James Quin
@jimquin.bsky.social
Welcome to the New Era.
A committed subscriber to the #ForteanTimes, lover of genre fiction in general. Horror, sci-fi, superheroes and anything pulpy.
A committed subscriber to the #ForteanTimes, lover of genre fiction in general. Horror, sci-fi, superheroes and anything pulpy.
I just had to check, and can confirm there is not a carton of Beep on the table during the Kids In The Hall sketch "Nervous Break(fast) Down". Can't fix the car without a tall, refreshing glass of Beep inside ya, son. Bell. Biv. DeVoe.
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I just had to check, and can confirm there is not a carton of Beep on the table during the Kids In The Hall sketch "Nervous Break(fast) Down". Can't fix the car without a tall, refreshing glass of Beep inside ya, son. Bell. Biv. DeVoe.
Orange Breezer, blue WKD and regular Smirnoff Ice mixed together in a pint glass make the Irish party favourite, Fat Frog. So named because the taste resembles a discontinued ice lolly from the '70s and '80s, apparently.
November 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Orange Breezer, blue WKD and regular Smirnoff Ice mixed together in a pint glass make the Irish party favourite, Fat Frog. So named because the taste resembles a discontinued ice lolly from the '70s and '80s, apparently.
If the current management at the BBC don't think there is, then they should bloody well be made to make room for it. Drop BBC3 back to online-only, prune 75% of the utterly tedious BBC Sounds podcasts that no fucker even listens to and let BBC Four start in the early afternoon.
November 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If the current management at the BBC don't think there is, then they should bloody well be made to make room for it. Drop BBC3 back to online-only, prune 75% of the utterly tedious BBC Sounds podcasts that no fucker even listens to and let BBC Four start in the early afternoon.
youtu.be/nIP3XNnJDko?... The Lying Get at our school also reckoned he'd seen the episode of the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon where the kids found out they all died on the ride and were trapped in Hell. So let's enjoy some appropriately funerary music from Ulysses.
Ulysses 31: The curse of the gods! (Original Extended Version)
YouTube video by fred vegerano
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November 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
youtu.be/nIP3XNnJDko?... The Lying Get at our school also reckoned he'd seen the episode of the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon where the kids found out they all died on the ride and were trapped in Hell. So let's enjoy some appropriately funerary music from Ulysses.
Original Spider-Armour, featured extensively on the hologram cover to Web of Spider-Man #100 and instantly destroyed in that same story. My favourite part of PS4 Spider-Man was getting to unlock it after one chapter of the DLC.
November 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Original Spider-Armour, featured extensively on the hologram cover to Web of Spider-Man #100 and instantly destroyed in that same story. My favourite part of PS4 Spider-Man was getting to unlock it after one chapter of the DLC.
Outside of the Abingdon Street market, the nice little horror-themed bar Scream n' Shake and maybe that cinema that's opened up in the Houndshill shopping centre (and already threatened with closure), there's basically fuck-all in Blackpool for non-Gammons/Boomers.
November 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Outside of the Abingdon Street market, the nice little horror-themed bar Scream n' Shake and maybe that cinema that's opened up in the Houndshill shopping centre (and already threatened with closure), there's basically fuck-all in Blackpool for non-Gammons/Boomers.
That tiny gap between two of the platforms that you think you have to jump over, before you even get to the swimming part. I will always be grateful to the 8-bit home computer versions not having the channels full of seaweed that hurts you in that part.
November 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
That tiny gap between two of the platforms that you think you have to jump over, before you even get to the swimming part. I will always be grateful to the 8-bit home computer versions not having the channels full of seaweed that hurts you in that part.
What If... Gunn didn't have to share Blade's complete back-story with the only other black character in the Whedonverse?
October 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
What If... Gunn didn't have to share Blade's complete back-story with the only other black character in the Whedonverse?
Man, look at that fucking guy in his WCW "Seven" costume. I hope you unlock the secret ending wherein the Skin Freak completely breaks character and runs down his whole gimmick.
youtu.be/QWtXAtGJ4JQ?... and a hearty OSW-style MYAW MYAW MYAW to yer sel'
youtu.be/QWtXAtGJ4JQ?... and a hearty OSW-style MYAW MYAW MYAW to yer sel'
WCW: Seven Vignette
YouTube video by TheWCWonUtube
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October 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Man, look at that fucking guy in his WCW "Seven" costume. I hope you unlock the secret ending wherein the Skin Freak completely breaks character and runs down his whole gimmick.
youtu.be/QWtXAtGJ4JQ?... and a hearty OSW-style MYAW MYAW MYAW to yer sel'
youtu.be/QWtXAtGJ4JQ?... and a hearty OSW-style MYAW MYAW MYAW to yer sel'
youtu.be/7rNUVW5e_l8?... Just like in that movie Outbreak, with 𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐎
Clerks Animated: Randal and the Monkey
YouTube video by Ben Simon a.k.a. Cartoon Man Central
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October 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
youtu.be/7rNUVW5e_l8?... Just like in that movie Outbreak, with 𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐎
They never should have taken it out of Pot Noodles! Or discontinued Pot Spaghetti, Pot Rice... But the one that hurts the most, the most tangible terrible loss to so many of us is:
October 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
They never should have taken it out of Pot Noodles! Or discontinued Pot Spaghetti, Pot Rice... But the one that hurts the most, the most tangible terrible loss to so many of us is:
Tom "Spider-Man" Holland: 10-1
Joe Keery: 25-1
Anonymous twink from some random E4 reality-show garbage that won't press charges against RTD sexually abusing him: 3-1
John Boyega: Disney pulls out of funding and co-producing immediately.
Joe Keery: 25-1
Anonymous twink from some random E4 reality-show garbage that won't press charges against RTD sexually abusing him: 3-1
John Boyega: Disney pulls out of funding and co-producing immediately.
October 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Tom "Spider-Man" Holland: 10-1
Joe Keery: 25-1
Anonymous twink from some random E4 reality-show garbage that won't press charges against RTD sexually abusing him: 3-1
John Boyega: Disney pulls out of funding and co-producing immediately.
Joe Keery: 25-1
Anonymous twink from some random E4 reality-show garbage that won't press charges against RTD sexually abusing him: 3-1
John Boyega: Disney pulls out of funding and co-producing immediately.
There is a singular Tomax/Xamot Paoli in the Transformers: Shattered Glass mirror-universe, and he actually has a con-exclusive action figure: www.yojoe.com/action/17/sh...
www.yojoe.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
There is a singular Tomax/Xamot Paoli in the Transformers: Shattered Glass mirror-universe, and he actually has a con-exclusive action figure: www.yojoe.com/action/17/sh...
The third book in the promised trilogy, "This Bursted Earth" will also be here by this time next week. I, for one, couldn't be more excited!
October 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The third book in the promised trilogy, "This Bursted Earth" will also be here by this time next week. I, for one, couldn't be more excited!
The evil dentist got re-packaged as the magic dead man's little brother who he thought he killed in a house fire. That same former evil dentist dropped the current Secretary for Education on her head on live TV and is currently really Mayor of Knox County, TN. Isn't wrestling great?
October 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The evil dentist got re-packaged as the magic dead man's little brother who he thought he killed in a house fire. That same former evil dentist dropped the current Secretary for Education on her head on live TV and is currently really Mayor of Knox County, TN. Isn't wrestling great?
It's like SummerSlam for Forteans! Unfortunately, further research into the Feb. 1993 "special event" reveals it to be just as much of a "work" as the aforementioned wrestling pay-per-view...
October 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It's like SummerSlam for Forteans! Unfortunately, further research into the Feb. 1993 "special event" reveals it to be just as much of a "work" as the aforementioned wrestling pay-per-view...
Now I have got m' hands on a bag of the onion bhaji-flavoured crisps. Not the rings, the hand-cooked ripple-cut crisps. Satisfyingly oily crunch, good mellow hum of spice across the tastebuds, I'm gonna mop up some dipping chutney with these babies.
October 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Now I have got m' hands on a bag of the onion bhaji-flavoured crisps. Not the rings, the hand-cooked ripple-cut crisps. Satisfyingly oily crunch, good mellow hum of spice across the tastebuds, I'm gonna mop up some dipping chutney with these babies.
And, just because we all know nature abhors a vacuum:
October 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
And, just because we all know nature abhors a vacuum:
It would have been fucking hilarious if that was the last thing Statto of Fantasy Football said to David Baddiel and Frank Skinner, and then the credits roll in silence over a smash cut to black.
October 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It would have been fucking hilarious if that was the last thing Statto of Fantasy Football said to David Baddiel and Frank Skinner, and then the credits roll in silence over a smash cut to black.