Daniel Blythe
@danblythewriter.bsky.social
Surviving Author. Writer in schools. Occasional editor and mentor.
Who-er. Husband. Dad. European. Rationalist. Sceptic. Man. www.danielblythe.com
Who-er. Husband. Dad. European. Rationalist. Sceptic. Man. www.danielblythe.com
Only four of the 59 (debatably) people mentioned by name in 'We Didn't Start The Fire' are still alive: Brigitte Bardot, Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker and Bernhard Goetz. (This article is from 6 years ago: only Queen Elizabeth II has died since.)
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
All 59 people name-dropped in Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire’: Where are they now?
The No. 1-charting Cold War history lesson was released 30 years ago. Here's a rundown of the fate of everyone mentioned in the 1989 earworm.
www.latimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Only four of the 59 (debatably) people mentioned by name in 'We Didn't Start The Fire' are still alive: Brigitte Bardot, Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker and Bernhard Goetz. (This article is from 6 years ago: only Queen Elizabeth II has died since.)
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
I'm not really from near that end of the county, but in Kent, we had Wrotham and Trottiscliffe.
In Sheffield, where I live now, so many people say EccleSHall Road, which it most assuredly is not.
In Sheffield, where I live now, so many people say EccleSHall Road, which it most assuredly is not.
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I'm not really from near that end of the county, but in Kent, we had Wrotham and Trottiscliffe.
In Sheffield, where I live now, so many people say EccleSHall Road, which it most assuredly is not.
In Sheffield, where I live now, so many people say EccleSHall Road, which it most assuredly is not.
Does this bottle of perfume (or whatever it is) intentionally look like Ambassador Kosh from 'Babylon 5'?
October 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Does this bottle of perfume (or whatever it is) intentionally look like Ambassador Kosh from 'Babylon 5'?
Traffic news this morning reporting congestion on the line between Bristol Parkway and Kembel! Good thing for him that Mavic Chen hopped on a Spar at Swindon...
October 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Traffic news this morning reporting congestion on the line between Bristol Parkway and Kembel! Good thing for him that Mavic Chen hopped on a Spar at Swindon...
What's everyone's favourite comfort #DoctorWho for when they're feeling grotty? 'The Android Invasion' is working hard against my flu!
October 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
What's everyone's favourite comfort #DoctorWho for when they're feeling grotty? 'The Android Invasion' is working hard against my flu!
Given that 'Halt and Catch Fire' is (at first) set in Texas, it's fun to imagine it in the same universe as 'Dallas', with J.R. having a wary chat with Joe M at a barbecue, and Jacob Wheeler at the Oil Barons' Ball and getting in a punch-up with Clayton Farlow 😆 Cameron would despise the Ewings 😆
October 2, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Given that 'Halt and Catch Fire' is (at first) set in Texas, it's fun to imagine it in the same universe as 'Dallas', with J.R. having a wary chat with Joe M at a barbecue, and Jacob Wheeler at the Oil Barons' Ball and getting in a punch-up with Clayton Farlow 😆 Cameron would despise the Ewings 😆
So the secret is out, by the look of this publicity shot -- Taylor Swift is clearly planning an anniversary multi-Taylor special in which all of her incarnations (including a previously unsuspected one) come together to defeat a deadly foe across Time and Space.
October 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
So the secret is out, by the look of this publicity shot -- Taylor Swift is clearly planning an anniversary multi-Taylor special in which all of her incarnations (including a previously unsuspected one) come together to defeat a deadly foe across Time and Space.
Reposted by Daniel Blythe
♟️NEW EPISODE!♟️
It's day two of our trip to the #DoctorWho Alternative Universe Cycle, as we encounter The Dimension Riders.
We speak with the brilliant @danblythewriter.bsky.social to discuss his first novel, and cover artist Jeff Cummins.
soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...
It's day two of our trip to the #DoctorWho Alternative Universe Cycle, as we encounter The Dimension Riders.
We speak with the brilliant @danblythewriter.bsky.social to discuss his first novel, and cover artist Jeff Cummins.
soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...
428: The Dimension Riders
The Alternative Universe Cycle continues, with The Dimension Riders.
Author Daniel Blythe tells us how he was commissioned to write the 20th New Adventure, in an interview recorded back in December 20
soundcloud.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
♟️NEW EPISODE!♟️
It's day two of our trip to the #DoctorWho Alternative Universe Cycle, as we encounter The Dimension Riders.
We speak with the brilliant @danblythewriter.bsky.social to discuss his first novel, and cover artist Jeff Cummins.
soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...
It's day two of our trip to the #DoctorWho Alternative Universe Cycle, as we encounter The Dimension Riders.
We speak with the brilliant @danblythewriter.bsky.social to discuss his first novel, and cover artist Jeff Cummins.
soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...
Reposted by Daniel Blythe
We've got 5 (count them!) new episodes coming Monday to Friday next week, looking at #DoctorWho New Adventures, with the Alternative Universe Cycle.
Get ready for Blood Heat, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum and No Future.
Get ready for Blood Heat, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum and No Future.
a man in a hat is standing in front of a computer
ALT: a man in a hat is standing in front of a computer
media.tenor.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
We've got 5 (count them!) new episodes coming Monday to Friday next week, looking at #DoctorWho New Adventures, with the Alternative Universe Cycle.
Get ready for Blood Heat, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum and No Future.
Get ready for Blood Heat, The Dimension Riders, The Left-Handed Hummingbird, Conundrum and No Future.
This has worrying echoes of Peter Cregeen (BBC Head of Series) in 1989: 'Doctor Who has lasted 26 years and I can't see any reason why it shouldn't continue. The BBC is committed to more Doctor Who in the future.'
August 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This has worrying echoes of Peter Cregeen (BBC Head of Series) in 1989: 'Doctor Who has lasted 26 years and I can't see any reason why it shouldn't continue. The BBC is committed to more Doctor Who in the future.'
Enough, everyone! Stop calling your books 'The Island'! Other locations are available...
July 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Enough, everyone! Stop calling your books 'The Island'! Other locations are available...
We welcome the news that the Government is committing to ensure all primary schools have libraries by 2029. But don't forget librarians. To build a school reading culture you need trained staff. @sla.org.uk #GreatSchoolLibraries www.thebookseller.com/news/governm...
July 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I can't believe I worked this out 16 years ago! And 'Chandra' means 'moon', which affects the tides... 😁
July 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I can't believe I worked this out 16 years ago! And 'Chandra' means 'moon', which affects the tides... 😁
Those 'let's post a biography of someone, but with the photo of a different celebrity who amusingly not-quite-resembles them and who people will reognise, and chortle chortle, we'll all be in on the joke' things are getting a bit wearing now. I think it's time to find a new meme...
July 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Those 'let's post a biography of someone, but with the photo of a different celebrity who amusingly not-quite-resembles them and who people will reognise, and chortle chortle, we'll all be in on the joke' things are getting a bit wearing now. I think it's time to find a new meme...
Don't Tail Back In Anger
July 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Don't Tail Back In Anger
I was in Manchester Piccadilly yesterday during the afternoon travel bedlam, and I have to say how incredibly helpful the very loud and clear on-platform announcers with the booming portable microphones are. They keep platforms 13 & 14 from descending into chaos and confusion...
July 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I was in Manchester Piccadilly yesterday during the afternoon travel bedlam, and I have to say how incredibly helpful the very loud and clear on-platform announcers with the booming portable microphones are. They keep platforms 13 & 14 from descending into chaos and confusion...
Reposted by Daniel Blythe
A National Year of Reading is a good idea, but a government commitment to ensuring every school has its own library and a state-funded local school library service, to keep that library's stock fresh and engaging in the longterm, would be an even better idea.
#KidLitUK #ReadingForPleasure
#KidLitUK #ReadingForPleasure
A National Year of Reading will take place in 2026 aimed at curtailing the reading crisis among children and young people. The initiative was launched by education secretary, Bridget Phillipson ahead of a reception to be held at 10 Downing Street 👇 #BookSky
Trade comes together for government backed National Year of Reading
ebx.sh
July 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
A National Year of Reading is a good idea, but a government commitment to ensuring every school has its own library and a state-funded local school library service, to keep that library's stock fresh and engaging in the longterm, would be an even better idea.
#KidLitUK #ReadingForPleasure
#KidLitUK #ReadingForPleasure
I may get home after two hours, when they finally listen to the one guy who is always right, and only after three more people have been murdered in complex ways pertaining to Wagner, poetry and the Times crossword.
June 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I may get home after two hours, when they finally listen to the one guy who is always right, and only after three more people have been murdered in complex ways pertaining to Wagner, poetry and the Times crossword.
It's a weird coincidence that two perky commercial girlband trios, a generation apart, both had a member who was a little spicier and more enigmatic than the others, and who left to go off in a more quirky art-rock kind of direction -- and that they were both called Siobhán.
May 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
It's a weird coincidence that two perky commercial girlband trios, a generation apart, both had a member who was a little spicier and more enigmatic than the others, and who left to go off in a more quirky art-rock kind of direction -- and that they were both called Siobhán.
You know, when they get the Pope results we've got to remember those are just the overnights and we'll have to wait a week for the consolidated...
That joke started out feeling like it was going to be quite good but I lost heart halfway through.
That joke started out feeling like it was going to be quite good but I lost heart halfway through.
May 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
You know, when they get the Pope results we've got to remember those are just the overnights and we'll have to wait a week for the consolidated...
That joke started out feeling like it was going to be quite good but I lost heart halfway through.
That joke started out feeling like it was going to be quite good but I lost heart halfway through.
If the Conclave ends in a dead heat, do they have a dance-off or sing-off?
May 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
If the Conclave ends in a dead heat, do they have a dance-off or sing-off?
When you're thinking about shots from 1960s 'Doctor Who' which are still astonishing even today... Many candidates, but this came to mind. #DoctorWho
April 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
When you're thinking about shots from 1960s 'Doctor Who' which are still astonishing even today... Many candidates, but this came to mind. #DoctorWho
Apparently 9m people in Sweden watch Great Moose Migration on TV every year and they're about to start Season 7. I bet they don't have a Facebook group dedicated to moaning how it was better in the old days, they preferred the colour of the old moose herds, the new producer should be sacked, etc.
April 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Apparently 9m people in Sweden watch Great Moose Migration on TV every year and they're about to start Season 7. I bet they don't have a Facebook group dedicated to moaning how it was better in the old days, they preferred the colour of the old moose herds, the new producer should be sacked, etc.
I assume B*witched, Craig David, one of Girls Can't Catch, the least famous Sugababe, the guitarist from The Feeling, Eliza Doolittle and the drummer from Lawson are being lined up for 'Doctor In Distress 2025'. The Sun will run a campaign with virtual stickers. Pirate Radio 4 returns as a podcast.
April 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I assume B*witched, Craig David, one of Girls Can't Catch, the least famous Sugababe, the guitarist from The Feeling, Eliza Doolittle and the drummer from Lawson are being lined up for 'Doctor In Distress 2025'. The Sun will run a campaign with virtual stickers. Pirate Radio 4 returns as a podcast.
Reposted by Daniel Blythe
The best kind of emails you get as an author are from accounts teams at schools you visited once about seven years ago, letting you know they’ve changed their invoicing process. Really warms the cockles.
April 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The best kind of emails you get as an author are from accounts teams at schools you visited once about seven years ago, letting you know they’ve changed their invoicing process. Really warms the cockles.