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Captain Howdy
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Watched the movie "The Crowded Day" (1954) for the 1st time & was completely oblivious to the fact that staff hostels for unmarried female workers were an actual thing. The film itself veers wildly from light comedy to a nightmarish noir chase scene, but it was highly educational, albeit indirectly.
A scene from 1954's "The Crowded Day" (AKA: Tomorrow is Sunday) showing a black and white interior shot of a department store sales assistant dressed in black advising a mother and daughter in sensible winter clothing about wedding dresses.
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Elton John's Christmas collaboration with John Lewis was the UK's No. 1 trending topic on Twitter, on this day in 2018. It didn't last long.
A two panel image. The top panel shows an image from that year's John Lewis Christmas advert - Elton John, wearing a sparkly Stars and Stripes jacket, stands on a piano with his back to us as he looks out across a rammed Dodger Stadium. On the left hand side of the image is a list of Twitter's United Kingdom trends: #EltonJohnLewis, Rocketman, Elton John, #TheBoyAndThePiano, Your Song, #StepIntoXmas, Reg Dwight, #JohnLewisChristmas and Elton IS Christmas. The time stamp at the top of the image reads 8.59AM. The bottom panel shows the exact same image of Elton John, but Dodger Stadium is now all but deserted. On the left hand side of the image is a list of Twitter's United Kingdom trends: #BrexitChaos, Dominic Raab, Brexit, #BrexitAgreement, Esther McVey, #BrexitShambles, Brexit Secretary, Commons and They Don't Even Sell Pianos (Elton Gone). The time stamp at the top of the image reads 9.02AM.
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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What a pisser!
The Distracted Girlfriend meme, but the girlfriend is now Elaine Dickinson from "Airplane!" (1980), the boyfriend is Ted Striker, (pulling his "what a pisser!" face as he looks right at us), and the object of Elaine's attention is Otto Pilot, the handsy inflatable autopilot. If Elaine's eyes look weird, it's because they are. I had to reset them because they were looking the wrong way and now they look weird due to the fact I was too lazy to make them appear like actual eyes and not something I'd just drawn on her eyelids.
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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From this day in 2013.
An image of IKEA man with some paperwork in his hands and a question mark thought bubble next to his head. There is an unopened box at his feet. The word "SCHRÖDINGER" is in bold at the top of the image.
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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An image from "Airplane!" (1980) showing Johnny - a bald-headed excitable man in a white collared shirt - reading the latest headline with obvious glee. He has the word "PERVERTS" in bold yellow letters across his chest. Next to him, and decidedly haunted by what he knows is coming, is McCroskey - a drug-addled man in the same clothing who is smoking a cigarette. The words "EVERYONE ELSE" in bold yellow letters is visible across his torso.
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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From this day in 2016.
The album cover for "Arrival" by ABBA which shows the band sitting in the front of a clear-domed, stationary helicopter in a field. They are all dressed in the orange hazmat/environmental suits from the movie "Arrival" (2016). In the background, hovering above the field, is one of the immense, monolithic alien spacecraft. Here is where the story ends, (but also starts), this is goodbye, (but also hello).
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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A title screen for Netflix, but the site is now called "Nutflix" and shows various images of dudes getting thumped in the goolies under the "Popular on Nutflix" and "Recently Watched" headings. Includes such all-time greats as "Ow! My Balls!" from Idiocracy, Van Damme whacking a sumo wrestler's plums and a Johnny Cage nut-smash classic from Mortal Kombat.
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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It's beautiful.
November 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Hugh Gray took the 1st known photograph of the Loch Ness Monster on this day in 1933. It clearly shows the Scottish cryptid that modern science has repeatedly failed to provide any concrete evidence for, and is definitely not a blurry photo of a dog swimming towards us with a stick in its mouth.
A blurry photograph of a dog swimming towards us with a stick in its mouth. Or is it?
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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From this day in 2019.
A photo of Alexander de Pfeffel and his 13th bride Carrie, sitting at a table in an overgrown country pub beer garden while gazing lovingly into each other's eyes. I think the original photo was posted to fend off claims that Carrie and Johnson were going through a rough patch, but they now have a selection of friends joining them at their not-at-all staged love-in. Dominic Cummings is giving the pair the side eye as he strolls behind them with a phone in his hand. Vladimir Putin sits at the opposite end of the table with a warming cup of polonium in his hand as a half-smile plays across his lips. Walking towards us in the foreground is a post-plane crash Nigel Farage with the supportive arm of Donald Trump around his shoulder. Between the two men is the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein, whose shade is doomed to spend all of eternity haunting his beloved pal Donald, ensuring he never knows a day of peace for the remainder of his wretched life.
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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"Jack Deth is back... and he's never even been here before!"
The landscape UK movie poster for "Trancers" (1984) showing an airbrushed, side-on image of Jack Deth, future cop and Santa-slayer, who's wearing a mad crash helmet and holding a jazzy space pistol that looks suspiciously like the kind of flimsy light gun you'd get with some cheap, knock-off console back in 1982. The tagline reads "Jack Deth is back... and he's never even been here before!". Adding the unnecessary "even" to the tagline just makes me hear it in Rik Mayall's voice.
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Petrified Beef!
Beef, wearing a yellow shower cap and shocked expression, gets his mouth plunged by Winslow, the Phantom of The Paradise, while taking a shower in a white tiled bathroom.
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Also.
The scene from "An American Werewolf in London" showing the moment where Gerald falls onto the escalator in Tottenham Court Road. At the bottom of the escalator is a Scotsman in a kilt pushing a flaming lawnmower. The letters of An American Werewolf in London have been rearranged to spell "Caledonian Inferno Lawnmower". The movie poster for "The Long Good Friday" showing Harry Shand in a white jacket grimacing with Tower Bridge behind him. The towers have been replaced by massive Noddys (not Slade). One is an actual picture of Noddy. The other is the same image, same pose, but badly drawn. The letters of The Long Good Friday have been rearranged to spell "Forge Goliath Noddy". The tagline reads "You'll never tell them apart" The words "Like massive fuckin' twins!" sits underneath.
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I was making anagram movie posters on this day in 2019.
The movie poster for "The Lion King" showing a desert sunset with a figure in silhouette standing on a rock. The figure is now Worf holding his bat'leth and the letters of The Lion King have been rearranged to spell "I, The Klingon". The tagline reads "If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand!" A snowy image from "Kubo and the Two Strings" showing Kubo confronting evil felines on snowboards. The letters of Kubo and the Two Strings have been rearranged to spell "Kitten Snowboard Thugs". The movie poster for "A Few Dollars More" showing a closeup of Clint Eastwood holding his pistol, with 3 figures in the distance all sporting massive spherical hairstyles. The letters of A Few Dollars More have been rearranged to spell "Armed Afro Followers". The widely recognised book cover for "A Clockwork Orange" showing a barely-drawn figure in a bowler hat with cog makeup around their one visible eye. The figure now has an orange traffic cone on his head and his one eye is half-closed. The letters A Clockwork Orange have been rearranged to spell "Corona Keg Warlock". The magic happens after your 8th pint.
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Donald Pleasance's Blofeld, wearing a tan jacket and holding his fluffy white cat while sitting in his supervillain chair, but he now has Jeff Bezos' gurning mug.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Not sure why Amazon are seemingly stuck on how to revive Bond. He's essentially a Time Lord with a taste for assassination, so just change his face and tell whatever story you like.
The album cover for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but instead of The Beatles and their idols, it's all the official Bonds and every major villain plus some key henchmen/henchwomen. If I've missed anyone you think should be included, feel free to make your own compilation.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Watching 'The Day of The Beast' & idly assembling a list of Apocalyptic Christmas movies from memory. I don't mean festive films where shit happens, but proper end of the world stuff, like Await Further Instructions, Silent Night, Anna & The Apocalypse, The Children & Night of the Comet. Any others?
A rainy, night-time image from "The Day of the Beast" (1995) showing a top down view of a priest being smashed through the window of a tall building while holding a jam jar full of virgin's blood in his left hand.
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Also:
A picture of Oscar the Grouch in a darkened, rain-lashed alley. His head, which is sticking out of his beloved dustbin/garbage can, is the only part of him we can see. A still from the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot/Sasquatch footage, showing a furry figure striding through some woods in Northern California in 1967. Bigfoot is now Cookie Monster.
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Sesame Street, the world's most inclusive neighbourhood, made its debut on this day in 1969.
The movie poster for "Jaws" (1975), but instead of a shark we see Cookie Monster rising from the depths to devour the (admittedly rather large) cookie which is bobbing about on the surface of the water. The title now reads 'JARS'.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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From this day in 2010.
Judge Fear, one of the Dark Judges and occasional Judge Dredd botherer. He's got a batwing helmet on his head, with a gated, (though thankfully closed), opening where his mouth should be. There are man-traps slung across each shoulder and he's dressed in a distressed leather judge's outfit with a ragged black robe over the top.
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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"Don't look at me, I'm irrelevant."

'The Young Ones' made their BBC2 debut on this day in 1982.
The movie poster for "The Lost Boys" which shows the main characters in black and white, looking all mean and moody in their 80s leather jackets, against a red background. They have been replaced by The Young Ones. Rik has taken Michael's place, Vyv is where David used to be, Neil has replaced Star (with his head resting on Vyv's shoulder), Dwayne is Mike and Sam is now Jerzei Balowski.
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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"I have found sanity at such a cost, and you here... are madness calling me back."

'Frankenstein' is an absolutely stunning achievement and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
An image from "Frankenstein" (2025) showing Victor's creation sitting down on the steps of some snowy ruins. He is holding a photographic plate of one of the many dead faces that make up the patchwork of his own face in front of him, obscuring his features.
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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For any that like to make note of promised sequels that never came about, here's another one for the list.
I should mention that my only reason for re-watching "Doctor Detroit" was because of a recent conversation about long-forgotten comedies we loved in the early days of home video.
Never go back.
The end credits of "Doctor Detroit" (1983) showing the title card for a sequel that never came. It joins the ranks of other early 80s films like "Buckaroo Banzai" and "The Sword and The Sorcerer" which were equally, though ultimately unwisely, convinced of their own success. The title card, a direct riff on the previous year's "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", right down to the use of identical fonts, makes the bold claim that "The Doctor returns in Doctor Detroit II: The Wrath of Mom". Dan Aykroyd had apparently started work on the proposed sequel's script while filming the first movie, but it's disastrous turn at the box office soon put paid to that. In summary: it is an awful mess of a movie, but does include some delightfully catchy 80s pop tunes.
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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The "Guy Forks" episode of Worzel Gummidge is about to start on BBC3. If any recent show deserved a 3rd series, or even a Christmas Special, it was this one.
Guy Forks sits atop an unlit bonfire.
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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An exterior photo of The White House showing what looks to be a taped-on sign that reads "The Oval Office" in gaudy gold script. The words have been changed to read "Live, Laugh, Love".
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM