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David Ritchie

@dritchie.bsky.social

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Chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature. "James Bond expert and web developer" - @thespinoff.bsky.social "Fan" - New Zealand Listener "Creator/Contributor" - National Library of New Zealand

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David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 2h

I saw them before they were big and doing a Fleetwood Mac cover. Check out the Willie Nelson shirt! The kids are definitively alright.

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 2h

Who's the new Morning Report co-host? Wrong answers only.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 4h

I guess if you don’t know dick about shit you could think Johnny Cash seems “deeply uncool” but anyway glad newborn babies are getting to write opinion columns, good for those lil cuties

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 7h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Here's looking at Rick and Ilsa in Casablanca

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 1d

This is what you do on your first day in Officer Big Mac jail - find the biggest, baddest, meanest mf'er and attack him in the cafeteria. You'll have your ass handed to you but you'll establish your place in the Officer Big Mac jail hierarchy.

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 1d

Was it the money? I bet it was the money.

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 2d

In which week long absences like "family holidays" are frowned upon but not, say, the AIMS Games which we have to fundraise for at school.

Attitudes to truancy improve, parents still taking kids out of school for holidays - report

But the Education Review Office report reveals overall attitudes to truancy have improved.

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 3d

It sold to HBO after Sundance so my read is any cinema revenue is pretty much gravy at this point.

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder how the cry-babies on Twitter suggesting that "Prime Minister" was a flop in its first week in release are dealing with the 25% increase in week 2. // @jemaineclement.bsky.social

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure how I feel about "noise" being one of the criteria identified though but you can't have everything.

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 3d

Nobody asked me but the doco "Prime Minister" has footage of VFF protestors hanging around outside Clarke's parents house with placards during the holidays so I'm kind of okay with the proposed legislation.

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 3d

Saw somebody describe Dredge as "short" and sorry my play stats suggest otherwise.

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 3d

River Phoenix played RFK Jr in a 1985 miniseries

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 3d

"We don’t have graphs for these ones (sorry)", they lied

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 4d

Finally! "Something Wicked This Way Comes" is on Disney+

Watch Something Wicked This Way Comes | Disney+

Dark’s Pandemonium Carnival arrives in Green Town.

www.disneyplus.com

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 4d

@davidlsims.bsky.social Was this the Mark Strong role you were struggling to remember on the Burn After Reading ep?

All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.com · Nov 17

Bardem later said the Coens told him “That’s why we called you!” Bardem was persuaded to sign on as Chigurh, but the Coens did have Mark Strong lined up as a potential replacement. Strong said “I would kneel on broken glass to work with the Coens”.

15/38

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 5d

Which Hamilton West Ward candidate posted about attending the Charlie Kirk vigil in Garden Place

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 6d

Current vibe: reliving last local election

I took our local ward candidates and grouped them by high, medium, low and very low and let's just say it's noticeably bottom heavy.

I ordered our mayoral candidates into 1 "High, but by default", a handful of "Do what you want" and 2 definite "I want to discourage these candidates as much as possible".

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 6d

Firefox has introduced sponsored shortcuts on the new tab page but you can turn them off (on Android at least)

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 7d

Do you know what today is?

a boy and a girl are sitting at a desk and the girl says " it 's october 3rd "

ALT: a boy and a girl are sitting at a desk and the girl says " it 's october 3rd "

media.tenor.com

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 7d

in wrath of khan, aka star trek 2 (1982), khan on the bridge of his stolen ship spotting the enterprise on the viewscreen and pointing saying "there she is"

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 8d

I call this the "it's not news until it happens in Auckland" phenomenon

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 9d

I'll remember him mostly for being fooled by the mediums on Sensing Murder

David Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 9d

Who’s your favourite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)