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Tilt Araiza

@tiltaraiza.bsky.social

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Once and future podcaster from The Sitcom Club. I also edit (and somehow swung a co-producer credit for) A History Of Rock Music In 500 Songs. From Yorkshire, living in California. ''Practically Mexican'' according to my late wife (she liked to exaggerate)

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Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · Nov 15

FYI, my following back policy is capricious and has no internal consistency

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Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 7h

The inverse being those videos of people underestimating English mustard and damaging themselves.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 7h

Dragonfruit suffers from what I call the Turkish Delight Problem:

With this magnificent appearance, people expect something exotic instead of what it is: subtle, tropical, refreshing.

(A bunch of vloggers saw Narnia, built strange expectations about Turkish candy and posted xenophobic taste tests)

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 11h

The multi-camera drama has disappeared forever: an entire medium, an entire *form of art*, has just gone. Thirty years ago. Unheralded, unnoticed. It’s like the novel disappearing. Or watercolours vanishing. It was cultural vandalism, by oversight. 19/

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 10h

Because I'm me, this in particular makes me purr like a cat under the brush.

Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 11h

Station ident tele-snaps

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Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 10h

I'm similar. My only grandparent to be alive in my lifetime was born in the 1890s.

Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 10h

My wife was 20 years my senior. Our respective grandparents were born around the same time (~1900).

Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 11h

Yes "roughly the same age". I try to avoid some of the info about me in the public domain being too specific.

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Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 11h

Comparing notes with @andrewhickey.500songs.com who's roughly the same age as me, his great-grandparents were born in the 1920s. Mine were born in the 1860s.

Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 2d

A friend of a friend who I’ve known for years and is only a little bit older than me told me tonight that his dad was born in 1899.

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Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 22h

That's why Gordon Ramsay has no international profile to speak of.

Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 1d

I assume it's snowing all the time up there.

Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 2d

Me too. I'm built significantly worse than most.

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 2d

He did that Dawg impression so far beyond the generation who would remember the original that he might just as well have imitated Disraeli.

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Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/BvZGzpczTX4?si=LhHCqpQpsOeWR3tu

THE LITTLE AND LARGE SHOW

YouTube video by BLOB 88

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Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 2d

He's dressed like Jimi Hendrix now.

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 2d

I don't remember either Dylan OR Springsteen being a murderer on Columbo, so I'd slow down with rating artists on the Cool Scale

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Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 2d

Less than 5 minutes in and he's worked in a Deputy Dawg impression.

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Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 2d

Eddie Large is on my TV impersonating Prince.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 2d

Brand new on Dirty Feed: what was special about the Fawlty Towers episode "Basil the Rat"?

Short version: it had two days in the studio, while every other episode only had one.

Long version: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/10/tc8-...

Fawlty Towers, "Basil the Rat": the Major spots the offending creature in the bar.

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Creepyosaurus @cheekyian.bsky.social · 2d

Bangles on #TOTP giving me another excuse to post this...

Susanna Hoffs in an Instagram post showing how she could still fit in to a dress from 1989 over 30 years later, stating "The last time I wore it was on The Arse..."

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Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 2d

Probably, but I doubt anyone got laid as a direct result of it.

Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 2d

Under "the game" Doyle was Watson's literary agent.

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 3d

If you're interested in Columbo, I've finished posting the Tumblr notes from our old podcast, Just One More Thing, covering the first two TV movies and the first season -- Prescription: Murder through Blueprint for Murder. That's a lot of murder! There are also links to the relevant podcast episodes