a logo for the federal network with a blue globe Alt: Would you like to know more?

“I’m doing MY part!”

I bet a car could do this no problem, who cares. They’re the same to me

a close up of a person wearing goggles with a reflection Alt: Kaneda pulls off the definitive Akira slide - guy on a motorbike skidding to a stop on an empty highway

Akira IMAX was really great. And the screening was absolutely packed. Well worth the trip out.

Kemi Badenoch! Roger Scruton! MattGPT! Bari Weiss! Rod Dreher! Jair Bolsanaro! Howard from the Halifax adverts! JD Vance? You hear me JD Vance? Your boy took a hell of a beating! Your boy took a hell of a beating!

It wasn’t sequels that made Pixar bad.

Pixar was only good when every movie was a tech demonstration.

Honestly the best play is to get a classic shirt that has a nice vibe for you and then drop out of the race for I dunno 12 or 15 years.

Ed Baldwin eating spaghetti with a lot of cheese

for every 20 likes, I will give Ed Baldwin more cheese on his spaghetti

20 years ago a KH estate agent telling me there’d be a new train line soon and I didn’t need to worry about how awful the commute to town would be.

Egg on my face I tell you.

A beige brick wall with a central section of mismatched bricks forming a patch-like rectangle, casting light shadows; conveys a sense of oddity.

Definitely coming back here when I unlock bombs.

OUR Mrs Reynolds

I’m excited for you to step across this threshold! Have a good holiday, hope you get many book hours

Maybe a silly question but have you done the non-M Banks books? If you’ve not you’ll likely enjoy them. There are a couple that are bridging between M and non-M: ‘Transition’, which was marketed under M in USA, non-M in UK, ‘Walking on Glass’ and ‘The Bridge’

Lyra was a great person. Let's hope that something good comes out of her sad death.

Like a harmonica?

Wait you can’t eat those.

Like a corn on the cob?

Pilot maybe a little slow* but it’s ended with a lot teed up that will bring me back for more.

*that said I’ve just come off the finale of Paradise so my perspective on pace is skewed high

Just started watching The Lowdown and I’m pleased to see it has the good TV show yellow title card and the sepia colour grade.

Tweet from Woking FC confirming Jermain Defoe as their new manager

Can’t even have Spurs appoint Jermain Defoe as their interim manager. Because of Woking.

Shortest reign for a Tudor since Lady Jane Grey

You can’t fool me. That’s three small baguettes rising in an electric oven

I need gloves. I took gloves. Smashing

Just did a local 10km race that I’ve not done for years.

instead of shirts and/or medals they just had an optional table of branded running goodies. Pick one. No date on them. Felt good, felt like the right idea. Have something. Don’t have something. Pick that this year, something else next time

The logical progression from “bathtub” gin

I feel like “maybe” is doing a lot of work there that, ultimately, it may not be up to

If Elizabethtown why not other Cameron Crowe movies?

HOLD THE RAIL

TOUCH EVERY STEP

The 'Kindred Spirits' sculpture in Middleton, Co. Cork commemorating the donation of the Choctaw Nation during the 1745-50 Famine in Ireland.

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Townes Van Zandt and the Loneliest C# Minor Chord in Texas How a single shadowy chord reframes the meaning of a classic country ballad.

For the first official installment of a new column called In Theory, Andy looks at the way a single chord can turn the entire meaning of a song on its head www.hearingthings.co/townes-van-z...

Wish I had the strength to do this instead of “holding onto them a bit longer”, “just in case”

old man yells at cloud is written on a newspaper Alt: old man yells at cloud is written on a newspaper

Over the past three or four model refreshes, the laces on all brands of size 9.5 - 10 running shoes have become too short