I'm not sure my French is good enough to understand the full subtleties of Libé's review of the Michael Jackson biopic

@Acyn X.com Hannity: The NY Mets are on an 11 game losing streak right after Mamdani hugged the mascot. It's kind of hard to lose 11 games in a row in baseball but he pulled it off.

but … it’s the mets

I wonder what they'll do when the school smartphone ban doesn't solve all the issues they're ascribing to social media

Dodo Nyoka - Jannaman (Amptelike Musiekvideo) YouTube video by Dodo Nyoka

A song with 1.6m views on YouTube doesn't need discovering by me but, y'know, should your Afrikaans song knowledge (like mine) not really go beyond Johannes Kerkorrel then here's a new-to-me name
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfLs...

The radio equivalent has Clive Merrison as Holmes. If you haven’t already found them, they are just so good.

The playlist is feeling a lot narrower except for special occasions. I’m lucky in that I understand just enough German to follow that radio and they have an amazing number of classical music stations.

23:22 is superb. Well done!

Man giving it large for the camera

Two volunteers

Woman celebrating

Pacer gives two thumbs up

Had the pleasure and privilege of photo'ing the 11th birthday of Hastings Parkrun
Just shy of 600 runners, and all volunteers came from Hastings Runners club
See the set here www.flickr.com/.../jonsm......

"our son was run over by our car" is a masterwork in the field of passive language

Robots moving faster than people doesn't seem to be a particularly big deal.

Can people (media) stop being quite so goshwow about everything?

It's a lovely black haired dog in a Hastings Runners vest

We need more dogs wearing running tops

Parkrun in Hastings, this morning

This election cycle is gonna see unprecedented levels of posh people telling middle class people how working class people feel about immigration.

England fans facing hugely inflated prices to get to New Jersey's MetLife Stadium for World Cup games The cost of getting the train from New York to the venue, where the Three Lions play Panama in their final group game, will be £111 - nearly 12 times the usual fare.

Quite frankly anyone travelling to the US voluntarily gets no sympathy from me. They know what they are getting into.

news.sky.com/story/englan...

I just saw a blue tick (you can guess from which party) refer to the local elections as "Britain's midterms".

I'm generally very against depriving people of their citizenship but maybe there are some exceptions...

Rugby league areas too - so working class chunks of Yorkshire and Lancashire would call both football and then differentiate between soccer and rugby.

Either way, Roy Race called it soccer in the first mag of his I bought in 1983 so that’ll do for me.

Sports Report 25 August 1984 YouTube video by RandomRadioJottings

What a lovely thing, to find the Sports Report from the exact day of tomorrow's Match of the Past with the lovely mellifluous voice of Peter Jones. And note how he calls it "soccer" without hesitation. Annoyance at people who call it that is a very modern phenomenon.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V03Z...

And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

Liz Kendall urges UK public to embrace Wayne, their annoying cousin who keeps turning up unannounced and saying stupid shit and is very difficult to shrug off

Sad news that VCD Athletic (formed 1916) are going to the wall - seemingly because a house builder has bought the land and has no intention of letting any sports clubs use it?

Camva promo with three match photos

Words and photos from Hastings v Leatherhead are now up jonsmalldon.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/a...

I think it must have been on an LP or cassette in the house (or, maybe?, it was one of the scripts in a book my dad had). Unlike most others, it's not an episode that's stuck with me aside from the title.

Canva promo with three match photos

Delayed but here now ... words and photos from Little Common v Pagham jonsmalldon.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/a...

I was such an achingly uncool kid that I knew the episode before I knew the band

The BBC is gleefully dancing to the Reform tune in both its reporting of the immigration system and its slashing of jobs.
So is the Labour government.

Another morning and another 'waking up to the groupthink soccer media had their narrative instead of engaging brains'.

Arsenal weren't particularly nervy and didn't really 'limp' (BBC) into the semi final. They weren't exciting but they did way more than enough to win the tie, which they did win.

Gone full soccer wanker and have the 'HBO Max' multiview option on. Live split screen of both games, commentary from the Arsenal game.

22 Short Films About Springfield first aired on 14th April 1996, making Steamed Hams thirty years old today.

I had forgotten the name “Samantha Brick”

I've woken up to the sports media doing a stir job on whether hair pulling is ever anything other than a straight red.

Abbott and Costello, doing Who's On First? sketch

"They've left your party?"
"No, they've left Your Party."
"They weren't in my party."
"Right and they weren't in my party."
"They weren't in your party?"
"Yes, they were in Your Party."
"They weren't in my party!"
"I know! They weren't my party either!"
"Who's party were they in?"
"Third base!"