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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 19h

Nasally is an adverb. Your grammar is poor. You write poorly.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

CORRECTION! I'm nearly EIGHT minutes inside the cutoff. Fingers crossed...

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

London Marathon have published the Good for Age qualifying details for 2027. Good news - the qualifying times are unchanged, and I'm nearly six minutes within the cutoff. Bad news - despite it being a two-day event, the GFA places are still capped fastest-first at 3,000 men and 3,000 women.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you were planning to get something done by the end of September, then Professor Sir Fred Hoyle FRS has some bad news for you, sunshine.

Paperback cover to "October the First Is Too Late" by Fred Hoyle

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Geoffrey Palmer did a far longer list and didn’t stumble over any of it, and, crucially, was portraying an absurd fictional character and not expecting to be taken seriously.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nothing tell you you’re autistic more than reading this post and screaming “FILMED, on VIDEO TAPE?!” at your phone.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Latest Film Is Fabulous! announcement, “unexpected”, say collectors.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've seen Marillion live between fifty and sixty times. Watching tonight from the lower circle, front row centre, at Usher Hall reminded me why. These songs are threaded through my entire adult life. They and their creators feel like friends. It's so good to have regular get-togethers.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Glinner” of hope, more like, eh readers?!

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm revisiting Philip K. Dick's "A Maze of Death" having previously read it in early 1985. This time I've noticed a reference to the retinex theory of colour vision of scientist Edwin Land. He is also the Land after whom the Polaroid Land Camera is named.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Glasgow to Edinburgh Ultramarathon training week 12 of 14 complete. 36.52 miles, all comfortable. With two weeks to go, that's my peak volume behind me as I taper down the mileage from now. New mandatory kit; waterproof jacket, soft flasks, dry bag, and folding cup all acquired. I feel ready.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Public poetry, author unknown, The Meadows, Edinburgh, September 2026

Toilet graffiti reading
I'M A COCKAHOLIC
WHERE IS ALL THE COCK
I'M HERE EVERY DAY

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When Charles and Camilla order a takeaway, it comes on a Flunkey Moped.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I haven't heard "landed up" for a while. It definitely means "came to rest after an activity", like "ended up", whereas "fetched up", or more recently "rocked up", means "arrived before an activity". "I rocked up at the check in desk in good time but landed up in the overflow hotel all the same."

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Years ago, I was often dismayed by other people's lower standards in audio or video fidelity than mine. There was no adequate social response when I'd given someone a blank cassette for them to record LPs they owned, and got it back recorded in mono via an air gap to a built-in-microphone.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I need Peter Serafinowicz to revive Sassy Trump now, just to hear him say “Super Intelligence”.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'll tell you who WON'T be opening for Ed Sheeran...

Setlist from current concert tour by Marillion showing their opening number, the harrowing and still sadly topical "Gaza".

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Glasgow to Edinburgh Ultramarathon training week 11 of 14 complete. I ran 43 miles despite an annoying cold laying me up for two days, finishing with a sedate 24-miler this afternoon, along the route I'll be running in under three weeks, on my feet for nearly five hours.

The author, in a bathroom, about to go out and run for nearly five hours, contriving to get his legs and feet into what is supposedly a running photo, at the cost of his dignity, and increasingly facially resembling the character "Foodie Bollocks" from Viz.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just watched “Project Hail Mary”.

The dancing chickens from Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” video.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The existence of Gin Rummy implies there has been some sort of cross-contamination at the distillery.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm sad to have just learned that unique Australian entertainer Rumpel has died, but shocked to learn that it is FOURTEEN YEARS since @tonymakos.bsky.social and I watched him at The Stand with @herring1967.bsky.social www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/ric... "Crikey!"

comedy.co.uk

2012 #25: Rumpel, Orbax and Pepper, Keir McAllister - Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast - British Comedy Guide

2012 #25: Rumpel, Orbax and Pepper, Keir McAllister, from Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was planning to run 24 miles today, but I'm stricken with a chest cold. While it's quite nice not to be running 24 miles, I'm still going to have to do it in the next few days, which is slightly hanging over me. But not as much as having to run 57 miles three weeks tomorrow.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"The Prisoner" and Doctor Who's "The Masque of Mandragora" were filmed in Portmeirion. The English name "mandrake" derives from Latin mandragora. Some think Patrick McGoohan's No. 6 in "The Prisoner" is John Drake, who he played in "Danger Man". Portmeirion hosted both mandrake and the man Drake!

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm learning a short piano piece by the composer Georg Benda. If you are a Doctor Who fan, you cannot see this name without recalling the first time you saw the closing credits to "The Claws of Axos", especially if you were a puerile adolescent boy at the time. (See also; Kristopher Kum).

Kenneth Benda as the minister in "The Claws of Axos". An elderly male bureaucrat speaks sternly on a CRT video telephone.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ve started the day with Blake’s Seven’s “Bounty”, which I’ve always liked. It seems oddly light on Nation-isms, bar the Amagons taking over Liberator, and a single timer-fuse grenade. The location film has scrubbed up beautifully, although the studio sound is distant at times.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Because this is the ROLLING Stones and they're in some FOAM. Do you see now?

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I went to our neighbour Ramsay's funeral today. First time I've ever been to one just by myself, because my father-in-law took a sudden turn for the worse in hospital yesterday so spouse headed down there first thing. Far more depleting when unaccompanied by my skilled social enabler.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Non-runners among you may sometimes be none the wiser when I mention "foam rolling" before or after a run. Well, it's a bit like this.

The Rolling Stones dressed as sailors, performing "It's Only Rock'n'Roll" in a tent filling up with bubble bath foam.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Given how closely associated he is with the band, Rick Wakeman was on remarkably few Yes albums.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am genuinely touched by the manner in which I finally met @jonnelledge.bsky.social in person tonight, in which, to my surprise and delight, he was deeply flattering about me in front of his literary audience. That’s how to expertly butter up a long-retired DWM freelancer!

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“WHO REMEMBERS PROPER BARBERS?”

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He's also seemingly attributing "Teenage Wasteland" (sic) to the World Health Organisation, rather than the music band The Who.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm a Green Runner, and I don't want running and other sporting events to be sponsored by polluters. I've signed this petition, and if you feel the same way, I urge you to, as well. c.org/zYVC4fQhhg

c.org

Sign the Petition

Drop Polluting Sponsors - Stop taking the Whizz

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Glasgow to Edinburgh Ultramarathon training week 10 of 14 complete. 36.7 miles, including sunrise over the Med at the harbour wall in Tarragona, a 22-mile prog/metal-accompanied odyssey, and my 100th parkrun. This week I was reminded never, ever, ever, to skip using my foam roller and massage gun

The author, pausing in mid-run along the harbour wall in Tarragona, Spain, as the sun rises over the Mediterranean behind him.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If anyone asks what I did this weekend, I'll say I went to see The Eagles. A fly on the screen during "Breakaway" went away for "The Metamorph", because I imagine even flies have a modicum of taste. I've never seen a queue of other men in their sixties for the loo at the Cameo like this before.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's 27 years to the day since a massive nuclear explosion tore the moon out of Earth's orbit, so I'm obviously going to the pictures to watch "Breakaway" and "The Metamorph". I missed the former on Granada's original TX, and I don't know whether I've ever seen the latter at all. #space1999

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Big double milestone today. I volunteered at parkrun for the 100th time and then ran at parkrun for the 100th time. I love doing both.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

She was. I had the joy of interviewing her on stage at two conventions and was delighted to stumble on a shared love of Philip K. Dick. She also related her experiences of working for her friend Ken Campbell and gave a superb vocal impersonation of him.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just been out for a four-hour 22 mile ultramarathon training run. I dragged six albums on to a playlist. "Drama" (Yes), "Abacab" (Genesis), "Signals" (Rush), "Afraid of Sunlight" (Marillion) and "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" (Iron Maiden). There is no quicksand on any of these for me.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I once kicked a metal stepladder through a (closed) bedroom window after my third attempt to paper round a corner with a light switch and a mains socket had failed.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm a real fan of The Running Channel, so it's ever so exciting to see myself in their latest video, of the 10K PB attempt I joined in London last month. If you enjoy seeing me suffering, there is plenty to savour here. I'm runner 33. youtu.be/vcDtkZX63rE?...

youtu.be

We Paced 50 Runners To A Sub-45 Minute 10k

YouTube video by The Running Channel

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today, for the first time in my life, I attempted to listen to podcasts while sitting down. Sorry, @worldoftelly.bsky.social and @impq.bsky.social, but that was some of the best train sleep I’ve ever enjoyed. I’ll return to “Use Your Illusion” and “GBH” when ambulant and attentive in coming days.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

SNCF are keeping my spirits up by playing the first four notes of “Rattle That Lock” by David Gilmour before each train announcement.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am currently in the final phases of a European rail odyssey which today became more exciting than spouse or I had planned. We needed our respective O level French and Spanish, such as they have survived to get us through our revised arrangements.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Before Mr Chen embarks on his cruise around the solar system, he’ll travel from New London to New Paris in under 6 minutes via his new luxury underground train.”

A sign saying “EUROSPAR”. Yes, that’s it. That’s the joke.

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