What if you are in fact Graham Linehan?

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The Edukators I remember liking.

On German media, the high watermark for me remains the tv series Heimat which I think is a masterpiece.

No. It’s not one for you I’d say.

Bailey and Sage?

Unfortunately for James Transit, Phoenix and Barbara are my top three I’d say.

Yella I liked though it was odd when part way through I realised it was a remake of Carnival of Souls.

Maybe try Barbara but tbh if you don’t like Phoenix or Transit I suspect he’s just not your director.

Fair.

I mean you’re dead to me now obviously, but we can’t all like the same films!

To expand a bit, it’s brought up to the present day without really specifying who the occupiers/attackers are. So if you think too much about it then it doesn’t make sense as who now would occupy Paris? But as an updating of the experience it works well (for me anyway).

Yes

Scottish Cuisine: Pie in a roll.

Pic: Alex McD/bsky

Could they not have fried the pie a bit?

Some brown sauce wouldn’t go amiss either.

Head and dress layering are great.

The close ups bring it out a lot more. The phone in the first photo wasn’t doing it you’re right.

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I liked Baby Driver and I think it’s a good heist movie.

But Rififi is Rififi.

Though tbh, if they’d said I’ve seen both and here is why I think BD is better that would be a wholly different conversation wouldn’t it? At least a meaningful debate.

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That is exactly the kind of map I’d love to see.

Tbh it looks a bit like the map from my teenage D&D games, but nothing wrong with that!

Good question!

Enjoy!

Where in Brixton? Sounds great by the way. Who’s playing?

The Debt Collector, by Wang Shou and translated by John Frederick Franz

2026 reading 🧵
Chen Sheng is owed money but the rich businessman who owes denies it, so Chen gets an associate to hold the man and his family hostage until they pay. What could go wrong?
Fascinating mix of thriller and psychological study let down for me by an incredibly abrupt ending. Ebook only.

I’m kind of hoping he is making at least some of his stuff up?

I do know by the way the advice isn’t necessarily meant that dryly literally, but it does often seem to be taken that way.

If I could expunge one piece of writing advice forever it would be “write what you know”.

Don’t do that! Your novel will be about a struggling author or maybe a once successful author or someone in publishing or who goes to Balthazar’s in New York and always gets a booth.

Make something up!

Once again explaining that the Pope is only infallible under certain highly specific circumstances. What he is in this case is an *expert* backed up by a whole bunch of other experts.

I’m sure it’s not remotely new, but I think there has been a recent trend of it which to me looks very commercially driven implying major new releases which aren’t.

The only one I was ok with it on was the Susanna Clarke Wood at Midwinter because they made it into essentially a child’s picture book and it’s lovely, so I thought that was legit.

There’s been a trend lately of single short stories being published as a very slimline hardback with biggish font and lots of spacing. Clare Keegan was the first I noticed it on with a story previously published in the New Yorker. Is it one of those?

Like you I got on fine with 10:04.