GRANGE HILL: "Slip on the wet floor, did you?" Phil Redmond's hard-hitting school drama didn't pull its punches. In a 'they did things differently back then' scene from 1981, hard but fair P.E. teacher 'Bullet' Baxter doles out justice to a colleague who's been bullying kids.
Frock/poster made for talented pop minstrel Rowan Please of The Femcels and World Peace DMT to mark their upcoming UK/EU tour. Details here.....
www.ticketmaster.co.uk/worldpeace-d...
Two reasons to be in Brighton on Sunday:
🏍️ It's the final day of The Sussex Lancers: Tailor-Made Leather Lovers exhibition curated by @alfleflo.bsky.social at Brighton Museum.
📚 We'll be tabling alongside lots of other lovely zinesters at the RTS #zinefair from 12 to 5. See you all there!
RIP Desmond Morris. His many achievements include writing The Naked Ape, having his paintings exhibited alongside those of Joan Miró, presenting the Zoo Time TV series, and designing a new logo for Oxford UnIted that is still in use 47 years later #OUFC
Selhurst sunset…
“Ancient pack-horse bridges we’ll avoid/Marijuana bores must be destroyed”
In my study, late at night, I look into the crackling fire and chuckle into my brandy about Croydon Spaceport having become a vast multi-channel commercial property
And I'll make this plea again. Shop at indie bookstores. Boycott fucking Amazon, the worst of the worst, one of the most vile & destructive enterprises that has ever existed.
If you like to shop online use Bookshop.org a consortium of indie booksellers. Just as convenient as Amazon, w/o the evil.
Ha - I remember the first time I came back from Ireland on my own, arriving from Holyhead in the middle of the night and waiting for that newsagent to open, to see what comics had come out while I'd been away (1985, so some Secret Wars II tie-ins, IIRC)
Dad died nine years ago today. ❤️
But he wouldn't let a silly little thing like death stop him from being out photographing street art in #Penge...
To read Dad's story - and help us support St Christopher's hospice - head to bit.ly/dadgraffiti
(Wall by Zabou, supported by LdnCallingBlog.)
Photo of several puzzle piece with various hand-drawn designs on them. I Love Libraries logo. Text over photo reads: "Find Your Joy and Return to It Often: Why Libraries Matter More than Ever. Sam Helmick, 2025-2026 ALA President" ALA150 American Library Association
"So this week, I encourage you to engage with your library in person or online. Wander the stacks. Attend a program. Ask for a recommendation. Let yourself be surprised." - ALA President Sam Helmick
Read Sam's full piece: https://bit.ly/4cQ4Qvf
📸 Tomahawk (WI) Public Library
#NationalLibraryWeek
🚀 tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/the-cr...
(And lots of other good stuff on @tcfsr.bsky.social, @woodfordhalse.bandcamp.com and @castlesinspace.bsky.social)
Happy #RSD2026 from Penge artist-in-residence and rubbish poet Cosmo Chancer…
Dropped of sketched copies of Stramash to the fine folks at @goshcomics.bsky.social Londons finest and fanciest comic shop. They also stock a really large range of all sorts of small press comics not just weird sweary Scottish gangster folk horror comics.
A Free PDF of a sketch a day silent comic I did a lifetime ago. Think I have posted the individual pages before but here it is in a handy swipe through PDF.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aphuo...
Glad he didn’t go to Porktone
Poor old R was probably sick of people buying copies for her, having casually mentioned *once* that she enjoyed working-class novels with lesbianism and incest
Congrats and happy publication day to @zebko.bsky.social - the original Colossive Cartographer 🥂
#LeslieBanks #MervynJohns #BasilSydney #ThoraHird and a certain rifle in Cavalcanti's WENT THE DAY WELL? (1942) 4:30pm British wartime classic! #TPTVsubtitles
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(Same with post-Green REM)
I still think of Bone Machine, Real Gone etc as the ‘new’ ones that I should get to know as well as Rain Dogs etc
Started S2 of The Bear last night - it seemed much more conventional in terms of editing, tone, structure, ping-pong 'clever' dialogue etc. Did anyone else think that?
Graham Annable
I have profound empathy for this Fiorentina fan on YouTube: we’ve all been there, amico
I have profound empathy for this Fiorentina fan on YouTube: we’ve all been there, amico
Lovely to see my review of Croydon Spaceport Mission Control in situ!
Such a gorgeous magazine as always, check it out
Through gritted teeth: the thing on Am*zon Prime where you can call up the biogs of actors in a scene is very useful
