My interview with @wringham.bsky.social about his new book. Don't tell @charliebrooker.bsky.social what happens to him in it. outsideleft.com/main.php?sto... #tether
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Lecturer in Digital Technologies / Writer for OutsideLeft.com music / film / tv review/ At fifteenpeople.com a blog about the musician Momus and Writer of Famous For Fifteen People / Writer of Folktronics.
My interview with @wringham.bsky.social about his new book. Don't tell @charliebrooker.bsky.social what happens to him in it. outsideleft.com/main.php?sto... #tether
That must be one of the most recent things to vanish that LU has covered! I guess having a very common phrase as its name and the "Jon Snow"/GOT confusion buries it.
@frommausoleum.bsky.social A story of mine called Adult Education is included in this wonderful anthology: proceeds benefit Butterfly Wonderland.
I clearly don't understand the rules of American Football, but Sky are trying their best to explain it. #superbowl
I keep telling Amazon that I'm a fascinating creature but it doesn't seem to listen.
@rianjohnson.bsky.social #wakeupdeadman was amazing. Please write a new script for #jonathancreek and persuade David Renwick to let you do it. Ideally based on The Three Coffins or Plague Court Murders. That is all. I'm sure @alandaviescomic.bsky.social would be agreeable...
"We play notes other people won't have anything to do with" is a cousin of "Do you think you'll ever write a spherical song" from Brass Eye.
I'm rewatching it myself at the moment and noting all the odd "future echoes" of Jonathan Creek that pop up.
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My review of Momus' latest explorations. @momuspda.bsky.social
I can see where it is. It's The Thing. I mean I can't see where it is, pass me the hotwire and petri dish.
My review of the Big Stir Records Power-Pop Grimoire for Halloween. outsideleft.com/main.php?sto... @bigstirrecords.bsky.social #halloween #powerpop
The Legend of Tim Tyler vs The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler - I am forever mixing them up. Neither of them seemed to smile much.
โWhat the deuce is it to me?โ he interrupted impatiently; โyou say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.โ
My review of Stewart Lee's current show
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#stewartlee #stand-up
@noveltyisland.bsky.social
My review of Novelty Island's new album outsideleft.com/main.php?sto... Charming, emotional and a jigsaw of light and dark.
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My interview with Olivia Isaac-Henry, crime and folk horror novelist.
Sorry to hear that.
To be fair, it IS a gig in Scarborough.
I'm still pitching the sequel. @lawriebrewster.bsky.social Anyway, backed Mr. Whispers, as should everyone!
Top stories on OutsideLeft.com at the moment: @momuspda.bsky.social not sure why that's popped up again! Burials and Beyond with Kate Cherrell @katecherrell.bsky.social Discerning readers!
According to a Pearson advert this is a Year 11 pupil i.e. 15 or 16.
So if police start to look young it means you're getting old, god knows what it means when Year 11 pupils look like the 30 something lead singer of a cover band. I don't even think I look this old.
Apparently I score highly for Alexithymia, let's add that to the dysfunctionality pile. #alexithymia I guess?
It's becoming clear now, the arc of my life. youtu.be/RTlFlbkY_Bc
In the middle of a field, surrounded by enormous cows, sits a tiny white grave encircled in black fencing. This is the grave marker of Robert Snooks, the last Englishman to be hanged for highway robbery back in 1802. ๐ฎ
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I mean, it's rubbish, obviously. :)
Candy is correct about The Ugly Stepsister, a much superior type of body horror film, 8 out of 10.
This is the film you hadn't heard of: A mad scientist obsessed with snakes tries to turn a young man into a snake: it's just what came to mind while I was watching Tusk.
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Currently number one story on the website, interview with #paranormal broadcaster Kate Cherrell about her #gothic novel.
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My interview with paranormal historian and broadcaster Kate Cherrell is on OutsideLeft, where we discuss her new Gothic novel Begotten.
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My review of @antonbarbeau.bsky.social 's two new albums is up at OutsideLeft now.
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