

Love it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fkt...

A pair of goldfinches in our street today. Hoping they build a nest in the overgrown hedge out front of Boo Radley's house.

500 on the nose, no more notes from the test readers, I'm ready to submit when the window opens.

On a hotdog short story manifesto A very nice rejection for my hotdog story Arthur said this:

It’s time to come out swinging.

You care about short stories?

Please read The Hotdog Short Story Manifesto.

substack.com/@drewgummers...

499! Re-read, rewrite tomorrow.

Stripped to the bone and still at 522. Time to start hyphenating...

Knocked out a thousand word short this morning. Now to whittle it down to the five hundred word limit for this prompt competition...

Saw more than a few goldfinches on my walk this morning. Lovely wee things.

Fouracres "What kind of Irish is your Grandad?"

DG Taylor's Adventures in Television

(#iykyk)

Glad and Sorry YouTube video by Faces - Topic

Spoiling the needle drop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pibW...

Took a trip home to try the Bathams AF (and at the very pub mentioned in this article). Wise words here.

Felt a bit seen in that Fouracres sketch at the end of #SNLUK.
Gas fires, Irish Grandads, a Black Country flag - that's half of my schtick.
(The other half is pubs, women, death)

He spent fifty years perfecting nothing.

Now he’s stuck with it.

Our flash feature “Just Hanging Out” by Jim Harrington is up—short, quiet, and heavier than it looks.

At the Garage:
literarygarage.com/just-hanging...

Windy out there - the air is full of hats and hay.

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

lede to an irish times article about Harry and Meghan by Patrick Freyne.

A reminder that in 2021, @patrickfreyne.bsky.social wrote the best explanatory lede regarding colonialism and monarchy that I have ever seen. www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

the Spaced house

23 Meteor Street. (I used to live nearby)

'Startling study of fractured, crazy Black Country' Tom Hicks' art celebrates the quirky and often-overlooked sights around the Black Country.

fractured, crazy Black Country

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This iceberg was once the biggest in the world. Now it has just weeks left - BBC News A23a was once twice the size of Greater London but now its 40-year journey is coming to an end.

Interesting article

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

a pint of Beamish

Rare find here.

Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte Millesime 2018

This is the reward bottle for getting this short published. Thanks to Literary Garage, hat tip to the Big Man.

literarygarage.com/the-big-man

SUBS OPEN NOW! 🚨 It’s also my birthday, so humor me. The window closes at midnight!

bulbregion.com/Submissions

I can't get DMs to work on here but drop me a mail ajotoolewriter@gmail.com and I'll get back to you there.

China has pandas Australia has kangaroos What does your country have?

Staffies

Four panel comic Panel 1: a bird onstage says "whales" Panel 2: audience member yells "Boo! Get better material!" Panel 3: bird looks through note cards in a sweaty panic Panel 4: note cards say "sperm whales cooler than humpback whales" "white whale = scarier than normal whale" "whaling is most dignified sailing profession"

Moby Dick (Melville, 1851)

Bojack and Diane. "I'm responsible for my own happiness? I can't even be responsible for my own breakfast!"

Year of the Horse is a good excuse for start to finish Bojack Horseman rewatch

Apologies - didn't see this reply until just now. Let me sort something out and get back to you!

I've used occasional screenplay style scene headings to break up text in the novel I'm writing, and the chapters are S1E01, S1E02... it's about the rise and fall of a guy who works in TV so I think it fits, and test readers seem to like it.
INT. PUB - DAY is the most common.