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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My run over recovery film watch continues with a rewatch of School of Rock - this time, I noticed how much of an asshole Dewey Finn is at the start of the film which had been obfuscated in earlier viewings by Jack Black’s huge charisma - still, a delight! A classic get the band together film 🖤

Poster for School of Rock with Black in the foreground and kids behind with musical pubs as tag lines eg We don’t need no education / accept no substitutes / take notes

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Do-Over is Groundhog Day meets Ferris Bueller’s Day Off set on the main character’s worst Valentine’s Day ever - can she escape the nightmare by switching from a passive people pleaser to every parent’s nightmare teenager!?

The front cover of The Do Over in pink with Emilie crashing into the back of Nick’s truck over and over again

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Got my urn copy of Kate Scarth’s brilliant book I blurbed 🖤🖤🖤

Romantic Suburbs cover featuring an illustrated lady with huge flowers in her hair and a but rely on the orange flower

ITS MY BLURB BABY!

"Kate Searth's Romantic Suburbs constitutes the watershed moment of a major publication on the suburban scene of Romantic-era British culture it calls for in its introduction. Focusing on Romantic-period women's writing as the space in which suburban place-making is most fully imagined, Searth argues that novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Smith, and others position the suburbs as inclusive and democratic spaces, utopias, and fantasies. Her final chapter, exploring what is occluded in suburbia's Romantic fantasy, offers a necessary account of both suburbia's and Romanticism's continuing imbrication in colonial politics and violence, balanced with their potential to think, dream, and live otherwise." ANDREW MINNES, READER IN ROMANTICISMS, EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY, AND AUTHOR OF WOLLSTONECRAFT'S GHOST

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Götterdämmerung imagines apocalypse as hinging on populist disinformation (in Hagen’s manipulation of the Gibichungs), violence against women (in Brünnhilde’s various humiliations), & a willing blindness to climate shocks (from destroying the world ash to refusing reparations to the rhinemaidens)

Brünnhilde refuses to listen to her Valkyrie sister’s plea to return the ring to the Rhine maidens in Boulez’s version of Wagner’s Ring

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Siegfried is full of unloveable figures including the title character working their way to a declaration of Earth-shattering love

Siegfried, a weird little guy, embracing his freshly awoken aunt and lover, Brünnhilde

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Paperback copies of my and @rjdashwood.bsky.social’s Ridiculous book! Available here: www.routledge.com/Reading-the-...

3 copies of Reading the Romantic Ridiculous on a green background

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I just got The Do Over as I *love* a Groundhogs Day scenario! I recommend Georgia Bowers’ Foes & Cons (as I reckon she’s also an avid reader of Painter but with a vampire tv show comic con twist!)

Front cover of Foes & Cons in baby blue with title in yellow and hero and heroine standing on Cons - with a page of related stickers

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Lynn Painter’s Better than the Movies (recommended to me by Abbi’s school librarians!) is a super cute rom com with the cutest male lead in Wesley Bennett this side of Heath Ledger in 10 Things I Hate About You 🖤

Front cover of BttM in yellow with pu ru please font and a couple reenaxting embraces from various movies - on my one handed reading stand (like a mini wooden table with prongs to hold fine pages, with a grey cushion below) with Wilbur snoozing in the background

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

First Ecclefechan tart* of the season and I’m not even sorry! * They’re like hipster mince pies

Ecclefechan tart box from Sainsbury’s with one already disinterred

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Update to Orwell: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, AI by Default, Green by Design.

The face of Big Brother from the 1984 film

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Boulez Valkyrie switches from H2G2 to Douglas Adams’ era Doctor Who with very Gallifreyan coded Valkyries and even its climactic scene in what looks like a quarry 😂 Magic Fire Music still an astonishing conclusion with lots of big hearted and big lunged singing beforehand 🖤

Brünnhilde pleading with her duster Valkyries in what’s about to become Brünnhilde’s tower with sci-fi titling for the front of a cd / vinyl record

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Me and Wilbur enjoying a visit from @digivictorian.bsky.social (Wilbur styling out his stranger danger hiding place behind me)

Me on yellow in our yellow armchair eating a cookie with Wilbur’s head sticking out of the yellow wuilt he’d hidden under above my head

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My Wagner obsession continues with a watch of the Boulez Ring LOOK! At Fasolt and Fafner, the giants, terrorising poor Freia (Feels very Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy coded)

Not my dvd cover of Das Rheingold with 2 actors who must be on stilts and manipulating huge fake arms in brown robes with high Papier mache foreheads terrifying a woman in pink on a Spartan stage

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Academics, share your best footnote! Here’s one of my favourites, and possibly my pettiest.

§ This defence of my use of Lacanianism is prompted by one of my anonymous reviewers suggesting that I excise my engagement with Lacan entirely. More informally, as a friend commented to me, "reviewers only do this with Lacan. No one suggests you get rid of your feminist or Marxist methodology."

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

OK, it’s probably cos I binged the whole series from like 3 am and it climaxes with my all time favourite Nick Cave song but Colin from Accounts made me weep happy tears

Colin from Accounts poster from the back of a car looking out with Ash and Gordy in the front of pinkly upholstered car with Colin in the back between them

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My run over recovery film watch continues with a rewatch of The Knight’s Tale: Heath Ledger being all cute and heroic! The greatest introduction of a writer in a film in Paul Bettany’s naked Chaucer! An impeccable soundtrack! 🖤🖤🖤

A Knight’s Tale poster with a very red background and Heath Ledger looking brooding with the tag line He Will Rock You

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Letting it all hang out on Caturday

Wilbur our black cat on our blue sofa belly up with tongue out

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

‘Dare to Feel’ - very much NOT the tag line for the novel Sense and Sensibility - is top Austen Scholar trolling from the film Sense and Sensibility (LRB please commission me to review this movie 🖤🖤🖤)

Elinor embracing Edward, Marianne looking hungrily at Willoughby who is wearing a silly hat in a S&S poster on 2 halves with the offending tag line in the top half

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I fur one appreciate how the guy presenting Radio 3’s Through the Night looks quite tired

My tv shoring the bbc sounds page fir through the night featuring John Shea looking quite tired

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My run over recovery rewatch continues with 9 to 5 in memoriam Dolly Parton ❤️ a zany workplace comedy in which 3 women’s fantasies of offing their horrible boss leads to feminist Labour reforms

9 to 5 poster featuring Jane Gonda Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton behind their tied up boss with the tag line The Power Behind the Throne

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Cats are home, basking on sunshine ☀️

Hazel our calico kitten asleep on our sunshine rug

Wilbur our black cat blinking at me in the sunshine rug

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Seems like it’s a big week for Edgeworth

TV listing for Thursday reading

Sandi's Ireland: A Literary Journey
More4, 9pm
No stately, plump Buck Mulligan coming from the stairhead, not in episode one of this two-part travelogue anyway. But Sandi Toksvig, aided by Marian Keyes, does a grand job of conjuring Ireland's rich literary heritage. Travelling the isle, she brings to evocative life Jonathan Swift, WB Yeats and "forgotten giant" Maria Edgeworth. CMc

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Not pictured: a heron, a bird of good omen for me, flying off like a benediction

View from a beach hut onto the Cowal peninsula - to the right of the pier there is a cormorant still

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My run over recovery film watch continues with a rewatch (for 1st time since the 90s!) of Shakespeare in Love, which I remembered as a caper but this time - insomniac at 1 am - found surprisingly melancholic

Poster in orangey shades for Shakespeare in Love with Joseph Fiennes kissing the top of Gwyneth Psltrow’s head and also confusingly spearing in silhouette between the couple

The tag line Love is the only inspiration totally misses the film’s running jokes about Shakespeare getting inspiration from other playwrights, events on the street, and in conversation with others

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Nowt Peculiar is a top tier alcohol free beer pun 🖤 (Also v cute my dad got it me as I continue to be on some drugs following accident)

A glass of Nowt Peculiar next to the bottle reading nowt taken out but the alcohol

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’ve walked 8000 steps (most since run over) at the Benmore Botanic Gardens, lads!

Me in a cap, sling, and what is essentially a pyjama top on a bridge over a golden river, greenery and hills in background

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Every holiday cottage should cone with a judgemental seal looking down on your ablutions in the loo

A small seal statue with raised snout and judgemental eyes on a toilet windowsill

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Here comes the teeny tiny Story of Lohengrin

A beautiful and very s mall book telling the story of Lohengrin with intricate runic designs in brown abs title in gold - pen as done kind of scale

Frontispiece of couple in boat on lake with swan - story retold by J Walker McFadden for George C Harrap and co in 1924

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Vegetarian Scottish Breakfast WITH VEGGY HAGGIS 🖤

A breakfast plate with fried egg at noon, sausage at 1, beans from 2-4, veggy haggis at 6 and tattie scone at 9, fried tomato in the middle, mushrooms strewn about

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My run over recovery film watch continues with Speed, a film I snobbishly shunned in the 90s but which is actually a breezily entertaining action thriller with a great, humanizing turn from Sandra Bullock as the bus passenger banned from driving for speeding who has to take charge of the bomb bus 🤣

Poster for Speed with a very young Keanu doing his one expression with a flaming bus in the background and the tagline Get Ready for Rush Hour

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My run over recovery film watch continues with a rewatch of Scott Pilgrim vs the World: a joy from the 8-bit Universal theme at the start to the Continue? countdown at the end

Scott Pilgrim poster in red with Michael Cera brandishing a flaming sword and Mary Elizabeth Winstead with pink hair below 7 evil exes

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

‘I don’t understand why you, a man with one functional arm, can’t pick me, your best and favourite cat, up’ 😾

Wilbur lying on his best and fx pyrite sun shaped rug essentially glaring at me with wavy tail

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My run over recovery film watch continues with Barry Lyndon, which I didn’t really know anything about except Trollope, Kubrick, filming by candlelight - it’s gorgeous! & silly! & unexpectedly moving! About an Irish rogue conning & being conned on his way up through British society & back down again

Barry Lyndon poster in black and white with the drawing of a man from the waist down in high boots holding a gun - he is standing on a red rose

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

With apologies for wonky photo but you can get the gist?

Recipe for pop tarts from puff it up cook book (poorly photographed and transcribed - sorry!)

These are a fun recipe for people of all ages. Get creative with different sprinkles, and experiment with different fillings; salted caramel, jam, nut spreads or butters are all delicious options.
Preheat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan/400°F and line a baking tray with baking parchment.
Mash the raspberries slightly in a bowl. Unroll the puff pastry and cut lengthways into two strips, making one 1cm (½in) bigger than the other. Cut each strip into four equal-sized pieces.
Divide the raspberries between the slightly smaller pastry pieces, spooning them into the middle and leaving a 1.5cm (kin) border right round the square. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of peanut butter over the top of each pile of raspberries, then brush the border with the egg. Lay the slightly bigger piece of pastry on top, pressing down around the edge with a fo to seal. Place onto the baking tray, brush all over with the and transfer to the oven to bake for 20-25 minutes.
In the meantime, make the icing. Mix the icing sugar wit enough water to make a thick but drizzle-able consister
Remove the pop tarts from the oven and leave to cool completely. Drizzle over the icing and decorate with s to finish.
DECORA

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My run over recovery film watch continues with The Big Sleep, a delicious slice of film noir with Bogart & Bacall just sizzling off each other: I guess I’m in love with you 🖤🖤🖤

Poster for The Bog Sleep with Bogaet cradling Bacall’s head in like a Rothko red square

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Wilbur, slightly shunning me, cos he can’t work out why I - a man with one functional arm - can’t pick him up as he desires

Wilbur our black cat sitting on our blue sofa ostentatiously looking away from me

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

No women composers were harmed* in the making of this The Best Proms Album in the World… Ever! album * included

2 CDs of classical music - one international from Bach to Wagner and one British from Britten to Vaughn Williams - no women among them

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My run over recovery film watch continues with A History of Violence - the way the camerawork and framing mimics comic book sequencing, the first set piece in the diner, the wordless final scene!

A History of Violence poster with fuzzy gun in the foreground, Viggo Mortensen in focus behind, and Maria Bello behind him

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