Men, why don't you dress etc.
07.03.2026 09:52
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Men, why don't you dress etc.
Very dark photo of a cinema at night, the word BABYLON lit up in neon red letters, and to the left the front of the cinema with BABYLON in big white letters resting on red blocks. A crowd of people can be dimly discerned, as well as a parked car on the road. The photo has a reddish tinge.
Photo looking up at a black statue of Saint George and his noble steed slaying the evil dragon, about to be stamped by the horse's raised hooves. St George, features indiscernible, has his sword raised. Look closely and you'll see tiny icicles hanging off the statue, representative of how perishingly cold Berlin is in January.
Photo looking at giant inflatable duck atop a photo booth (one of Berlin's Photoautomats). To its left is the front of a classic car, also on a roof, and to its right a mannequin sitting perched on the roof. Behind it, giant, is most of a hot air balloon. The photo is washed out and almost colourless.
Grainy, washed out 35mm film photo of a woman looking through one of those touristy telescopes attached to the edge of a building on a kind of covered balcony/courtyard area. In front of her is grey sky and an old tower block intersected by a pillar from the balcony. The floor is made of tiled squares, and two empty deckchairs sit in the right hand corner. Running through the middle of the photo are thin vertical black lines, which were printed on the window this photo was taken through
Grainy washed out photo of a big white wooden road sign, a replica(?) of the one at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin signifying the edge of the American zone. In black letters it reads "YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR", with the message repeated beneath in Russian, French and German. Above the white sign, hanging down from the overhang of an adjacent building, is a glowing red KFC sign. A blank building is behind with a brick facade to the edge of the photo. Road signs dot the photo.
Continuing efforts on film, Berlin edition
Same photo but on film
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This is how I arrived onto the BlueSky
Evening schedule for BBC Four, Sunday 8 March 2026
This Sunday might just be the best night on BBC Four in a while. A corking Ibsen double bill, the continuing Pevsner repeats, and at its centre a celebration of the late music and arts supremo Humphrey Burton. (A full run of 100 Great Paintings would be great too.)
Honestly, it's Elgar Elgar Elgar round here. I mean he's good, but he's no Bob Holmes
(couldn't photograph the whole thing as it's spread across 2-3 windows, but it explains that bits of The Krotons was filmed in Malvern, just after giving a cursory mention that Elgar wrote the tune to Land of Hope and Glory here)
Snippet of some text printed on a frosted window on the side of Malvern's Waitrose. Highlighted is the phrase "The Krotons", a reference to location filming taking place in a quarry in the Malvern Hills.
Nice to see Malvern celebrating its heritage
Quote from a letter to the Worcester News about the service provided by the First Bus company. It reads "And now, thanks to government political correctness, your ears are constantly invaded by an announcer shouting at top volume the names of every bus stop en route."
Fckn woke buses, telling you what the next stop is
"Littleman, Prettyman, Dainty, Rug, Jack, Prickears, Frog."
The names of some imps, via Malcolm Gaskill’s book ‘Witchfinders’ about Matthew Hopkins and the witch mania of the 1640s:
Littleman
Prettyman
Dainty
Rug
Jack
Prickears
Frog
Touch
Pluck
Take
Jacob
Hangman
Meribell
Kit
Beelzebub (a log)
Trullibub (a stick)
Starmer seeks to carve out distinct UK approach to this conflict
Is it to send soldiers in bowler hats?
A riff on the Twin Peaks title card meme generator, but overlaid with the title BEASTS BY NIGEL KNEALE from the 1976 anthology TV series.
New on my blog today, an article about the time Dennis Potter tried to get into writing for Doctor Who in the 1960s, what his story would have been about, and the other times he crossed paths with the series. Hopefully this will interest a few of you.
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As long as the number of windows doesn't change you should be all right
Same!
Gorton and Denton sound like a Robert Holmes double act
Just struck me that Lawrence is Frank Grimes to the Doctor's Homer Simpson
What's a line delivery you'll never forget?
Michael Wisher as Rex Farrell in Terror of the Autons, wearing black trousers, a mid-brown jacket, white shirt and bright pink tie
Rex Farrell's underappreciated one-scene-only brown jacket pink tie combo
Screenshot from Terror of the Autons of Michael Wisher and Harry Towb in the office set. Circled in red in the background behind a desk is a black mass of plastic that looks like the Master's chair of death that is introduced in the next episode
Is that Harry Towb's suffocation death chair in the background??
No one says "what the blazes" on Doctor Who anymore
Photo of Roger Delgado as the Master in Doctor Who story Terror of the Autons, on a TV screen sitting on top of a DVD player sitting on top of a green baize card table
This evening it's Terror of the Autons on a TV sitting on a card table
This is being repeated this coming Sunday. I think it'll be the earliest TV repeat BBC4 has ever shown, if not the whole of the BBC.
Very flimsy up close - really spoils it, wish I hadn't come
Montague Rhodes James in contemplative mood.
Detail of the manuscript showing MRJ's working of the cryptic latin inscription
Coming soon: 'The Haunted Archive - The Annotated Ghost Story Manuscripts of M.R. James'.
Beautiful facsimile autograph manuscript editions of MRJ's ghost stories, annotated by leading Jamesian scholars.
Volume 1: 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' coming to Kickstarter soon...
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