Gareth
Charm is the viscous grease with which he oils his flim-flam machine
he/him
- Unprecedented two snooker items on the BBC News homepage
- In memory of John Virgo, let's pay tribute to the the 3 June 2010 edit of his Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
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- Just started a new podcast whose host substitutes a 'd' for a 't' when broadcasting (the behaviour of a dosser), and I'm trying to find out if he's Australian (which would make it borderline acceptable) or if he's not (in which case I'll reluctantly have to stop listening).
- Imagine if the King gets dementia and eventually the only thing he can remember from his past is this.
- One of the most exciting procedural films ever made. Nuts and bolts can be more thrilling than any number of explosions.
- I've read two books in a row that have included scenes of young women falling in love with the poetry of Richard Crashaw. This kind of thing happens to me far more often than you'd expect. Anyway, the books are HILDA LESSWAYS by Arnold Bennett and AS IF BY MAGIC by Angus Wilson.
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- I found Les Blank's 1980 documentary GARLIC IS AS GOOD AS TEN MOTHERS on my university Kanopy subscription. The most wholesome thing I'll see all year.
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- Slip found inside library copy of Žižek's The Ticklish Subject
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- The technical term is 'shins'
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- Name 4 of your favorite 80s movies (non horror). Mine are: AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS FANNY AND ALEXANDER GREGORY'S GIRL RITA, SUE AND BOB TOO #FilmSky
- Reposted by GarethFunny how “most divorced woman ever” and “most divorced man ever” have such diametrically opposed energies
- The Trevor Project, known for its hotline for LGBTQ+ youth, received $45 million from billionaire and author MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025. bit.ly/4sEbdYv
- Well, PETER HUJAR'S DAY was everything I dreamed of and more.
- One of my favourite Alan Bennett lines, from an On the Margin sketch: 'It's everything that Virginia Woolf failed to do, plus the best of Stan Barstow.'
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- 20+ years ago the Somerset Standard chose to illustrate a story about text-message bullying in schools with an image of a Nokia phone showing the words YOU WEIRDO YOUR HAIR IS GROTTY, and I think of it often.
- I find his face makes an effective appetite suppressant
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- I heard Eva Schloss speak once and she was such a voice for humanity and goodness. A great loss.
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- What the hell am I doing looking up buses to see if I can get to Hunstanton to see Su Pollard and back the same night?
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- Judge Goldsworth's desk in PALE FIRE contains an 'old but unused pocket diary optimistically maturing there until its calendric correspondencies came around again'. Happy to report that now it's 2026 I can finally use the 2015 RSC calendar that I bought by mistake at the start of 2016.
- I can't believe these #BookSky people posting their books of the year before today. What if you read your best book on New Year's Eve? Well, I didn't, now you mention it, but it's been a good year. Here's what I got up to in 2025.
- An addendum to yesterday's post: my big rereading project starts now. #BookSky
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- 2020: After Love 2021: The Souvenir: Part II 2022: Aftersun 2023: Monster 2024: The Seed of the Sacred Fig 2025: One Battle After Another #FilmSky
- Jumping on the films/plays/books/gigs-I-loved-this-year bandwagon. Separate bookcentric post to follow presently.
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- My most beloved film ❤️
- I love this in Ivy Compton-Burnett's MANSERVANT AND MAIDSERVANT. The 'HMM' at the bottom is the printer's way of identifying that this is gathering H of M[anservant] and M[aidservant] (pages earlier on are labelled e.g. GMM and FMM), but it looks like a sardonic commentary on the action.
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- Stonehenge! Where a man's a man And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan
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- I hope this won't mean the Telegraph goes really right-wing
- Reposted by GarethFixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
- Habe gehört, dein Vatis Lieblingslied aus Dichterliebe ist 'Ich hab' im Traum geweinet'
- Featuring: 'Splinter Wonderland' 'Stoole Nacht' 'Deck the Chairs' 'Little Wonky'
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- Conscious of not having heard anything of my hero Simon Russell Beale since he pulled out of Titus Andronicus in September, I turned to Google for news of his health. Nothing, but it did suggest another salient and knotty question.
- All aboard for Passchendaele
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- Funniest Facebook comment I ever saw was by a friend of a friend riffing on 'HP Lovecraft' being how Harold Pinter referred to sex. PINTER: Buckle up, Antonia, it's time for some [pause] ...
- Reposted by GarethHorrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- A movie you've seen more than seven times - with a gif
- Quote with your favourite film and album from the year you were born
- In 2008 I received a spam email with the subject line 'Michael Jakson glued up a person a plaster' containing a link to a video purporting to show Bred Pitt's birthday, and 17 years on whenever I have to glue or tape anything I still think 'Michael Jakson glued up a person a plaster'.
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