I have the TV on mute and a film started and I wondered if I’d know what it was and I knew it from the first frame. And that was when I realised I don’t think about Ancient Rome once a day but I do think about The Shining at least twice a day.

Martha Stewart, Snoop and Sooz Kempner FOLLOW ME ON BLUESKY are all watching the same horse dance live right now. The opening ceremony really did set the tone for this Olympics by being very random.

If they run the whole opening ceremony backwards THEN I’ll be impressed #OlympicGames

That robot horse better turn up with the dead bodies of all the non medalling competitors or else what really has been the point of all this

Oh good… watching people you don’t know do karaoke is always great. I’m definitely convinced that kind of pleasure will scale up exponentially with the number of people doing it as well.

That better be sparkly gold tom Cruise already

A blooper reel. Thats what the olympics needed.

Anthony has Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer hair.

Longlegs operates on the American misapprehension that glam rock is the work of the devil.

Watching a competitive beef sausage eating competition instead of #onlyconnect which really tells you the state of the world today.

goodbye forever brat summer.

How is 10 mins of hot dog eating somehow harder to watch than the Felix Baumgartner jump?

The truly bratty thing to do would be to ignore this imperative

Me trying to persuade my dog he didn’t see a mouse:

Gid has just informed me that Jean-Michel Jarre is about to do his “megamix”.

Blink Twice is your annual reminder to take that self defense class you keep thinking about. Top notch casting A++++

#charityshopfinds

I think I’ve worked out what’s going on- I think this team probably have been watching #OnlyConnect since 2008 so they’ve grown up with it. So maybe they just think in patterns of 4. Change it to 5 clues and they’d be fucked.