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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 18h

Someone once remarked that Nina must have heard Glenn Gould and now when I hear the solo in “baby just cares for me”, all I can hear is his Goldbergs.

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 1d

BritVPN is a Chrome extension that will get you right into your iPlayer. Works like a charm.

adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 1d

...starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, it seems

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 2d

my first X-Men comic, my first John Byrne comic. I had no idea what was going on and loved every minute of it.
@reaky.bsky.social

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 4d

So say we all. Louis is still my Dracula.

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 6d

different era but Sinatra pretty much created the idea of a themed or concept album, in the 50's when he was on Capital Records.

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 7d

How is the blue bit only 50%?

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 7d

Stephanie Sinclair and Sara Sinclair's "You Were Made for This World" tops this weeks Top 10 Canadian Books for Young Readers chart, and Sophie Escabasse's latest in her Witches of Brooklyn series is at 9.

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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 7d

What a woman!
I'll always remember this heartwarming goodbye hug when she brought the chimp back to his home in the jungle.

May you rest in peace, Jane Goodall 💔

#RIPjaneGoodall

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 7d

great to see you Jill!

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 7d

Tonight, let's all follow Jane Goodall's nightly ritual: watch the sun set, with a glass of good scotch and a passion to leave the world a better place than how we found it. (Illustration by the great Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social )

Matthew Dow Smith's illustration of a young Jane Goodall, holding binoculars and sitting, smiling, on a rock in the jungle, surrounded by monkeys

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 10d

nah, Orson's greatest humiliation is "I Know What It Is To Be Young (But You Don't Know What It Is To Be Old)" and no i won't link to and you're welcome.

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 11d

Finally - the internet IS useful after all!

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 11d

do all the Doge get to wear that cool hat, and where do i apply

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 11d

if you’re at Word on Street today, check out the these fab (& exclusive to the festival) mini comics by Howie Shia, Kiki Hamazaki, Sandra Dumais @sandradumais.bsky.social and Rosena Fung @rosenafung.bsky.social at the Annick Press booth. Brilliant idea by Annick’s comics editor Serah-Marie McMahon.

adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 14d

i once heard that, pre-Bewitched, Elizabeth Montgomery modelled for a reference book of facial expressions that lots of artists in the 60's used, and thats why so many female faces in advertising and comics of that era look like... Elizabeth Montgomery. Can anyone confirm or deny?

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 14d

tbf haven't seen it since it's first release but there's a couple of images/scenes that have stuck with me: "I'll give you the life of the mind"; John Goodman walking through the flames; meeting W. P. Mayhew/William Faulkner in the bathroom; the studio boss getting fitted for his uniform. so.. yeah?

adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 14d

despite what he says, it's the only movie that gives me that Barton Fink feeling.

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 14d

heard him play with John Martyn in the mid 80's and his sound was like nothing else - alien and funky all at once!

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 15d

but thats before "the floods come, and this is a lake"

adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 15d

*ahem* "Tory by birth, Labour by experience".

adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 21d

never thought of that, thats fascinating! (Love seeing the white-out on Terry Austins work. He uses it for effects too. It's very cool)

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 21d

oooh, i fancy the Samnee's, good shout there. The Byrne X-Men is fab, but it actually made me appreciate Terry Austin more. Honestly, he should have a title credit - his work is amazing.

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 22d

i'm in: John Byrne X-Men and Batman Year One, sitting on me bookcase in East York, Toronto. (And next time you're in town PJ, c'mon over. Kettles always on.)

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adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social · 22d

but wait - you just said "thanks for being Daredevil". Does that mean... Matt Murdock is Daredevil?

Need to speak to Ben Urich...

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