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Mal Franks

@merseymal.com

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Data Analyst since 2023. IT Supervisor/SysAdmin 1997-2023. Computer tinkerer/gamer since 1982. Console gamer since 1977. Tea drinker since 1974. He/him. Loves telly, music, comics, movies, games and tea.

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 7h

10 inch single of Tears For Fears' I Believe (A Soulful Re-recording)

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 7h

Noice!

The Beatles- Rubber Soul zoetrope picture disc.

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 03/10/2026

I get this for our chips

3 bottles of Killybegs Catch Chip Mate Non Brewed Condiment 284ml

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 02/10/2026

Morning!

Me with Clara the cat or is it my beard?

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 30/09/2026

12 inch single of Talking Heads' Road To Nowhere

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 30/09/2026

saw this on @apiln.bsky.social's facebook page the other da

Empire: Amazon orders another Reacher round at Prime Video as Season 6 renewal confirmed.

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 29/09/2026

7 inch single of Paul Hardcastle's The Wizard - the theme from Top of the Pops

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 29/09/2026

New Order's Brotherhood on vinyl and blu-ray.

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 29/09/2026

What's the blandest thing on the menu. English restaurant sketch from goodness gracious me.

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 28/09/2026

Gowron off of Star Trek: Next Generation and Deep Space 9

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 28/09/2026

Pete Trewavas on bass and backing vocals. Behind him is Ian Moseley on drums

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 28/09/2026

Another photo taken at the excellent @marillion.com gig last night.

black and white photograph of 4 of the band Marillion

front left to right: Steve Hogarth (vocals & guitar), Pete Trewavas (bass), Steve Rothery (guitar)
rear: Mark Kelly (keyboards)

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 27/09/2026

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 27/09/2026

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 27/09/2026

That'll do

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 26/09/2026

Ummm

Facebook post from Classic FM on 25th September 2026 with text "Happy birthday, Shostakovich! Born on this day, 120 years ago"

There's a black and white photograph with text saying "Born on this day in 1906. Dmitri Shostakovich. Classic FM"

The photograph is of Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter.

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 25/09/2026

Until 1995, I lived around the corner from the titular bench. It used to be in front of the wall that the mural of a smiling woman's mouth is. The dental studio was a newsagents.

The former location of the bench at Belvedere on Google Street View.

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 24/09/2026

12 inch single of Eurythmics's Love Is A Stranger. It has a price sticker for 75 pence which is dated 28th May 1998.

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 24/09/2026

From Tiff's recently integrated record collection.

12 inch single picture disc of Paul McCartney No More Lonely Nights. Behind it is the 12 inch single of the Special Dance Mix

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 23/09/2026

I need to resubscribe to ancestry and find out where the Danes came from in my ancestry

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 22/09/2026

Oh-oh

Star Trek Online

9 minutes ago

Captains - there are two bugs in the new mission that we're working on fixing. One is locking progression at a certain point - details in comments to avoid spoilers. The other is Moopsy. Moopsy can eat a boss and break the mission. Do not bring Moopsy.

Moopsy from Star Trek: Lower Decks. It's a cute small animal and it's clamped onto someone's neck while it is drinking their bones.

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 22/09/2026

I bought the single in the CDV format. Never had any means of playing the video on it, but the 3 tracks are playable in a CD player, thankfully.

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 22/09/2026

@jamesbluecat.bsky.social so close...

James Douglas Henry

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 22/09/2026

12 inch single record sleeve of Electric Light Orchestra's Sweet Talking Woman which features their flying saucer stage design though its roof hasn't raised up yet so it looks more like a burger.

12 inch single of Electric Light Orchestra's Sweet Talking Woman. The record is purple vinyl.

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 21/09/2026

B-sides on 12" are World Leader Pretend and a cover of Leonard Cohen's First We Take Manhatten.

12 inch single of R.E.M.'s Drive

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 20/09/2026

12 inch single of Tears For Fears' Mad World

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 20/09/2026

12 inch single of The Cult's Rain

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 18/09/2026

Was great in Star Trek: Voyager episode "Death Wish"

Gerrit Graham as Quinn in Star Trek: Voyager episode "Death Wish"

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 18/09/2026

Bargain!

60 Day Game Time Card PC for £6.99

News article from September 2018 announcing the shutdown of WildStar.

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 18/09/2026

hmm - i wonder how the person you're talking to got on this blocklist

User Blocked by "A Very British Bigotry"

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 18/09/2026

7 inch single of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire.

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 17/09/2026

Hmm don't think so. Seems to be based on the artwork for the album Quartet by Peter Savile.

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 17/09/2026

12 inch single of Ultravox's Reap The Wild Wind

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 16/09/2026

That's the #LunchtimeListen sorted.

12 inch single of Voice Of The Beehive's I Think I Love You - front cover

12 inch single of Voice Of The Beehive's I Think I Love You - back cover

Side 1

I think I Love You (Orgy Mix)
Say It
Don't Call Me Baby

Side 2

V8 Goddess Of Love

Print of record sleeve as theatre poster with drawings of nude peope

Orgy Under The Underworld: The Squalid Tale of Two Innocent Girls' Descent Into The Moral Quagmire That"s Rock'n'Roll

Starring Voice Of The Beehive

Plus Erotic Light Show

Warning: Wear Loose Fitting Clothes

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Animal Kwackers will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.

Kids tv show Animal Kwackers, which has a band in animal costumes.

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 15/09/2026

Need a new game. Wonder if this is any good.

The Blood Of Dawnwalker but with text changed to Dan Walker and face changed to tv presenter Dan Walker

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 15/09/2026

Noice!

World War Z - An Oral History of the Zombi War by Max Brooks

Performed by an all-star cast.

10 CD Box Set

Full Cast Credits

Max Brooks as Max Brooks
Nicki Clyne as Sharon
Bruce Boxleitner as Gavin Blaire
Simon Pegg as Grover Carlson
Brian Tee as Hyungchoi and Michael Choi
Henry Rollins as T. Sean Collins
Frank Darabont as Roy Elliot
Common as Darnell Hackworth
Kal Penn as Sardar Khan
Alfred Molina as Terry Knox
David Ogden Stiers as Bohdan Taras Kondratiuk
Nathan Fillion as Stanley MacDonald
Denise Crosby as Mary Jo Miller
Ade M’Cormack as Jacob Nyathi
Paul Sorvino as Fernando Oliveira
Parminder Nagra as Barati Palshigar
Rene Auberjonois as Andre Renard
F. Murray Abraham as Father Sergei Ryzhkov
Martin Scorsese as Breckinridge “Breck” Scott
Masi Oka as Kondo Tatsumi
Ric Young as Admiral Xu Zhicai
Jeri Ryan as Maria Zhuganova

Alan Alda as Arthur Sinclair
Carl Reiner as Jurgen Warbrunn
Jürgen Prochnow as Philip Adler
Waleed Zuiater as Saladin Kader
Dean Edwards as Joe Muhammad
Michelle Kholos as Jesika Hendricks
Maz Jobrani as Ahmed Farahnakian
Mark Hamill as Todd Wainio
Eamonn Walker as David Allen Forbes and Paul Redeker / Xolelwa Azania
Ajay Naidu as Ajay Shah
John Turturro as Serosha Garcia Alvarez
Rob Reiner as “The Whacko”
Jay O. Sanders as Bob Archer
Dennis Boutsikaris as General Travis D’Ambrosia
Becky Ann Baker as Christina Eliopolis
Steve Park as Kwang Jingshu
Frank Kamai as Nury Televadi and Tomonaga Jiro
John McElroy as Ernesto Olguin[

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Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 15/09/2026

Yes!

World War Z dramatisation CD box set

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 15/09/2026

12 inch single of New Order's State Of The Nation

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 13/09/2026

Only have the live one on 12 inch but have the normal one as a CD single

Depeche Mode's Condemnation 12 inch single - live edition

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 13/09/2026

Nirvana's In Utero - Special Edition Disc record cover

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 12/09/2026

Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here - formats are vinyl, 50th anniversary vinyl box set and 50th anniversary blu-ray audio.

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 10/09/2026

Released on this day in 1984. #LunchtimeListen

12 inch single of Queen's Hammer To Fall, which is in a plain black sleeve. It is the Headbangers Mix. It has a £3.49 HMV sticker on it.

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 10/09/2026

12 inch single of Prince and the Revolution's Purple Rain

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 10/09/2026

12 inch single of Freddie Mercury's Love Kills from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack "Metropolis" - also a Giorgio Moroder collaboration but no joint artist credit this time

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 10/09/2026

12 inch single of Giorgio Morodor with Phil Oakey's Together In Electric Dreams

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 10/09/2026

12 inch single of Peter Gabriel's Shock The Monkey

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 09/09/2026

Show us your face for the week

Jon Pertwee as the 3rd Doctor being attacked by telephone cable.

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 09/09/2026

12 inch of Level 42's Something About You with 75 pence sticker from Golden Disc dated 11th February 1997

Mal Franks @merseymal.com · 08/09/2026

Yep!

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