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Author of wrong fiction. #actuallyautistic richardblandford.blogspot.co.uk New novel My Life in Orbit out now.

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A ★★★★ review of Contempt (1963) A film about the dangers of trying to pimp out your talent and your wife simultaneously. Godard picks up and places Bardot in the same way he does Lemmy Caution in Alphaville, as a pop art ready-made ...

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07.03.2026 10:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

'Yes, We Have to Take the Cake Back'

06.03.2026 17:09 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Everybody's down on the manager but there was someone just out of shot trying to read a book who couldn't concentrate.

06.03.2026 16:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A dad who likes only one film with subtitles and it's Das Boot.

06.03.2026 12:40 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Only from the Apocrypha.

05.03.2026 14:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A ★★★½ review of Bring Her Back (2025) Don't know if it quite hangs together in the way it needs to (there are moments that I think back on and just go 'eh?'), but Sally Hawkins is the embodiment of a particular personality type I have enc...

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05.03.2026 13:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I will settle for that.

05.03.2026 11:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You could also throw in some weird pantomime where you explain why you haven't got it yet by pretending you're not sure how shops work.

05.03.2026 10:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Support your local author on World Book Day by promising that you're fully planning on buying their latest book but then never getting round to it.

05.03.2026 10:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Not wearing a costume at all this year. He no longer believes in books.

05.03.2026 09:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For World Book Day, that is. Not on a daily basis.

05.03.2026 08:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hoping this is the year the headmaster finally stops dressing as Harry Potter.

05.03.2026 08:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sorry I shouted 'Parklife!' during the eulogy.

04.03.2026 19:38 👍 37 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

Weebles make no evolutionary sense and are proof of God.

04.03.2026 16:28 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Cellophane was originally used for wrapping cellos.

03.03.2026 22:36 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Cellophane was originally used for wrapping cellos.

03.03.2026 22:36 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

You're actual people? I thought this was like a text-based version of The Sims or something.

03.03.2026 09:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And in the end
The lunch you take
Is equal to the the lunch
You make

03.03.2026 09:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Look out honey cos I'm using phrenology

03.03.2026 09:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don't think they're always engaged in a fulfilling way,but i doubt they ever experience anything like that rainy Sunday afternoon nothing on telly boredom of old.

02.03.2026 15:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don't know if it's the same now, but I remember childhood as very much about not only having the right interests, but the right degree of enthusiasm for each.

02.03.2026 14:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It was a shock meeting kids from private schools at uni later, and how knowing about this stuff was so natural to them.

02.03.2026 11:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I had a similar experience when I mentioned Woody Allen (this was before the unpleasantness).

02.03.2026 11:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

State school kids should never aspire beyond the middle brow, it is drummed in.

02.03.2026 10:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Marvel UK reprints meant that teachers were baffled as to why an eight year-old knew words like 'pariah' and slightly held it against me.

02.03.2026 09:42 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Maybe the next Ayatollah will be a woman.

02.03.2026 09:23 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dreamt that there was one of those Ladybird books for grown-ups with old illustrations matched up with the lyrics to Thirteen by Big Star.

01.03.2026 11:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You only find that out when you go to the kitchen and the knives are missing.

01.03.2026 08:33 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I'm guessing Trump doesn't know the Ayatolla just regenerates.

28.02.2026 23:22 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
LAUGHTER IN THE RAIN - Neil Sedaka at the Midnight Special
LAUGHTER IN THE RAIN - Neil Sedaka at the Midnight Special YouTube video by ReadAboutThisVideo

Also check out his tall male backing singer. Absolutely living his best life. youtu.be/2IrDz-urxVw?...

28.02.2026 21:49 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0