Matthew Surridge
@bookofdays.bsky.social
Writer of short stories at the Book of Days project: https://www.patreon.com/BookOfDays
Writer of other things at other places, too, sometimes. He/him.
Writer of other things at other places, too, sometimes. He/him.
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The Nazi's were just mad because two Jewish youngsters had performed the cleanest cultural heist in history.
The Übermensch had become Superman and was not a tool of the Nazis but a protector of the people. An immigrant. Suggesting power exists to serve the powerless.
#NothingUpMySleeve #Presto
The Übermensch had become Superman and was not a tool of the Nazis but a protector of the people. An immigrant. Suggesting power exists to serve the powerless.
#NothingUpMySleeve #Presto
December 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The Nazi's were just mad because two Jewish youngsters had performed the cleanest cultural heist in history.
The Übermensch had become Superman and was not a tool of the Nazis but a protector of the people. An immigrant. Suggesting power exists to serve the powerless.
#NothingUpMySleeve #Presto
The Übermensch had become Superman and was not a tool of the Nazis but a protector of the people. An immigrant. Suggesting power exists to serve the powerless.
#NothingUpMySleeve #Presto
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I did a test to see if I could remember all the Roman numerals, but I forgot 1, 1000, 51, 6 and 500.
IM LIVID!
IM LIVID!
December 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I did a test to see if I could remember all the Roman numerals, but I forgot 1, 1000, 51, 6 and 500.
IM LIVID!
IM LIVID!
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That time of year again!
December 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
That time of year again!
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I am not a fan of Christmas caroling, but we’re all gonna sing this one. A-one an’ a-two an’ a-three…
December 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I am not a fan of Christmas caroling, but we’re all gonna sing this one. A-one an’ a-two an’ a-three…
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it is hidden away behind its vast outworks, like the innermost citadel within the amplified fortifications of Quebec
December 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
it is hidden away behind its vast outworks, like the innermost citadel within the amplified fortifications of Quebec
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Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans
December 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans
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Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.
December 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.
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COOPER: Harry, I know who did it.
TRUMAN: Enlighten me.
COOPER: Miss Scarlett.
TRUMAN (smiling): In one ending, sure. But—
COOPER: But in the second, it was Mrs. Peacock.
TRUMAN: Ok, but—
COOPER: In the third you'll find it was everyone save Mr. Green, an agent of the Bureau.
TRUMAN: ...
LUCY: Wow.
TRUMAN: Enlighten me.
COOPER: Miss Scarlett.
TRUMAN (smiling): In one ending, sure. But—
COOPER: But in the second, it was Mrs. Peacock.
TRUMAN: Ok, but—
COOPER: In the third you'll find it was everyone save Mr. Green, an agent of the Bureau.
TRUMAN: ...
LUCY: Wow.
December 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
COOPER: Harry, I know who did it.
TRUMAN: Enlighten me.
COOPER: Miss Scarlett.
TRUMAN (smiling): In one ending, sure. But—
COOPER: But in the second, it was Mrs. Peacock.
TRUMAN: Ok, but—
COOPER: In the third you'll find it was everyone save Mr. Green, an agent of the Bureau.
TRUMAN: ...
LUCY: Wow.
TRUMAN: Enlighten me.
COOPER: Miss Scarlett.
TRUMAN (smiling): In one ending, sure. But—
COOPER: But in the second, it was Mrs. Peacock.
TRUMAN: Ok, but—
COOPER: In the third you'll find it was everyone save Mr. Green, an agent of the Bureau.
TRUMAN: ...
LUCY: Wow.
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Lo, Hrodulf the red-nosed reindeer –
That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils!
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in Anglo Saxon meter:
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1359368...
That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils!
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in Anglo Saxon meter:
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1359368...
December 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Lo, Hrodulf the red-nosed reindeer –
That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils!
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in Anglo Saxon meter:
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1359368...
That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils!
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in Anglo Saxon meter:
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1359368...
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[breathing a sigh of relief as I carefully remove the poison, hammer, Geiger counter, and radioactive source before helping Tiny Tim out of the box]
December 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
[breathing a sigh of relief as I carefully remove the poison, hammer, Geiger counter, and radioactive source before helping Tiny Tim out of the box]
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"New Media." Begins life as the black-magic lantern, ends it as sinister, post-truth enshittification
December 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
"New Media." Begins life as the black-magic lantern, ends it as sinister, post-truth enshittification
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Tintin magazine, dated December 25, 1947.
December 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Tintin magazine, dated December 25, 1947.
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Christmas Eve is a lot like Canadiens Stanley Cups. 24th is fun but everyone's waiting for the 25th. Happy and safe holidays everyone.
December 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Christmas Eve is a lot like Canadiens Stanley Cups. 24th is fun but everyone's waiting for the 25th. Happy and safe holidays everyone.
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Excellent pun, no notes.
December 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Excellent pun, no notes.
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Welcome to the resistance *checks notes* Global TV?
December 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Welcome to the resistance *checks notes* Global TV?
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One year later Allan Blye, Winnipeg-born executive producer of The Smothers Comedy Hour, became CTV's most prolific in-house producer.
Six years later David Steinberg hosted his own program on CTV featuring five unknown actors: John Candy, Martin Short, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin.
Six years later David Steinberg hosted his own program on CTV featuring five unknown actors: John Candy, Martin Short, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin.
December 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
One year later Allan Blye, Winnipeg-born executive producer of The Smothers Comedy Hour, became CTV's most prolific in-house producer.
Six years later David Steinberg hosted his own program on CTV featuring five unknown actors: John Candy, Martin Short, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin.
Six years later David Steinberg hosted his own program on CTV featuring five unknown actors: John Candy, Martin Short, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin.
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1969.
CBS pulled the final Smothers Brothers episode featuring David Steinberg, but it aired without controversy on CTV in Canada.
Tommy Smothers flew to Toronto and invited the media to watch it on CTV in his Yorkville hotel room.
Read all about it in my new book, to be released in Nov 2026.
CBS pulled the final Smothers Brothers episode featuring David Steinberg, but it aired without controversy on CTV in Canada.
Tommy Smothers flew to Toronto and invited the media to watch it on CTV in his Yorkville hotel room.
Read all about it in my new book, to be released in Nov 2026.
December 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
1969.
CBS pulled the final Smothers Brothers episode featuring David Steinberg, but it aired without controversy on CTV in Canada.
Tommy Smothers flew to Toronto and invited the media to watch it on CTV in his Yorkville hotel room.
Read all about it in my new book, to be released in Nov 2026.
CBS pulled the final Smothers Brothers episode featuring David Steinberg, but it aired without controversy on CTV in Canada.
Tommy Smothers flew to Toronto and invited the media to watch it on CTV in his Yorkville hotel room.
Read all about it in my new book, to be released in Nov 2026.
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if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now
December 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
if bari weiss had tried to do 9/11 there'd be three towers now
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Ah yes, that would be cutting-edge research on new swear words
At the Vatican Library reading room, it was sunny, but there was suddenly a huge thunderclap & downpour out of nowhere. 2 priests in black robes & 4 men in white lab coats rushed through the room suddenly & vanished. 2 min later the clouds parted & there was a perfect beam of sunlight & a rainbow⚡️🙏🌈
December 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Ah yes, that would be cutting-edge research on new swear words
Fascinating thread (he said as somebody whose ancestry has been traced back to William Pynchon).
1. So I have a few thoughts on "heritage Americans," Nathanial Hawthorne, witch-hunting, Thomas Pynchon, Calvinism, strange feuds, the Daughters of the American Revolution, FDR, the moral responsibilities of nationalism & (I guess) Jack Kirby.
December 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Fascinating thread (he said as somebody whose ancestry has been traced back to William Pynchon).
My last movie of this year’s Solstice Movie Marathon is a 1965 British kids' film directed by Gordon Flemyng. It follows a young man named Ian (who has an extensive line in pratfalls and bumping into things) who is courting a lady named Barbara; and her grandfather is a scientist named Dr. Who.
December 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
My last movie of this year’s Solstice Movie Marathon is a 1965 British kids' film directed by Gordon Flemyng. It follows a young man named Ian (who has an extensive line in pratfalls and bumping into things) who is courting a lady named Barbara; and her grandfather is a scientist named Dr. Who.
The tenth feature film of my marathon was Phil Tucker’s 1953 slice of science-fictional weirdness Robot Monster. A dream sequence frames a vision of a future in which Ro-Man, an alien in the shape of a gorilla with a diving helmet for a head, has used cosmic rays to kill all but 8 people on Earth.
December 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The tenth feature film of my marathon was Phil Tucker’s 1953 slice of science-fictional weirdness Robot Monster. A dream sequence frames a vision of a future in which Ro-Man, an alien in the shape of a gorilla with a diving helmet for a head, has used cosmic rays to kill all but 8 people on Earth.
Feature film number 9 tonight came from Mali: Cheick Oumar Sissoko’s 1995 film Guimba, the Tyrant. In the past of what's now Mali, a strongman named Guimba is in power, and tries to force a marriage between his son and the woman his son wants — who's already married. Conflict ensues.
December 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Feature film number 9 tonight came from Mali: Cheick Oumar Sissoko’s 1995 film Guimba, the Tyrant. In the past of what's now Mali, a strongman named Guimba is in power, and tries to force a marriage between his son and the woman his son wants — who's already married. Conflict ensues.