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Neil Reading

@otisbear.bsky.social
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Artistic Director at Arena Theatre, Theatre Director/Producer, 14/48UK, Cricket Badger, Converse Wearer. Views my own.

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
This app is undefeated for earnest replies that completely misunderstand the joke
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
As it’s a new year I should start watching something ne… … starts Peep Show again.
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Chapter 1 and I’m already crying… this is gonna be emotional. #tailendersoftheworlduniteandtakeover #ThankYouJimmy👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Before we settle in for the festivities, let’s all take a moment to enjoy the bleakest of all Christmas songs. If you’re expecting a third verse redemption arc you’re going to be left wanting… like the little boy.
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Nat King Cole - The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot (Visualizer)
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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
We have entered the season of no meal rules. Dessert is breakfast. Dinner is lunch. A snack is an entire honey-mustard ham
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Highlights from this year’s Dark Tale in Winter. Number 13 by MR James.
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
First shameless plug on Bluesky. Number 13 by MR James, adapted by Torrance and Beames. Performed by Lashonda Morgan and Magnus Gordon and Directed by Me! Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton - 18th - 20th Dec at 7:30pm. wlv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... #ghoststories #folklore #victoriana
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
An app but it just records all those things you thought ‘I’ll google that later’ into a feed you can read at bedtime.
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I’ve written the five lines for when Scritti Pollitti feature in the line up of Never Mind the Buzzcocks Scritti polliti Shitty and gritty Bit of a fitty Sex and the city Isn’t it a pity #Buzzcocks #NeverMindTheBuzzcocks
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The AI videos of food turning into creatures can stop now.
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Adventures in maths with a five year old. “Daddy, what’s 16 + 16?” “Why don’t you work it out?” “Ok, 6+6 is 12.” “Yes, so what have you got left?” “Two ones” “But, they’re not two ones are they? What are they?” “Two tens.” “Ok, so what is 10+10?” “Twenty”…
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I'm tired of "feel good" movies. I wanna watch something that absolutely ruins my life.
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
@thenewsagents.com Suggestions for What ifs… What if John Smith hadn’t died. What if Al Gore had won the 2000 Presidency. What if David Milliband had been elected Labour Leader. What if the Brexit vote had been 52/48 in the other direction. What if Farage hadn’t survived his plane crash.
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Finished season 1 of The Bear yesterday. Ordered a blue apron, furiously researching Italian beef recipes, insisting everyone calls me ‘Chef’, randomly shouting ‘Hands’ around the house and calling the kids ‘Cousin’. #TheBear
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I’ve never heard wind with bass tones before. #StormDarragh #NorthWales
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a cartoon of winnie the pooh wearing a purple hat
ALT: a cartoon of winnie the pooh wearing a purple hat
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
First shameless plug on Bluesky. Number 13 by MR James, adapted by Torrance and Beames. Performed by Lashonda Morgan and Magnus Gordon and Directed by Me! Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton - 18th - 20th Dec at 7:30pm. wlv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... #ghoststories #folklore #victoriana
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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a man is standing in front of a sign that says believe on it .
ALT: a man is standing in front of a sign that says believe on it .
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
S01E07 of The Bear. What a rush. Symphonic. #TheBear
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
My ghast has never been more flabbered
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Beethoven Blues by Jon Batiste on Apple Music Classical
Listen in the app designed for classical.
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Costa coffee. Having a coffee. Good times.
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Carola Boehm @carolaboehm.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Such an important article! Especially as we are gearing up for the next cluster programmes. Data often doesn’t tell the whole story.
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen Pour myself a cup of ambition And yawn and stretch and try to come to life Jump in the shower and the blood starts pumpin' OH MY GOD THERES SO MUCH BLOOD COMING OUT OF THE SHOWERHEAD OH MY GOOOD
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Dear Food Magazines, I understand you’re excited for Christmas but having your November AND December editions as Christmas specials means I have nothing to cook in November.
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I got the Ghostbusters car and Castle Greyskull.
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Beccy D'Souza @beccydsouza.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Paid assistant director opportunity - looking for directors with strong links to / experiences of the east midlands for this one. To assist Adam Penford on Punch at the Young Vic. £3600 fee plus some expenses. Deadline for apps 3rd December. creatorsprogram.youngvic.org/opportunitie...
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Jerwood Assistant Director opportunity: Punch
The Young
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I’ve no idea if JB and Lauren’s dance was any good tonight because the quickstep arrangement of ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’, literally stopped my brain working for 90 seconds #strictly
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I’m sponsored by Root Boost you jerkoff
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 15/11/2024
book
Mary W Shelley
 He sprang from the cabin window as he said this upon th ice raft which lay close to the vessel. He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

Written in pen is
As he drifted away I could just make out his final words
"its ok if you call me 'Frankenstein' instead of 'Frankenstein's Monster'
I really don't mind"

The end
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Beccy D'Souza @beccydsouza.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Bruntwood Prize for playwrighting (it's a big one guys) is open for submissions til 9th January 2025. www.writeaplay.co.uk/how-do-i-ent...
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How Do I Enter? - The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting
Click here to apply!   Submissions open 12pm BST Monday 9th September 2024 Submissions close 6pm GMT Thursday 9th January 2025   Click this link...
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hey Bluesky, if I'm going to fully embrace you, you're going to need a bookmark button, so I can save stuff until I'm putting the kids to bed. Ta. Thanks. Mwah.
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
If at least once a day you don't walk up to an automatic door and do the Obi-wan force wave to open it, you're not really living.
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Am I the only one who's brain immediately follows @ggatehouse saying 'The FBI and the CIA...' in The Coming Storm, with '...The Bloods and the Crips and the KKK'? Thanks @blackeyedpeas
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
I've managed to make it to the gym, four days a week for the last six weeks, and I'm fitter, stronger, leaner and have more energy than when I started. Stupid health people being right. Frustrating.
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Lovely work from Andy Zaltzman on #taskmaster
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
The sky’s gone magic
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Neil Reading @otisbear.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Early autumn… or as it’s better known, ‘a jumper on the arm of every chair and sofa because who the heck knows what the weather is.’
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