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“And Introducing Max Cady as Himself”

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It’s that special time of year when @alcs.co.uk reminds everyone that flesh & blood creators, writers and writing have value and there are people out there reading the things we’ve written. Thanks, as always, for the payment, the appreciation and the incentive.

Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection The Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester.

Lovely bit of news to start the day

"I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools." -- Ray Bradbury

“I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.” — JG Ballard

I’d forgotten how poor the Greek accents were in Season 2 of THE WIRE. A meandering mashup of Indian and Russian tics.

2025 @letterboxd.social Wrapped

PSA: My favourite animated show of the 21st Century, the surrealist metatextual all-ages masterwork THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL is now available on @netflixuk.bsky.social

Looney Dunes: Back in Arrakis

It isn’t Christmas until Anthony Michael Hall staples a snowman to his forehead #SixSeasonsAndaMovie

Cup a soup with a bourbon chaser

‘People still blame me for their perforated eardrums’: how we made the Tango ads ‘Gil Scott-Heron did the closing voiceover. He was giggling away, saying, “You English guys are crazy!”’

An oral history of *those* Tango ads. I did not know Gil Scott-Heron did the closing voiceover! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Running from the ravenous undead was the only thing that motivated me to start running. Ecstatic that Zombies, Run! has been saved. Long live Runner 5!

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Heaven 17 Plans New Version of ‘Fascist Groove Thang’ Calling Out Trump Instead of Reagan: ‘It’s Not Going to Get Any Less Relevant, Is It?’ Heaven 17's new wave classic '(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang' has become a danceable protest song, with new lyrics calling out Trump.

“The orange one is president – Fascist god in motion.” variety.com/2025/music/n...

Open auditions for the latest regeneration of the Master aren’t going very well.

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First week of September = Running around like Ray Liotta in the final act of GOODFELLAS

Happy Texas Chain Saw Massacre Day to all who celebrate!

A bobbing sea of bucket hats on the Metropolitan Line this evening - harbingers that Oasis are playing Wembley again tonight.

Finally did it! It took a while wading through the wildly misguided stodge clogging up the second half of the second season of TWIN PEAKS, but I’m clear of the blockage. Onwards now to FIRE WALK WITH ME in the great memorial rewatch.

Holy shit, that’s amazing!

I know you can’t top one of the greatest taglines of all time, but at least put in a little bit of effort #Superman

Probably a good time to encourage everyone to read (or re-read) EM Forster’s “The Machine Stops”, published back in 1909 and terrifyingly prescient. Here’s a free pdf

Listomania! My Favourite Films of 2024 “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place ...

Better late than never! Here they are - My Favourite Films of 2024

It’s taken decades for this realisation to hit me, but a hard deadline is without a doubt the most valuable tool in the box for me to get the good stuff done and out there.

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." — Douglas Adams

Ordered Themroc, and discovered that OC & Stiggs was in the package as well. Thank you!

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