Couldn’t decide whether to watch Alien Romulus tonight or Return to Oz from 1985. Decided to go for the scary one - Dorothy is hospitalised for the trauma of the 1939 musical, and ends up in a post apocalypse Oz where things with wheels for legs try to kill her and that’s just the first few mins.

Happy Easter - disappointed that one member of our congregation this morning didn’t join in the hymns.

Been thinking about this Zappa quote a lot lately.

I tried to find some hope on my bookshelves but I kept getting Trumped - my latest blog livinginthemoments.org/2025/03/30/w...

Samuel Candler: ‘Fundamentalism is “the inability or refusal to live comfortably with contradiction, critique or complexity.’ Quite a bit of that around isn’t there?

We often celebrate community in my Unitarian church but maybe we idealise it too much. What if we celebrated it in a way that acknowledged that sometimes it’s a bit weird and annoying? youtu.be/-3J0utuak90?...

This has been a tough year for many people and it gets hard to see the positive sometimes so this week I am writing some blog posts celebrating some good moments this year. First up, an evening with Garrison Keillor: livinginthemoments.org/2024/12/23/c...

Just what Boxing Day needed. A bank robbery thriller from 1961 in which bank manager Peter Cushing berates an employee for dirty nibs on fountain pens. “This isn’t a post office you know!”

I’m back on YouTube doing my Unitarian thing youtu.be/YiMJyBVwUg8?...

I have reached the stage in life where a new nose hair clipper is a weekend highlight. Yikes!

Danish photographer Jonas Rask got an incredible shot of last night's aurora

Howard: “I thought you didn’t like Facebook anymore.”
Sheldon: “Don’t be silly. I’m a fan of anything that tries to replace actual human contact.”
~ The Big Bang Theory

Watched Music and Lyrics tonight, which has the distinction of an amazing 2 minutes and 40 second opening followed by nearly 2 hours of meh. Still what an opening youtu.be/kPyZVjZk7lY?...

Threads or BlueSky? I can’t decide. Is it social media or anti-social media? Anyway, hello out there - if you are interested in occasional bad jokes from a film-loving, liberal, Unitarian, biscuit eating, university teaching Cheltenham person then follow, though my description does seem a bit niche!