Dan Rhodes
@danrhodes.bsky.social
Anthropology, Timoleon Vieta, Sour Grapes, etc..
Standards have fallen; my value has dropped.
https://danrhodes.co.uk
Standards have fallen; my value has dropped.
https://danrhodes.co.uk
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Dan Rhodes
@danrhodes.bsky.social
· May 18
You think I don't do anything, but you're wrong. Read all about it here.
Showbiz Silver Jubilee
That’s right, people – I’ve been on the front line of the entertainment industry for a full quarter of a century. Twenty-five years ago today my first book, Anthropology, was publishe…
danrhodes.co.uk
High Court injunctions notwithstanding, this will be out as a limited run hardback a few months from now – probably first thing in 2026, as my day job goes mental at Christmas. Put £20 under your mattress, and sign up to my website to be the first to know. You snooze, you lose.
I've not heard them all, but I reckon the best song in the first quarter of this century must surely be Ghosts by Siobhan Donaghy.
Ghosts by Siobhan Donaghy on Apple Music
Song · 2007 · Duration 3:55
music.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I've not heard them all, but I reckon the best song in the first quarter of this century must surely be Ghosts by Siobhan Donaghy.
The people who run the company are both sinister and pathetic. [Bearing in mind they've been caught sending legal letters to poetry correspondents I don't think they have the credibility to dispute this.]
The Canongate response to Sarah Doyle re her poem about Laika (another piece in the Sunday Times today) has merely reminded me how badly Canongate treated Dan Rhodes.
I was the other poet in the Len Pennie row: here’s my story
Sarah Doyle’s poem Laika won high praise but when she queried similarities to it with the poem Good Girl she was caught up in a storm of accusation, denial and online vitriol
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The people who run the company are both sinister and pathetic. [Bearing in mind they've been caught sending legal letters to poetry correspondents I don't think they have the credibility to dispute this.]
Reposted by Dan Rhodes
I did watch this over the weekend.
They really could not make it today.
Very silly but plenty of fun. Entirely obvious what was going to happen after the opening five minutes, and all the better for it.
They really could not make it today.
Very silly but plenty of fun. Entirely obvious what was going to happen after the opening five minutes, and all the better for it.
It's this weekend or never.
I'm not sure you people deserve me.
I'm not sure you people deserve me.
Listen, right – after sitting there for years, the wonderfully peculiar they-couldn't-make-it-today Cary Grant & Shirley Temple film Bachelor Knight is only going to be on the iplayer for another 17 days. Don't miss it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
November 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I did watch this over the weekend.
They really could not make it today.
Very silly but plenty of fun. Entirely obvious what was going to happen after the opening five minutes, and all the better for it.
They really could not make it today.
Very silly but plenty of fun. Entirely obvious what was going to happen after the opening five minutes, and all the better for it.
Reposted by Dan Rhodes
It's this weekend or never.
I'm not sure you people deserve me.
I'm not sure you people deserve me.
Listen, right – after sitting there for years, the wonderfully peculiar they-couldn't-make-it-today Cary Grant & Shirley Temple film Bachelor Knight is only going to be on the iplayer for another 17 days. Don't miss it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Bachelor Knight
Comedy about a teacher (Cary Grant) whose playboy antics are curbed by a judge who insists that he romance a girl (Shirley Temple), until her crush on him wears off.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It's this weekend or never.
I'm not sure you people deserve me.
I'm not sure you people deserve me.
It's this weekend or never.
I'm not sure you people deserve me.
I'm not sure you people deserve me.
Listen, right – after sitting there for years, the wonderfully peculiar they-couldn't-make-it-today Cary Grant & Shirley Temple film Bachelor Knight is only going to be on the iplayer for another 17 days. Don't miss it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Bachelor Knight
Comedy about a teacher (Cary Grant) whose playboy antics are curbed by a judge who insists that he romance a girl (Shirley Temple), until her crush on him wears off.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It's this weekend or never.
I'm not sure you people deserve me.
I'm not sure you people deserve me.
Why does everything have to have a happy ending these days?
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Why does everything have to have a happy ending these days?
Solid work from Frenchy here.
Suzy Bennett & are starting a new comedy night 'I don't Usually Find Women Funny' as we've lost count of the number of times we've heard it & we're fed up. We put a call out for videos & was delighted when Dawn French responded!
Follow us on Instagram @idonotfindwomenfunny for more updates.
Follow us on Instagram @idonotfindwomenfunny for more updates.
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Solid work from Frenchy here.
People in the book trade think I go around looking for trouble, but I really don't. If anything I'm like Kendo Nagasaki.
November 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
People in the book trade think I go around looking for trouble, but I really don't. If anything I'm like Kendo Nagasaki.
Unless there's something wrong with you www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Arena - Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood
Programme from 1980 exploring the work of writer and performer Victoria Wood and teenage playwright Andrea Dunbar.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Unless there's something wrong with you www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
25 years since Mynci 2000.
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
25 years since Mynci 2000.
The Profanisaurus in the current Viz is even better than usual.
November 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The Profanisaurus in the current Viz is even better than usual.
Not read Private Eye for years because of their accursed book pages, but Dumb Britain still haunts me. I bet it's not changed.
PRESENTER: In Greek Mythology, who was the father of Megapenthes, Pleisthenes and Aethiolas?
CONTESTANT: Agamemnon.
PRESENTER: In Greek Mythology, who was the father of Megapenthes, Pleisthenes and Aethiolas?
CONTESTANT: Agamemnon.
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Not read Private Eye for years because of their accursed book pages, but Dumb Britain still haunts me. I bet it's not changed.
PRESENTER: In Greek Mythology, who was the father of Megapenthes, Pleisthenes and Aethiolas?
CONTESTANT: Agamemnon.
PRESENTER: In Greek Mythology, who was the father of Megapenthes, Pleisthenes and Aethiolas?
CONTESTANT: Agamemnon.
I've been to Eliza Carthy and John Boden's wassailing show, so Christmas has officially begun.
November 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I've been to Eliza Carthy and John Boden's wassailing show, so Christmas has officially begun.
Listen, right – after sitting there for years, the wonderfully peculiar they-couldn't-make-it-today Cary Grant & Shirley Temple film Bachelor Knight is only going to be on the iplayer for another 17 days. Don't miss it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Bachelor Knight
Comedy about a teacher (Cary Grant) whose playboy antics are curbed by a judge who insists that he romance a girl (Shirley Temple), until her crush on him wears off.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Listen, right – after sitting there for years, the wonderfully peculiar they-couldn't-make-it-today Cary Grant & Shirley Temple film Bachelor Knight is only going to be on the iplayer for another 17 days. Don't miss it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
New music from the mighty @advancebase.bsky.social
Advance Base- Movie Theater Manager (lyric video)
YouTube video by advancebase
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November 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
New music from the mighty @advancebase.bsky.social
I should be making all sorts of hay out of these kind words about Gold from the traitor Alan Carr, but there's not much point as it's been unavailable for years thanks to... *checks notes*... significant financial discrepancies at the publishing house.
October 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I should be making all sorts of hay out of these kind words about Gold from the traitor Alan Carr, but there's not much point as it's been unavailable for years thanks to... *checks notes*... significant financial discrepancies at the publishing house.
Anybody else dressing up as John Mitchinson for Hallowe'en?
October 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Anybody else dressing up as John Mitchinson for Hallowe'en?
Who would have thought it would come to this?
Looked so good on paper...
Looked so good on paper...
October 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Who would have thought it would come to this?
Looked so good on paper...
Looked so good on paper...
Just been to see Stewart Lee's new show. Catch it if you can. We were asked not to take photos, but the temptation was too great...
October 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Just been to see Stewart Lee's new show. Catch it if you can. We were asked not to take photos, but the temptation was too great...
I'm putting a lot of work into this. If you don't buy it when it comes out, you are dead to me. Spring 2026. c.£20.
You think I don't do anything, but you're wrong. Read all about it here.
Showbiz Silver Jubilee
That’s right, people – I’ve been on the front line of the entertainment industry for a full quarter of a century. Twenty-five years ago today my first book, Anthropology, was publishe…
danrhodes.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I'm putting a lot of work into this. If you don't buy it when it comes out, you are dead to me. Spring 2026. c.£20.
I'm still in the game, people. Still in the game.
In Foyles Charing Cross and spied this facing out. @danrhodes.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I'm still in the game, people. Still in the game.