iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Some reading material for my holiday. There's some very subtle suggestion to where I am going

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

After another break, here is part Six of my diary for this year's Upton Jazz Festival. Here I catch the tail end of the FiddleBop gig, and pay a visit to reopened Crown- formerly the Little Upton Muggery. #GypsyJazz #LiveJazz #UptonUponSevern thejazzocracy.blogspot.com/2026/10/upto...

thejazzocracy.blogspot.com

UPTON UPON SEVERN JAZZ FESTIVAL 2026 PART SIX

I left the church and made my merry way across to the Rugby Club which was hosting the band FiddleBop, who were originally scheduled to pl...

020

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A bit bored while waiting for my ruby to be cooked, so I thought of ten writers I wish had written for #DoctorWho on the TV. Tanith Lee Philip Levene Rob Grant and/or Doug Naylor David Renwick Christopher Wicking David Lynch Brian Clemens Andrew Marshall Tony Barwick Roy Clarke

030

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I read Digby Fairweather's memoir about working with George Melly in his very late years. I think it's supposed to read as a wistful lament, it comes across as being mean about an old man, with an entire chapter on Melly's loss of control of his bowels.

000

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Brian Wilde was 48 when he first played Foggy

010

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am sure there was at least one series where they had one character (possibly Mrs Peacock) be the murderer twice to try and throw people off.

010

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Happy 17th Birthday to my dog Ben

010

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gotta to love my other GCSE English Teacher, Mrs Roberts. She didn't want to talk about Alice Walker's poems because she didn't feel that as 'a fat middle aged white woman from Lancashire' she couldn't appreciate the nuance. So she gave us a load of poems and stories by Dylan Thomas.

010

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Probably because I such a set mental image of how everything looks as an illustration thanks to Blake, an animated version would fall flat. And doing the Knids Ray Harryhausen style would be awesome

100

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, I don't think there anything is anything you couldn't do as a live action movie now. 30/40 years ago it might have been too ambitious as a live action unless you had George Lucas resources

100

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why would it have to be animated?

100

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How long do I take lack of communication from my beloved Sian as something to be worried about, and not Sian just having a trademark Sian moment?

000

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Only if they have one eye... insert cyclops/cyclist joke I can't be arsed to work out

100

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I remember the Radio Times bigging up the Snake as a major major recurring villain...

010

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was always disappointed, and still am, that there has yet to be a film of the far more cinematic second novel.

160

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah Earth & Beyond, brings back memories

000

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From pauper to slavemaster, such a heartwarming story

1150

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And of course the comment section is full of ableist "comedy."

010

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'd now be tempted to do an episode where do the voice of Bluebottle from the Goon Show for the duration.

010

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a moment I thought that was written by the guy who the Blake’s 7 episode "Ultraworld" (and articles for mucky books I understand), but then remembered that was *Trever* Hoyle.

000

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah 2012 Twitter was golden... If memory serves, the tweet in question was about Banana Bread beer which lead to reasonably long thread with each of us expanding on the virtues of pumpkin beer and the Sticky Toffee Pudding ale (not a euphemism).

000

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I would regularly get in trouble for repeating the cheeky songs sung on the show by... was it Jack Thackery?

020

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It was rated 15 for its cinema release, the rating was upped for the video release. I wonder what caused the change of rating.

010

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If I was crushed to death by 16 tons worth of copies of "The Man in the Velvet Mask" falling on me, would the coroner's verdict be death by Missing Adventure????

001

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A cleverer person than I could rework Python's Summarise Proust Competition sketch to be about Dickens and not to do many changes

000

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good episode that must have really benefited from being the season opener as the conceit of Cathy vs Steed would be harder to sell if buried mid-season.

011

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@birdlives1.bsky.social I hope this stimulates you. Unsurprisingly, my next Jazz Library will be Miles Davis

010

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When a new Secondary School opens, do they open with a year 11 or do they just recruit year 10s?

000

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well... he says mischievously, a couple I can offer counter arguments to

110

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like many, I wouldn't be able to pick a favourite, but what this space for my John Coltrane Jazz Library choices.

010

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Probably the most mixed list to date

121

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Honestly, I'd like a solo male companion because it happens so rarely

010

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Think I am still on board with idea of the Third Doctor relying on Seymour Utterthwaite and Wesley Pegden to fix his McGauffin of the story to save the day... after Compo broke it.

010

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Magic Bullet should pick it up and see how many people Alan can pisses off within 10 minutes of stating his pitch

020

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My spoiler free review of the new #RedDwarf novel. Michael Storm’s review of Red Dwarf: Titan: The hilarious, instant bestseller from the co-creator of the iconic TV show | Goodreads share.google/Q8sveeFO4izQ...

share.google

See what your friends are reading

000

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

After a bit of a break due to Bude Jazz Festival, and a few other odds & sods, here is part 5 of my diary for this year's Upton Jazz Festival. Here I pass judgement on DixieMix at the Parish Church. #tradjazz #swing #uptonuponsevern thejazzocracy.blogspot.com/2026/09/upto...

thejazzocracy.blogspot.com

000

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My thoughts on the autobiography of Adrian Edmondson Michael Storm’s review of Berserker! | Goodreads www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

goodreads.com

See what your friends are reading

000

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dominic Glynn is probably *the* musical find of the latter years of Who. Ayres is good, but Glynn knocks it out the park on every single occasion. His score for Dragonfire does a lot of lifting for the story

020

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

And he looks so much better in those outfits then he did in the ruddy penguin suit.

030

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

He's really relishing the role there isn't he? I think Terrance Dicks wrote his dialogue, and being Terrance he's clearly writing the Delgado Master.

150

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An excellent list with only a few surprises, I won't spoil which were the surprises for me. Nice to have some love for the second best Cybermen story with Silver in the title...

021

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I am sure that despite the Tory bias, it used to have well written articles and reports

100

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I loved it for the exact reasons it hasn't worked for you, I liked the tongue-in-cheek approach that admitted the original is a bit silly... but it it finally boils down to a simple good vs evil story. Though I wonder if seeing it on a massive screen in the Cinema helped sell the experience for me

010

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

However no-one suspects the uptight and rule obsessed porter called Arnold...

010

Michael Storm @sandmanjazz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My thoughts on the Planet of the Ood novelisation www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

000