Nige Tassell
@nigetassell.bsky.social
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Paperback writer. Final Destination, Searching For Dexys Midnight Runners, Whatever Happened To The C86 Kids?, Field Of Dreams, The Bottom Corner, The Hard Yards, Boot Sale, Three Weeks Eight Seconds etc #MDANT too, apparently.
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andydawson.bsky.social
Now free to watch on YouTube - a fantastic documentary

(You know it is, it really is)
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story
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robwilliams71.bsky.social
Ah, shit. She was great. RIP
nigetassell.bsky.social
I blame an under-powered microwave that, after an hour of struggling, managed to get the food to just about lukewarm.
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I spoke to him five-odd years ago for my Championship book, before Jeremy's death. He was a wise, articulate young man even back then.
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Bang on.

Conversation actually was: "De La Soul don't want cheese and pickle sandwiches? They want a Chinese takeaway? We don't usually do that. Will a Vesta microwave chow mein suffice?"

(On the day, it didn't suffice. "We're not eating that shit. Where's the nearest McDonalds?")
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jasonhazeley.bsky.social
It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.
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fesshole.bsky.social
Call centre worker here. I record a tally when the customer, before providing their email address, state 'all in lower case'. No Doreen, your email address is case-insensitive. Highest count in a day is 24. We need to educating the UK public.
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Strictly speaking, it's the first half of 1990, dated by the pre-Italia 90 newspaper cutting behind me.
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Portrait of the writer as a young man.
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And probably on several dollars a word to disclose this discovery at length.
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junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
nigetassell.bsky.social
Yup. Kiefer sounds good in a Northumbrian accent too.
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Love the way John Murray pronounces Kiefer Moore.
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There are few better things to listen to while cooking (tonight it's veg winter stew with herb dumplings) than Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz.
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Glad you've been careful with your spelling there.
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Guilty as charged. Left all the c-bombs in.
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Chuffed to get a tip of the hat in @charliehigson.bsky.social's royally entertaining new one.
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A mile or so of shelving too.
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How many different editions have there been of your books? Got to be several hundred...
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I don't. But the dog will.