But what did he he think a mammoth could do about it?

The Spanish City is a very cheesy bit of seaside architecture in Whitley Bay. Many's the coin I wasted in 2p Falls machines there during my childhood. It also gets a namecheck in Dire Straits 'Tunnel of Love'.

I do love books in the post. Among today's deliveries, this one from @harryowl.bsky.social @claretpress.bsky.social.

I read an early draft a while back. Looking forward to seeing how it all turned out. Can already report that the opening's a zinger!

Is there any other kind of movie? Anyway.

Pub bookshelf.

Two of these things are not like the others...

It's pretty straightforward. This is one, and one of them is this.

Bringing It All Back Home wiv me missus at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

#OakProjectUK

Shocking standard of clickbait on my Google News Feed. Or maybe the algorithm knows I'm nearly sixty.

Post your favourite love triangle

Reading or re-reading all of Alasdair Gray. This one is new to me, and if it lives up to the first hundred pages, I can see why he thought it his best novel.

This is why I'm making myself watch every Best Picture winner.

I'd never seen this one, had forgotten it existed, and would probably never have chosen it. And that would have been a mistake. Ditto, unexpectedly enough in recent weeks, Rocky, and Ordinary People.

My view of the first 26 Best Picture Oscar winners, after watching 1 per fortnight over the last year or so.

"First they came for Monday, and because I was not Monday, I did nothing.
Then they came for Tuesday, and because I was not Tuesday, I did nothing.

Me interviewing candidates for my invite codes