Chris Davies
@camberwellk.bsky.social
It’s proper teenage / undergraduate writing. Someone who has been praised for their talent and is really excited about what they can do with the written word, but who hasn’t had the right guidance or enough experience to understand that they need to tone it down a couple of orders of magnitude.
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It’s proper teenage / undergraduate writing. Someone who has been praised for their talent and is really excited about what they can do with the written word, but who hasn’t had the right guidance or enough experience to understand that they need to tone it down a couple of orders of magnitude.
I play D&D and sad to say, my games are constantly invaded by woke virtue signallers. They come in through the windows and the chimney and sometimes out of the taps. The police are not interested. Sometimes they appear my dreams and memories. I have sent many letters to my local paper on this matter
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I play D&D and sad to say, my games are constantly invaded by woke virtue signallers. They come in through the windows and the chimney and sometimes out of the taps. The police are not interested. Sometimes they appear my dreams and memories. I have sent many letters to my local paper on this matter
The Long Kiss Goodnight is my usual Christmas film - a heartwarming mix of comedy, snow, and of course hundreds of faceless goons being dispatched by Geena Davis.
November 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The Long Kiss Goodnight is my usual Christmas film - a heartwarming mix of comedy, snow, and of course hundreds of faceless goons being dispatched by Geena Davis.
It really is as simple as enacting about eleven of the most unpopular government policies imaginable all in one go.
October 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
It really is as simple as enacting about eleven of the most unpopular government policies imaginable all in one go.
You hear a lot about the banality of evil, but not so much about the lameness of evil.
October 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
You hear a lot about the banality of evil, but not so much about the lameness of evil.
You’ll of course remember Tom Arnold (actor, True Lies II)
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
You’ll of course remember Tom Arnold (actor, True Lies II)
Can you say where that info came from? I remember from your book that you got a Japanese student to translate Japanese games mags to scoop your competitors, but those news items are very prescient.
September 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Can you say where that info came from? I remember from your book that you got a Japanese student to translate Japanese games mags to scoop your competitors, but those news items are very prescient.
I agree fully on the parentage thing, but I thought “Jedi’s weapon deserves respect” was fine - Luke’s regained his self-worth and his respect for the Jedi after TLJ, thanks to Rey, so it made sense to me that he’d say that. Luke at the end of TFA is very different to Luke at the end of TLJ.
September 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I agree fully on the parentage thing, but I thought “Jedi’s weapon deserves respect” was fine - Luke’s regained his self-worth and his respect for the Jedi after TLJ, thanks to Rey, so it made sense to me that he’d say that. Luke at the end of TFA is very different to Luke at the end of TLJ.
The dialogue in The Getaway was so awkward and weird that my friends and I quoted it for years, ie “I made more money off porno on the internet than you ever made in the knocking shops of Soho” or “you’re not seriously listening to this MAD TOSSER are you?”. The delivery on mad tosser cracks me up.
September 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The dialogue in The Getaway was so awkward and weird that my friends and I quoted it for years, ie “I made more money off porno on the internet than you ever made in the knocking shops of Soho” or “you’re not seriously listening to this MAD TOSSER are you?”. The delivery on mad tosser cracks me up.
The penis gang are one of the last uncontacted tribes of Sydenham Woods. Their existence is inferred from runes featuring a symbol believed by anthropologists to be a god or holy figure, characterised by its hairs, shaft, and stylised white mana projected onto the faces of rival tribes’ mums.
August 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The penis gang are one of the last uncontacted tribes of Sydenham Woods. Their existence is inferred from runes featuring a symbol believed by anthropologists to be a god or holy figure, characterised by its hairs, shaft, and stylised white mana projected onto the faces of rival tribes’ mums.
In south London, things have already escalated to the point where people are writing PENIS GANG on trees.
August 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
In south London, things have already escalated to the point where people are writing PENIS GANG on trees.
From the author of Dune of Children
August 13, 2025 at 7:28 AM
From the author of Dune of Children
I can’t believe this guy didn’t finish the message with “…and the other is of Stalin and Mao.”
July 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I can’t believe this guy didn’t finish the message with “…and the other is of Stalin and Mao.”
Yes! Have you read the book it was based on? I slept on it for 20+ years, but it’s 100% worth reading. Beautifully clever, innovative, intricate book from an under appreciated author.
July 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Yes! Have you read the book it was based on? I slept on it for 20+ years, but it’s 100% worth reading. Beautifully clever, innovative, intricate book from an under appreciated author.
There were surprisingly few culture clash jokes in BTTF when I rewatched - there’s a 20 minute sequence where there are loads, right after Marty arrives in 1955, but after that the film concentrates on the relationship with his parents. Which is universal. So you could easily make it today.
July 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
There were surprisingly few culture clash jokes in BTTF when I rewatched - there’s a 20 minute sequence where there are loads, right after Marty arrives in 1955, but after that the film concentrates on the relationship with his parents. Which is universal. So you could easily make it today.
Special mention for “when your girl has left you out on the pavement [alan partridge voice] goodbye! [/alan partridge voice]
June 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Special mention for “when your girl has left you out on the pavement [alan partridge voice] goodbye! [/alan partridge voice]
It’s too good a song to be fully killed off by a cover, but the “there’s one thing, there’s one thing that mmmhngmslurp turns this GREY SKY TO BLUE” bit had me in tears.
June 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
It’s too good a song to be fully killed off by a cover, but the “there’s one thing, there’s one thing that mmmhngmslurp turns this GREY SKY TO BLUE” bit had me in tears.
Picking up cows with a winch and dropping them off on an aircraft carrier? Please say yes.
May 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Picking up cows with a winch and dropping them off on an aircraft carrier? Please say yes.
Fascism was characterised by embracing modernity & technology (i.e. the Nazi’s use of planes & the radio, or the crossover between Italian fascism and futurism & their use of modern art and graphic design). Whoever said “all nostalgia is fascist” understands neither fascism or art.
May 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Fascism was characterised by embracing modernity & technology (i.e. the Nazi’s use of planes & the radio, or the crossover between Italian fascism and futurism & their use of modern art and graphic design). Whoever said “all nostalgia is fascist” understands neither fascism or art.
I thought it was Desert Strike based on what’s on the screen.
May 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I thought it was Desert Strike based on what’s on the screen.
My aunt gave me that book to read when I was about nine. I found it traumatising, to the extent that I still remember the scene in the school gym now. Short of American Psycho, I can’t think of a less appropriate book to give a child.
May 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
My aunt gave me that book to read when I was about nine. I found it traumatising, to the extent that I still remember the scene in the school gym now. Short of American Psycho, I can’t think of a less appropriate book to give a child.