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“Meticulously researched” niche drivel https://mulberryhall.medium.com/
The Stoppard stuff and the apples are especially good
I’m on my nonsense again. This week’s things:

– some Stoppard stuff

– terrific very short film about apples

– Leonardo online

– excellent spin art

– the Museum of Obsolete Media

– compliment generator

open.substack.com/pub/levparik...
Six Things, Volume 137
Stoppard | Apples | Leonardo | Spin Art | Obsolete Media | Compliments
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
TO AUSTERLITZ!

(because it’s the 220th anniversary)
December 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
*goes to see nurse. Does absolutely not snigger childishly. Heavens, no*
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Morning
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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6pm on this day in 1976, what could possibly go wrong?
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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actually Die Hard is a Cow Tools movie
December 20, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Other important historical anniversary news of the day...
Can't believe it's 363 years since that slag John Evelyn recorded skating on the frozen lake in St James's Park, London, watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine. Still freaks my nut in to this day
December 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Not rude things, a thread:
December 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
1 December is the day we must mark the sad passing 504 years ago of Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici – or Pope Leo X, as he was also known. Leo was not one of those popes memorable for a sordid life, but is known for two things. Firstly, this:
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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This is a wonderful, even spectacular, thread.
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Today’s most important historical anniversary: SMOL PAUL DAY
And now for some of my very favourite Smol Paul moments in no particular order, starting with the first ever yeet
November 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Edmund II, or Edmund Ironside, had become king on St George’s Day 1016 when his dad Æthelred processed off this mortal coil, and he’d been kinging himself for a mere seven months when he breathed his last on St Andrew’s Day, possibly looking like this as he went
November 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Only a few left to watch this free on Channel 4, I think, so get in quick. This is lovely stuff
Petite Maman
(2021) Drama. Eight-year-old Nelly meets a little girl near her dead grandma's house...
www.channel4.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Two splendid historical moments to celebrate today: the 25th anniversary of the news of Sooty the guinea pig’s sexual excesses, and the 1,009th of Edmund ‘Ironside’ II getting done in by being stabbed up the bum while on the privy. Possibly. As you can see, we’re starting with the ‘Romeo’ rodent...
November 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Finished a book about Islamic architecture a couple of days ago (Stealing from the Saracens, Diana Darke) - fascinating, but I needed a palate cleanser…
November 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.

It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
July 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
#Strictly obviously
November 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Can Profanity Accountant tell me how *well* I swear, though? “You have deployed the word ‘fuck’ 274 times this month, but only 192 uses were effective. The rest were gratuitous.” If not, it’s no cocking use to me
November 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Very grateful to everyone who’s shared the first post in this thread, but I just want to make sure nobody’s missed the bit about Oscar winner, BAFTA fellow, and knight of the realm John Mills setting light to his farts
Happy 77th anniversary of the release of Scott of the Antarctic, whose filming in the Swiss Alps caused frostbite among the crew. Thankfully, Sir John Mills was on hand to... er, set light to his farts
November 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”
November 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Just got round to reading this. Horrifying, brilliant piece. She has the best take on his death: “maybe suicide, maybe murder. Read enough about him and you won’t care).”
November 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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This is incredible thank you @sesmith.lol here are some shrimp.
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM