@thane16 Congratulations O Spawn for completing Year 12! Special congratulations on surviving both your philosophy teacher and your history teacher.

I have to admit, “The Uzbeks are orthodox Jewish people from Slovakia or Slovenia” is the spectacular mistake which worries me most. It sounds like a badly remembered alt right internet meme.…[Read more]

@thane16 Congratulations, Syzergy the younger! What follows? Endless parties? A gap year? Working your way around the world as a short order cook on a tramp steamer prepatory to writing the Great Australian novel? (In other words, all the things I seemed to have missed out on at that stage of life.) Have a great post-year 12 time, whatever it may be.

@thane16

To be fair, Sunni and Shia did bring us I Got You Babe….

Well done Spawn – you are now legally responsible for everything you do!

Congrats to @thane16 for completing yr 12. Quite and achievement and congrats to you “Thane’s Mum” for guiding him though. It is just as hard on parents. Modern history is a fascinating subject, always one of my favourites, but then there were not many history topics that did not interest me, unfortunately those just happened to be the ones on…[Read more]

@thane16 and mods. Same thing happening to me. I think our sofa is worn out, springs broken, fabric tearing, and that creaking is positively alarming..

Cheers

Janette

@toinfinityandbepond

You might want to scroll upthread 😉 (also, you’re link is broken)

@thane16

I think Tennant (with Davison) was in Comic Relief – Time Crash, the rather touching meeting of two Doctors.

This, if not region locked:

@winston @thane16 @janetteb

And Shaun Dooley’s little surprise :

And Phoebe Waller-Bridge and sister help out Prisoner Zero

@winston, @janetteB, @thane16

Where we live now Hallowe’en is a really big (and really rather sweet) thing. The local shopping centre is closed to traffic all afternoon and there is a band playing and everybody – mainly parents and the tinies are dressed to the nines. Mrs Blenkinsop and I wandered up about 2pm (pretty cold but lots of sun) and…[Read more]

@winston @thane16 @janetteb

Unlikely that the full “Making of…” will be available outside the UK, but worth checking local BBC sources just in case. It’s 90 mins and I got round to watching it last night. Fascinating to see who great actors like Jim Broadbent, Helena Bonham-Carter, as well as all those noted above, are so insecure about their…[Read more]

As @thane16 says, the clip of J.W. singing was “beaut”. I am very envious though. To be able to act and sing..

cheers

Janette

@winston

Avert your eyes now, there be spoilers ahead.

@thane16  @pedant

Fair enough, although I did in fact realise that it was a riff on the Hammer Horror Dracula – and possibly on vampires of more recent literature; my point was that I found  it so jarring that the satire didn’t work and any subtler intention was lost. Put it down to p…[Read more]

@thane16

The closing line of that PotN is just genius.

@thane16

The funny one.

@thane16

I have lost count of the number of times I have walk past that piano. Never seen it not being played, always on my way to an appointment.

@thane16   @pedant and @bluesqueakpip   Thank you for all the great advice and because I know you all love the show I will follow that advice. I will watch from the very beginning and work my way up through the seasons so I can see it all. I remembered that I bought season 4 a while ago so I am off to a good start, I just need 1 ,2,3 and 5 so I c…[Read more]

@winston

Watch it how you want. Seriously. Ignore the blather.

But be aware that S6 has some seriously heavy duty material that you might want to ease up to, given your current situation. Both @thane16 and I had this in mind with our comments.

But I would recommend, if you can, watching it in order (ideally on DVD because the version on Amazon…[Read more]

@thane16

I don’t think I started it, either. 😀

Okay, a bit of background to where I’m coming from. When Buffy was first broadcast I was – variously – either rehearsing or performing during drama training, rehearsing and performing in fringe or doing the exciting tours of old people’s homes and sports halls that the average young actor does.

I…[Read more]

@Winston

In the UK, Buffy is being streamed on Amazon Prime right now. Might be worth having a look if they’re also streaming it on Amazon. Ca.

Series 6 has everyone acting in very different ways from Series 1-5, but that’s the reaction they all have to to Buffy coming back. I’m not entirely sure I agree with @thane16 that you have to watch 1-5…[Read more]

@winston

I’m an with @thane16 – Buffy, if you have never sat and watched it, has a through line (well, two really) that runs across all 7 seasons, with season 5 – imho – the finest single season of serial TV ever made, a perfect collision of character, metaphor, arc and theme. But it was that because each season built upon the one before, with…[Read more]

@thane16

The boogie-woogie pianist in in St Pancras International station, one of the business railway stations in the country (Eurostar terminus (on the upper deck to the pianists right), and trains from both the places I have lived in the past 20 years).

It used to (possibly still does) boast the widest single-span roof in the world and is…[Read more]