Angus Main

Critiquing art by extensively referencing other art feels like a very academic method of analysis. I wonder if the career route into film and classical music criticism is more likely to be through that type of academic writing, and those referencing habits are hard to kick.

“Contender, ready!”

I think one of the issues with Joseph Campbell’s monomyth stuff is that it gives writers an excuse not to sweat the story too much, but just copy in a basic structure onto which they can quickly hang all the cool things they real like, like robots and space guns and stuff.

Still counts

These are good. They correctly equate Britishness with BBC children’s shows.

Thinking of British shibboleths. If there was a war and you had to work out if a stranger was British or not, what phrase would you test them with?

I think I’d say “Nice to see you, to see you” and see how they responded.

ProtoBungle

Gary O'Dononoghue

Hope everyone’s safe, and that this doesn’t somehow end with the art school burning down again.

Updated The Day Today reporter name: Damian Grammammaticas

The previous photo of Trump holding his hands out like he’s riding a little horse, but now he’s holding a puppet on a string

Or there’s this

Can someone photoshop it so Melania is clopping together a pair of coconut shells?

The yolk should be hard, and ideally going slightly greyish-blue around the edges. There should be a slight whiff of sulphur.

Okay which of you fuckers was it invented the 'soft set' scotch egg? Come on own up you bastard

Q: Which Eagles song do starships like best?
A: Lyin’ ISS

My forgotten-then-remembered positive thought from this morning: I bought crumpets yesterday.

It’s a feeling of loss. You know there’s something nice you could be thinking about, but it’s escaped you. And it’s usually about something so inconsequential, that when you finally remember it’s slightly anticlimactic.

Do you ever get a feeling where you know there was some low level positive thought you had - a tiny bit of good news, or something you were looking forward to - but you got distracted and forgot what it was?

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IWD relevant

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I’m fairly sure that that image is AI generated.

wtf am I looking at here?

Fact. The screwdriver that tightens the arms of spectacles is only available inside Christmas crackers. Opticians have to pull dozens of crackers to get the tools of their trade, and if you look out the back at Specsavers, you’ll find bins full of wire puzzles, hair bobbles and fortune telling fish.

Last week, unable to find my proper cracker screwdriver, I bought an actual spectacle repair kit online. It contained 3 separate screwdrivers and about a thousand assorted screws. All of them were way too big for my glasses. Presumably made for the Elton John market.

Elio is a strange film. The tone of it is off somehow, in a way that’s unusual for Pixar, who usually have that kind of thing perfectly tuned. Maybe interference like this is why.

My kids saw Elio at the cinema and were terrified. It absolutely scared them enough for therapy, because it contains a load of weird sci-fi body horror stuff that they were not prepared for. They would not have batted an eyelid at gay characters, because that’s normal and everyday for them.

Your ai slop bores me screen shot. Where is pee stored. Answer “ball”

I knew it.

Can’t believe it’s been nearly 47 years since them slags tried to use satellites to flood the earth with nerve gas so they could repopulate the earth from space it still freaks my nut out to this day.

Exactly! Genuinely think he’d be perfect in the role.

This is entirely correct. Read the books for the meals and drinking he tucked into.