James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper
@cooraysmith.bsky.social
Ex-poster. Writer. Highgate Dad. Bit Desi.
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The Aztecs
“So when the rainy season comes I hang my head/For all the things I've seen and done and sung and said/And when my tears are dry/I hold my head up high/And...
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buttondown.com/cooray_smith... New on Psychic Paper: What has The Aztecs ever done for us?
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buttondown.com/cooray_smith... New on Psychic Paper: What has The Aztecs ever done for us?
The Aztecs
“So when the rainy season comes I hang my head/For all the things I've seen and done and sung and said/And when my tears are dry/I hold my head up high/And...
buttondown.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:44 PM
buttondown.com/cooray_smith... New on Psychic Paper: What has The Aztecs ever done for us?
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buttondown.com/cooray_smith... For paid subscribers, but there's always the option to join them in the City of Morphoton: Who really created Doctor Who anyway?
The Keys of Marinus
”Key of E?” “Is there any other?” The original edition of board game Trivial Pursuit (1981) asked the question “Who created Doctor Who?” and gave the answer...
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January 22, 2026 at 6:11 PM
buttondown.com/cooray_smith... For paid subscribers, but there's always the option to join them in the City of Morphoton: Who really created Doctor Who anyway?
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Morbius is not *great* by anyone's standards, but it's not anywhere near as bad as people seem to want it to be, usually without having even seen it. Why's it seen as so wrong now for something to just be... OK? Here's what me and @cooraysmith.bsky.social thought.
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It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Morbius With James Cooray Smith
James Cooray Smith joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Doctor Michael Morbius apparently being infected with nineties industrial-goth photoshoot energy in addition to vampirism in Morbius.
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January 22, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Morbius is not *great* by anyone's standards, but it's not anywhere near as bad as people seem to want it to be, usually without having even seen it. Why's it seen as so wrong now for something to just be... OK? Here's what me and @cooraysmith.bsky.social thought.
timworthington.org/2022/10/02/i...
timworthington.org/2022/10/02/i...
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“If your Warriors have Gate/Then buddy that’s great/If your Warriors be Deep/ Then quite frankly eeep”
The BFI screening *is* Warriors of the Deep. I do not intend to add to today’s grimness by failing to honour gambling debts so both @lewisbaston.bsky.social and @jonarnold.bsky.social will get a shiny 10 pence piece.
If they’re doing the whizzy re-edit and sound mix on Warriors of the Deep (1) would this be the BFI screening and if so (2) to which of @jonarnold.bsky.social or @lewisbaston.bsky.social do I owe 10p?
January 15, 2026 at 4:52 PM
“If your Warriors have Gate/Then buddy that’s great/If your Warriors be Deep/ Then quite frankly eeep”
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Norman Ashby, Guy Leopold and Robin Bland walk into a pub. The barman says “Lads, I’m gonna have to see some ID.”
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Norman Ashby, Guy Leopold and Robin Bland walk into a pub. The barman says “Lads, I’m gonna have to see some ID.”
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At the risk of talking shop: there are just under 50 Government Bills before Parliament (including Employment Rights, English Devolution, Great British Energy) which aren’t getting the media attention that Coalition Bills at a similar point did. We’re missing proper scrutiny outside of Parliament.
This whole Streeting vs Starmer story is such a Westminster bubble inanity from a bored media class that has gotten addicted to toppling governments and abdicated any responsibility for what they're actually meant to be doing in a healthy society
November 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
At the risk of talking shop: there are just under 50 Government Bills before Parliament (including Employment Rights, English Devolution, Great British Energy) which aren’t getting the media attention that Coalition Bills at a similar point did. We’re missing proper scrutiny outside of Parliament.
Sometimes, being wrong is the BEST.
I am contributing to Doctor Wno cancellation discourse, whether you like it or not. buttondown.com/cooray_smith...
1990
“It’s all just a little bit of history repeatin’.” “1990 was the brainchild of Wilfred Greatorex, and conceived as literally ‘1984 plus six’; a series that...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Sometimes, being wrong is the BEST.
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this is a lovely read for Twin Peaks fans
- and for those of you who prefer writing not about Doctor Who and which you don't have to pay for, I've done a guest column over at the legendary and long running twinpeaksblog. twinpeaksblog.com/2025/09/08/r...
Recap from BFI Screening of 'Twin Peaks' Pilot with Kyle MacLachlan
Recap from the BFI Southbank screening of the "Twin Peaks" pilot with Kyle MacLachlan held on Sunday June 15, 2025.
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September 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
this is a lovely read for Twin Peaks fans
