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One of the finest musical performances in a film: Shout performed by Otis Day and the Knights in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). youtu.be/MG7KCOO76Wc?...

Shout - Otis Day & The Knights (Animal House 1978)YouTube video by rokenyoutu.be

Monkey tennis levels of comic pitching.

Pleasing colour matching in current reads.

I tried to claim on my holiday insurance because the trip was ruined by Ultravox loudly performing outside my hotel room every night, but the company invoked the "Force Midge Ure" clause.

When I was 11 I went to see Clash of the Titans at the Ritz in Wigan and got given a free action figure of Calibos. Went to see The Odyssey last night and got shit all. Great film though.

If you're GenX did you shout "Get off and milk it" at random passing cyclists?

I have a Substack I never use but thinking of shifting it all to Patreon -- general updates, some journalism and fiction writing, a newsletter, blah blah. If there was enough interest I might serialise or offer for single download an unpublished novel or two. patreon.com/DavidBarnett...

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Going to see The Odyssey later and might not post an opinion about it.

For the Observer today… the soaring popularity of birdwatching. I spoke to Mya-Rose Craig, @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social, the @rspb.bsky.social, and the people behind the Merlin app. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Don’t call us twitchers: birdwatching brings in diverse f...The hobby has been transformed by young influencers and celebrities seeking not only a retreat from a virtual world, but a way to highlight the plight of the UK’s depleted wildlifeobserver.co.uk

One day a commissioning editor at a newspaper will come to me and say, "Can you write a bit more on this?" rather than, "You wrote far too fucking much ONCE AGAIN, Dave".

For your weekend reading delectation I present my Observer piece (in print on Sunday) about my mysterious MR James-ian invitation to view the secret true crime archive of... Jeremy Beadle. observer.co.uk/culture/in-r...

Witnessing Jeremy Beadle’s true crime magazine collectionThe You’ve Been Framed! presenter’s archive of printed ephemera is inspiring new tales of femme fatales and paranormal terrorsobserver.co.uk

Please spare a thought for us Lancastrians living over the border on this difficult day #YorkshireDay

Just found a stack of mid-80s STARLOG mags I had no idea I’d kept. Some cracking reading here.

If Wolverine was an artisan ice cream maker: "I'm the best there is at what I do, and what I do is nut berry ice."