Michael Lee Richardson 🎄

Alarmed to discover that Michelangelo - a ‘party’ ‘dude’ - is my type

Not to be from Tumblr in 2012 but Instagram keeps wanting to show me videos of this white kid who does an impression of Princess Diana but she says stuff in Jamaican patois and… I am unsure.

As someone who’s both a bit spooky and a total shitebag, you can’t be telling me stuff like that. I’ve been reading about reincarnation ever since.

Other niece - she’s eight - very casually announced that that’s nothing, little niece often tells her she sees a ghost that walks with a stoop, and then proceeded to do the walk.

Hanging out with my niece this week - she’s three - and she told me she had a boyfriend. I was like, oh at school? She was like, no, in heaven, he got very, very old. So I was like ‘oh lordt’ and I asked her what his name is/was.

His name is Ari and he has hair like mine that’s ’sometimes grey’.

Thinking about her (the girl who told her troubles to an egg but didn’t want to waste food so cooked and ate the egg and became the subject of the witch internet for, like, a week, you simply could not escape the witch discourse).

I’m in!!

People ask me what it’s like to be iconic and I have to say I don’t know - I have nothing else to compare it to

Sister is supposed to be picking me up at 12.30 and she hasn’t responded to my reminder text but she has sent me 14 reels, 6 of them about Pedro Pascal.

I don’t know what I’ve watched on Instagram that almost my entire reels algorithm is Little House on the Prairie clips - specifically, clips of Nellie Olesen being a right little cow - but honestly I feel better for it.

Table of auld Doctor Who fans in this coffee shop talking about which cast members were the nicest to meet (Bonnie Langford and Anita Dobson) and who they want to meet next (Peter Davison but someone has heard he’s a tosser).

Yer da keeps his empty Gü pots for a dinner party that’s never happening.

Oh wow! A live action soap hopera.

'such a smily and nice boy'! It's giving parents evening, it's giving you're getting McDonald's on the way home, it's giving Happy Meal AND a McFlurry.

Beetlejuice VHS cover

New episode: Beetlejuice (1988)

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Fellow Ozians! If a person needed to watch the 2025 documentary It's Dorothy for professional purposes, where would a person do that?

Jeffrey McHale is gay, someone will know Jeffrey McHale, send me a DM!

One day there weren't any Black Sheep Coffees and the next, there's one on every corner. Like something from a Doctor Who.

Whatever you think of AI - and I think it blows, mightily - it makes you look cheap, low rent and tacky, and not in a fun way, like white stilettos.

Not fucking about with the slides for tonight's class

Can’t walk through Queens Park and hear a wood pigeon without thinking ‘a sea of honey, a sky of honey’.

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

Has there ever been a cooler looking film than Night of the Comet?

Toxic love - Tim Curry's terrifying turn as Hexxus, the spirit of destruction in FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)

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Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

Go Gorgonites!

Listen to our episode about Small Soldiers (1998): linktr.ee/onceuponavhs

Yesssssss.

I am absolutely ganting for it

Remember when we used to have a new Prime Minister like every 3 weeks? Why is it taking so long?

Our ears are burning! Absolutely lovely write up on Once Upon a VHS from Ear Worthy