Don't know if anyone here remembers a show called 'Beulah', but that small thing led to a lifelong friendship, and here I am marrying my friends Edward and Serena together.

In that case, thanks for your work too!!

I did, but I was cheeky to ask - I was the composer. So pleased you enjoyed it!!

What did you think?

That's nothing. Mine came in at 93.

a man sits in front of a screen that says britbox and shetland ALT: a man sits in front of a screen that says britbox and shetland

It'll take them a while, but I'd be OK eventually.

Yeah, I can't ascribe. Without wanting to sound like a cliché dispenser, I feel like it was easier for our parents' generation. Parties offered different solutions. Now they offer basically nothing, just different formulations of the same basic aphorisms. Hard to align with such a void.

This can't be an original thought, but an authoritarian's most hated enemies are not foreign but domestic. Not sure that's always been true, but it seems so now.

Ronaldo Poacher. Flogs stolen deer to the ref at halftime. His game is sublime.

Right, I'm done now I think. Thanks for this superb distraction.

Ha!

Gary Translucent/in between games it's unclear where he goes. Nobody knows.

[V.A.]Aaaaaaaaaaa[r], look at all the offside strikers.

[Do do do do do do do do]

Barry O'Plimsoll/he never played in a league or a cup/I made him up.

I couldn't believe it when I heard the Taliban question. Nigh-on choked on my coffee. The "fighting-age males" thing really stuck out as well. That's a pretty insidious dog-whistle, and colossal irony considering how many British "fighting-age males" died fighting the people they want to pay.

So, interview on R4 Today, Reform intend to spend £2bn as an incentive for countries to take their asylum seekers back. Does that mean they're going to pay the Taliban (for example)? How would that go down with their base? Have they forgotten all the British soldiers lost? What fresh hell is this?!

This is the perfect encapsulated, distilled version. Basically, one learns to accept other people's idiocy, lest it drive you mad.

I have a cult if people want to join. All it involves is sitting still, listening to 'Canto Ostinato' by Simeon Ten Holt once a week. Tuesdays, 9-11pm. There isn't much opportunity to exploit people, so if you're interested in cultist stuff for those reasons, this won't be for you. Get in touch.

Right. Sci-fi/fantasy theatre. Plays that just straight-up do SFF. Any examples? I absolutely LOVED 'The Beautiful Future is Coming' at the @traversetheatre.bsky.social. Of course it had climate themes, but it clearly took pleasure in the setting of the future storyline. The doors went wooosh.

Literally just availability. I would COMMAND this look.

How does one cope when the show you've just seen has 4* reviews but you think it verges on being disrespectfully bad? Or vice-versa?

Anyone else made their way home RANTING about a show only to realise that [insert respected publication] thought it was great?

2025 looking a little thin. Not surprising considering the financial uncertainty in Scottish Theatre - but if anyone would like to chat to a composer/sound designer for their projects in the UK, I'd love to meet new people and make new things! jimharbourne.com

Congratulations to all who finally got their Creative Scotland funding today. But particular commiserations to those who didn't - a very long wait for disappointing news.

4 pieces by RUTH WOLF-REHFELDT (1932-2024). Wolf-Rehfeldt's typewritten poetry set the bar for excellence. Seek her work out, every piece is architectural marvel.

a young boy in a brown leather jacket is crying Alt: a young boy, in this case representing me, in a brown leather jacket is crying, waving back at, in this case, Edinburgh.

One month until I move to Melrose! Edinburgh, the last 19 years have been swell. But you're only an hour away.

The Myth of the Singular Moment (Deluxe Edition) Jim Harbourne · Album · 2018 · 12 songs

Well, I have "The Myth of the Singular Moment" - a two-hander play with songs about parallel worlds, impossible choices and quantum immortality... the songs are on Spotify. It'd be lovely to take it about the place!

open.spotify.com/album/7KkVNA...

I would love such a thing to exist! (Don't have a theatre, but do have stuff to put in 'em!)

Pantheon by Hamish Steele is a very enjoyable graphic-novel romp through the Egyptian creation myths. Light-hearted but puts the stories across really well.

Despite X's best efforts, it is in fact Bluesky that owns the libs.

As a Canto Ostinato obsessive, I completely understand this piece and love it.