I had an anxiety dream in which I had been cast in a Buffy revival, but it was the day of filming and I still hadn't read the script and I was trying to navigate public transport in New York to get to the shoot and nothing worked... and what made it even worse was that I was Sarah Michelle Gellar???

An old thread is making the rounds again, so here's an updated version.

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is one of the most enduring and adapted works of literature in history.

But did you know that he wrote 22 sequels?

Some are great! Some are trash! Some are bizarrely fascinating.

The story of the wrongest bird in cinema:
slate.com/culture/2025...

Things I liked in 2024 Q4 - repetition, meteorites, dinosaurs, music:
www.nothingaboutpotatoes.co.uk/2025/02/thin...

Start following James Turner right now for the annual epic battle of Man Vs Advent Calendar:

Imagine this in your Wikipedia intro... so jealous right now.

Maybe one of my more controversial opinions but I think when a famous, beloved writer turns out to be a rapist it is almost never in contradiction to their work: the presumptuousness about sex, the ideological commitments to misogyny, the smug incuriosity about women’s lives are already there.

Capital 'A' art right here - Matthew Mcconaughey reciting the first million digits of Pi, right now:
www.youtube.com/live/pD0jnsj...

I'm developing a game I'm calling Advanced Pass the Parcel, here's how it's going so far:
toweroftheoctopus.com/2024/02/adva...

Year Walk is a short, spooky, point-and-click puzzle adventure, on Mac, PC, and iOS. It's based on an old Swedish tradition of going on a spooky walk at midnight on New Year's Eve to gain knowledge of the future, so today is the best day to play it! Get the free companion app if you can.

I wrote a thing about making better choices, I call it "Go big, go home, or - consider this - go small": www.nothingaboutpotatoes.co.uk/2023/10/go-b...

Not sure how this is going to work, but let's just start with a cat photo: