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Jon Lyus

@jonlyus.bsky.social
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In gutter. Looking at stars. HeyUGuys. OhYeah. @thedistantfire.bsky.social Righter. Farther. Bryter. Later. Now available in Blue(Sky). You look beautiful today.

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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Where do you go when the world gets too loud? This week on The Distant Fire we're closing our eyes and going to the place our imagination has built — and finding out what it's been trying to tell us all along.
The logo graphic for The Distant Fire Episode 4 - The Worlds we Keep and our Happy Place. The main image is a pair of hands holding a shining globe, in halftone black and white.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Come on…
A still from Brazil a form
With the word Buttle on it. The inciting incident on paper. And a dead fly.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Should have used this one. And made the crew Fraggles. Miss Piggy could have been Penelope. Janice from The Electric Mayhem as Calypso. A massive Gonzo as the Cyclops, Kermit as Odyssey, Fozzie Bear as Wackammemnon. Writes itself.
The dog from Fraggle Rock. I forget his name, but he is shaggy.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
New Episode Alert! Episode #2 of The Distant Fire is now live, with a cracking One Minute Exercise to open. Enjoy!* *Enjoyment can also include subscribing and sharing this. Ta!
Title Card for Episode 2 of The Distant Fire - called The Hero Factor. It has the usual Supergraphic ident which looks pretty fab.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Just found this one too. Cannot remember who I made it for. But it's now yours, should you ever need it.
This 'picture' is of the famous dead magician Paul Daniels and his wife and business partner Deborah McGee. Hell is behind them for some reason. Word Art has taken care of the bold words that get the focus of the image, and they read 'Happy Birthday'. Clearly it is meant to be ironic.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
@montimer.bsky.social It's your birthday! To celebrate I'm going to show you a picture that I have just found, but don't remember every making. Have an enormous day, you cool kid.
A badly photoshopped movie poster featuring two impossibly beautiful people against a sunset with a bi-plane and balloon for some sort of effect. More is more is, I think, what the artist (me) was going for. Was it worth it? No.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
‘Portrait of an Artist’ (Pool with Two Figures) by David Hockney. A man in a pink jacket stands over a swimming pool with a swimmer underwater. Beyond is a landscape of such breathtaking beauty that it can only exist in the mind.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Warm hugs to you in the moment, and a picture. And just to say that in this moment, to that little girl, you are everything that is good with the world.
A young girl stands in the aisle of a a packed church watching in awe as musicians dressed as penny sweets play a song at the front. The girl is dancing, and loving it.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
“But if it’s guilt you’re looking for, Buffy, I’m not your man…All you will get from me is my support. And my respect.” RIP to the man gave this scene (and all the others) such great humanity.
A screen cap of Buffy Season 2 episode Innocence where Giles says: it’s guilt you’re looking for, Buffy, I’m not your man. All you will get from me is my support. And my respect.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The City of Lost Children, because it’s a film of squalid chaotic beauty that is rare nowadays. Also it’s about an old, evil, miserable dictator stealing the dreams of children so - you know… Intro: Lloyds of London. Leather jacket to be worn of course.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I had completely forgotten about this. That WAS a great night.
The HeyUGUys team pose for a very badly lit photo, taken it seems on a drunken potato), at the Jameson Cult Film Club screening of Moon many, many years ago.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The Walthamstow Granada - a stick-floored palace of a cinema. Now revived!
The box office of The Walthamstow Granada - a stick-floored palace of a cinema. Now revived!The outside of The Walthamstow Granada - a stick-floored palace of a cinema. Now revived!Another angle of the Walthamstow Granada - a stick-floored palace of a cinema. Now revived!
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Friends, 2025 was a sod of a year for many, but the warmth of good friends held us through. Let it be so again in 2026. Let us do as the gospel of Bill and Ted would have us do, and Be Excellent to Each Other.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
A perfect Christmas Eve morning in Merry Muswell Hill with bustling bookshops, warm hot chocolates at the Crocodile Cafe, and scores of people wishing each other Merry Christmas. Tis the season friends! The Merriest of Christmasses to you! Now… Muppets!
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Cheese and Pickle sandwich day to those who celebrate. Gloryholes ready for half past nine...
A screenshot from BBC Ghostwatch featuring Michael Parkinson standing in a TV Studio. Things do not go well from this point on.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Look at these authors! Just look at them! Working through TheEnd of the World as we know it currently and loving it - this is right at the top of my want list.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Happy #VHS day to all who celebrate. It's a winning year for fans of the series - Halloween has a a grab bag of creepy, gory and downright nasty shorts on offer. Not a Bounty bar among them. Feast Friends!
The title card for Shudder Original VHS Halloween.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This was a hard one to write. A true legend. www.heyuguys.com/robert-redfo...
A film still of Robert Redford from Barefoot in the Park, being - well... Barefoot in the Park.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Until you can no longer afford the subscription…
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Just saw this treasure on the big screen. Still so brilliant. The world could do with more silly right now.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Yeah - cos of you, you feckless boastful cockwomble.
Trump declaring I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Similarly, and likewise...
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This one hurts badly. The master of the mystery who changed forever the way TV was made and watched. We got to see the world through his eyes, and what a pleasure that was. RIP you beautiful man.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
You know what film was great? Bright Star. Cracking score too.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year everyone. Be like Bill and Ted, and Be Excellent to Each Other.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Spending Christmas Eve the same way I did forty years ago, with these two. The Merriest of Christmasses to you all.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Not least the Big Metal head on a table that was the most feared being in the galaxy. Happy days.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Waking up on Saturday morning to this was such a treat.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
As it’s snowing, what’s your favourite film with a snowy scene? Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter…and Spring (2003)
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Anyone who remembers the SNES classic Super Castlevania IV (which had THE best spooky music) would do well to visit the Epic Store as the Castlevania Anniversary Collection is their freebie of the week.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This really IS like old Twitter... Introduce yourself with One book 📚 One movie 🎥 One album 💿 One tv show 📺
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Very glad to see that @fesshole.bsky.social are on here too. Among the ribald humiliation and the mess of human life there are some of the best short stories ever written. Like this one - a whole world in four sentences!
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
Die hards and Democrats vote early. Enjoy the day you lovely people #Toriesout
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
Forever will be one of the defining cinematic moments of my life. Goosebumps. A gift. RIP Bernard Hill
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Yet another reason for me to upgrade. Wonder if this is the year?
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
Apparently it’s been three years since I made my most convincing Photoshop edit ever. The Muppets Brazil.
Kermit and fozzie are photoshopped into a torture scene from Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. I’m not quite sure why.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
Happy New Year you Excellent People. Hope It’s a good one - you deserve it.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
With HeyUGuys not yet being over here it's my duty and my pleasure to offer up my favourite post of the year - The 2023 Truffles – The HeyUGuys Alternative Film Awards. See them now at www.HeyUGuys.com/the-2023-truffles-the-heyuguys-alternative-film-awards/
The Truffles Logo - a golden Chuck from the Goonies.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 10/12/2023
Can. Not. Wait.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
RIP to the man who gave one of the greatest straight man performances on screen. The wonderful chaos of What’s Up Doc? would be totally untethered if not for Howard Bannister and his igneous rocks.
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Jon Lyus @jonlyus.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
In the interests of bringing more joy into the world here's one of the greatest things ever.
Vincent Prince is attacked by Kermit.
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