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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Well, NFT1's on fire, so that's new. #LFF

Lots of people standing outside BFI Southbank after a shitload of smoke started coming out of a seat in NFT1

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Was that at the O2 in North Granex?

More mangled Pulp lyrics on Spotify, with Jarvis leaving part of his brain "somewhere in a field near North Granex" (he was in the O2 at the time, so you can work it out from there)

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spotify appears to have used a dogshit quality speech-to-text algorithm to generate lyrics for the new Pulp live album.

The Spotify lyrics display for the live version of Common People by Pulp, which begins:

In the Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge
She studied sculpture out in mountains
Caught a touch of mine
Caught a high

Learn to fly at the bowling shop
Fix your hair and get a job
Smoke sone fags and play some pool
Pretend you never went to school
Still you'll never get it right
'Cause when you're laid in bed at night
Watching posters climb the wall
If you caught your dad, you could stop it all, yeah

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Popular phone app struggling to find new ways to say 'phone". @secondmentions.com

Notification message from Falstaff, the Duolingo bear: "While you're looking at your flashy rectangle, keep your 1255 day streak"

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

♬ It's the most wonderful time of the year ♬ #LFF

In the London Film Festival ticket queue, with eighteen and a half thousand people in front of me

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Out seeing some off-season sumo today. #TheSumo

A bunch of rikishi doing some practice in a one-day-only dohyo, watched by the smallish number of people you'd expect at The Sumo at 9.20 in the morning.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I was looking at this in Echigo-Tsumari just five hours ago. RIP Yayoi Kusama.

Tsumari In Bloom, one of Kusama's big spotty flower sculptures.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Boss level Monoglot Movie Club activity today: a Korean language movie with Japanese subtitles. Luckily it's a Hong Sang-soo joint, and they've all got the same plot anyway (man gets pissed on soju and embarrasses himself).

Japanese poster for the Korean film What Does That Nature Say To You: five people sat around a dining table, looking quite uncomfortable. In the bottom right hand corner, very small, we can see one of them lying on a park bench, obviously ratarsed.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Name a movie where the title character *isn't* the main character.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Lest we forget, this was an actual movie tie-in edition from 2000.

A paperback of Homer's The Odyssey featuring the tagline 'the inspiration behind O Brother, Where Art Thou?' and the artwork from the film.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is what the Prog Rock Prom looks like from behind.

A view of a crowded Royal Albert Hall from the choir seats.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Scottish World Cup anthem spotted in the wild in Fort William.

The Geographer restaurant in Fort William, with a board outside it containing the lyrics to Donald Shits His Troosers.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Pulling out an Anthony Head deep cut this evening.

Red Box's 1986 album The Circle & The Square.

The credits for The Circle & The Square, with Tony Head listed as one of the backing vocalists (under 'Box Vox').

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Quote with a fictional band that isn't Spinal Tap

Hopey's band as seen on the cover of Love & Rockets issue #24.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Quote with a photo you've taken of some public art

From a wall in Leeds in 2013, a Lovecraftian creature with the hair of Bart Simpson, the eyes of SpongeBob Squarepants, the beak and torso of Donald Duck, the hindquarters of Pepe le Pew, and a crotch that appears to be made from Goofy's mouth.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Once again @sirencraftbrew.bsky.social proving that they can run a piss-up in a brewery, unlike some other people I could mention.

From front to back - programme booklet for Siren Craft Brew's 13th anniversary beer festival, a half-pint glass of their Zestiny mandarin pale ale, and a tank that may well have been used in its brewing.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This is a dance off! If you see this, post a dance or you're eliminated.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

RIP Len Deighton. These were my two favourites of his.

The covers of LEN DEIGHTON'S ACTION COOK BOOK and LEN DEIGHTON'S FRENCH COOKING FOR MEN.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Currently having a splendid time with @andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social, whose History Of Punk show has developed magnificently from the WIP I saw him do a year and a bit ago.

The empty stage of the 100 Club. On the left, a backdrop of a leather jacket bearing the title Andrew O'Neill's History Of Punk. On the right, a mic stand. It's the interval, he's not there.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This is my boss — Jonathan Hart, a self-made millionaire. He's quite a guy. This is Mrs. H — she's gorgeous. She's one lady who knows how to take care of herself. By the way, my name is Max. I take care of both of them — which ain't easy; 'cause when they met, it was

A K-beauty store whose name is spelt M O I D A. It's only just occurred to me that if you're using a screen reader, merely saying the name Moida isn't going to cut it.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

An alternative theory that popped up on this morning's timeline:

Tweet from YourFavoriteGuy: 'Kid Rock was the alternate name for Epstein Island'

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

How about a newspaper pun riffing on another classic newspaper pun?

The front page of the Edinburgh Evening News from August 13th 2014, a story about the Caledonian Hotel and their plans to introduce outdoor seating. The headline reads SUPER CALEY GOES BALLISTIC, THESE CHAIRS ARE ATROCIOUS.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Oh dear. I appear to have just bought my 40th @vizcomic.bsky.social annual.

A bookshelf containing copies of the Viz annuals (reading right to left because that's how Google Lens did it):
THE WRESTLER'S NECK
THE GUARD'S PARCEL
THE BARBER'S POLE
THE ZOOKEEPER'S BOOT
THE COPPER'S TORCH
THE WIZARD'S SLEEVE
THE TRUMPETER'S LIPS
THE PIEMAN'S WIG
THE JESTER'S SHOES
THE BOOKIE'S PENCIL
THE OTTER'S POCKET
THE CLEVELAND STEAMER
THE FULL TOSS
THE TURTLE'S HEAD
THE BIG BELL END
THE CAMEL'S TOE
THE BILLPOSTER'S BUCKET
THE PORKY CHOPPER
THE FISH SUPPER
THE SAUSAGE SANDWICH
ON THE BONE
THE THICK REPEATER
THE SPUNKY PARTS
THE RUSTY SHERIFF'S BADGE
THE DOG'S BOLLOCKS
THE BIG PINK STIFF ONE
THE BIG HARD NUMBER TWO
THE DUTCH OVEN
THE BIG HARD ONE
THE ONE-STRING BANJO
THE BUTCHER'S DUSTBIN
THE COUNCIL GRITTER
THE LAST TURKEY IN THE SHOP
THE PEARL NECKLACE
THE PAN HANDLE
THE FIVE KNUCKLE SHUFFLE
THE BEAR TRAPPER'S HAT
THE BAG OF SLUGS
THE CLOWN'S PIE
THE HANGMAN'S NOOSE

And I just hope somebody appreciates the alt text.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

New thrill: here's a 19-year-old blogpost that I thought it would be fun to revisit, featuring Japanese big beat maestro Halfby. Contains very silly videos. spank-the-monkey.co.uk/2026/01/10/h...

Incredibly stylised illustration of a man on a horse leading a parade of people down a street, watched by several wild animals.

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Spank The Monkey @spanktm.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Monoglot Movie Club: pleased to report that Benoit Delepine is still making strangely hilarious movies, and his latest one is shot in a 3.7:1 aspect ratio.