I don't know, I don't really feel like jingling ALL the way, man. It's really far. You've only got one horse on this sleigh, and it's raining.

Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.

It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...

‘Victor and his father lead us into those zones of the monster myth del Toro is most interested in: the tendencies of geniuses to be unhappy with success, of caretakers not to take care and the magical games truth can play with fact.’

Michael Wood on ‘Frankenstein’.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A great time at #thoughtbubble, first time with the family as a non-exhibitor. So much great stuff!

www.science.org/content/arti...
Amazing stuff.

Troubling trend: rise in safeguarding alerts over teens' use of Captain Tom chatbot - the AI simulation of the famed perambulating veteran can answer teens' questions for a few moments before going mostly silent, occasionally repeating 'Burma.'

Everyone should post their most viral tweet here, just for posterity's sake

👏 THIS 👏 SPEECH 👏

#StarWars #Andor

Hands down this @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social probe into an urban legend about John Wayne. selfstyledsiren.substack.com/p/john-wayne...

Back in 2020, I wrote a piece on The Night of the Hunter that I'm really proud of and has, unfortunately, stayed relevant (so much so that I wrote about it AGAIN in my new book, which I'm also very proud of 😉).

[To the tune of 'Wouldn't It Be Nice' by The Beach Boys]

🎵Wouldn't it be nice
🎵To eat a Minion
🎵Holding up a towel to hide from god
🎵And wouldn't it be nice
🎵Though quite forbidden
🎵Savouring the yellow flesh of Bob

I’m distracting myself with Patrick O’Brian books.

This means I’ve finally committed to learning all the bizarre maritime terms for “different bits of sailing ships.

Which means I’m spending a lot of time poring over naval diagrams.

I can highly suggest this coping mechanism

i wore this shirt to jury duty and the defense lawyer asked if it was true. that man’s client is fucked

Since we have a lot of new people here, I'm going to shamelessly self-promote anew. Here are some recommendations for great folk horror from the current decade!

What the fuck lmao

Bluesky seems great! Anyone have any advice what else I can add to minimise the frankly overwhelming amount of furry content?

Eleanor Rigby
Peeling bananas with feet as she swings through the trees
Like chimpanzees
Left her enclosure
Where they were breeding their half human hybrids with apes
They've all escaped

I enjoyed drawing this one

(Yes this a real product)