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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 13h

I quite like 👀 because I think it does a job of conferring a particular tone or meaning which language alone doesn't really do so succinctly.

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 13h

Also - Keaton was part of the Twin-Peaksiverse.

Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 15h

I also think this might be the best acting streak of the decade (if you ignore 1976).

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 1d

Includes some excellent cigarette smoking from 70s Diane Keaton.

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 1d

I know Woody Allen is problematic to say the least, but I really can't undo the love I have for that long run of classic films - Interiors in particular is one I think hugely undervalued.

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 1d

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 1d

In 2009 I split up with my ex and took her new internet DAB radio - it was played a random selection of podcasts and I found something called Comedy Death Ray which has now been doing a running joke on this bit pretty much every Halloween for 16 years as Comedy Bang Bang.

Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 1d

Another dream last night that me and Nick Cave only have six hours to organise a traditional Appalachian hoedown.

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 2d

I have two tickets for @warringtonruncorn.com in Manchester tomorrow but have been cruelly stricken with a sickness so can no longer go.

Free to anyone who wants to go - for a small donation to a charity that supports local refugees and asylum seekers.

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 2d

Very odd sense of vertigo.

Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 2d

I have two tickets for @warringtonruncorn.com in Manchester tomorrow but have been cruelly stricken with a sickness so can no longer go.

Free to anyone who wants to go - for a small donation to a charity that supports local refugees and asylum seekers.

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 4d

Shortlisted for a proper thing - for doing ghost stories!

Levenshulme Old Library @levyoldlibrary.bsky.social · 4d

We’re absolutely delighted to share that Levenshulme Old Library is a finalist at this year's Manchester Culture Awards!

We're shortlisted in the 'best event' category for last year's Ghosts at the Old Library, our homegrown winter storytelling project.

Huge thanks to all involved.

Wish us luck!

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 7d

New Review - today on the blog a look at the way different writers write fantasy with Writing The Magic - Essays on Crafting Fantasy Fiction edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social and @richardvhirst.bsky.social out now and strongly recommended! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...

Writing The Magic - Essays On Crafting Fantasy Fiction edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V Hirst — Runalong The Shelves

Publisher – Dead Ink Books Published – Out Now Price – £10.99 paperback £5.99 ebook From Lord of the Rings to Game of Thrones , over the last hundred years few genres have captured the publi...

www.runalongtheshelves.net

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 8d

Hands were shivering while I typed this, hence the typos #fatherhood

Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 8d

Yes! Really good, entertaining vampire movie- which is an achievement! - but the reception it got made me feel like I'd totally missed something.

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 8d

I saw it last week and thought both it was a really good movie and also that everyone seems to have slightly lost their minds.

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 8d

Long story but I'm taking my son an open top bus tour through Manchester during Storm Amy.

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 9d

RIP Patricia Routledge.

Always thought of this as genuinely deeply Kafkaesque.

youtu.be/BKXEM3VcSEA?...

Hyacinth Bucket meets Mr Blobby.

YouTube video by digivoka

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Levenshulme Old Library @levyoldlibrary.bsky.social · 12d

Next month, as part of our mini-season of Halloween goings-on, we're bringing you Harvest Horror, a folk horror writing workshop, exploring haunted landscapes, uncanny traditions and the strange rituals of the season.

📍 Levenshulme Old Library, M19 3QE
🎟 Tickets: buytickets.at/levenshulmeo...

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 16d

I always wanted to write a piece on how Bowie and Scott Walker responded to one another creatively, and this does a better job than I would likely manage.

(The piece seems to suggest the two might not have met but I'm fairly certain Bowie is Walker's interviewer in much of 30th Century Man)

The Quietus @thequietus.com · 16d

'Tilt is an album of ghosts, emptiness and terrifying remove. If anyone was living in Walker’s head at this point, it was, simply, the dead, the victims, their killers, the crush of history’s flow...'

David Bowie, #ScottWalker and the 1990s

buff.ly/U85ffvs

Scott Walker Tilt album cover. A hand, two eyes, some feathers, all laid on top of one another. Perhaps an owl's face under the hand.

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 17d

A simpler age. An age of e-cutlasses and digital peglegs.

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 17d

Strangely nostalgic for stock images of internet piracy.

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 23d

There's a bloody Reform UK pop-up by my local Tesco.

I live in Andrew Gwynne's constituency so I guess they think there's some truth to the rumours about Andy Burnham trying to take it on.

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 24d

Oh wow - just been unstoppably compelled to pre-order.

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 24d

Hey! I have a new book out!

It's called Writing the Magic and it's a collection of essays on fantasy writing co-edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social and myself (but mainly Dan), and it's published by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social today.

deadinkbooks.com/product/writ...

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