The Mamas and the Papa Roach
The Grateful Dead Kennedys

'Boy Kavalier, I'm warning you. If you don't shut up and let me watch "Peter Pan" I'm going to stuff your head up your bum. And you'll spend the rest of your life wandering around on all fours looking for the light switch.'

'Wing of Zion' is definitely the name of a spaceplane in an early cyberpunk short story in which a man takes drugs and when the girl leans over you can almost see her breasts.

Nazi numerology is so lazy, with 1 = A, 2 = B etc. The sort of slop I had decided was too basic aged 8 (I am not using this number as code for Hitler). Is all numerology this lazy?

Spicey Beck is the married name of Victoria Adams.

Some big fans of the Duchy of Savoy out in Hereford.

I have heard that Alien: Earth was a straightforward human minds in robot bodies script that they stuck xenomorphs into. I can believe it.

I like the bit before that where Timothy Olyphant was like, "I would like to tell you a really clunky metaphor with this scorpion."

At first I thought Double Gloucester was conjoined twins which would have been a choice to have in a light-hearted anthropomorphised cheese advert.

Godshill Model Village on the Isle of Wight is such a good representation of Godshill that the model village has a model village. Within that model village there is a further, even smaller, model village.

Do with this information what you will.

Animal-sized animals for me.

Fukuyama wrote The End of History because he has a fetish for being dunked on.

The Telegraph states that temperatures on 2 July 1914 were 15°F lower than the maximum, making 1 July's maximum 88°F or 31°C.

@yuanfenyang.bsky.social, as a constituent I am pleased that you have signed this letter. It's important that the government ensures the rights of trans people are protected, not attacked and eroded.

I read all of Le Carré's books over a few years, and I think The Looking Glass War is one of the most underrated. I like how Le Carré wrote it because The Spy Who Came in from the Cold had been too subtle for audiences so he had to beat them round the head with his point.

The Devereux Review was a 13-part science fiction drama broadcast on BBC2 in 1973. Filmed on a budget of £4 (in 2025 prices), it featured an old RSC actor (41 years old) and a young (37 years old) working class actor.

What's next for you? The Potemkin Stairs in Odesa? The bell tower of the Mission San Juan Bautista?