Mark Griffiths

When Lana Del Rey sings about her boyfriend playing video games I like to imagine he’s playing Chuckie Egg on a Spectrum.

Kenith Trodd obituary: firebrand TV producer and Dennis Potter’s right-hand man Trodd, who has died aged 90, was the bold and influential producer behind Dennis Potter’s greatest works, championing radical drama and shaping British television with a lifelong commitment to creativ...

We lost Kenith Trodd last weekend, a brilliant producer and forward-thinking man who believed deeply in television and the British screen. He was ahead of his time in many ways. "A film is a film is a film."

My tribute is now up on the BFI website: www.bfi.org.uk/news/kenith-...

Thanks!

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! ‘K, thanks, bye.

The original grey goo.

To improve prisoner health Texas jails now have vibrating electric chairs that tone your muscles as they kill you.

This will be IMMENSE but it was worth buying just to see the look of bafflement on the face of the young guy serving in the charity shop.

Someone told me to check my privilege and I panicked. Topped it up and now it's fine. Phew.

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A van belonging to Edinburgh-based heating engineers DALEX.

SIR THIS RE-PAIR FALLS OUT-SIDE YOUR WAR-RAN-TY AG-REE-MENT.

Chewing gum is merely television for the mouth.

Very, very, very, very, very kind.

Thank you!

🦆My play about Douglas Adams’s struggles to write So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is now available as a download from the good people at Payhip: payhip.com/b/YbmCy

Finishing up my BAFTA film watch for voting… as ever I do wish that all the films with women screaming, sobbing, running in terror, being dragged across the floor… had the same amount of that stuff happening to men.

Happy PLR statement day to those who celebrate. If you’re an author and you haven’t registered your books for Public Lending Right payments, you could be missing out.

Here be dragons. No, don't actually look.

Thank you Simon!

My new play Hair of the Dog opens in Manchester in March. It’s a tale of booze and murder in ‘80s Soho. Tickets on sale here: www.fatsoma.com/p/room-5064-...

@grindrod.bsky.social Thanks for the repost about the play, John! It may well be up your street because one of its themes is suburbs vs bohemia.

My new play Hair of the Dog opens in Manchester in March. It’s a tale of booze and murder in ‘80s Soho. Tickets on sale here: www.fatsoma.com/p/room-5064-...

a friend’s cat sat on my phone and the facial recognition unlocked. wtf?

Yes, a valedictory.

And Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged, who did NOT die

Something I learned today: you can’t simultaneously play Doom 2 and listen to Martin Jarvis playing Jeeves on Radio 4. It’s the neural equivalent of doing the splits.

this innes lloyd doc is next level bro

Thank you!

It turns out the abyss was actually staring at someone it knows behind me. Embarrassing.

See also: David Nixon, if you remember him.

Still time to order for UK delivery before Christmas