Dr Matt Colbeck

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It’s Roger Moore’s birthday
Here’s a classic anecdote about the great man to cheer you up on a damp Tuesday.

Very excited for this -- as I am the launch! 🔥🔥🔥

Utter scumbag.

In memoriam...

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I couldn't believe it when I saw Djalili on the bill, given his laudable campaigning for the rights of Iranian women. & a Carr/CK co-headline act: the Ludovico Treatment for stand-up.
"You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this comedy is wrong, wrong and terribly wrong".

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Spinetingling #Bookdrop yesterday. The @sstpublications.bsky.social/@sgj.bsky.social Unholy Trinity is finally complete 😱🔥🤘

#MyHeartIsAChainsaw #DontFearTheReaper #TheAngelOfIndianLake #IndianLakeTrilogy #HorrorFiction #SlasherHorror #JadeDaniels #JadeDanielsIsMyFinalGirl #IndiePublishing #triptych

EVIL EDNA (1981): The antagonist on BBC animated kid's show Willo The Wisp (Kenneth Williams having a ball on voice-over duties). A nasty witch in the form of a CRT telly, complete with aerials, metal legs, and, presumably, a 625-line face. Many a female teacher was given the nickname 'Evil Edna'.

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ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE has arrived!! It looks *amazing*

Desperately in need of money at mo so am selling 5 signed and dedicated copies for £25 plus postage. If you want one, a month before it's released, let me know and I'll DM you.

Robert Redford in The Sting

Robert Redford in All The President’s Men

Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor

Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Robert Redford was my favorite, it’s hard to process that he is gone. His performances made more movies beloved to me than anyone else, I’d take The Sting over any other film for flawless perfection. We don’t expect famous people to also be good people but he was. He belongs to the ages

Saw this viral post going on IG about how Vera Wang started over at 40 when everyone in fashion told her she was too old, and launched a wedding dress empire. And I was like hell yeah that’s awesome, and then in the 8th slide “her father gave her $4 million to open a boutique” ah there it is

Quarry.
Aquarius.

Trust Britain to meet the Bang Bus with not moral panic but clerical pedantry, some pallid council drone, worsted trousers shiny with duty, googling a pornstar at taxpayer expense, then loftily ruling her vehicle ‘a van’. Our bureaucracy: prurient, petty, and perversely glorious.

Hah. Sorry - I wish. Need to go on the dark web for that.

OST = Original SoundTrack!

Top line-up! The Simon Boswell gig will be ace. Funnily enough, only the other day I was trying to find a copy of his OST for Richard Stanley's 'Hardware'. They're like hen's teeth but am currently watching one on Ebay! Aberystwyth is lovely. My father-in-law lives there so always nice to visit.

Justin Webb just referred on Today to "platforms like Bluesky, where you can see the celebration of the killing" of Charlie Kirk.

What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.

Boris Johnson under pressure to explain how private office follows funding rules Office is part-funded by public duty costs allowance, which should only be used to support public work of former PMs

Don’t look here, look for small boats and refugees, get angry at desperate poor people not rich entitled twats who try and play you for fools.. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Happy 38th birthday, KNIGHTMARE, the hardest game show on television! In 1987, Treguard the Dungeon Master welcomed the first team of adventurers to his blue screen labyrinth. Losers didn’t just fail, they 'died': blades, spikes, and bottomless pits abounded. "Ooh, nasty..."

Totally. Hypocrisy matters across the political spectrum. And while it's more often the case that hypocrisy occurs on the right of politics, it isn't a balancing exercise. 100 hypocritical acts of a party we do not support does not (and must not) outweigh 1 hypocritical act of the party we do.

What... that's IT?!

That's their fucking list?!

CALIFORNIFUCKINCATION?????

Oh mate indeed.

I'd even go as far to say...

(Aside - extremely excited to see you play Sheffield on Wednesday 🔥🤘💥)

Yeah... it's not exactly Saturday Night Escapism 😬

The book's even worse, I think. Though I think that's down to the accurate portrayal of acute mental illness, a real rarity in such texts...

Ah, maaaan! This is what I'm currently reading; nearly finished it, in fact.

Aiming to rewatch this after I finish the book, as I saw it when it was released at the Stoke Film Theatre, Stoke being my hometown 🤘

Terence Stamp, The Hit (1984) YouTube video by ThomWaits

Superb scene from Stephen Frears’ The Hit with mob assassin John Hurt perplexed by supergrass Terence Stamp’s seemingly zen-like acceptance of his impending death at his hands.
Obviously takes on a whole other meaning today. youtu.be/Tl7ejODI2xM?...

Amazingly, one of my short stories made it into this anthology — thanks to @saltpublishing.com and the editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social for picking it up. You can preorder at discount of 25% to the end of July

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