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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 4h

Does anyone enjoy being a celebrity and a friend to the powerful and bloody awful as this profoundly unturbulent priest?

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Some people are so awful they break the awful barrier and you realise you have started liking them*. I had this with Jeffrey Archer.
He was once a celebrity reader at a carol service I was doing and agreed to read the prologue to the Fourth Gospel. I handed him the text, he scanned it, and said gravely, 'oh dear, Father, I would SO much prefer to read the King James Version. Could you?'
Of course' I said and came back two minutes later and handed him the same piece of paper, for it actually was from the King James Bible. He looked at it again and grunted approvingly. 'Thank you, Father. Much better.

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 4h

"The Tories; A Warning From History..."

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 7h

As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.

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Joe Brown @joebrownlondon.bsky.social · 10h

#OnThisDay 142 years ago the Circle Line was completed through the opening of Mansion House to Tower Hill, plus a branch from Aldgate to Whitechapel opened, the latter we see here: the Underground passing over the Overground... always amuses! Timara Easter buff.ly/dqEhDSO

2014 image taken from the southbound Overground platform at Whitechapel with a Class 378 departing the northbound while above an eastbound refurbished D78 District Line service departs for Upminster. This view is impossible now as the new concourse accessing the Elizabeth Line was built above, rafting over the Overground platforms (and of course the D78 stock are long gone too)

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 7h

If we were told how much benefit our country collectively gets from people making stuff up out of their heads, a truly socially mobile option, we wouldn’t know our proper place. It’s why they’ve made the arts almost impossible to pursue for ordinary people. Get back on your trawler, prole scum.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 8h

If you’re a Billy Wilder fan, check out @thefilmographers.bsky.social podcast series going through every item on the great director’s filmography. This is a great interview with IAL Diamond’s son, the 7-year-old wondering what all the fuss is about that Marilyn Monroe.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 16h

Loved it. There’s a trio of RKO Fords on iPlayer and loved rewatching this and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and discovering Wagon Master. All of them top tier.

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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 17h

Masterpiece...

Possibly my favourite single shot in all cinema; cinematographer Archie Stout used infra-red film for Ford that accentuated the contrasts offered by this desert vista and the dreamlike clouds gathered above. Stick it in the Louvre...

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 23h

The easy way to stop there being new art for you to steal is to make it financially impossible for anybody to earn a living making art. Every branch we all sit on sawn through. Nobody asked for the branches to be sawn through. But they came and sawed through them for us all the same. Twats.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What do we do with people whose ability to tell the difference between human and non-human stumbles when they encounter a correct usage of the m-dash?

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This new Reluctant Vampire adaptation is a neat solution to wanting to adapt books written by famous people (to release the funding by the usual associative magic) but needing to know they won’t do mad, creepy or upsetting shit while you’re in the middle of production. Just do dead ones.

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The world should accept billionaires getting taxed into oblivion

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Lee @my-liquid-head.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mist, from under an oak #tree. #Stunday #leaves #photography #sunrise

Looking out from under an oak tree, onto a misty field soon after sunrise.

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The Film Crowd @thefilmcrowd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Earworms are evil. One thing I find works is to force the earworm out by listening to a song you like that is loud enough to "scare" the other song away. My go-to is always The Birthday Party's cover of "Loose" by Iggy and The Stooges, which is actually even meaner & more abrasive than the original.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just realised that the other great song off the M album, after Pop Music, is That’s The Way The Money Goes, and this is clearly weasel-inspired songwriting from your man The Man From M.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Got to be… Maybe I’ll try that out in the twins. Never too young to start preparing for the hard truths of a boom and bust economy.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh I’m so sorry, Donna. It never gets any easier. They bring such joy and then such sorrow.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Going into my record collection now…

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something related to a weasel but meaner… Are there any songs about wolverines?

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I did sing that to them for a while — funnily enough, Hey Jude works really well.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Obsessed with the idea of visiting The Eagle on City Street, mostly because it’s been a dry three months now. That’ll be a weasel worth popping.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New dad problems: how the hell do you get “Pop Goes the Weasel” out of your skull?

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can see them on the carousel in the local newsagents now. Well worth my pocket money.

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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A crowd gathers to witness a hanging in The First Great Train Robbery (1978) Seems to be more denim than I would have expected in 1855

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s still impossible for me to commit to anything on broadcast telly, so missing out once again on the Celebrity Traitors discourse.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s still impossible for me to commit to anything on broadcast telly, so missing out once again on the Celebrity Traitors discourse.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Really enjoying Anthony Horowitz’s The Marble Hall Murders on the iPlayer, but can’t help thinking that if the horrendous, abusive children’s author at the centre of the mystery had been a male celebrity, then it would’ve been too close to reality to count as cosy crime.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My magnum o'puss? CATS ON FILM (kindle or paperback), which includes the short story "MY DAY BY JONES" - ALIEN from the POV of Jones the cat. "possibly the greatest book ever" "original, diverse, intelligent, and multi-cultural" www.amazon.com/dp/1978038747

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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Great night at the Troxy seeing the Lemonheads. Evan Dando is disintegrating inside and out but still plays and sings with verve and his charm is undiminished even if you can't understand a word he says to the audience except for the occasional COCAIIIINE or WE'LL BEAT HIM TO DEATH

Lemonheads fans wearing lemons on their heads watching the band on stage.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I suppose Guy Fawkes becomes essentially a single-word adjective (Guy-Fawkes Night). The US emphasis in Robin Hood always seems to be distinguishing him from all the other Hoods.

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Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good morning. 'Batman's aff his Nut' by Robert Florence.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had a Lone Ranger suit too. No silver bullets!

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ugh. I once sat behind someone at the cinema who was eating a whole family-sized bag of crisps. I thanked the lord when it was clear he was coming to the end of it. He promptly opened another bag…

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can remember one American Hallowe’en, when I was four years old. I was dressed as Zorro, with a mascara moustache and a piece of chalk at the tip of my plastic rapier. We moved to the UK seven months later.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think my ambition as a writer isn’t to write anything that any agent or publisher would look twice at today. I think my ambition is to travel back 70 years (at least) and write something that Persephone will reissue to great acclaim while I’ll mouldering in my grave.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Looking forward to working with Greg on this.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Drawing created by Paul Davidson c.1967, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, where he was compelled to live. This is one of a small number of his surviving works & no biographical information is currently known to us

A crayon drawing of a white boy’s head with short brown hair and purple and orange rays emitting from his eyes, he is inside a square structure reminiscent of a window of theatre set with prance curtains, above a rectangle full of blue and green stars with red legs, and on either side are hands with their index fingers pointed

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 01/10/2026

The *really* weird thing is that that Best-of is full of songs that -- *once mentioned* -- you go "Oh yeah, that was a massive hit!", like "Massachusetts" and "Words" and "To Love Somebody". Just doesn't have the ones you immediately think of like "Tragedy" or "Stayin' Alive" or "Jive Talkin'".

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seven years ago, I took a workshop at Warwick led by David Vann, who made it clear at the start (half jokingly) that he only really liked fiction about the death of parents. Still, I doggedly disguised my submissions as something else.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Having finished latest draft for publisher, I’m thinking of the next thing. A rough first draft I’d like to return to. Feel able at last to lean into what it really is — a fictional response to losing Mum. My usual bittersweet thing, but not a period piece this time.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I remember The World About Us being a treat too, at least sometimes; and the theme tune to The Money Programme (not the programme itself, obviously).

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You have to understand how bloody awful Sundays were 45 years ago, beyond the mere fact that there was school the next day, to understand why being allowed to watch That’s Life in your pyjamas after bath time was a genuine treat. RIP Esther Rantzen.

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Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Quite the wake-up call… Morning, Captain.

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CaptKarnstein @captkarnstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good morning! (art by Earl Norem)

A man and woman leap out of bed and shoot another man who has a gun, sending him crashing through a window.

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