Alastair Craig

UPDATE on @alastaircraig.bsky.social after the movie: he sent me a picture of a cheeseburger 🤭 a real one is he!

Not seeing anywhere near enough posts about how the Brontë Sisters’ brother (who inspired their most fucked up characters) was a dead ringer for John Lennon.

BREAKING #OLYMPIC NEWS: Jamaica has a bobsled team.

The new #Muppet special is genuinely brilliant in its ordinariness. Subversive in its refusal to reinvent a formula. Revolutionary in its commitment to finally just making a normal dang episode of The Muppet Show (1976-present).

Promotional photo of The Muppets in front of a red curtain with Sabrina Carpenter, from the 2026 Muppet Show special.

“Some hits, some misses, a solid B,” I say to myself, overcome and weeping openly.

This year I choose chaos.
#Goodreads

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

My cyphers for basically every David Lynch movie:

“Everything is real and everything is a dream and these are not mutually exclusive.”

“It all makes perfect internal sense to Lynch, who is conveying what he sees and feels with absolute Boy Scout earnestness.”

What’s more annoying?

🤷 The word “reboot” misused to describe a continuation of a story

🤷🏻‍♀️ The word “prequel” misused to describe a film released before a sequel

🤷‍♂️ Feeling powerless as a global neighbour openly embraces fascism in a way media literacy could have prevented

🤷🏻 The word “threequel”

Doctor G(wh)ood, more like.

Hi. I’m the author of the above post.

We all like to have fun here with our jabs and jibes and wordfoolery, but for the record, I actually like Doctor Who a lot, even when it is a bit poo.

“Doctor Poo”. Is this anything?

#DoctorWho #Jokes #Humour #Funny #Puns #Wordplay #Wit #Droll #Japes #Goofs #Jests

I saw this John Candy film on TV as a kid, but got sent to bed before the end. Who IS Harry Crumb? The mystery has haunted me for decades.

The whole film's right there on YouTube. I could easily get the closure I seek. But perhaps there is more beauty in not knowing.

#WhosHarryCrumb #JohnCandy

Screenshot of a movie booking page for the cinema chain Hoyts, in which only 3 of 77 seats have been sold.

In times of trouble, remember that there is always beauty to be found in the laughter of a baby, the setting of a sun, or your local cinema's seating map for its one and only daily screening of #Melania.

A light homage. The replies were As You Would Expect.

An Ewok playing an ICE and Border Patrol drumset.

This machine yub nubs fascists.

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

Each to their own. When I look at the below photo, I see the spitting image of Tim Curry.

It’s thrilling to see Frodo betrayed by the ring in a moment of panic.

It’s EVEN MORE THRILLING to read the book as a dull middle-aged dad and learn he actually tumbles performing a jolly 13-stanza tabletop jig, written by Bilbo and implied to be the historical precursor to ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’. 🤘

Subtitler?! I barely (No. - The Management)

OH MY GOD I’VE MISSED THIS ACCOUNT SO MUCH

Sorry to say it is. Even more assailants. Even less illusion of threat. Even more clearly filmed. Even more brazenly lied about.

I know it’s routine for Australians to wake up to this bullshit, but please do tread carefully if self-care is on the agenda for today. I’ll need to force myself offline.

David Farrier, as ever, writes extraordinary words.

I’m half a word away, but for a few vital, urgent minutes I felt the bite of the cold, the sting of the tear gas, the warmth of community solidarity, the certainty that something vital was about to break.

Literally just a set photo of Tim Curry holding a Game Boy behind the scenes of 1993's "The Three Musketeers".

Tell me this isn't literally just a set photo of Tim Curry holding a Game Boy behind the scenes of 1993's "The Three Musketeers".

NO WAY is this Tom Hiddleston.

#GameBoy #Nintendo #TimHiddlestonTomCurry

A still of Tim Curry as the suspicious Plaza Hotel concierge in “Home Alone 2”.

Literally the same picture, flipped and cropped.

Watching #TheNightManager season two, I am once again struck by how much Tom Hiddleston resembles a young Tim Curry.

It’s wild. Tell me this isn’t literally the same picture, flipped and cropped, of the exact same actor.

#TomHiddleston #TimCurry #TwinCurry

Yep, real salt on the wound, that. The sooner the name is pushed into obscurity, the better.

Not sure why I’m always compelled to bring this up around the 26th of January. 🤷‍♂️