Alastair Craig
@alastaircraig.bsky.social
Brisbane writer, filmmaker, avid reader, tired dad, one half of comedy writing duo Cheeky Moon, and very pleased to meet you.
Award-winning dramedy web series “IT’S A CULT!” out now on YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/cultyoutube
[He/him]
Award-winning dramedy web series “IT’S A CULT!” out now on YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/cultyoutube
[He/him]
(Sound on) My five-year-old is helping me take inventory.
Needs more Terry Pratchett.
Needs more Terry Pratchett.
October 23, 2025 at 4:34 AM
(Sound on) My five-year-old is helping me take inventory.
Needs more Terry Pratchett.
Needs more Terry Pratchett.
Heed this cautionary tale:
A few weeks ago I thought it might be time to reread The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings for the first time since childhood. I went looking for some nice illustrated hardbacks.
I am now a boring middle-aged dad with a new hobby. It could happen to you.
#tolkien #lotr #books
A few weeks ago I thought it might be time to reread The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings for the first time since childhood. I went looking for some nice illustrated hardbacks.
I am now a boring middle-aged dad with a new hobby. It could happen to you.
#tolkien #lotr #books
September 30, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Charming premise and animation aside: this movie has my five-year-old daughter memorising K-pop rap lyrics. For this alone, the world is a better place.
August 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Charming premise and animation aside: this movie has my five-year-old daughter memorising K-pop rap lyrics. For this alone, the world is a better place.
Holding my daughter close.
Partly out of absolute and unconditional love.
Partly because if she steps more than one metre away I cease to be a wholesome dad wearing a sparkling Elsa hairband in solidarity and immediately become a contextless weirdo in a shopping centre.
Partly out of absolute and unconditional love.
Partly because if she steps more than one metre away I cease to be a wholesome dad wearing a sparkling Elsa hairband in solidarity and immediately become a contextless weirdo in a shopping centre.
July 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Holding my daughter close.
Partly out of absolute and unconditional love.
Partly because if she steps more than one metre away I cease to be a wholesome dad wearing a sparkling Elsa hairband in solidarity and immediately become a contextless weirdo in a shopping centre.
Partly out of absolute and unconditional love.
Partly because if she steps more than one metre away I cease to be a wholesome dad wearing a sparkling Elsa hairband in solidarity and immediately become a contextless weirdo in a shopping centre.
Who’s dreamier:
Greg from Greg’s Anatomy or Les from Les Misérables?
Greg from Greg’s Anatomy or Les from Les Misérables?
June 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Who’s dreamier:
Greg from Greg’s Anatomy or Les from Les Misérables?
Greg from Greg’s Anatomy or Les from Les Misérables?
I can live without the flying cars and hoverboards we were promised by 2025. But it’s harder to shake the strange sadness of hitting adulthood and learning the jacuzzi suit is not a real product grown-ups can purchase.
#TheSimpsons
#TheSimpsons
June 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I can live without the flying cars and hoverboards we were promised by 2025. But it’s harder to shake the strange sadness of hitting adulthood and learning the jacuzzi suit is not a real product grown-ups can purchase.
#TheSimpsons
#TheSimpsons
How petty am I?
When a friend said a joke tweet was bad in 2016, I registered the domain “besttweet [dot] online”, had it redirect to said tweet, and committed to a 5+ year bit.
I’m not sure he was ever aware I did it.
When a friend said a joke tweet was bad in 2016, I registered the domain “besttweet [dot] online”, had it redirect to said tweet, and committed to a 5+ year bit.
I’m not sure he was ever aware I did it.
June 4, 2025 at 4:43 AM
How petty am I?
When a friend said a joke tweet was bad in 2016, I registered the domain “besttweet [dot] online”, had it redirect to said tweet, and committed to a 5+ year bit.
I’m not sure he was ever aware I did it.
When a friend said a joke tweet was bad in 2016, I registered the domain “besttweet [dot] online”, had it redirect to said tweet, and committed to a 5+ year bit.
I’m not sure he was ever aware I did it.
I know you’re all eager for tonight’s #DoctorWho finale, but can we please dedicate the next few hours instead to this unreasonably funny moment from the missing 1964 serial “Marco Polo” in which the Doctor gets Ian’s name wrong?
May 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I know you’re all eager for tonight’s #DoctorWho finale, but can we please dedicate the next few hours instead to this unreasonably funny moment from the missing 1964 serial “Marco Polo” in which the Doctor gets Ian’s name wrong?
Watching Spaceballs (1987) for the first time and wishing I were enjoying it more.
It’s strange that all the Mel Brooks movies I happened to watch as a child are objectively hilarious and timeless, while the ones I’m only getting around to now in my 40s are pretty dull and dated.
It’s strange that all the Mel Brooks movies I happened to watch as a child are objectively hilarious and timeless, while the ones I’m only getting around to now in my 40s are pretty dull and dated.
May 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Watching Spaceballs (1987) for the first time and wishing I were enjoying it more.
It’s strange that all the Mel Brooks movies I happened to watch as a child are objectively hilarious and timeless, while the ones I’m only getting around to now in my 40s are pretty dull and dated.
It’s strange that all the Mel Brooks movies I happened to watch as a child are objectively hilarious and timeless, while the ones I’m only getting around to now in my 40s are pretty dull and dated.
This topical 2017 tweet never took off the way I’d hoped. Maybe it can get a fair go here?
If could you please all pretend it’s eight years ago and you’ve just seen the trailer for Super Mario Odyssey, and then reacquaint yourself with the 1995 Simpsons story “Homer³”, this should be a real hoot:
If could you please all pretend it’s eight years ago and you’ve just seen the trailer for Super Mario Odyssey, and then reacquaint yourself with the 1995 Simpsons story “Homer³”, this should be a real hoot:
May 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This topical 2017 tweet never took off the way I’d hoped. Maybe it can get a fair go here?
If could you please all pretend it’s eight years ago and you’ve just seen the trailer for Super Mario Odyssey, and then reacquaint yourself with the 1995 Simpsons story “Homer³”, this should be a real hoot:
If could you please all pretend it’s eight years ago and you’ve just seen the trailer for Super Mario Odyssey, and then reacquaint yourself with the 1995 Simpsons story “Homer³”, this should be a real hoot:
And don’t get me started on the blatant fourth wall breaking.
May 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
And don’t get me started on the blatant fourth wall breaking.
Advertise your account with Simpsons image
May 26, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Advertise your account with Simpsons image
The end of The Great Train Robbery (1903) still holds a quiet power today.
But it’s nowhere near as terrifying or confronting as the final shot of The Dancing Pig (1907).
#silentfilm #earlycinema #1900s
But it’s nowhere near as terrifying or confronting as the final shot of The Dancing Pig (1907).
#silentfilm #earlycinema #1900s
May 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The end of The Great Train Robbery (1903) still holds a quiet power today.
But it’s nowhere near as terrifying or confronting as the final shot of The Dancing Pig (1907).
#silentfilm #earlycinema #1900s
But it’s nowhere near as terrifying or confronting as the final shot of The Dancing Pig (1907).
#silentfilm #earlycinema #1900s
#StarWars fans argue about many things, but on one matter we unanimously agree:
The word “Mofference” should be reintroduced to canon and used in every story.
@morecivilized.bsky.social
The word “Mofference” should be reintroduced to canon and used in every story.
@morecivilized.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
#StarWars fans argue about many things, but on one matter we unanimously agree:
The word “Mofference” should be reintroduced to canon and used in every story.
@morecivilized.bsky.social
The word “Mofference” should be reintroduced to canon and used in every story.
@morecivilized.bsky.social
Adulthood is accepting that — contrary to ‘90s schoolyard opinion — Ma-Ti was the best Planeteer.
Imagine having the power to spread empathy in this political climate. The kid could change the world.
If only your relentless bullying hadn’t driven him to an early retirement in 1996.
#CaptainPlanet
Imagine having the power to spread empathy in this political climate. The kid could change the world.
If only your relentless bullying hadn’t driven him to an early retirement in 1996.
#CaptainPlanet
May 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Adulthood is accepting that — contrary to ‘90s schoolyard opinion — Ma-Ti was the best Planeteer.
Imagine having the power to spread empathy in this political climate. The kid could change the world.
If only your relentless bullying hadn’t driven him to an early retirement in 1996.
#CaptainPlanet
Imagine having the power to spread empathy in this political climate. The kid could change the world.
If only your relentless bullying hadn’t driven him to an early retirement in 1996.
#CaptainPlanet
Mortified to learn I missed the 25th anniversary of #TheXFiles season 7, episode 19: “Hollywood A.D.”
How did you all celebrate this year?
How did you all celebrate this year?
May 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Mortified to learn I missed the 25th anniversary of #TheXFiles season 7, episode 19: “Hollywood A.D.”
How did you all celebrate this year?
How did you all celebrate this year?
Found the uncensored #MileyCyrus Wrecking Ball video. I can’t believe they cut the best part.
May 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Found the uncensored #MileyCyrus Wrecking Ball video. I can’t believe they cut the best part.
When she wasn’t busy Being An Inspiration, Helen Keller took devastating passive-agressive aim at the editors who discouraged her from writing about Uninspirational Things.
#HelenKeller
#HelenKeller
May 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
When she wasn’t busy Being An Inspiration, Helen Keller took devastating passive-agressive aim at the editors who discouraged her from writing about Uninspirational Things.
#HelenKeller
#HelenKeller
I love watching a music video of a timeless ‘80s or ‘90s love song, only to discover it’s an extremely timestamped tie-in to a blockbuster action movie.
May 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I love watching a music video of a timeless ‘80s or ‘90s love song, only to discover it’s an extremely timestamped tie-in to a blockbuster action movie.
🚨 Comminity safety alert 🚨
Stay safe out there, everyone.
Stay safe out there, everyone.
May 1, 2025 at 6:19 AM
🚨 Comminity safety alert 🚨
Stay safe out there, everyone.
Stay safe out there, everyone.
I’m obsessed with this creepy 1890 footage, recorded in Edison Labs to test new Kinetoscope technology.
It feels like a long-dead person trying to warn us of something terrible. More befitting a message from the stars than from 135 years ago.
#FilmHistory #SilentFilm #1800s
It feels like a long-dead person trying to warn us of something terrible. More befitting a message from the stars than from 135 years ago.
#FilmHistory #SilentFilm #1800s
April 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I’m obsessed with this creepy 1890 footage, recorded in Edison Labs to test new Kinetoscope technology.
It feels like a long-dead person trying to warn us of something terrible. More befitting a message from the stars than from 135 years ago.
#FilmHistory #SilentFilm #1800s
It feels like a long-dead person trying to warn us of something terrible. More befitting a message from the stars than from 135 years ago.
#FilmHistory #SilentFilm #1800s