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Alastair Craig

@alastaircraig.bsky.social

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Brisbane writer, filmmaker, avid reader, tired dad, one half of comedy writing duo Cheeky Moon, and very pleased to meet you. Award-winning dramedy web series “IT’S A CULT!” out now on YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/cultyoutube [He/him]

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Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · 9h

#Brisbane, though.

Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · 9h

And also a critical reevaluation of Ocean’s Eight (2018).

Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · 10h

It is my sincere hope that the Louvre thieves all turn out to be women, and that history will fondly look back on this as the start of Heist Girl Summer.

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Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · 10h

Heist's are back baby. They're good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl)

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Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · 7d

May the same be said of us, and all of us.

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Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · 21d

Heed this cautionary tale:

A few weeks ago I thought it might be time to reread The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings for the first time since childhood. I went looking for some nice illustrated hardbacks.

I am now a boring middle-aged dad with a new hobby. It could happen to you.

#tolkien #lotr #books

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · Sep 2

theyre saying its the most beautiful blood anyone has coughed up

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Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · Aug 10

Charming premise and animation aside: this movie has my five-year-old daughter memorising K-pop rap lyrics. For this alone, the world is a better place.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · Aug 7

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

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Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · Jul 28

Why are people mad at me for advertising George Clooney as the title character for my small town theatre production of #WaitingForGodot? He did everything the role of Godot asked of him.

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Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · Jul 13

Proud to be among the last generation of Australian schoolchildren to mispronounce ‘matrix’ (to rhyme with ‘hat tricks’) before the 1999 movie blew our minds and corrected our lexicons.

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Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · Jul 1

Holding my daughter close.

Partly out of absolute and unconditional love.

Partly because if she steps more than one metre away I cease to be a wholesome dad wearing a sparkling Elsa hairband in solidarity and immediately become a contextless weirdo in a shopping centre.

Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · Jun 13

Who’s dreamier:
Greg from Greg’s Anatomy or Les from Les Misérables?

Patrick Dempsey as Dr Derek Shepherd in Grey’s Anatomy.

Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables

Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · Jun 10

I can live without the flying cars and hoverboards we were promised by 2025. But it’s harder to shake the strange sadness of hitting adulthood and learning the jacuzzi suit is not a real product grown-ups can purchase.
#TheSimpsons

Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · Jun 4

How petty am I?

When a friend said a joke tweet was bad in 2016, I registered the domain “besttweet [dot] online”, had it redirect to said tweet, and committed to a 5+ year bit.

I’m not sure he was ever aware I did it.

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Mark Tingay @marktingay.bsky.social · Jun 1

⚒️🧪 Thick black goop pouring from the earth is a horror often seen in TV shows or movies. Fortunately this is an amazing geological feature, and not a malevolent monster!

This 1956 pic is of a natural bitumen or asphalt seep pouring into a mine shaft in Lettomanoppello, Italy. 🧵

Pic: Cazzini (2018)

Thick black rope of bitumen that has poured out of the roof of a mine shaft, snaking in big loops on the ground. Three miners are next to the seep, showing that it is taller than a person and wider than a leg.

It’s not really relevant, but one of the miners is holding onto a chicken egg that they have put on the bitumen flow, because, well, why not??

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Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · May 31

I know you’re all eager for tonight’s #DoctorWho finale, but can we please dedicate the next few hours instead to this unreasonably funny moment from the missing 1964 serial “Marco Polo” in which the Doctor gets Ian’s name wrong?

Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · May 30

Guess I’m just lucky I watched the celebrated classics like “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” when I did.

Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · May 30

Watching Spaceballs (1987) for the first time and wishing I were enjoying it more.

It’s strange that all the Mel Brooks movies I happened to watch as a child are objectively hilarious and timeless, while the ones I’m only getting around to now in my 40s are pretty dull and dated.

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Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · May 28

This topical 2017 tweet never took off the way I’d hoped. Maybe it can get a fair go here?

If could you please all pretend it’s eight years ago and you’ve just seen the trailer for Super Mario Odyssey, and then reacquaint yourself with the 1995 Simpsons story “Homer³”, this should be a real hoot:

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · May 28

Weird how Marilyn Manson’s lyrics were controversial in the 90s but don’t seem shocking at all anymore:

Marilyn Manson
"Funky Frankenstein"

I snuck into Frankenstein's lab
A place I'd heard was very fab
But inside it seemed rather drab
Until I saw a monster on a slab

Lightning struck, the monster rose
Wearing funky disco clothes
It shook its hips and struck a pose
Then said "It's party time, let's go!"

[Chorus]
Funky Frankenstein alright
Frank is getting down tonight
Move over Drac-u-la
'Cause Frankentein's a superstar

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wint @dril.bsky.social · May 27

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYgT... good

Rock Rap 'N Roll - voice samples

YouTube video by matt00092

www.youtube.com

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Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · May 27

Accidentally said “Shirley” instead of “Siri” and now my phone is stuck in Flying High mode.

[Joke adjusted for Australian, New Zealand, South African, Japanese and Filipino VHS markets.]

Alastair Craig @alastaircraig.bsky.social · May 26

"Hey you, get that steel drum out of my - uh - secret Dantooine base."
#Andor

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