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Dan Rhodes

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Anthropology, Timoleon Vieta, Sour Grapes, etc.. Standards have fallen; my value has dropped. https://danrhodes.co.uk

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · May 18

High Court injunctions notwithstanding, this will be out as a limited run hardback a few months from now – probably first thing in 2026, as my day job goes mental at Christmas. Put £20 under your mattress, and sign up to my website to be the first to know. You snooze, you lose.

Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · Feb 14

You think I don't do anything, but you're wrong. Read all about it here.

Showbiz Silver Jubilee

That’s right, people – I’ve been on the front line of the entertainment industry for a full quarter of a century. Twenty-five years ago today my first book, Anthropology, was publishe…

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 1h

I bought Meat is Murder from Boots.

Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 5h

Superb. The people I've seen on that stage. The Butthole Surfers! Sonic Youth! The Smiths! The Pogues! Etc.! Excellent parenting skills.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 8h

25 years since Mynci 2000.

The free programme for Gorky's Zygotic Mynci's magnificent gig at Conway Hall in 2000. I would love to be hypnotically regressed to that night.

Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 10h

The Profanisaurus in the current Viz is even better than usual.

Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 14h

And then Simon Singh should chime in to inform them of the lack of evidence for its efficacy.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 1d

Not read Private Eye for years because of their accursed book pages, but Dumb Britain still haunts me. I bet it's not changed.

PRESENTER: In Greek Mythology, who was the father of Megapenthes, Pleisthenes and Aethiolas?

CONTESTANT: Agamemnon.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 1d

Do it.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 2d

I've been to Eliza Carthy and John Boden's wassailing show, so Christmas has officially begun.

A Christmas-tree filled stage. Fiddles and squeezeboxes littered around. You should go.

Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats!

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 2d

Just go to settings and click 'no clowns'. Worked for me.

Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 3d

Listen, right – after sitting there for years, the wonderfully peculiar they-couldn't-make-it-today Cary Grant & Shirley Temple film Bachelor Knight is only going to be on the iplayer for another 17 days. Don't miss it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Bachelor Knight

Comedy about a teacher (Cary Grant) whose playboy antics are curbed by a judge who insists that he romance a girl (Shirley Temple), until her crush on him wears off.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 3d

New music from the mighty @advancebase.bsky.social

Advance Base- Movie Theater Manager (lyric video)

YouTube video by advancebase

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 3d

The zombie factory. Things seemed to have settled down by then though.

Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 4d

We got married there!

Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 4d

Yes I do, but nobody wants it.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 4d

I hate them so much.

Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 4d

I should be making all sorts of hay out of these kind words about Gold from the traitor Alan Carr, but there's not much point as it's been unavailable for years thanks to... *checks notes*... significant financial discrepancies at the publishing house.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 5d

Anybody else dressing up as John Mitchinson for Hallowe'en?

Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 6d

Brilliant. Another of his we had on the fridge for years was a solemn baby in a highchair, holding a violin while his exasperated parents looked on. "Not bloody Mendelssohn again."

Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 7d

Landlords hate it, which is an encouraging sign.

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you for this – since 2007 my greatest regret in life has been not stopping to take a photo of this sign when we passed it.

Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 7d

I had a Tony Husband stuck to the fridge for years – a man sitting at a table in front of a lampshade made of a pair of Y-fronts, while his wife explained to a visitor that 'Charles makes lampshades out of his old underpants.' Always hoped to buy the original...

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 9d

Who would have thought it would come to this?
Looked so good on paper...

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Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 9d

You'll finally get to meet Scrope Purvis.

Dan Rhodes @danrhodes.bsky.social · 10d

See that you do.