ItIsStevenRhodes
@400footghost.bsky.social
Hello. Come in. Cup of tea? Sorry about the blood on the handle. I draw, I paint, I am autistic, I drink Yorkshire Tea. Is that everything? I think that's everything.
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This reminds me. My daughter is 11 and it's a long time since she held my hand while we walk - and fair enough, of course. But last Winter, as we walked to school, it was so icy she grabbed my hand and held it for the whole journey, and it was lovely.
As parents, we're supposed to remember the first time we did stuff with our kids, but the last time is equally as significant, if not more.
This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This reminds me. My daughter is 11 and it's a long time since she held my hand while we walk - and fair enough, of course. But last Winter, as we walked to school, it was so icy she grabbed my hand and held it for the whole journey, and it was lovely.
Something that occurred to me watching the first episode of The Beatles Anthology - I've never seen The Girl Can't Help It. Which is something I'm rectifying right now
December 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Something that occurred to me watching the first episode of The Beatles Anthology - I've never seen The Girl Can't Help It. Which is something I'm rectifying right now
Much as I love Doctor Who when it feels like only about eight people are watching, I enjoy when it has amazingly popular times like Tennant's finale or the 50th anniversary and I think "ohhh... this is what the World Cup feels like for other people".
Christmas Ident Calendar Day 10. David Tennant bowed out as #DoctorWho & starred in BBC1's 2009 ident using reindeer to free a snowed in TARDIS. He introduced his last story (12m watched) & it was the last time we saw the full ident.After he regenerated the news version was used.
December 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Much as I love Doctor Who when it feels like only about eight people are watching, I enjoy when it has amazingly popular times like Tennant's finale or the 50th anniversary and I think "ohhh... this is what the World Cup feels like for other people".
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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A new painting called:
I Took the Forms of a Rabbit and a Snowstorm and Kept Out of the Way for a Bit.
I Took the Forms of a Rabbit and a Snowstorm and Kept Out of the Way for a Bit.
December 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A new painting called:
I Took the Forms of a Rabbit and a Snowstorm and Kept Out of the Way for a Bit.
I Took the Forms of a Rabbit and a Snowstorm and Kept Out of the Way for a Bit.
How many headlines are we going to see like this? You will not be talking your grandma, because she's dead. It's not going to be healthy to ignore her death and pretend she's decided to live inside your phone.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
How many headlines are we going to see like this? You will not be talking your grandma, because she's dead. It's not going to be healthy to ignore her death and pretend she's decided to live inside your phone.
In the early days of my other half & I being together, if we were at her parent's house, I'd often admire her mum's original copy of the Magical Mystery Tour EP. A few years later, she wrapped it up and gave it me for Christmas, thereby cementing her reputation as the greatest of Mother-in-laws.
December 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
In the early days of my other half & I being together, if we were at her parent's house, I'd often admire her mum's original copy of the Magical Mystery Tour EP. A few years later, she wrapped it up and gave it me for Christmas, thereby cementing her reputation as the greatest of Mother-in-laws.
Time for a few minutes of Christmassiness
December 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Time for a few minutes of Christmassiness
A new painting called:
I Took the Forms of a Rabbit and a Snowstorm and Kept Out of the Way for a Bit.
I Took the Forms of a Rabbit and a Snowstorm and Kept Out of the Way for a Bit.
December 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A new painting called:
I Took the Forms of a Rabbit and a Snowstorm and Kept Out of the Way for a Bit.
I Took the Forms of a Rabbit and a Snowstorm and Kept Out of the Way for a Bit.
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BBC4's doing a night of Michael Aspel stuff on Sunday, including - oh yes - an episode of "Ask Aspel" from 1978 in which Kate Bush pops in and performs "Kashka From Baghdad" while she's there. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC One - Ask Aspel with Kate Bush
Michael Aspel hosts the children's request show, with guest Kate Bush. From 1978.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
BBC4's doing a night of Michael Aspel stuff on Sunday, including - oh yes - an episode of "Ask Aspel" from 1978 in which Kate Bush pops in and performs "Kashka From Baghdad" while she's there. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
This Saturday, Dick Van Dyke will turn 100 and then, the day after, he'll begin the long journey back to zero, just as he's been doing, backwards and forwards, for centuries now.
December 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This Saturday, Dick Van Dyke will turn 100 and then, the day after, he'll begin the long journey back to zero, just as he's been doing, backwards and forwards, for centuries now.
I doubt anyone calls it a Tom Hanks film as there's a whole ensemble of big names here, but still: I *love* Asteroid City.
December 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I doubt anyone calls it a Tom Hanks film as there's a whole ensemble of big names here, but still: I *love* Asteroid City.
Near the start of the year I read a book by Barbara Comyns and I've just finished a second one. She was amazing, and I'm happy to see she wrote another ten books which I'm going to try and get read during 2026.
December 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Near the start of the year I read a book by Barbara Comyns and I've just finished a second one. She was amazing, and I'm happy to see she wrote another ten books which I'm going to try and get read during 2026.
When I was a child, my mother gave me a bear's face in a bag. "If you should ever find a man with the rest of the bear," she said, tearfully, "he is your father."
December 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
When I was a child, my mother gave me a bear's face in a bag. "If you should ever find a man with the rest of the bear," she said, tearfully, "he is your father."
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New painting, called:
Maybe just Doff your Hat and Shut up
Maybe just Doff your Hat and Shut up
December 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
New painting, called:
Maybe just Doff your Hat and Shut up
Maybe just Doff your Hat and Shut up
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8th December 1989:
Straight after school, early tea, and then me, my brother and our dad went to the cinema (a rare treat) to see Ghostbusters 2. When we got home, we were just in time to see Alan Bradley get hit by a tram on Coronation Street.
What a time to be alive, unless you were Alan Bradley.
Straight after school, early tea, and then me, my brother and our dad went to the cinema (a rare treat) to see Ghostbusters 2. When we got home, we were just in time to see Alan Bradley get hit by a tram on Coronation Street.
What a time to be alive, unless you were Alan Bradley.
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
8th December 1989:
Straight after school, early tea, and then me, my brother and our dad went to the cinema (a rare treat) to see Ghostbusters 2. When we got home, we were just in time to see Alan Bradley get hit by a tram on Coronation Street.
What a time to be alive, unless you were Alan Bradley.
Straight after school, early tea, and then me, my brother and our dad went to the cinema (a rare treat) to see Ghostbusters 2. When we got home, we were just in time to see Alan Bradley get hit by a tram on Coronation Street.
What a time to be alive, unless you were Alan Bradley.
This headline makes it seem like we'll end up with Wallace walking seamlessly through a wall to mouth silently at three awful Gromits.
In the Radio Times interview, it comes across he's curious about anything new but, ultimately, it's all about working with clay. He prides himself on authenticity
In the Radio Times interview, it comes across he's curious about anything new but, ultimately, it's all about working with clay. He prides himself on authenticity
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This headline makes it seem like we'll end up with Wallace walking seamlessly through a wall to mouth silently at three awful Gromits.
In the Radio Times interview, it comes across he's curious about anything new but, ultimately, it's all about working with clay. He prides himself on authenticity
In the Radio Times interview, it comes across he's curious about anything new but, ultimately, it's all about working with clay. He prides himself on authenticity
8th December 1989:
Straight after school, early tea, and then me, my brother and our dad went to the cinema (a rare treat) to see Ghostbusters 2. When we got home, we were just in time to see Alan Bradley get hit by a tram on Coronation Street.
What a time to be alive, unless you were Alan Bradley.
Straight after school, early tea, and then me, my brother and our dad went to the cinema (a rare treat) to see Ghostbusters 2. When we got home, we were just in time to see Alan Bradley get hit by a tram on Coronation Street.
What a time to be alive, unless you were Alan Bradley.
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
8th December 1989:
Straight after school, early tea, and then me, my brother and our dad went to the cinema (a rare treat) to see Ghostbusters 2. When we got home, we were just in time to see Alan Bradley get hit by a tram on Coronation Street.
What a time to be alive, unless you were Alan Bradley.
Straight after school, early tea, and then me, my brother and our dad went to the cinema (a rare treat) to see Ghostbusters 2. When we got home, we were just in time to see Alan Bradley get hit by a tram on Coronation Street.
What a time to be alive, unless you were Alan Bradley.
New painting, called:
Maybe just Doff your Hat and Shut up
Maybe just Doff your Hat and Shut up
December 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
New painting, called:
Maybe just Doff your Hat and Shut up
Maybe just Doff your Hat and Shut up
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New painting
(With an old title, but I wanted to use it again)
Quittin' Time for the Gondola Siblings
(With an old title, but I wanted to use it again)
Quittin' Time for the Gondola Siblings
December 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
New painting
(With an old title, but I wanted to use it again)
Quittin' Time for the Gondola Siblings
(With an old title, but I wanted to use it again)
Quittin' Time for the Gondola Siblings
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New painting.
The Transporting Sound of Valerie Tassel's Underground Choir.
The Transporting Sound of Valerie Tassel's Underground Choir.
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
New painting.
The Transporting Sound of Valerie Tassel's Underground Choir.
The Transporting Sound of Valerie Tassel's Underground Choir.
How sweary is Kate going to be allowed to get, do we think? We've had "shit" and "bollocking" so far.
I'm hoping for "someone get me Doctor Fucking Who!"
#TWBTLAS
I'm hoping for "someone get me Doctor Fucking Who!"
#TWBTLAS
December 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
How sweary is Kate going to be allowed to get, do we think? We've had "shit" and "bollocking" so far.
I'm hoping for "someone get me Doctor Fucking Who!"
#TWBTLAS
I'm hoping for "someone get me Doctor Fucking Who!"
#TWBTLAS