John Bizzell
@bizabizzelli.bsky.social
Fortysomething homosexual usually found in a theatre. Or a theatre bar. Or any bar really.
Finally finished knitting this weird triangular scarf I've been dithering with all year and I just can't see what it WON'T be useful for!
December 29, 2024 at 10:37 AM
Finally finished knitting this weird triangular scarf I've been dithering with all year and I just can't see what it WON'T be useful for!
"Mother, I cannot sing fallen leaves back onto their branches." A #SundaySentence from Nocturne by Saeed Jones, in When the Only Light Is Fire.
December 29, 2024 at 9:00 AM
"Mother, I cannot sing fallen leaves back onto their branches." A #SundaySentence from Nocturne by Saeed Jones, in When the Only Light Is Fire.
The betwixtmas mist has descended. Where are we? Who are we? When are it?
December 27, 2024 at 1:54 PM
The betwixtmas mist has descended. Where are we? Who are we? When are it?
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
December 25, 2024 at 2:53 AM
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
Such a lovely warm feeling from all the brands I've bought things from this year emailing me their best wishes for my Christmas!
December 24, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Such a lovely warm feeling from all the brands I've bought things from this year emailing me their best wishes for my Christmas!
"Always so emotional, he says, rapping Ed on the head, as if a head full of emotion makes a certain sound, like a wall full of pipes or asbestos." A #SundaySentence from Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna.
December 22, 2024 at 12:56 PM
"Always so emotional, he says, rapping Ed on the head, as if a head full of emotion makes a certain sound, like a wall full of pipes or asbestos." A #SundaySentence from Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna.
Caught up on four days of my Lindt advent calendar and now I feel sick. Festive af.
December 19, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Caught up on four days of my Lindt advent calendar and now I feel sick. Festive af.
A character I'm reading about 'never speaks over anyone or for longer than he should' and that is so on-the-nose the exact opposite of what I'm like that I've had close the book in embarrassment and walk away.
December 18, 2024 at 11:13 AM
A character I'm reading about 'never speaks over anyone or for longer than he should' and that is so on-the-nose the exact opposite of what I'm like that I've had close the book in embarrassment and walk away.
"Under his parents' roof, in his father's car, on the streets where he grew up, he wasn't free to be himself, to explore his dimensions, to take those mighty leaps. Not if he ever wanted to return." A #SundaySentence from Please Come to Boston by Gary Goldstein.
December 15, 2024 at 12:15 PM
"Under his parents' roof, in his father's car, on the streets where he grew up, he wasn't free to be himself, to explore his dimensions, to take those mighty leaps. Not if he ever wanted to return." A #SundaySentence from Please Come to Boston by Gary Goldstein.
Sandi: "Which West End performer, born in 1962, is known for playing Marius in Les Miserables and the title character in Sweeney Todd?"
Contestant: "Maria Callas."
:-O #15to1
Contestant: "Maria Callas."
:-O #15to1
December 12, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Sandi: "Which West End performer, born in 1962, is known for playing Marius in Les Miserables and the title character in Sweeney Todd?"
Contestant: "Maria Callas."
:-O #15to1
Contestant: "Maria Callas."
:-O #15to1
The bad news is, aged 43 I still haven't learned that 17 glasses of Prosecco and a handful of festive nut mix for dinner equals feeling absolutely dreadful for breaksfast. The good news is my final meeting of the year has just been cancelled.
December 12, 2024 at 12:14 PM
The bad news is, aged 43 I still haven't learned that 17 glasses of Prosecco and a handful of festive nut mix for dinner equals feeling absolutely dreadful for breaksfast. The good news is my final meeting of the year has just been cancelled.
I dropped a small Seedful maple crunch bar on my kitchen floor and it shattered like a crystal chandelier. There are seeds as far as the eye can see. I bought these for my health.
December 10, 2024 at 10:46 AM
I dropped a small Seedful maple crunch bar on my kitchen floor and it shattered like a crystal chandelier. There are seeds as far as the eye can see. I bought these for my health.
"After that I also appeared with Elton John and a pregnant Diana Ross on the Rock Music Awards, having been carried in on a bier by half-naked men (just another Friday afternoon)." A #SundaySentence from Cher: The Memoir by Cher, The Global Icon.
December 8, 2024 at 12:00 PM
"After that I also appeared with Elton John and a pregnant Diana Ross on the Rock Music Awards, having been carried in on a bier by half-naked men (just another Friday afternoon)." A #SundaySentence from Cher: The Memoir by Cher, The Global Icon.
Fuck it, I'm opening the Baileys.
December 7, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Fuck it, I'm opening the Baileys.
Missing the work Christmas party tonight due to a chest infection. Sometimes fate takes a hand.
December 5, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Missing the work Christmas party tonight due to a chest infection. Sometimes fate takes a hand.
"I would like to thank the Alabama public school system for gifting me irony, foreshadowing, rage, and the secular witchcraft that is literature." A #SundaySentence from Ten Bridges I've Burned by Brontez Purnell.
December 1, 2024 at 8:00 PM
"I would like to thank the Alabama public school system for gifting me irony, foreshadowing, rage, and the secular witchcraft that is literature." A #SundaySentence from Ten Bridges I've Burned by Brontez Purnell.
I don't say this lightly, but the merchandising in the gift shop at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is the best I've ever seen. Take all my money. Thank you.
December 1, 2024 at 2:08 PM
I don't say this lightly, but the merchandising in the gift shop at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is the best I've ever seen. Take all my money. Thank you.
Turns out I just needed to drink some water.
December 1, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Turns out I just needed to drink some water.
Things our guide said during today's walking tour of Copenhagen:
"A good old-fashioned beheading."
"He was very generous with his yeast."
"If you take the rye bread away from a Dane he will wither and die."
"A good old-fashioned beheading."
"He was very generous with his yeast."
"If you take the rye bread away from a Dane he will wither and die."
November 30, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Things our guide said during today's walking tour of Copenhagen:
"A good old-fashioned beheading."
"He was very generous with his yeast."
"If you take the rye bread away from a Dane he will wither and die."
"A good old-fashioned beheading."
"He was very generous with his yeast."
"If you take the rye bread away from a Dane he will wither and die."
One thing I've learnt today is that the world is definitely bleak enough already atm without me ever cooking myself wholewheat macaroni again.
November 26, 2024 at 12:53 PM
One thing I've learnt today is that the world is definitely bleak enough already atm without me ever cooking myself wholewheat macaroni again.
Leave it to the Hackney Empire panto to give you a bit of Joan Armatrading alongside its usual campery and chaos. Clive Rowe barely holds everything together wonderfully and mercilessly came for my Argentinian friend Nacho who had no idea what was going on but loved it. COO-EE!
November 24, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Leave it to the Hackney Empire panto to give you a bit of Joan Armatrading alongside its usual campery and chaos. Clive Rowe barely holds everything together wonderfully and mercilessly came for my Argentinian friend Nacho who had no idea what was going on but loved it. COO-EE!
"Charlie was ethereal. One of those skinny boys with translucent hair flicked across his face, girlish hands, girlish hips, and laughter like a flock of lavender balloons." A #SundaySentence from Snapping the Stars by Adam Lowe, in Patterflash.
November 24, 2024 at 11:32 AM
"Charlie was ethereal. One of those skinny boys with translucent hair flicked across his face, girlish hands, girlish hips, and laughter like a flock of lavender balloons." A #SundaySentence from Snapping the Stars by Adam Lowe, in Patterflash.
Me and every tweenage girl in South East London just lost our shit for the Wicked movie. The show has never really been my thing (though I have seen it three times because gay) but I really felt it today. Stunning. Ruby slippers for everyone. 👏👏👏
November 23, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Me and every tweenage girl in South East London just lost our shit for the Wicked movie. The show has never really been my thing (though I have seen it three times because gay) but I really felt it today. Stunning. Ruby slippers for everyone. 👏👏👏
Shout out to anyone else who realised early-doors it was a jacket spud lunch day and got that greased up beauty in the oven at 11am. WE ARE ABOUT TO FEAST ON OUR OWN GLORY.
November 22, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Shout out to anyone else who realised early-doors it was a jacket spud lunch day and got that greased up beauty in the oven at 11am. WE ARE ABOUT TO FEAST ON OUR OWN GLORY.
A 40-minute first act and a 90-minute second act is a completely unwarranted challenge to bladder control. And that, friends, is my review of Juno and the Paycock at the Gielgud Theatre. Goodnight.
November 21, 2024 at 10:32 PM
A 40-minute first act and a 90-minute second act is a completely unwarranted challenge to bladder control. And that, friends, is my review of Juno and the Paycock at the Gielgud Theatre. Goodnight.