Republic please.

Presumably the various voices of reason on social media are encouraging the artist formerly known as Prince to cut his coat according to his cloth.

Downsize to a property he can afford.

Find a job that covers his expenditures. Not rely on taxpayer handouts.

Just like everyone else.

…now expect applause for having done so. Both are upset that a magical reset has not happened

Principal difference: #TheArchers is a fictional scenario. In the royal suckhole a vulnerable, terrified young woman died. She’s gone in the most disgusting, negligent way

Her name was Virginia Giuffre

Odd the similarities between the George story in #TheArchers and the ongoing royal horrorshow.

Both parties only know they’ve transgressed because they’re told so. There’s no actual contrition or empathy.

They have reluctantly dragged themselves through their mandated punishments.

Thank you to my wonderful friends at @trapone.bsky.social for these.

They are beautiful. The daisiest daisies. I love you all, you mad Trappers.

And nobody is crying.

Ghosty baseball hat

Bad friend: sorry

I’ve been in the hospice for a few weeks now, struggling with breathing, talking and finer cognitive tasks like typing. My balance is fucked and I’m a high fall risk

But I have a Halloween hat, and I think of you all often ❤️

Amen 🙏

Listened to the news a bit

What I apprehended was:

Mentally ill people should work. Physically ill people should work. It’s good for them, I imagine. Can’t prove it, but it suits one’s privileged world view

And then we grind their bones to make our bread. It’s what Thatcher would have wanted

I have acorn aspects. Any of the thousands of professionals who have catheterised me over the last year would vouchsafe this were they not bound by a code of ethics and simple human decency.

The Alan Price Set - Simon Smith & The Amazing Dancing Bear (1967) YouTube video by Beat-Club

The last 2 days have not been top drawer, but the kindness of other people has got me through.

I haven’t done anything to deserve this astonishing largesse.

My gratitude is sky high. As Randy Newman & Alan Price once put it, “It’s just amazing how fair people can be.”

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Trying to do that anyway.

Jings, Simon. Sometimes it’s all I can do to stand still uneventfully.

Fucking hell.

Tomorrow will be better, I’m sure.

*fail

Very many oops.

Armageddon is a great film. I bet I can squeeze another watch in.

“It’s Harry Stamper. He doesn’t know how to film!”

I’m crying just remembering it.

One year on and I’ve hit the twenty percent survival window.

I’m sorry for those four out of five fuckers.

Perhaps I didn’t spend your hours as you’d have wanted, I mean I listened to a lot of prog rock and watched Armageddon at least three times. But I tried hard to do neither hurt nor harm.

Today has gone off the rails slightly.

Back on #Frightenby25 tomorrow.

Dame Jilly Cooper: Best-selling author of raunchy romance dies aged 88 Her agent says her

Ah bollocks.

That’s the world a less jolly place then.

Booksellers of the world salute you, Madame.

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I stan Krypton81

Day six if you’ve surrendered to the tyrannical system of big numbers.

I have numbers. Big, beautiful numbers. The best numbers. Great American Numbers.

You’re all under arrest.

Well ah well ah, fair enough, Kirsty.

Love those hits though.

Oh yeah.

Succession
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul

So many sitcoms: Peep Show, Derry Girls, Mrs. Brown’s Boys. Had a look. Not for me. My loss, I accept.

Still knee deep in other folks’ entrails I feel that #Frightenby25 day five may be a bit frivolous.

This is secret code for “I want to give Young Frankenstein a spin”

16) Young Frankenstein
17) Ghostbusters
18) Ghostbusters II

WE GOT ONE!

Another week. OK, then.

Waris, Verity, Sydney: I will do my best not to let you down.

❤️❤️

Grease
Friends
Buffy (TV series)
The Office (US version)
Gavin & Stacey

Nothing personal. It just never happened and god’s green earth on my time is dwindling here.

Two years. Three films.

It takes Marvel that long to get the tops off their biros

The 4K transfer of Zombie Flesh Eaters is sublime.

I’ve had to grade Murder Rock harshly because the “dance” “instructors” can’t count to eight on the eight beat. Seven, eight, nine out of ten.

The Gates Of Hell will never not be brilliant. An unsurpassable two years work.

#Frightenby25

And now I’m gone.

Cheating fucking owl prick.

Les chouettes ne sont pas vertes.

You’re not my real owl.

The artwork for the otherwise exemplary 4K release of Fulci’s barely coherent Murder Rock. It’s mostly the left boob of a murdered young woman. OK then.

Fulci’s Gates Of Hell trilogy. It’s not a real trilogy. Arrow’s Blu-ray releases of City Of The Living Dead, The Beyond, and The House By The Cemetery.

Mary Whitehouse, a controlling, interfering busybody in front of a sign saying “CHILDREN AT RISK FROM VIOLENT AND OBSCENE VIDEOS” as though parental responsibility was down to artists rather than parents. She’s dead now. I hope she’s happy finally. Honestly a lot of her stuff about the normalisation of porn was right. It’s only fair to acknowledge this.

Found it!

I am now on Do Not Disturb.

I’ll be over there being deplorable.

See you all on Monday.

Fuck, yeah.

Fight while you have it. Once it’s gone you’ve lost it forever.