I wonder what Sam Rockwell thought of that script when he read it for the first time.
#WhiteLotus

Jeez the stream of propaganda coming from the White House press briefing would have Stalin taking notes.

I love a malaphor. BBC Radio 4, government spokesperson referred to Heathrow and "grasping the nettle by the horns".

what’s your favorite instance of haptic nostalgia—the poignant memory of the physicality of an obsolete thing—like dialing a rotary phone, shifting gears in a manual transmission, opening a soda can with a pull ring?

Oh to have heard what the governor of California was telling POTUS.

Buried in a work spreadsheet so have chosen to stream Hereditary to keep my mood up.

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Paraphrasing Saruman here when he quite rightly roasts Gandalf: "So your hobbit mate had this magical ring for decades, passed it down to his nephew and like 5 minutes ago you realised oh, this might be Daddy Sauron's? Go live on my roof you eejit."

Watched first half of Fellowship of the Ring for 1st time in years. By 2024 standards a powerful old man grooms a tiny person and frightens another to do his bidding, no women allowed in the Hobbiton or Bree pubs, and the orcs forced to work in unsafe uruk factory.

Grey skies, wind and rain. It's a Widnes day.

If you're going to delete your X / Twitter account, remember to download your archive first.

Veg that had a better flight than your last experience on Ryanair. This was part of a D&AD-winning campaign from 2005, before convenience and indulgence were cancelled by the 2008 recession.