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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1h

Unsolicited Vic Pic

Victor Mature as The Big Victor, looming over a deserted western town in "Head". The Monkees look up in astonished horror.

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 12h

A late arrival in the ridiculous format wars. The Yes Album on reel-to-reel, direct from Rhino. A snip at 300 dollars, give or take a couple of cents. I thought that Nancy Sinatra album a couple of years ago on 8-Track was the peak, but here we all are.

The Yes Album (Rhino High Fidelity R2R)

Buy The Yes Album (Rhino High Fidelity R2R). Browse the vast selection of products available.

store.rhino.com

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 12h

Never seen it, but just read a plot summary. Good lord.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 13h

I was ten minutes into tonight's Sister Boniface Mysteries before I realised that not only was that Elaine C Smith guest starring, but also, a very, VERY distinguished Gordon Kennedy - somehow contriving to look more Scottish than any man has before or is ever likely to again. Love him.

Gordon Kennedy in Sister Boniface Mysteries - Are Ye Dancin'? Resplendently silver-haired, with a green pullover and a brown jacket on over the top. He's currently trying to explain that he's not about to sell the van full of whisky the police have just discovered on the side for a nice wee extra bit of cash. The police are trying to decide whether to run him in.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Birthday, Nicholas Parsons. A favourite moment from "A Bit of Fry and Laurie". www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Dj...

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

All of the "Barlow" novelisations have titles that make them sound like naughty fun.
The Barlow Casebook
Barlow In Charge
Barlow Comes To Judgement
Barlow Exposed
and god help us all,
Barlow Down Under

Any enthusiastic solo adventurers are likely to be disappointed, mind.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

You can close NORAD's International Barlow Tracker down now...

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

Aw, cheers! You're very kind.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you very much! Having a lovely day so far...

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

Aw, thank you very much! Lovely feller.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

I do this pretty much every single time I'm out. I also usually mutter something like "Rello Rogg!" at it. Sometimes they say it back.

ᗰIᑎᗪᒪEᔕ™️ @mindlesmandles.bsky.social · 1d

Just smiled at a dog.

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Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · 1d

Wonderful to see the Jackie archives appearing on the British Newspaper Archive so we can see which hot to trot hunks the teen girls of 1964 were moistly pinning to their walls.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

Besides, any man who could record "A Boy Named Sue" and "Chicken In Black" in the same career is just fine by me.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

I'd say Cash was *extraordinarily* cool - some of those images, those poses, they're immortal. The music - the hewn from granite singles, the Prison records, the American recordings - they all feed into it. No, I don't think he's in danger of being "uncool", any more than a granite mountainside is.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

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.

on.wsj.com

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

When you catch up with tonight's it'll be very obvious who within a very few minutes...

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

The sole surviving colour evidence of "The Coburn Factor" is an off-air VHS of episode 7. Unfortunately, someone's accidentally taped five minutes of "Spooner's Patch" over the middle of it.

Nonetheless, Network included it as an extra on the DVD release.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

My god. So his next job WAS in Cyber.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1d

Inevitable, I suppose.

Rishi Sunak hired by Microsoft and Anthropic as paid adviser

The former prime minister has been told not to lobby the UK government by the appointments watchdog.

www.bbc.co.uk

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

Getting quite worried about Taskmaster this season. Two contestants appear to be about to combust in pure fury....

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

I've wondered why The Borderers has disappeared so completely, but oh look, Coburn. That and I suppose the piecemeal survival rate. Half colour, half b/w isn't it?

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

And one after. Well after, but it was still after!

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

All four of the main cast of The Good Life got sitcoms of their own after the series finished. Some took longer to arrive than others, but they all got one. Sometimes more. I'd say at least three of them are top of the first division, premier level shows. That's a ridiculously high hit rate.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

A roadblock in the way of "One Better Day" and "Red Guitar". Mind you, it's right next to "Dance Me Up" and the less said about *that* the better.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

I occasionally remember "Susanna" and it makes me cross all over again. Of all the rotten songs I've ever heard in my life, that might be the rottenest.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

How odd. My response to that documentary was "oh, that'll be interesting! Nice to have that as a wee extra" or something like that. Apocalyptic anger? Not so much.

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 1d

You know what, it’s one of those days, have Cookie Monster kaiju again.

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