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Ian Potter

@ianzpotter.bsky.social

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Writes, talks, listens, reads. Not always in that order.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 10m

Apparently, a bit of a meme from the Sky One comedy series Brassic.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 22m

Sometimes, when faced with the awesome majesty of the natural world, one feels an urge to leave, like Ozymandias King of Kings, some marker in eternity of one's eye-blink human life.
"I was here. I defied Nature, I made my own rules. I was known. I shall be remembered."

A sign in the woods. It prohibits fire barbecues and camping.
Across the top someone has chosen to inform us that "Carl Slater bums dogs".

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, right- "livee" is definitely an actual word, fatfingers.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 1d

Even in the relatively anonymous realm of online discourse, you can always identify young people with their appallingly callow opinions and comtemptible lack of livee experience by their misguided belief that Sweep is obsessed with sausages rather than the bones that tradition dictates.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 1d

I liked The Other One a lot.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 1d

Left eye to be fair.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 1d

On episode three of The Hack. As a fan of hard to spot moles in TV drama I have to applaud the pale one they've glued under David Tennant's right eye to replicate the one the real Nick Davies has.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 2d

Digital on-screen graphics or delightful woofers?

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 2d

I really want a preorder link before I wake up.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 2d

@garygillatt.bsky.social I think you can take the rest of the month off after "Nietzsche versus nurture".

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 3d

I stalled on this for decades. I'd been a bit perturbed by part of a reading on Jackanory about the Shadow but bought it because the doublet and hosey cover suggested something Narniaish. Literally began again last week. Near end now and worry we won't hit the Immanent Grove imminently. Good stuff.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 5d

Crackerjack Councilor speaks out!

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 6d

A writer writes. Absolutely not about the process of getting a film made.
Garth Marenghi: I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.

DALGLISH: How much is dirt and how much is gold?

DILLON: You don't know until you finish the process. That's the gamble.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 7d

Reader, I laughed. Many times.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 7d

Ooh, new Partridge. Brain butterflies away... I always like a Partridge where you get to imagine the editorial process- eg. Knowing Knowing Knowing Me with Alan Partridge (the unjustly forgotten radio behind the scenes doc).

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 7d

A vague hint of missing Avengers season 1 episodes still being out there means I'm now regrettably forced to drink wine to ensure a good night's sleep. My life...

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 7d

Oh oh oh. I so fondly remember the evening he got to see the other Tunnel of Fear! A lechier Steed than fan memory recalled, a plot less worked through than Dorney imagined.
I'd love the proper version of one of my two reinventions to turn up. I suspect Dragonsfield might've been particularly good.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 7d

Listening to an audiobook where English people are saying Xavier as Exavier rather than Zavier. This is however a Xavier who speaks with a US accent so there's possible wriggle room as we go on. He may have persuaded people to address him as an Xavier instead of a Zavier.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 7d

"I've discharged!"

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 8d

#RunBore 15km run. I am knackered. Top running list banger was this one (for cool down period with mild euphoria) indie cinema's top ice cream van chime anthem since Badlands. youtu.be/7BWoQJbPkwQ?...

Vier Stücke für Xylophon: Gassenhauer nach Hans Neusiedler

YouTube video by Karl Peinkofer Percussion Ensemble - Topic

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 8d

A Woman of No Importance the proto Talking Heads monologue Routledge stars in is so very very good and probably what made Wood want to bagsy her. She watched a lot of telly.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 8d

Aw, sad to see. I think I read in the Victoria Wood biography that Routledge checked with Alan Bennett if he was OK with her doing Kitty, though ironically this line is pretty much his later Talking Head for Routledge (Irene in A Lady of Letters) in miniature.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 8d

'I never speak behind people's backs. If I've anything nasty to say, I pop it on a postcard.' RIP Patricia 'Kitty' Routledge.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 9d

And if I'd read the link first I could have avoided being coy...

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 9d

There's an illuminating episode in the book from the days Cryer lived in rooms in the same house as Douglas Camfield and Angus Lennie. I asked him about Camfield once. I wouldn't have done if I'd any idea there was a story there he would've been uneasy anecdotalising.

Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 9d

Had a roaring and howling time in the audience for Consumed at @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social tonight. So close I could smell the potatoes. Very funny, very moving. See it if you can on tour. painesplough.com/productions/...

The view from my seat, very handy for the cooker.