The Chicago Pope sits at an office swivel chair and looks at four massive screens.
Got three slightly later nights this week (cause the schools are on half-term), so I’m spending the time wisely by urm downloading every tweet from every Hogmanay Blog I’ve ever made. 🫠 #Blogmanay 🥳
Owen Coyle stayed at my hotel on my wedding night (different room) and an unknown guest lobbied to get the music turned down.
Every year since then, my Hogmanay Blog has featured a bit where Coyle sneaks into a random building and turns the volume down. This will continue indefinitely. #Blogmanay 🥳
It's here and it's early! A New Year's miracle #Blogmanay
Also including the 2026 Predictions.
Will the Louvre heist suspects ever be caught? Can Cory Booker ever successfully wrap up his filibuster speech? And why do Katy Perry and Steve Clarke keep ending up in the same hotel...? #Blogmanay 🥳
Also: because I spent most of the year thinking there’d be no blog, I was more liberal with Likes (I prefer them to Bookmarks anyway).
That meant when it came time to screenshot all the best tweets all the way back to January, it took foooooooreeeeeeeveeeeeeer. But we’re nearly there. #Blogmanay 🥳
Right apologies for spamming the next 20 retweets out, but just noticed that Blogger & Bluesky aren’t syncing very well with embedded tweets, so I’ve got to cut the 20 posts with video that I was going to throw into the Blog (sickeningly). 😒 #Blogmanay 🥳
Thank god almighty, first draft is done. Can forget about it for a fortnight then come back at Christmas to finish it off with the December tweets and (maybe) a Predictions Blog. #Blogmanay 🥳
Dear god almighty, it’s taking me one hour per month. 😩 Still only got back to early August.
My original fear was that a Bluesky-only blog might have less bangers than the old Twitter one, but at this rate the problem will be keeping it down to less than 300 posts. #Blogmanay 🥳
So far in 2025, Jools Holland has done a #Hootenanny every night, Geldof has returned for spurious reasons and there’s been a constant Aurora Borealis. Never got more (pretend) predictions right by accident. #Blogmanay 🥳
Sky just said the Monday Night Football panel will be doing their 2025 predictions after the break, and sorry but you only need one set of 2025 Predictions tonight. #Blogmanay 🥳 #APD #MakeAugustHistory #JoolsNightlyHootenany #AugustBloodyAugust
Also featuring the 2025 Predictions. Why is an increasingly tipsy Jools Holland meddling with the format of Hootenanny? Will Tom Cruise ever find his spare car keys? And what will happen when Oasis hire Ibrox for their historic comeback gigs? #Blogmanay 🥳
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A March prediction from my 2024 Predictions blog last Hogmanay: ‘Terror suspect Daniel Khalife manages to escape again from HM Prison Wandsworth, after staff are distracted by an episode of Gary Lineker's incredible new hillwalking podcast, "The Rest Is Munros" (with special guests including Muriel Gray, Cameron McNeish and WalkHighlands). Khalife plots an adventurous route, aiming to make it further than Chiswick this time, and jumps on a red London bus brilliantly disguised as the Easter Bunny. A nationwide trawl of CCTV footage reveals that the hapless escapee has already travelled up to 4.3 miles from the prison, but it remains unclear which bus is housing him. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces that the UK General Election is indefinitely postponed until Khalife is caught, raging that, "This is costing the British taxpayer up to hundreds of pounds. The government will not accept this goon escaping again. Enough is enough: Stop The Buses!"’
Just realised that I made it sound like my predictions are actual serious predictions like “the winner of Wimbledon will be… Novak Djokovic”: god no, it’s low-budget satire. #Blogmanay 🥳
Brian The Dog on Family Guy, looking like he’s been through 10 rounds with Tyson (either one).
So help me god, I’ve gone through my Twitter likes for the entire year, so most of the Blog is now done. #Blogmanay 🥳
Will go back on next week to post the actual blog, then sporadically next year to go through 100s of bookmarks (mostly podcasts). But that’s about it. Incredible it’s come to this.
Rome? No, it's the fab Signet Library ceiling at the equally fab Scot:Lands extravaganza in #Edinburgh on #Newyearsday #blogmanay
New Year Flights BOOKED! #blogmanay
Thanks @edhogmanay fantastic evening #blogmanay
Cultural Experience 3... Seriously weird... Life on Mull must be hell... #blogmanay (@ Pleasance in Edinburgh
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Just seen the rather uplifting Tide:Land with live vocals by @joemcalinden... Beautiful scenery to escape rainy Edinburgh... #blogmanay
Hello @KateBracken RT @edhogmanay: More from EDIT at Tide:Land #blogmanay #edinburgh Scot:Lands http://bit.ly/13L8e4M
There's more to #Edinburgh than the Castle!
Visitfor some truly hidden gems and get the most out of #Blogmanay
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#Edinburgh was bloody brilliant this #Hogmanay... @The1975 #PetShopBoys #blogmanay
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And left to my own devices, I probably would... #blogmanay #PetShopBoys (@ Princes Street Gardens
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