Andrew Male
@andrewmale.bsky.social
Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist. Cultivating the echo chamber since 2011.
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Ginger Rogers in a publicity shot for Rafter Romance (1933).
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Ginger Rogers in a publicity shot for Rafter Romance (1933).
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Here's my Bluesky Wrapped for 2025
- I scolded 64 other users (top 72% of Bluesky users)
- I was scolded by 112 users (top 54% of Bluesky users)
- I explained the joke to the original poster 14 times (top 62% of Bluesky users)
Get yours at bskywrapped2025.bsky.app
- I scolded 64 other users (top 72% of Bluesky users)
- I was scolded by 112 users (top 54% of Bluesky users)
- I explained the joke to the original poster 14 times (top 62% of Bluesky users)
Get yours at bskywrapped2025.bsky.app
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Here's my Bluesky Wrapped for 2025
- I scolded 64 other users (top 72% of Bluesky users)
- I was scolded by 112 users (top 54% of Bluesky users)
- I explained the joke to the original poster 14 times (top 62% of Bluesky users)
Get yours at bskywrapped2025.bsky.app
- I scolded 64 other users (top 72% of Bluesky users)
- I was scolded by 112 users (top 54% of Bluesky users)
- I explained the joke to the original poster 14 times (top 62% of Bluesky users)
Get yours at bskywrapped2025.bsky.app
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Tomorrow is the official publication date for POSSESSED by Rosalie and Edward Synton. To celebrate, I'll be talking about it's authors Rosalie and Edward Corse-Scott (who wrote under the name Synton).
If you want a cheap copy, it's on sale online for £7.99 at Forbidden Planet. Link below.
If you want a cheap copy, it's on sale online for £7.99 at Forbidden Planet. Link below.
December 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Tomorrow is the official publication date for POSSESSED by Rosalie and Edward Synton. To celebrate, I'll be talking about it's authors Rosalie and Edward Corse-Scott (who wrote under the name Synton).
If you want a cheap copy, it's on sale online for £7.99 at Forbidden Planet. Link below.
If you want a cheap copy, it's on sale online for £7.99 at Forbidden Planet. Link below.
"Our motto is 'Sell the fuckin' tree!"
The New York Christmas tree industry is run by five families, families who started out as hustlers, addicts, Scientologists or "in construction". Their story is story of turf wars, Mafia pay-offs, murder, and joy to the world.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det...
The New York Christmas tree industry is run by five families, families who started out as hustlers, addicts, Scientologists or "in construction". Their story is story of turf wars, Mafia pay-offs, murder, and joy to the world.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det...
Watch The Merchants of Joy | Prime Video
In the city that never sleeps, five families hustle each winter to turn sidewalks into holiday outposts. The Merchants of Joy follows these Christmas die-hards as they source, sell, and safeguard a family tradition at risk. It's a warm, grounded portrait of pride, grit, and the joy they bring—one tree, one customer, one season at a time.
www.amazon.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"Our motto is 'Sell the fuckin' tree!"
The New York Christmas tree industry is run by five families, families who started out as hustlers, addicts, Scientologists or "in construction". Their story is story of turf wars, Mafia pay-offs, murder, and joy to the world.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det...
The New York Christmas tree industry is run by five families, families who started out as hustlers, addicts, Scientologists or "in construction". Their story is story of turf wars, Mafia pay-offs, murder, and joy to the world.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det...
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This is why I'm stuck with Spotify. It took me over six months to help my 81-year-old father to link his phone to his car stereo using my Spotify account. The thought of going through all that again on a new platform is too much to bear.
December 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This is why I'm stuck with Spotify. It took me over six months to help my 81-year-old father to link his phone to his car stereo using my Spotify account. The thought of going through all that again on a new platform is too much to bear.
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I feel personally like the no-headphone-jack moment for older folks was a big jump-the-shark moment for tech in general, one where priorities stopped being about customer convenience or satisfaction
December 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I feel personally like the no-headphone-jack moment for older folks was a big jump-the-shark moment for tech in general, one where priorities stopped being about customer convenience or satisfaction
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Imaginary records. This is what generative AI should be for.
Almost exactly like this. Wow!
Something like this horrendous AI slop creation (risking a block, I realise – I shall henceforth behave!)?
December 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Imaginary records. This is what generative AI should be for.
Almost exactly like this. Wow!
Something like this horrendous AI slop creation (risking a block, I realise – I shall henceforth behave!)?
December 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Almost exactly like this. Wow!
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Growing up in Germany in the 80s, I would have to add his omnipresent (German-language) coffee ads to this mix.
Roger Whittaker - German coffee - TV commercials
YouTube video by Mr. Whittaker's Music
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Growing up in Germany in the 80s, I would have to add his omnipresent (German-language) coffee ads to this mix.
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Do John Denver next.
December 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Do John Denver next.
Became a bit obsessed with this theory so fell down a well and compiled a playlist of songs where Roger sounds like a weird cult leader, sociopath, serial killer or deranged itinerant preacher with blood upon his hands. Apologies for Spotify. Tidal is f-ing up.
open.spotify.com/playlist/7lz...
open.spotify.com/playlist/7lz...
December 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Became a bit obsessed with this theory so fell down a well and compiled a playlist of songs where Roger sounds like a weird cult leader, sociopath, serial killer or deranged itinerant preacher with blood upon his hands. Apologies for Spotify. Tidal is f-ing up.
open.spotify.com/playlist/7lz...
open.spotify.com/playlist/7lz...
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I once had a dream that I went to an event at Abbey Road where a newly-unearthed Syd Barrett song was going to be played for the first time. The song was called Wigwam.
December 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I once had a dream that I went to an event at Abbey Road where a newly-unearthed Syd Barrett song was going to be played for the first time. The song was called Wigwam.
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In Hookland there is a cinema that you can sometimes find that shows films from other dimensions - The Wizard of Oz with W.C. Fields, David Lynch’s Revenge of the Jedi - and a record shop of impossible discs. I reckon you would find it there.
December 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
In Hookland there is a cinema that you can sometimes find that shows films from other dimensions - The Wizard of Oz with W.C. Fields, David Lynch’s Revenge of the Jedi - and a record shop of impossible discs. I reckon you would find it there.
Dreamt about another elusive LP that only exists in the world of dreams. It was…
Stan Laurel & Sonny Liston - Jazz At Stonehenge (HMV, 1960)
The cover showed Stan and Sonny in hunting tweeds, looking at each other as if they were both prizefighters at a weigh-in, a megalith standing between them.
Stan Laurel & Sonny Liston - Jazz At Stonehenge (HMV, 1960)
The cover showed Stan and Sonny in hunting tweeds, looking at each other as if they were both prizefighters at a weigh-in, a megalith standing between them.
December 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Dreamt about another elusive LP that only exists in the world of dreams. It was…
Stan Laurel & Sonny Liston - Jazz At Stonehenge (HMV, 1960)
The cover showed Stan and Sonny in hunting tweeds, looking at each other as if they were both prizefighters at a weigh-in, a megalith standing between them.
Stan Laurel & Sonny Liston - Jazz At Stonehenge (HMV, 1960)
The cover showed Stan and Sonny in hunting tweeds, looking at each other as if they were both prizefighters at a weigh-in, a megalith standing between them.
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Raleigh Vektar (1985)
Is it a bicycle? Is it a computer? The Raleigh Vectar folks, a pedalling ride with a microchip.
Sound synthesiser, Radio, POWER PACK, and more! It’s a biker’s dream!
Is it a bicycle? Is it a computer? The Raleigh Vectar folks, a pedalling ride with a microchip.
Sound synthesiser, Radio, POWER PACK, and more! It’s a biker’s dream!
December 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Raleigh Vektar (1985)
Is it a bicycle? Is it a computer? The Raleigh Vectar folks, a pedalling ride with a microchip.
Sound synthesiser, Radio, POWER PACK, and more! It’s a biker’s dream!
Is it a bicycle? Is it a computer? The Raleigh Vectar folks, a pedalling ride with a microchip.
Sound synthesiser, Radio, POWER PACK, and more! It’s a biker’s dream!
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Thank you very much for the money which you sent me for my birthday. I have used it to buy a double cassette.
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Thank you very much for the money which you sent me for my birthday. I have used it to buy a double cassette.
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Not far from my hotel is the absurdly blingy 18th century Late Baroque private chapel Asamkirche, home to a golden skeleton brandishing scissors to cut the cord of life..!
December 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Not far from my hotel is the absurdly blingy 18th century Late Baroque private chapel Asamkirche, home to a golden skeleton brandishing scissors to cut the cord of life..!
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#AdventMovies2025 Day 2: Bridget Jones’s Diary boxd.it/bUFEIB
A ★★★★½ review of Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
The original and the best, Bridget Jones’s Diary packs in so much that it makes the majority of other modern romcoms seem as flimsy in comparison as the pants she chooses *not* to wear at the fateful ...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
#AdventMovies2025 Day 2: Bridget Jones’s Diary boxd.it/bUFEIB
Morgan Freeman Voiceover: It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is not dreck.
Plus Davis was in great demand as a film poster artist, THE primo gig for an illustrator back in his day.
The films were mostly dreck. The studios knew if the the film was a dog, they better hire Jack Davis to lure in filmgoers.
The films were mostly dreck. The studios knew if the the film was a dog, they better hire Jack Davis to lure in filmgoers.
December 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Morgan Freeman Voiceover: It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is not dreck.
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Meols beach on a very cold morning.
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Meols beach on a very cold morning.
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Rupert Hines' 1978 OST The Shout is released on Friday; Darran Anderson digs into this & the sound of feature films about sound, including Berberian Sound Studio, Bait, The Conversation and episode 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return among other things.
Ln1k in thared.
Ln1k in thared.
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Rupert Hines' 1978 OST The Shout is released on Friday; Darran Anderson digs into this & the sound of feature films about sound, including Berberian Sound Studio, Bait, The Conversation and episode 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return among other things.
Ln1k in thared.
Ln1k in thared.
Guess what! Simon Cowell: The Next Act (Netflix, December 10) is really good. it's a six-part series about Cowell's project to build a new British boy band but it's also about a 66-year-old millionaire discovering he is out of touch with young people, social media etc 1/2
youtu.be/5kASilodsdA?...
youtu.be/5kASilodsdA?...
Simon Cowell: The Next Act | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Guess what! Simon Cowell: The Next Act (Netflix, December 10) is really good. it's a six-part series about Cowell's project to build a new British boy band but it's also about a 66-year-old millionaire discovering he is out of touch with young people, social media etc 1/2
youtu.be/5kASilodsdA?...
youtu.be/5kASilodsdA?...
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Just remembered the bootleg Peanuts advent calendar from last year and a chill went down my spine. This thread is not for the faint of heart.
I got a Peanuts advent calendar with a little figurine for each day and so far the paint jobs have been… alarming. I think this is supposed to be Rerun but it looks like the ghost of Alfalfa from Little Rascals.
December 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Just remembered the bootleg Peanuts advent calendar from last year and a chill went down my spine. This thread is not for the faint of heart.
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I've always wanted an apartment with a MASTER ROKSN! *And* a HUGE WAXMIN CLOSET? *And* a COAT BATH? *Sold!*
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I've always wanted an apartment with a MASTER ROKSN! *And* a HUGE WAXMIN CLOSET? *And* a COAT BATH? *Sold!*
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My Monday evening plan? Same as it's been the last four weeks: get on zoom and watch a room full of jazz nuts in Manhattan listening to fabulous 78s, each one introduced by a guy who knows stuff. 730-1030pm EDT. Starts in an hour! Grab your rice and beans and preferred stimulant...
hotclubny.org
hotclubny.org
The Hot Club of New York
Classic jazz on 78rpm records.
hotclubny.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
My Monday evening plan? Same as it's been the last four weeks: get on zoom and watch a room full of jazz nuts in Manhattan listening to fabulous 78s, each one introduced by a guy who knows stuff. 730-1030pm EDT. Starts in an hour! Grab your rice and beans and preferred stimulant...
hotclubny.org
hotclubny.org