Frederick’s plums in the pudding. Christmas just isn’t Christmas without a bit of debollocking.

Paul

@bigfinish.bsky.social I don’t suppose there’s anything to report yet? I know I’ve got no choice but to wait and I’m not angling for rushing but it is making me anxious.

You know… that feeling of frustration at a watching a TV production’s executives mismanage the art but being even more fucked off at how the spiteful audience will never accept or admit their part in its ever-growing cracks should have its own German word.

I hereby dub it Stolzkurst-Verblendung

It was far more even-handed than I expected of the logline. I’ve never bought that the Doctor brings danger by virtue because that kinda suggests that nobody in the universe can act for themselves. But THIS was about something true of all doctors, there’s just never enough time for one sole patient.

My brother talked up Hollow Knight, is it any good?

I find it hard to put value on my meagre existence. I just think irony is cool now and then.

Sounds like Grimm except replace vampire love triangles with underground warfare about secret societies and the love affair of this guy.

To be expected, it was almost 11 years ago.

I think I put that one on there because I remember you commending the Phil Ford penned episodes at one point.

You mean you… acknowledged a man is just a human being instead of a being whose life’s worth is in whatever content he can churn out? How very dare you… I thrust my immaculate cotton gloves at your feet!

Oh my God, YES! This is gonna revolutionise my life!

Frankly, I’d kill for some frenetic energy right now. For someone actually stuck living in a basement, I’ve never felt so much like I’m living in a basement as I have done in the last three months…

Can we agree that when the show comes back from hiatus, they don’t bother airing it on BBC One? Those viewer numbers need to be locked in a box and shot to the bottom of the Mariana fucking Trench. Please just take from those culture warriors at least this one weapon!

And I’ll in turn point out to said social media that, you know how people will say “Opinions are like arseholes, everybody has one”? Yeah, well you’d probably object if someone showed you their arsehole unsolicited, no?

Sold.

Fair enough. Well, I hope I can catch you if you do go, I enjoy our chats.