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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 7h

So that was Tuesday October 14th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (more or less) here. So it goes.

(Dated this very day in 1978, the game-changing merger issue that was 2000AD & Starlord #86, with its cover by Dave Gibbons.)

And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 6h

The magnificent “Clear Spot” from Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band is keeping me from sleep. But that’s really OK …

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 7h

So that was Tuesday October 14th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (more or less) here. So it goes.

(Dated this very day in 1978, the game-changing merger issue that was 2000AD & Starlord #86, with its cover by Dave Gibbons.)

And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 8h

Kevin Nowlan’s truly splendid variant cover for Batman and Robin – Year One #2.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 9h

Late Traveller, 1949, by Martin Lewis.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 10h

So, season two of Wednesday. We’re three episodes in and it’s a hoot. On the one hand, I’m baffled by the disappointed reviews. On the other, each to their own & that’s fine by me. Is it a masterpiece? Heck, it’s an awful lot of fun. It makes for a better day. Splendid :)

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 11h

Yourself?

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 11h

I thought it was an entirely honourable reboot. And I enjoyed much of what I saw. There were some glorious scenes with TB3, for example. Did I love it? Not really. But then I first saw the original when I was 3, so it’s hard for any new version to match its impact.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 11h

A 1943 self-portrait by the great Margaret Bourke-White during her time with U.S. 8th Air Force.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 14h

Today in the lives of Kitten Pants & Kitten Mayhem ….

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 15h

Lunchtime with 1965’s Thunderbirds: Sun Probe. Which really does remain an awful lot of fun. I haven’t watched a complete episode of Thunderbirds in years & years. To my delight, it’s actually delightful. Yes, the SFX are impressive. But most of all, the show’s altruism/humanism is still inspiring!

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 17h

I would say that I guess. Although some basic categories are of course both necessary and unavoidable. But the implication that there’s the great stuff, guarded by the academy, and the bad stuff, indulged in by the proles: that’s still not gone away and anything that’d speed its demise is fine by me

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 17h

I guess this is my hill to die on :) So, why not just “non-fiction”? Or “non-fiction stories”? I will admit, and its purely a personal stance, that I’m very uncomfortable with some non-fiction being labelled “literature” and the great mass of it being, by implication, regarded as “not-literature”.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 18h

That really rings bells with me. Into the ocean with all of it.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 18h

(I never realised I feel that way. But by criminy I really, really do.)

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 19h

The fascinating replies to this fine question have taught me how I passionately HATE the word “Literature”. I loathe it. I’ve encountered SO much snobbery tied up with that one word. Into the Mariana Trench with it. Replace it with, say, “stories”: “English Stories”. “World Stories”. That’ll do me.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 19h

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 19h

This morning I’m particularly grateful to ZZ Top for (1) getting me out of bed, and (2) putting me in a (fairly) good mood while doing so.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 20h

Good morning! It’s Tuesday October 14th 2025! Already? Crikey!

(Out this very month in 1996, just 29 years ago, Untold Tales of Spider-Man '96, with its exuberant cover featuring co-stars the Fantastic Four & Prince Namor by Mike Allred.)

You be careful out there among them English, Joanne Book.