Touches of Odysseus vs Polyphemus the cyclops here from Andy Hinchcliffe #EVEWHU

So much of Orbital’s “Wonky” album still washes over my synapses like a lovely sonic bath. It is so choice

The Arctic Monkeys / Gorillaz / Arctic Monkeys / Gorillaz column is doing my nut in

Ironically, I thought F4 was the “unwhackiest” MCU in quite some time. It went with some interesting retrofuturist stylings aesthetically but performancewise I thought the cast mostly played it straight/earnest/noble. Overall, I found it a bit straightforward narratively, an okay watch, nothing more

It's the most devastating moment in a young mans life, when he quite reasonably says to himself, "I shall never get in da Club with Redman”

Tesco in the Jervis is quite similar, you have to “excuse me… sorry… excuse me…” your way through a perennially humpy self-service queue to get out again

I’m obsessed with his little laugh-snort before he says, “That’s progressive!”

I read this as “Richard Crenna’s menswear shop” and got *very* confused

Or as Jimmy Nail would call it, A Black Eyed Pheas

I put it down to my self-deprecating charm

This Must Be The Place (Maybe It Was Utah)

State’s new research agency chief Diarmuid O’Brien comes with strong track record and deep experience

I can relate to that last one, tbf

I also wonder what could happen if you used similar ambition to feature an actual photograph of 1929 workers that hasn’t been mutated by lazy / tightfisted AI image regeneration?

I keep mixing up Carmen Sandiego and Perdita Durango. It would certainly make for a very different type of animated kids’ TV show

Voodoo Chiles

“All-Inclusive”? But they’re going to miss out on so many luxury break competition prizes

Wonder which of them Drico got here: youtu.be/mGvJftySu3o?...

Well it’s more Mark O’Connell in his weekly opinion piece vs an editorial paperwide endorsement. Here’s the crux of it - pretty much what was already hinted at in the article subhead:

Well, with a few caveats…

I just came here to say Bugs Raplin! 🤝🏻

Parochial, perhaps (which is a different take to ‘strange’ btw) but now you’re suggesting that it’d only be noteworthy for an Irish news outlet to tell a predominantly Irish readership that an Irish player scored if Wolves had have won. A match can surely have more than one context for its audience?

For an Irish newspaper to lead a match report with a reference to an Irish player scoring for one of the teams involved?

Wait a minute, so the old man David Paich stops along the way in Toto’s Africa never actually *said*, “hurry, boy, it’s waiting there for you”?! 😦

Cant believe the stats on dead nightclubs in Ireland. They used to burn money. I remember Shemar Moore did an appearance in Maynooth. I remember bouncy castles in a club in Letterkenny. Sean Kingston performing live was hard to avoid in rural Irish nightclubs at one point

This is such an unnecessarily sycophantic headline

It’s a Christmas miracle! Have a good one, everyone

I thought that was the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

@christmasfm.bsky.social

Can’t wait to see those faeces?