Colette Willis
@colettewillis.bsky.social
Ghost writer. Corporeal reader. Semi-solid watcher of stuff.
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From William Donaldson's GREAT DISASTERS OF THE STAGE:
December 17, 2025 at 5:49 AM
From William Donaldson's GREAT DISASTERS OF THE STAGE:
This poor lil guy has SEEN some shit.
Choco disappeared from Patricia Orozco’s home in May 2021.
He managed, somehow, to travel from California to Michigan five years before being reunited with his family.
https://wapo.st/4qetbPu
He managed, somehow, to travel from California to Michigan five years before being reunited with his family.
https://wapo.st/4qetbPu
December 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This poor lil guy has SEEN some shit.
It’s Christmas bitches
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It’s Christmas bitches
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“Well, I’ve got good gnus and I’ve got bad gnus.”
November 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
“Well, I’ve got good gnus and I’ve got bad gnus.”
New band name just dropped
I was just reading an article about menopause that said in Victorian times the process was labelled Uterine Fury.
So that is what we shall call it henceforth.
So that is what we shall call it henceforth.
December 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
New band name just dropped
Went to see A Bug’s Life in the cinema with three others on a Friday night, all of us stoned out of our minds. When the desk lamp hopped out for the animated Pixar logo, we laughed until we cried.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Went to see A Bug’s Life in the cinema with three others on a Friday night, all of us stoned out of our minds. When the desk lamp hopped out for the animated Pixar logo, we laughed until we cried.
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You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
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Jean Harlow, when introduced to Margot Asquith, clumsily pronounced it MargoT, who immediately quipped – “No, my dear, the T is silent, as in Harlot”
December 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Jean Harlow, when introduced to Margot Asquith, clumsily pronounced it MargoT, who immediately quipped – “No, my dear, the T is silent, as in Harlot”
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No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
Oh how good is #Mr.Scorsese? Three episodes in and I am simply delighted by it.
December 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Oh how good is #Mr.Scorsese? Three episodes in and I am simply delighted by it.
“Frost on an outdoor Rodin”
I mean… How can you NOT follow this genius?
I mean… How can you NOT follow this genius?
WHAT: Chanel (métier d’art, 2026)
OCCASIONS: stroking a vase or breaking up with some simp by jumping out of a moving cab on your way to a Sotheby’s auction; your parting words: “Bye, wanker!”
IF IT WERE A SCENT: frost on an outdoor Rodin
EMOTIONAL RANGE: expedient/daring
#MJMfashionGuide
OCCASIONS: stroking a vase or breaking up with some simp by jumping out of a moving cab on your way to a Sotheby’s auction; your parting words: “Bye, wanker!”
IF IT WERE A SCENT: frost on an outdoor Rodin
EMOTIONAL RANGE: expedient/daring
#MJMfashionGuide
December 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Frost on an outdoor Rodin”
I mean… How can you NOT follow this genius?
I mean… How can you NOT follow this genius?
Love to be told by my GP that asking if menopause is a factor in musculoskeletal problems is “bringing a lot of hot air into the issue.” If he means the steam coming out of my ears, then yes, he’s correct.
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Love to be told by my GP that asking if menopause is a factor in musculoskeletal problems is “bringing a lot of hot air into the issue.” If he means the steam coming out of my ears, then yes, he’s correct.
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Martin Amis on meeting Anthony Burgess. My late best friend used to grade hangovers- eg the ‘angry cat trying to get out through your eyeballs hangover,’ the ‘vague, zen-like hangover’ and worst of all, the ‘dinner with Anthony Burgess hangover’. I guess this is where he got it from.
July 20, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Martin Amis on meeting Anthony Burgess. My late best friend used to grade hangovers- eg the ‘angry cat trying to get out through your eyeballs hangover,’ the ‘vague, zen-like hangover’ and worst of all, the ‘dinner with Anthony Burgess hangover’. I guess this is where he got it from.
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
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My absolute fav. The caption, the pose. The setting.
Cliff, shit, just remembered we need one more picture for the calendar. Fuck it just grab the Custard Creams and riff with it.
Cliff, shit, just remembered we need one more picture for the calendar. Fuck it just grab the Custard Creams and riff with it.
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
My absolute fav. The caption, the pose. The setting.
Cliff, shit, just remembered we need one more picture for the calendar. Fuck it just grab the Custard Creams and riff with it.
Cliff, shit, just remembered we need one more picture for the calendar. Fuck it just grab the Custard Creams and riff with it.
I don’t mind when tv or movie adaptations veer from the book - it’s a different medium - but holy Jesus #Trespasses is uncannily like the mental film that played in my head while reading Louise Kennedy’s incredible book. Devastating, moving, brilliant work by all involved.
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I don’t mind when tv or movie adaptations veer from the book - it’s a different medium - but holy Jesus #Trespasses is uncannily like the mental film that played in my head while reading Louise Kennedy’s incredible book. Devastating, moving, brilliant work by all involved.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Mimi Leder’s direction of Jennifer Aniston’s acting is the apotheosis of this show’s style, and I am HERE for it #MorningShowSeasonFinale #GetInLoserWereGoingToCamptown
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Mimi Leder’s direction of Jennifer Aniston’s acting is the apotheosis of this show’s style, and I am HERE for it #MorningShowSeasonFinale #GetInLoserWereGoingToCamptown
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Remembering that time the late Queen set off from the Shire to take a ring to Mordor.
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Remembering that time the late Queen set off from the Shire to take a ring to Mordor.
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type for books used to be set using little metal letters built into words in racks and then inked and pressed on to paper. If you had stock phrases you wanted to reuse a lot you could make a cast of them called a ‘stereotype’. The sound of them *clicking* into place, in French, is ‘cliché’
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
type for books used to be set using little metal letters built into words in racks and then inked and pressed on to paper. If you had stock phrases you wanted to reuse a lot you could make a cast of them called a ‘stereotype’. The sound of them *clicking* into place, in French, is ‘cliché’
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The reason that magnolia flowers are more rigid and less soft compared to other flowers is because magnolia trees belong to one of the earliest lineages of flowering plants, and predate bees. They evolved to be pollinated by beetles, and still are
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The reason that magnolia flowers are more rigid and less soft compared to other flowers is because magnolia trees belong to one of the earliest lineages of flowering plants, and predate bees. They evolved to be pollinated by beetles, and still are
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Bill Nye is short for William New Year's Eve
November 20, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Bill Nye is short for William New Year's Eve
We are not given to tasteful Christmas decorations in this house, but even I draw the line at a reindeer that looks like raw liver. So arresting in its awfulness it almost horseshoes back around to wonderful. Almost.
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
We are not given to tasteful Christmas decorations in this house, but even I draw the line at a reindeer that looks like raw liver. So arresting in its awfulness it almost horseshoes back around to wonderful. Almost.
Finally saw #OneBattleAfterAnother in the cinema yesterday and have still not recovered from the line — and its extraordinary delivery by Jim Downey — “A semen demon?”
November 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Finally saw #OneBattleAfterAnother in the cinema yesterday and have still not recovered from the line — and its extraordinary delivery by Jim Downey — “A semen demon?”