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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 1h

Few things freaked me out more than the book cover to "The Dark is Rising". Took me years to actually read the thing.

The book cover for The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper featuring a frightening dark figure with antlers on a horse with a snowy background. There are also some blurry circles

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 20h

For anyone who thought Inland Empire is too easy to look at.

A shot from 200 Motels where a strange ripple is superimposed over a neighbourhood scene.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 02/10/2026

Mmm if I was a betting man, I'd put a silver dollar on the "Digger is Actually Good" wave coming soon.

Letterboxd page for Digger where the score is 3.7

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 01/10/2026

Not sure if it's the author or the actress but either is impressive for several reasons.

Email notification from Elizabeth Taylor with the subject Your book Dead Teenager Movie and the readers waiting for it

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 01/10/2026

For National Poetry Day, another favourite of mine and brother, Ginsberg knew what he was talking about.

Howl By Allan Ginsberg
Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine
Gotta, gotta be down, because I want it all
It started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this?
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss
Now I'm falling asleep and she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke and she's taking a drag
Now they're going to bed and my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head, but she's touching his
Chest now, he takes off her
Dress now, let me go
And I just can't look, it's killing me
They're taking control

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I have two items on a to do list that are - Paris - Taxes

Harry Dean Stanton looking forlorn in the movie Paris, Texas

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

Listening to the new You Must Remember This (very good as usual) but the way Karina says the title of the miniseries, I always think of this.

Ominous Newsweek cover on the topic of Bisexuality

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

From "Blessings in Disguise"

I thought about the pip for some time. Then I suddenly remembered that when I was seven years old I possessed a small hazel-nut which I kept in a tuckbox. It had, for me, magical properties and was a great personal secret. Sometimes I would sing the National Anthem to it. and each dav I would look to see if it had grown. In my imagination it was destined to grow until the day it would open up and a small manikin, dressed in blue, step out. He would be about a foot tall, wearing a blue velvet jerkin and breeches, and round his middle there would be a leather belt bearing a tiny cutlass. His hair would be light brown, his face ruddy and smiling, and he would be my 'best friend' for always. As a twelve-year-old I could afford to be amused at my fantasy of five years earlier, knowing It was foolishness and that the hazel-nut had long been lost - probably now nothing more than a little scattered dust. unless it was a tree. And yet was that absolutely so? A hazel-nut (though not a real one) came into my life again some forty years later.

In my early forties I read, for the first time, Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love. In that extraordinary book I found a passage which astonished and delighted me: it also slightly disturbed me by reviving the memory of the tuckbox-nut. 'Our Lord.. showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I thought there upon with the eve of my understanding, and thought, what may this be? And it was generally answered thus: It is all that is made. - I marvelled how it might last, for methought it might suddenly have fallen to nought. for littleness. And I was answered: It lasteth. and ever shall last, for God loveth it. God made it; God loveth it: God keepeth it. - But what is to me soothly the Maker, the Keeper, the Lover, I cannot tell.' In Julian of Norwich I also found the comforting refrain, All shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well'. used by T.S. Eliot

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

Exactly! This is what their actual disguises look like. (A bit uh Ross Kemp)

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 29/09/2026

Not sure what this was for but some of us really saw MS Paint as the future of art!

A MS Paint drawing of a pop art version of Santa leaving a woman crying with her saying "Goodbye Nick... T'WAS A GREAT AFFAIR."

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 29/09/2026

Well, good news about the bad weather outside

In Irish folklore, clear weather on Michaelmas was a portent of a long winter, "Michaelmas Day be bright and clear there will be two 'Winters' in the year."[12]

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 29/09/2026

You're the new John Waters (American)!

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 28/09/2026

Why waste your time with ChatGPT when this is an option

According to Webb, he wrote the song in London while he was finishing up work on his album El Mirage. After a late-night round of "professional drinking" with his friend Harry Nilsson, Webb went to sleep and had "an incredibly vivid dream":[1]

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 27/09/2026

Making the hard sell to Persephone

Two cartons of Pomegreat, a pomegranate juice drink

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 26/09/2026

If only he knew about Iced Coffee

Spud sabotaging his job interview (Still from Trainspotting)

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 25/09/2026

Runaway AI and gas supply problems? The time is ripe for Maximum Overdrive!

Poster for Maximum Overdrive (featuring Stephen King ripping out of a truck)

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 25/09/2026

I'm pleased and happy to repeat the news that we have, in fact, caught and killed a large Phantom that supposedly injured some operagoers. But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the balcony is open and people are having a wonderful time.

The mayor from Jaws talking to reporters

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 25/09/2026

"I would have voted for The Wire ten times if I could."

Still from Get Out where Bradley Whitford and Daniel Kaluuya are chatting

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 25/09/2026

Very surprised by the winner of the New York Times's Best TV Show of the 21st Century poll, but honestly I can't disagree.

A screenshot of the NYT number one position in their Best TV poll and it's The Lyrics Board with a picture of the team guessing the Lyrics

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 24/09/2026

I recently learnt that Mickey Mouse knows one Irish guy and he is pretty much what I imagined.

A dog cop called Seamus O'Hara, a partly fellow with mutton chops

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 24/09/2026

That said, found nearby is the remnants of a marmalade sandwich, the fruit of which has the tell tell characteristics of South America origin, and I will remind you that someone in the cave had a business trip there recently.