Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets - One Of These Days (Live At The Roundhouse) YouTube video by Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets

Easy enough to find out: youtu.be/ab8cP26wjU4

Easter Parade: The Medical Emergency Years My bowels are strong, like ox. My internal musculature is dainty, like slightly wet doily. The official medical term for what this combination of circumstances can lead to is inguinal hernia, which…

File this post under 'opening sentences I enjoyed writing far too much'. spank-the-monkey.co.uk/2026/04/18/e...

We saw her giving an online talk during the Edinburgh Book Festival's plague year, and thought she was interesting enough to buy a copy of Breasts & Eggs, which unfortunately is still sitting unread on the shelf nearly six years later. Should do something about that.

That applies just if you're reading Viz, surely? I was thinking this morning about Frugal Sharkey, in which Frugal and his cousin Kevin seek follow-up electronics advice from Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh, and wondering what the average reader age must be like now.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

Hats off to Tunnock's for some epic product placement.

the artemis crew tucking into a well-earned nando’s

REPOST: MOSTLY FILM: Man vs. Chick Originally posted on Spank The Monkey 04/04/2011. Fifteen years ago today, Mostly Film – Europe’s Former Best Website – was launched with an article by me looking at two Alex Cox …

15 years ago today, a bunch of us came together and launched Mostly Film, Europe's Best Website! Sure, there hasn't been anything new on there for the last eight of those years, but that shouldn't stop us celebrating. spank-the-monkey.co.uk/2026/04/04/m...

It's definitely not S4C

Thinking of that time at work when sales was asking for 20 foot USB cables and our electrical engineer said “it’s ohm’s law, not ohm’s fucking suggestion”

hold up, they really they sent whitey back to the moon on gil scott-heron's birthday?! who's writing this shit?

Simian Substitute Site for April 2026: Monkeys Into Darkness MONTH END PROCESSING FOR MARCH 2026 Movies: Month three, cinema three of our year-long project, and this month we went to Northampton. Bit weird for a Sunday leisure trip, given that every so often…

Today's first-of-the-month post features: Stuff to do in Northampton that doesn't involve stalking Alan Moore! Yet another playlist! Some thoughts on SNL UK! Hampshire's best 90s and 00s covers band! And that's about it, really. spank-the-monkey.co.uk/2026/04/01/s...

Bart: April is the cruelest month! Homer: April is the cruelest month so far!

"Happy" T.S. Eliot Day

Years ago, my mother-in-law started reading The Exorcist. She said it was the most evil book she’d ever read, so she threw it into the sea. I bought another copy, soaked it, and left it by her bed.

Chris Morris - Bishop Slips YouTube video by psyk149

Morris also got taken off-air mid-show at Radio 1, while he was in the middle of playing this: youtu.be/Pm1y6_t2Eyw

From front to back - programme booklet for Siren Craft Brew's 13th anniversary beer festival, a half-pint glass of their Zestiny mandarin pale ale, and a tank that may well have been used in its brewing.

Once again @sirencraftbrew.bsky.social proving that they can run a piss-up in a brewery, unlike some other people I could mention.

Grab a subscription while they're cheap. They ship to the UK! Slowly, I'll admit, but they don't charge you any extra for that.

This is a dance off! If you see this, post a dance or you're eliminated.

The Power of Poetry   with things falling apart and anarchy let loose,   it was only poetry, he found, which had any use,   so he reached for his copy   of The Complete Works of Yeats   and bludgeoned the President of the United States Brian Bilston

On World Poetry Day, here’s a reminder of the power of poetry and its potential to change the world.

A photograph of Morgan Freeman and Tom Hardy. It's a joke for people of a certain age. Don't feel bad if you don't get it.

This picture was taken shortly before Bruce Willis arrived and the three of them decided to set up a shoe shop.

The tribes of Britain c. 540 in the time of Gildas.

The covers of LEN DEIGHTON'S ACTION COOK BOOK and LEN DEIGHTON'S FRENCH COOKING FOR MEN.

RIP Len Deighton. These were my two favourites of his.

Do the kids still use 'dibble' as a slang term for the police?

There was definitely a turning point a few months ago when they started using them in the tube posters, after a couple of years of hiding them.

Setting up a night time falconry desplay team called Our Kestrel Manoeuvres In The Dark

BrewDogging: Epilogue [Previously: Bristol Baldwin Street†, Camden†, Newcastle†, Birmingham, Shoreditch†, Aberdeen†, Manchester, Edinburgh†, Glasgow†, Kungsholmen, Leeds†, Shepherd’s Bush†, Nottingham†, Sheffield†, Dog …

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. spank-the-monkey.co.uk/2026/03/12/b...

BrewDogging: Epilogue [Previously: Bristol Baldwin Street†, Camden†, Newcastle†, Birmingham, Shoreditch†, Aberdeen†, Manchester, Edinburgh†, Glasgow†, Kungsholmen, Leeds†, Shepherd’s Bush†, Nottingham†, Sheffield†, Dog …

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. spank-the-monkey.co.uk/2026/03/12/b...

Nick Clegg bemoaning the deeply unfair tuition fees mess

The "We're all trying to find the person who did this" hot dog man for some reason