The internet is full of The Haters, and I find them deeply weird - to draw strength from your dislikes seems to me to make life unnecessarily more depressing (which life has more enough ways to achieve without help)

Epic problem-solving skills to get up to the top of the curtains. 100% brain-fade once there.

One of my music opinions which would get me surrounded by the famous ring of serried steel is that I prefer this to Band on the Run.

Together they fight crimes.
Series 3 cliffhanger - one of the quartet is revealed as originator of the crimes. I wonder which one…

This concatenation of posts seems particularly apposite.

I have a sneaking fondness for Plymouth as a city. Great seafront, and Proper 1950’s Brave New World planning.

A glorious church, that (I live in East Anglia, and finally got to it last year). I imagine all sorts of things could happen to a body round there on a dark and starless night.

Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory. The female scientist says “Analogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?” The male scientist replies “That's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!” They step out onto a balcony. She says: “Please tell me you haven't built a library zeppelin” This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds “It's got a fax machine!”

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

The train window is one of the best cinema screens It forces us to stitch together narratives from the briefest glimpse. In a blurred moment whole stories race into us. We see a track and know it is older than the line we travel. We see a track and all of its treading ghosts wave to us. – #DAKilroy

An ex-employer of mine is peddling AI-powered mental health services. Not missing that party at all.

I remember when we thought Dubya was the absolute pit of humanity.
Thus makes Dubya look … well … believable

Bellowhead do a great line in loud songs full of brass and shagging.

The only song of hers I know well is Oranges and Seasalt - once heard, never forgotten, especially if you’ve ever been to a houseparty that’s drifted through the night.

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

Good grief. Tried the break room yet?

Is it possibly because their train has been cancelled?
(These posters are getting more dystopian by the day)

Peter has arrived back which was a surprise - for me.

Very sorry to hear it, and wishing you the best.

If you check the contract, I’m pretty sure that’s in her job description.

I watched something recently full of bits of Chepstow. Either the Lion In Winter or Mary Queen of Scots, both of which are very pretty historical shouting-matches.

Does Robin step out of the cathedral precinct and find himself in Hot Fuzz?

I would agree that I enjoyed the last two more - they work as a pair, and are entirely satisfying, whereas the second half of LBS felt like Pullman jamming in half a dozen ideas he hadn’t managed to turn into short stories.

Andrew’s Future?

“Even men with steel hearts love to see a dog on the piste”

Your life will be ashes.

I was delighted to see the DVD release, and will buy it when I remember. Up with physical media…

William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night

What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!

I saw an idea for a Hobby Exchange, where you can take your equipment and half-finished projects from a previous interest, and swap them for someone else’s.

I’m slowly picking through “Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 And All That”, which is highly enjoyable, and Tracey Emin does come across as the most interested and least self-obsessed of the YBAs.

The Bakshi film has a few “issues” to modern eyes, doesn’t it?
I seem to recall Boromir is a bit iffy too.