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Frank Podmore
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Award-winning poet published in @pwritersu.com, @stanzacannon.bsky.social, @apparitionlit.com and others; occasional opinions for @roadcc.bsky.social, @labourlist.bsky.social‬ and Sublation Magazine
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William Empson had magnificently odd facial hair
A photo of a man with white hair and glasses. He has a neat moustache and also an untidy mass of wispy white hair growing from his neck
November 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Some Elizabethan terms for carving:
A page from a book that reads: trush that chicken disfigure that peacock splat that pike culpon that trout alay that pheasant wing that partridge or quail thigh all manner of small birds undertrench that porpoise tame that crab, and barb that lobster
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Came across this old interview with Shigeru Miyamoto in which he (inadvertently?) implies that 'Dr' Mario is guilty of some sort of medical malpractice:
Text readng: SM: There's really only one rule in terms of the things that Mario does. Generally, it's that he's more on the blue-collar side. He's hard-working, and certainly much more physical in nature. So, I think that a doctor is sort of an unexpected and perhaps unbelievable role for Mario. Perhaps the Dr. Mario you're thinking of was maybe, in some way, not necessarily legitimate.
October 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Watching this old film of Anthony and Cleopatra and she's just walked in wearing a fucking Naruto wig
Lynn Redgrave as Cleopatra, wearing a bizarre head dress, wig or hat that looks like the hair of the anime character Naruto. She looks pissed off, possibly about her hat.
October 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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I've been singing it like that since I was ~2 years old, and only when I read this did I find out other people hear it this way too!
Text that reads: 'Williams wrote seven different themes for “Superman: The Movie,” including a beautiful love theme and a nostalgic Aaron Copland-esque theme for the sequences in Smallville. But it’s the Superman theme that’s appropriately dominant. It’s made up of two sections: a powerful fanfare acting as a precursor to action and a call to arms, and a big and bright main theme that uses a three-note phrasing that sounds like it says “Sup-er-man.”'
July 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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A middle aged man with a bad haircut standing next to a flipchart that has been edited (badly) to read 'JUST SACK MORGAN'.
May 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Text reading 'YOU WOULDN'T INVENT A BUS'
May 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Two soaking wet men stand in the pouring rain with text that reads 'We've quoted Enoch Powell by mistake'
May 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Got this anti-LTN leaflet through the door and it very much needs debunking.
A flyer headed 'Blocked Roads. Unfair fines. Divided communities.'
April 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM