Alasdair Swanson
@alasdairswanson.bsky.social
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No interpersonal skills. Films, birds, books, science and so on. Socialist, atheist, AuDHD, guitar botherer. Officially not psychotic, will probably blame Thatcher, may post pictures of cats. Laminated with Clarifoil™
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Now that I'm in my 50s I realise that most conversations I have are a variation on

Them: Just be yourself
Me: OK [is self]
Them: Not like that
The boy of that family was the one that lovingly described the chest burster scene in Alien in such lurid terms that I was actually a bit disappointed when I eventually saw it.
This and Asylum which the family upstairs watched with me aged about 12.
I have this minute learned the term 'circumstancial friendship' and the last few decades have clicked in a very unsettling way.
Love that song. Here's its composer, Duster Bennett, apparently a friend of Green (or enough of a friend that Green gave him a guitar, anyway).
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Jumping At Shadows
YouTube video by Duster Bennett - Topic
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BBC Archive just uploaded The Lonely Shore (1962), a surreal 15-minute short that takes the form of a scientific report from an abandoned and desolate future Britain. Written by Jacquetta Hawkes, an actual archaeologist, and directed by Ken Russell, an actual madman.
1962: An Expedition to Post-Apocalyptic Britain | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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My twitch all morning (which no-one has mentioned that I've seen) is the "unbalanced quotation marks' here
There is, however, one Boris Johnson book that was written WITHOUT using Metal Mickey. And goodness me, what a fine gift it would make for anyone. Available at all good - and shit - booksellers.

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/unhinged-...
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There is, however, one Boris Johnson book that was written WITHOUT using Metal Mickey. And goodness me, what a fine gift it would make for anyone. Available at all good - and shit - booksellers.

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/unhinged-...
So bland the estate agents had a feature picture of a plant.
Presumably he tells an assistant what to type into it
I was a geek who liked Tron because the computer world was radically different to the real world and it was ultimately about hubris - MCP wants to be a god and is brought down by an actual one. Neither sequel has been about anything other than "program wants to be human for no expressed reason".
I've said for a long time that if they're going to give us colour and b/w animations then have the b/w be as faithful as possible to the camera script and telesnaps and let the colour version go as wild and big budget style as the animators can manage.
Spider Pool brings back ancient internet memories
Jack McDermott’s “crazy house” was constructed in the Hollywood Hills from cast-off movie sets in the 1920s. Today only a retaining wall - which once overlooked the notorious “spider pool” - survives.
Next Who Bluray season arrives Monday which means *another* six DVDs go into the "what do I do with all these Doctor Who DVDs?" box. It's quite a big box now.
It's been on my radar for a while and Kaleidescope were having a sale so I thought why not. It was literally while I was taking the picture that I went "I know that name", I don't know why the connection never clicked until now.
This just got forced through the door and turned out to be *way* bigger than expected.
The book Prime Minister, You Wanted To See Me?: A History of Week Ending by Ian Greaves and Justin Lewis.  It's A4 and 670 pages so quite a chunk.
See I like Doctor Who (and I mostly watch it because when it was cancelled I was still a teenager) but being involved in the fandom in the 1980s put me off fandom in general and Who fans specifically.

I have since discovered that all fandoms create deranged subgroups and am glad to be merely casual
One reason I hate the internet more each day: my wife sent me alink to a jewellery website and my script blocker brought me up a list of 26 sites or domains this front page contacts.
A list of 26 websites and domains contacted by the front page of a shop webpage.
Yes! When people ask why I'm so against private healthcare I advise them to look at the vets and imagine that for humans. I have a cat getting teeth extracted on Friday -- it'll be around £1500 all up. Consolidation of practices into corporations is probably the ultimate cause (yay capitalism!)
If you ever wondered what privatised healthcare for yourself would be like, look at the vet market and multiply it by 10.
Every attempt to deepen and brooaden the mythos of the doctor and the time lords has been to the detriment of the show.
Tell me your most unhinged Doctor Who opinion. I mean, if you’re a fan, they’re likely all unhinged anyway.
I'm sure the flash can't be covered with black tape or paint.
I keep seeing pictures of Tony Caunter in Blakes 7 so here he is in Doctor Who instead.
Morgan (Tony Caunter) faces the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) in the 1971 Doctor Who story Colony In Space.
This evening I've been playing with fingerpicks. Not playing guitar with them, just playing with them. Bloody awkward things.
Some metal thumb and fingerpicks on a table in front of a bunnikins cup of tea (yes really)
The house he was born in, in India Street, is now a lovely little by-appointment museum that a friend and I went round a few years ago.
Change a letter, ruin a song.
Born to be Mild
Change a letter, ruin a song.
Got To Get You Into My Wife
Change a letter, ruin a song.
I Can Pee For Miles
I built this. Would not build again.
A 3-d globe jigsaw on a chair. The back of a 3-d globe jigsaw on a chair