inspired by (Conway-popularised?) "Mornington Crescent"-alike The Game, I've been playing the CBT-friendly variant "Meta-Whamageddon", where you try to avoid all mention OR INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS of Whamageddon - listening to Last Christmas is OK, but risky... x.com/redskyatnight/…

Fab film that won Best Short at SCI-FI-LONDON 24. CONGRATULATIONS ON THE 2025 OSCAR WIN! Watch it here: youtu.be/4VrLQXR7mKU?fe… #sfl48hr

Grateful for a weird celebrity romance between two people even the middle-aged can recognise.

Dorkbot London is back! luma.com/81ykl9sh

Come back to your local on Thurs 11th Dec for the return of the Deserter duo & their new book Deserter Stories, plus author Justin Lewis with his latest, Into the Groove: The 1980s -The Ultimate Decade in Music History. More info & tix🎟️: booksellercrow.co.uk/event/deserter…

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arguably also true of podcasts, but with more emphasis on celeb guests and true crime? (2030: "A generation of kids growing up without podcasts isn't just a generation that listens less... etc etc")

Doing three try outs for my tour show next week at Leicester Sq theatre, if you’re in town and fancy it xx

Talos #scifi theatre festival of London is back! The 2025 festival takes place for 3 days, Thur 11 to Sat 13 Dec at The Bread & Roses Theatre in #clapham cyborphic.com/talos-2025 “Talos is an adventure to undertake for every science fiction and theatre-lover...” (A Younger Theatre) 1/7

“Elf” predicted the success of “Extreme Graphic Chipset Processors” way back in 2003!

ironically, for most of my social circles, that person was Danny (& let's be realistic, still is)

RIP Rob Reiner. An absolute shocker of a start to Monday. I can count on one hand, the amount of directors who have had a run of 5 films like this. And of course, the genius that was Spinal Tap a couple of years before it. Normal service will be resumed after a moment of silence.

assuming you can face the West End at this point, £5 2nd-hand sale & screenings - inc Todd Haynes' "Safe" - from noon today in the "FORMER ODEON CINEMA ON SHAFTESBURY AVENUE BEFORE IT IS DEMOLISHED" eventbrite.com/e/second-life-…

I've cleaned up the Internet Archive OCR of Edward "not the Flatland guy" Abbott's 1871 tragic/uplifting The Baby's Things: A Story in Verse for Christmas Eve ...but I guess I can't re-upload it to the same pre-existing Internet Archive page? Jason Scott docs.google.com/document/d/12A…

now bemused that there was a version of this that wasn't soundtracked with Dylan Rhymes' Naked & Ashamed - was it originally edited to this duller backing music, is it coincidence that it fits so well with Naked & Ashamed, or was this just used elsewhere for "licensing reasons"?

powerful message here via Instagram, which I didn't fully understand until I realised it also applied to - now-discontinued? - individual slices of Greggs Veggie Feast Pizza