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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I watched Penda's Fen, still up on iPlayer for now. Deeply strange and uncategorisable; it's often labelled a horror film, which seems to me a terminal mistake. It's both of its time and somehow outside it, or beyond it. Nothing like it will ever be made again, for about six different reasons.

The glum, sarcastic looking teacher in Penda's Fen who has written MANICHAEAN-ISM on the blackboard.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reading the old Keith Richards autobiog in odd moments on my phone: good fun. I like this story about him nodding off on a lengthy heroin-induced nap in the middle of overdubbing the counterpoint guitars on Rocks Off, still one of the best side 1 track 1s ever imo open.spotify.com/track/42o3gy...

Andy Johns: We were working on “Rocks Off,” and everyone else had left. Keith said, “Play that back for me, Andy.” And it was four or five in the morning, and he went to sleep while the playback was on, and I thought, great! I can get out of here. So I went all the way back to this villa that Keith had been kind enough to rent for me and Jim Price. Just getting to sleep and ring, ring, ring, ring… “Where the fuck are you? I’ve got this great idea.” It was a half-hour drive. “Oh sorry, Keith. I’ll be right back.” So I jumped in the car, went back, and he played this other Telecaster part, which is why the two-guitar interchange happens on “Rocks Off,” which is still stunning to me. And he just went right through it in one take. Bang, done. And I’m so glad that it went that way.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just perfectly normal things happening in a perfectly normal privatised major utility in a perfectly normal country www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

If you look at the raw numbers, you can see his point. In October 2020, cash deposits at post-office branches across the UK totalled £1.9bn. That is £1.9bn for that single month, not the whole year. The following October, the sum was £2.2bn. That number kept rising each year until, by October 2025, it came to £2.9bn – an increase of 50% in just five years. Although Post Office Ltd then stopped publishing such detailed figures, the trend has continued. It boasted of a 10% increase in deposits in the first quarter of this year, meaning they have now almost certainly passed £3bn a month.

What makes these numbers so astounding is that over the same period, cash usage among the general public has dropped sharply. Cash now accounts for fewer than one in 10 transactions in the UK. Yet cash deposits at the post office have gone sharply in the opposite direction.

According to Post Office Ltd, the reason it stopped publishing monthly cash totals last year was because its post office operatives did not want to alert criminals to the amount of money they had on the premises.

Banks pay Post Office Ltd for providing services on their behalf, which helped it to post revenues of £309m from “banking and ATMs” in its 2024-5 accounts. That was more than a third of its revenues for that year, and only slightly less than it earned from handling the mail. In fact, Post Office Ltd may already be making more money from deposits and withdrawals than it does from its traditional business. As the former insider joked: “We should start calling it the Bank Office.”

This isn’t just important for Post Office Ltd, but also for individual post office operatives, who earn a fee for every cash deposit they accept. “The post office operatives will be remunerated on the transactions that they have through their branch, so they will get a transaction fee,” Ben Woollard, the new head of banking at Post Office Ltd, told me. “As with any product, the more a post office operative or any business will deliver, then they will earn more income out of that.”

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I was careful to avoid this obvious trap for fans of Sauce

Two massive shipping containers with a tiny fridge labelled SAUCES IN HERE in between

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

When on holiday with small children you really need to find one of those play parks full of cheery, dilapadated, somewhat sinister fibreglass constructs, because the kids will love it of all things and you will spend 500 hours here.

Photo of a play park with various faded animal play statues and loads of those little ride on Fisher Price cars; a green dino looms in the foreground, grinning.

A little brown bus, one of those supermarket ride on coin-guzzler machines, put out to pasture. The word BEEP is weirdly prominent on his forehead and he has massive eyes and kind of a shit-eating grin.

A huge tree in a flat cap at the middle of a maze of waist high green fence. For some reason he has a nose like a three-bollock'd nutsack. Very liminal, etc.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Tried to take a photo through my cereal box eclipse viewer, ended up in the backrooms.

Photo of what looks like a gloomy interior lit by a square window from out of sight - a tiny moonshaped bright shape visible on the far wall.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

cousin's Paths to Success has good meme potential imo

Richie's mad Paths to Success document from The Bear: a map of the restaurant cluttered with an insane quantity of borderline illegible annotations and multicoloured sticky notes and bits of masking tape

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

To the Post Office museum today, where they have a little exhibition dedicated to The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Worth it to see some of the gorgeous original art, so vibrant and luminous (& shockingly detailed for the size - why did I think it'd be bigger? it's sized for the book!)

Original watercolour art for The Jolly Postman: the bit at the end where the postman is cycling home.

Original watercolour art for The Jolly Postman: the witch smiles over her letter while the postman reads his paper in the background.

Two pages of rough pencil doodles and notes for The Jolly Postman, with assorted adorable characters

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

vg photo on Geoffrey Burgon's wikipedia page

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Because most of my runs these days are bookended by other time commitments - meetings, errands etc - I went out last night at 8pm determined to see how far I could get with some actual free time. Anyway I ended up running 15km nonstop, which is by far the furthest I've ever run.

Screenshot from my Samsung health app showing various stats: a 15.20km run in 1 hour 29 mins, avg pace a somewhat sluggish 7'04, avg heart rate 149bpm which is a little lower than usual for me?

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Pottering about with an hour to myself.

A cat dozing under the back wheel of a stationary white Tesla on a very hot day.

A song thrush (?) perched on a wooden plank alongside my allotment, mocking my attempts to keep it in check.

A view down into the spout of a big watering can, where a snail is somehow chilling.

A photo of a tiny spider in the middle of a web in the foreground, part attached to a light bulb; in the background is a way out of focus view of a suburban green, all trees and lawn and dappled sunlight.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Nice canalside run this morning: spotted this fluffy rusty lump having a deeply oblivious snooze in the cool long grass.

Photo of a very rusty black longhaired cat curled up in a tight ball, deeply asleep in the longish grass on a canal towpath, alongside a the large red side of a longboat named MEY BE KNOT

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I guess that's one way to deal with a bad night

Screenshot of workout details for my morning run: 47 mins 50 secs, 8.51km, yadda yadda yadda

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

checking on Google reveals they only added the insistent memento mori at a later date, because why wouldn't you

Motto on the wall: DON'T TAKE LIFE TOO SERIOUSLY

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"Messershmitt plant-based burger"

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Finally got started on Death Stranding 2 last night. Not far in but so far it's much like the first, which is fine by me: still stunning to look at, still freaky as hell.

Spectacular view over a landscape in Mexico with Sam in the foreground, dressed in a long coat and backpack and boots, carrying an infant passenger in a babybjorn type sling.

Baby Lou playing with a giant toy shaped like one of the weird bugs which is one of Sam's main sources of sustenance.

Dream sequence of Sam on a beach at sunset or sunrise: a *huge* woman carrying a baby stands before him, silhouetted against the sky.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I guess there's some kind of irony or at least brass neck involved in naming your vampire squid enterprise after one of the greatest paintings of all time.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

In a brief interval from parenting I got to the bit in Anna Karenina where Kitty gives birth, and what do you mean I have to just get on with my day after this.

But whatever they said, he knew that all was now lost. Leaning his head against the doorpost, he stood in the next room and heard a shrieking and howling such as he had never heard before, and he knew that these cries were coming from what had once been Kitty. He had long ceased wishing for the child. He now hated this child. He did not even wish for her to live now; he only wished for an end to this terrible suffering. ‘Doctor! What is it? What is it? My God!’ he said, seizing the doctor by the arm as he came in. ‘It’s nearly over,’ said the doctor. And the doctor’s face was so serious as he said it that Levin understood this ‘nearly over’ to mean she was dying. Forgetting himself, he ran into the bedroom. The first thing he saw was Lizaveta Petrovna’s face. It was still more stern and frowning. Kitty’s face was not there. In place of it, where it used to be, was something dreadful both in its strained look and in the sound that came from it. He leaned his head against the wooden bedstead, feeling that his heart was bursting. The terrible screaming would not stop, it became still more terrible and then, as if reaching the final limit of the terrible, it suddenly stopped. Levin did not believe his ears, but there could be no doubt: the screaming stopped, and there was a quiet stirring, a rustle and quick breathing, and her faltering, alive, gentle and happy voice softly said: ‘It’s over.’

Falling on his knees beside the bed, he held his wife’s hand to his lips, kissing it, and the hand responded to his kisses with a weak movement of the fingers. And meanwhile, there at the foot of the bed, in the deft hands of Lizaveta Petrovna, like a small flame over a lamp, wavered the life of a human being who had never existed before and who, with the same right, with the same importance for itself, would live and produce its own kind. ‘Alive! Alive! And it’s a boy! Don’t worry!’ Levin heard the voice of Lizaveta Petrovna, who was slapping the baby’s back with a trembling hand. ‘Mama, is it true?’ said Kitty’s voice. She was answered only by the princess’s sobs. And amidst the silence, as the indubitable reply to the mother’s question, a voice was heard, quite different from all the subdued voices speaking in the room. It was the bold, brazen cry, not intent on understanding anything, of a new human being who had appeared incomprehensibly from somewhere.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Played a bit of Still Wakes the Deep: quite effective & atmospheric, if somewhat pedestrian on the gameplay front. Funny writing and excellent performances tho. (Possibly some of the best anguished screaming I've heard in a game.)

A dimly lit break room in an industrial space; a couple of pool tables and other assorted tables/chairs scattered around the place; a Christmas tree stands far right, rather sparsely decorated.

An image of a bedroom interior with a blurry figure standing near a bed, sunlight streaming through a window; overlaid with melting celluloid effects and another out of focus image overlaid on top of a child playing.

An industrial interior, the break room again; the whole area is now bathed in an unearthly light shining through the little glass window in a door, mingled with the more familiar Christmas lights scattered on the floor.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

this is what peak youtube comment looks like btw, you may not like it etc

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This kind of nostalgia is fascinating but can mostly be reduced to a craving for unmitigated social contact. but my free time is so limited now that any time for medium deliberation is itself a luxury! Have your own kids and you'll no longer be wondering about how you'd like to spend your mornings!!

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Extremely normal selection of DVDs left to take outside someone's house today

An untidy heap of junk with a basket of assorted DVDs: a couple of Band of Brothers box set, a very faded Ashes cricket collection, a FIFA thing, Prisoner of Azkaban, and (very prominently) like six copies of "HITLER'S HENCHMEN"

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A few lines from Anna Karenina to recall the next time someone starts describing their relationship with an AI chatbot.

"He knew it was impossible to forbid Vronsky to toy with painting; he knew that he and all the dilettantes had every right to paint whatever they liked, but he found it unpleasant. It was impossible to forbid a man to make a big wax doll and kiss it. But if this man with the doll came and sat in front of a man in love and began to caress his doll the way the man in love caressed his beloved, the man in love would find it unpleasant."

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I'm a big believer that games should occasionally have you do something incomprehensibly tedious and (apparently) out of character to make you think about what is happening.

The bit where you have to climb a really really long ladder in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater while an instrumental version of the greatest song in the world plays in the background.

The bit with the really really long stairs in The Beginner's Guide where everything slows down the further you go.

The deeply unpleasant bit with the really really long stairs under the Historical Society in Silent Hill 2.

The bit in the fish cannery from Edith Finch, which is really too much to even start describing.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

One of my favourite things from The Sopranos is when an idiom or something gets adopted and repeated to the point of misuse & this is the best example; at first it briefly seems like Tony gets it, but eventually "you go about in pity for yourself!" just becomes more accusatory finger-jabbing.

Image of a note pinned to a wall: "Sometimes I got about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky. - Ojibwe saying"

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Daft minor purchase that has significantly improved my life: one of these silly ramen bowls with a tightfitting lid. You just throw everything in the bowl, pour on boiling water, and take it wherever. I expect young people were doing this ten years ago but it has hugely boosted my ramen consumption.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Played a bit of Thank Goodness You're Here: I'm enjoying the aggressive Viz mag surreal-silliness, but it's also an endearing picture of a certain British decrepitude that set in around the Thatcher era & which has never really left. Everything is falling apart and the only constant is indifference.

Screenshot from Thank Goodness You're Here: a horrid gaping meaty maw made of sausages with face on and burgers and bits of other miscellaneous butchery.

Screenshot from Thank Goodness You're Here of a woman mourning the destruction of her Lady Di commemorative plate, plus me getting a trophy notification called "The People's Princess" (too soon?).

Screenshot from Thank Goodness You're Here: a man reads a paper in an orderly living room, of the kind you might recognise if you were born in the 80s or 90s; big painting of a WW2 bomber over the carriageclock fireplace; model spitfire and packet of rolling tobacco; commemorative medals on the wall; book cheekily named "Trainspotting for Tosspots" etc

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I finished Sword of the Sea, the first game to ask: what if you could bust some sick kickflips across the backdrop of a Fumito Ueda game? It's very pretty, with another gorgeous score by Austin Wintory, though it also feels derivative & gets carried away by its own spectacle. Neat but hard to love.

Screenshot from Sword of the Sea: a sweeping view of desert like landscape with a towering mountain in the background.

Screenshot from Sword of the Sea: a curve of green jellyfish forms an upward spiral that leads up and out of a kind of massive enclosed courtyard.

Screenshot from Sword of the Sea: two figures battling a massive serpent creature.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Finally finished the Silent Hill 2 remake last night. It's immaculately presented but overlong, harrowing, oppressive to the point that I'm glad it's over. (you could argue that's the point.) Most of all I'm curious about the original series and it's a pain that most of those are hard to play now.

Screenshot from Silent Hill 2: James looking sorrowful in the reflection of a big old TV monitor.

Screenshot from Silent Hill 2: Maria lying stretched out on her side, bathed in pinky purple light, on a sort of raised stage, the word "Dream" written on the world behind her as graffiti. (Yes I got the Maria ending, I'll leave you to your own conclusions about that.)

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Big fan of the art for this semi-related Famicom game, about building a water pipeline from the USSR to Tokyo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorby_n...

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Haunted by this review I glimpsed while browsing online for a small settee. "goes perfectly with my bean bag."

Screenshot of a photo of somebody's living room: it's uncomfortably overlit, with bare white walls, and a front door that opens straight into the middle of the room; the only furniture is an armless settee to the left and a large blue beanbag sort of huddled in the opposite corner, and a tiny table wedged in the corner by the settee; the blinds are fully drawn; the wall to wall carpet has a sort of brushed velvet texture in which some sort of unsettling Lynchian pattern might soon arise.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I'm really enjoying DUSK so far - a shooter that harks back to Quake & other early 3D FPSs while feeling a lot richer and deeper than a simple nostalgia trip. Smart, funny, creepy level design and some truly striking architecture.

Screenshot from DUSK of a hexagonal shape in a ceiling in shades of yellow and brown, with odd little claw like protrusions and a sort of spiral design in the centre. There's so much weird stuff in this game that I hardly know where to start with the alt text.

Screenshot from DUSK of a corridor that spirals on itself, almost certainly recalling that bit from Thief: The Dark Project.

Screenshot from DUSK of the player looking up towards a set of really massive skyscraper-like towers, criscrossed by metal struts, all cast in bright stark lighting.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I am still inching through the Silent Hill 2 remake at the rate of half an hour or so every few nights. I have to keep stopping because after a long day it's an utterly harrowing thing to sit down to. But it's also incredible and it freaks my nut out that this thing came out in any form in 2001.

Screenshot from the Silent Hill 2 remake: a painting or photo of a very strange and unsettling room, lit by a row of high windows at well above head height, entirely bare apart from a bench or seat in the middle.

Screenshot from the Silent Hill 2 remake: James descends down the very very very long and very dark staircase under the Silent Hill Historical Society. You can appreciate this is hard to endure when this is what my life looks like most days.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

An observation from my Sopranos rewatch: after the first time Tony comments on the painting of the red barn, we never actually see it again, until season 3 when he meets the ill-fated Gloria in Melfi's waiting room. (I'm not 100% sure of this but I really want it to be true.)

The red barn from The Sopranos. It's all spooky and shit.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Watching a favourite jolly Christmas film (currently free to stream in the UK on the Plex app, if you can stand the ad breaks).

A shot from the opening of Brazil (1985): a family seated next to a Christmas tree, two kids and a mother and father; the former is reading A Christmas Carol to her kids (they even do the Tiny Tim, Who Did Not Die bit here). The room is drab and sort of 1950s style but for the horrendous snakelike metal ducts that crisscross at ceiling height.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Silent Hill has always been a bit of a blind spot for me so I have no idea how this compares to the original, but the opening hours of the SH2 remake are an appropriately horrid time. With headphones it is one of the most aurally unpleasant things I've played in a while.

Screenshot from Silent Hill 2: James stands before the Silent Hill Ranch sign, a barn and farm buildings in the background, shrouded by menacing fog.

Screenshot from Silent Hill 2: a blurry Polaroid photo of a room, with "I've been happy" scribbled in a corner.

Screenshot from Silent Hill 2: James about to reach into an extremely nasty looking hole in a wall.

Screenshot from Silent Hill 2: the bit where you find a flashlight in a darkened room full of mannequins; something quite bad is about to happen.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Gentle reminder that whatever you think of the BBC you can watch Manhunter on iPlayer right now and it is still one of the best-looking films ever made.

A shot from Manhunter of two people standing on a jetty before an outrageously good-looking sunrise bathes the scene in all tones between yellow orange and blue.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Played a bit of The Invincible, a game which caught my attention for being a direct adaptation of a 1964 novel by Stanislaw Lem. Slow, semi-engrossing, quite technical, often a little bit dull - feels exactly like reading hard sf at times. It's also often very beautiful.

Screenshot from The Invincible: from a first person perspective, the player as an astronaut is looking down at a sort of transparent photostat image of a school of large fish on an alien planet.

Screenshot from The Invincible: a spectacular view of a yellow rocky sandy beach on an alien planet leading down towards an open ocean, under a turquoise sky; in the distance a planet with Saturn-like rings hovers over everything.

Screenshot from The Invincible: a spectacular construction of intricate metalwork

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Stayed last night alone in this unexpectedly striking lakeside Premier Inn, just outside Milton Keynes, which feels like an unused level from the first Alan Wake.

Photo taken at dusk, under clear blue grey skies: across a big open lawn there stands a set of modern brick hotel buildings with steep red roofs, one of which vaguely recalls mid century Americana, complete with a massive reproduction grain silo/windmill type thing with a white dome atop it; what do they put inside such things, I wonder?

Photo of a jetty or pontoon over a big lake at dusk; the water is calm, the sky clear and speckled with clouds; ducks and moorhens and gulls are scattered along the water's edge; there is nobody, nobody at all there.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

also something so strong in this film about the child just offscreen, who might also be the child inside, casting a long shadow over everything without actually really appearing; something which is absolutely everywhere in his films once you start to notice it.

Image from The Straight Story: in a near dark street a small boy stands holding a ball, facing right; in the foreground an inexplicably tiny sprinkler sprays water over a tiny patch of grass, as if to say: we can only do what we can for them.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Latest in uncanny reading coincidences: sitting in my local Picturehouse waiting for a screening of The 39 Steps, rereading The Last Samurai, & here it is, about Robert Donat, almost at the foot of the page.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Enjoying our holiday in Cornwall but sometimes you will stumble across a little theme park built up around an abandoned mine system - almost as deep as the Shard is tall - which was once the site of a horrifying industrial disaster. A thoroughly British day out.

Photo of a big old tower, mid 18 century, that once housed a massive steam engine for pumping water out of a deep mine below.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

For various reasons we ended up at the Pavilions shopping centre in Uxbridge - an uncannily well-preserved 70s/80s mall which, unlike many of its contemporaries, still seems to be doing pretty well. Essays have probably been written about this deeply postmodern covered market section.

Photo of the covered market area in the Pavilions shopping centre - a huge glass roof covers a series of stalls, with a big sort of tower thing at the middle, presumably intended to echo the style of a church tower but in a sort of vaguely Mediterranean style I can't quite place.

Photo of another area in the Pavilions shopping centre: a big open square with another huge glass roof over it; a selection of sofas and furniture are on show; in the middle distance is a big screen with an expanse of fake grass before it, and a set of benches and chair strewn around in an effort to provide a sort of informal community space.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Sometimes the environmental storytelling around here is a bit too on the nose.

Photo of graffiti which someone has painted on a white wall with a paintbrush in mostly red paint, which has started to run and fade a bit - the text reads "If you take a moment to really look at everything that has occurred...and everything that had been exposed over the last hundred years...its clear that something unprecedented is happening to humanity." I'm not sure 'unprecedented' is quite correct, though I don't disapprove of the sentiment.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Going back to the fridge for more Cyberpunk 2077, in spite of having spent an unprintable number of hours on my first run. Night City might be my happy place, I think. Maybe I can save everyone this time.

Screenshot from Cyberpunk 2077: my new character looking in a mirror in the prologue cutscene, with Jackie standing behind him. He's got the Arasaka Corpo uniform on and is giving vaguely Jake Gyllenhall vibes.

Screenshot from Cyberpunk 2077: the ill-fated Evelyn and darling Judy in the latter's basement office in Lizzie's Bar, giving vaguely "mum said it's my turn on the computer" vibes.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Finished NORCO. A beautiful, weird, sweet thing.

Screenshot from Norco: an elderly man, unwell, sits in a dressing gown in the light of a table lamp, barely visible in a room shrouded with darkness.

Screenshot from Norco: the blueprint of a house floats above a distant nighttime cityscape. Text: "Your mom will pull this carpet up again. The ditches will fill again and there will be no hiding from the floods in death or anywhere else."

Screenshot from Norco: a grainy closeup of a hideous birdlike monster.

Screenshot from Norco: a couple of haughty nerds in conversation about video games. Text: "Torment, frustration, antagonism, even indifference. These are valid things to design for. Pleasure and enjoyment aren't essential to the experience of art."

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

And some days the witching hour is just what it sounds like.

Photo of a very small boy in PJs in a darkened room light by dark blue light - he is grinning madly and holding two big red portable night lights atop his eyes.

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patrick @marginalgloss.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Some days you just have to take any break you can.

Selfie of yours truly taken in the wing mirror of a car from the passenger seat - a cherubic sleeping toddler is half visible behind me. Trees and stuff around. I look somewhat bedraggled. Nice sunny day.

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