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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 4h

Is that what we're calling the "versatility in trombone management" award these days?

T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

In many ways, the book improves on the audio: it makes the Tower of London setting nicely grounded, has a nifty reference to Dalek and generally succeeds in making this English dystopia feel more believable if you're not a big fan of absurdism.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Love how he's getting into the authentic Aussie swearing

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I know the real Pynchon-types think of this one as pretty low-voltage but goddammit I really love this book

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This gives me a warm little glow of pride that mine was 84,000

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I hate it when I know who the winner is. Should have more Jon Fosse and Han Kang-type candidates

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Parks and Recreation suffered from contact with political reality. Looking back it's so blithe in its Obama-era certainties it's just obnoxious.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Saying this, I realise Moffat's Dracula went from the horror peak of BBC drama to limp aimless finale over the course of 3 evenings.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm going to say The Haunting of Bly Manor across a whole 9 episodes. What started as an interestingly populist take on HJ's very literary, ambiguous ghost stories, turned into a bunch of schlocky twists and tiresome exposition about how ghosts work. Talk about missing the point!

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This would pave the way for the new Christmas special, 'The Three Charleses'

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have actually read Beau Geste but never heard of Beau Sabre

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ireland is the world's most boring country.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you fancy something more entertaining but probably less reliable, BB's Absolute Pandemonium is a hoot, especially as an audiobook

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Have they tried just tipping their Jameson's into their Murphy's? (I know I have, but I can't remember what happens next.)

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I hope you're very interested in Shakespearean theatre in the UK circa 1970, because that's clearly where his heart is! It's not dull, though. My big regret is you never get a sense of what it's like hanging out with Sir Ian or what they talk about.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Leaving the Star Trek stuff until the last fifth of the book is a flex.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

BBC in the UK has just dropped the whole 23-episode first season of Krapopolis, and as someone who was subsisting on a 10-week dribble of bad Futurama episodes, it feels like a lifesaver.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Player pianos--truly the most deadly threat to the liberal arts.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Bath! You can also cycle there.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Terrible series, great cliffhanger, never-to-be resolved. Best left to the few dozen people invested enough to buy the Big Finish stuff.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It creeps up on you. Before you know it, you're actually singing along. Then they switch it to an instrumental version that's somehow MUCH worse...

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It was then a rude surprise to various polar explorers when their teeth started falling out.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Actually it was lemon juice at first; the switch to limes came later, when the age of sail was largely over and no-one was away from port long enough to get scurvy anyway. This meant no-one noticed that a) lime juice has much less vitamin C b) their method of preparation got rid of the rest.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Huh, I thought this was the Ritchson/Wilson vehicle. Crazy they've got 2 movies out with the same title in the same year.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Day of the Daleks to finish up

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wii remote controller support added

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Why would they do this children don't know about this" My friend, have you ever watched an episode of The Simpsons?

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The novel can't top the audio drama, for my money, despite some lovely lines like 'The turkey was dead, to begin with.' On audio McGann's sardonic performance perfectly mocks the plot's aristocratic obsession with class, but on the page 8 comes across as bland as he did in the BBC books range.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That live-action Akira bike slide is a thing of beauty tho...

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

'Wild work in Heaven' is such a wonderful epigraph

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The worst you can say is it's not that interested in being an Alien movie, but I prefer that to the slavish imitation and misbegotten callbacks of Romulus.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Covenant was actually great. I want more Fassbender-on-Fassbender action, misattributed Romantic poetry, Leonardo da Geiger themed production design and 100x magnified shots of alien spores floating into human ears.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This beautiful woodcut print is Evening Glow at Seta by master Japanese printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige. It comes from a series called Eight Views of Ōmi which celebrates Ōmi province (modern Shiga prefecture) in both poetry and art.

A colour woodcut print of the evening sun in Seta. There is a river with boats through the centre, and mountains in the background.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The most boring place on earth.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If you're going straight on across the top of a T junction, why the hell not?

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I remember wearing my father's souveneir Russian fur cap down to breakfast and getting hairs in my cornflakes.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I always think it's strange he was such good friends with Douglas Adams given how Twitter has betrayed his essential humorlessness.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Fair play to Andy Burnham, "Everyone in for Christmas" is a specific and measurable target that's also an emotive and instantly understandable piece of political messaging.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

That's how our relationship has worked out--I can cook but I find it reasonably stressful and a lot of my go-to dishes don't interest her. That said, if she was away for the week it would definitely be asparagus and poached egg on toast time. 😋

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

UK specific, but there was a 70s novelty record scene that became children's music, and it was fascinating to me that my grandparents wouldn't let my mum sing 'My old man's a dustman' because they thought it was vulgar.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Movie is better than the book, which in this case isn't saying much but it doesn't happen often.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I remember the gusty roar of a VHS tape on quick rewind.

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T Tyrrell @dyspraxicsushi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If you already have the box, he isn't going to profit, obviously

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