Matt
@mattip108.bsky.social
Old Punk. Movie Geek. Sport. Comedy. My life in 6 words.
Bachelor Party is not on TV enough. An underrated comedy gem, with an early Tom Hanks performance and Adrian Zmed. Yes, Adrian Zmed!
May 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Bachelor Party is not on TV enough. An underrated comedy gem, with an early Tom Hanks performance and Adrian Zmed. Yes, Adrian Zmed!
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A thread of notes I've made in my notebook about my dad:
1. The Swimming Pool.
1. The Swimming Pool.
April 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
A thread of notes I've made in my notebook about my dad:
1. The Swimming Pool.
1. The Swimming Pool.
Hello @bsky.app , I have some spare time, and need a podcast to listen to. Crime, music, films, arts and culture. Nothing that's ongoing, just Something I can listen ton8n a few hours. All suggestions welcomed.
April 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Hello @bsky.app , I have some spare time, and need a podcast to listen to. Crime, music, films, arts and culture. Nothing that's ongoing, just Something I can listen ton8n a few hours. All suggestions welcomed.
Just offered my wife a Ferrero Rocher. She actually took one, well she took two, truth be told. We've been married for 20 years. I don't see us lasting much longer.
February 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Just offered my wife a Ferrero Rocher. She actually took one, well she took two, truth be told. We've been married for 20 years. I don't see us lasting much longer.
@aniaur.bsky.social Happy Christmas from my lot to yours!
December 25, 2024 at 10:57 AM
@aniaur.bsky.social Happy Christmas from my lot to yours!
I just don't understand social media. I write one post every couple of weeks, and it never gets any engagement. I'm loathe to move to a once a week schedule, as that reeks of desperation and a certain narcissism.
December 23, 2024 at 1:07 PM
I just don't understand social media. I write one post every couple of weeks, and it never gets any engagement. I'm loathe to move to a once a week schedule, as that reeks of desperation and a certain narcissism.
This #TotvLiv game is going the same way that a lot of my #FootballManger matches turn out.
December 22, 2024 at 6:13 PM
This #TotvLiv game is going the same way that a lot of my #FootballManger matches turn out.
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If you don't think Substack is important or a good thing for writers (or even if you do), please read this: substack.com/@tomcox/note...
Tom Cox on Substack
Publishing is a tough world. Anyone who’s written books knows that. I went the conventional way for many years: putting books out via mainstream publishers, doing what I thought I was supposed to do, ...
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December 19, 2024 at 11:37 AM
If you don't think Substack is important or a good thing for writers (or even if you do), please read this: substack.com/@tomcox/note...
My Rose has left me
I'm in a mood
She's gone to Kenya
With the bloke from Allied Carpets
I'm in a mood
She's gone to Kenya
With the bloke from Allied Carpets
December 14, 2024 at 7:28 PM
My Rose has left me
I'm in a mood
She's gone to Kenya
With the bloke from Allied Carpets
I'm in a mood
She's gone to Kenya
With the bloke from Allied Carpets
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In case anyone is still struggling to find a Christmas present for that special person in their life who enjoys shortish novels about childhood, mining, robots, alpacas, aliens, education, magic and the lost countryside of the Nearly North, I hear this is ok.
www.amazon.co.uk/1983-Tom-Cox...
www.amazon.co.uk/1983-Tom-Cox...
December 14, 2024 at 9:25 AM
In case anyone is still struggling to find a Christmas present for that special person in their life who enjoys shortish novels about childhood, mining, robots, alpacas, aliens, education, magic and the lost countryside of the Nearly North, I hear this is ok.
www.amazon.co.uk/1983-Tom-Cox...
www.amazon.co.uk/1983-Tom-Cox...
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Just on the off chance you're still looking for the right psychedelic novel to buy someone this Christmas. Especially if they're into earth magic, teenage warrior queens, talking hills, weird lost folk records & irascible rivers teeming with the voices of dead souls
www.amazon.co.uk/Villager-Tom...
www.amazon.co.uk/Villager-Tom...
December 12, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Just on the off chance you're still looking for the right psychedelic novel to buy someone this Christmas. Especially if they're into earth magic, teenage warrior queens, talking hills, weird lost folk records & irascible rivers teeming with the voices of dead souls
www.amazon.co.uk/Villager-Tom...
www.amazon.co.uk/Villager-Tom...
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Some new original art my mum is selling in her Etsy Shop
(Link can be found in the piece below.)
tomcox.substack.com/p/the-magic-...
(Link can be found in the piece below.)
tomcox.substack.com/p/the-magic-...
December 12, 2024 at 8:07 AM
Some new original art my mum is selling in her Etsy Shop
(Link can be found in the piece below.)
tomcox.substack.com/p/the-magic-...
(Link can be found in the piece below.)
tomcox.substack.com/p/the-magic-...
The anticipation moments before a punk gig.
December 11, 2024 at 8:21 PM
The anticipation moments before a punk gig.
Can't wait to see these in Nottingham tonight. It's my second punk gig with my 18 year old son.
youtube.com/watch?v=8aWh...
youtube.com/watch?v=8aWh...
youtube.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Can't wait to see these in Nottingham tonight. It's my second punk gig with my 18 year old son.
youtube.com/watch?v=8aWh...
youtube.com/watch?v=8aWh...
Off to Nottingham Rock City tonight to see Me First And The Gimmee Gimmee's, for the second time. Different line up to last time. It's going to slam! #punk #LiveMusic
December 11, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Off to Nottingham Rock City tonight to see Me First And The Gimmee Gimmee's, for the second time. Different line up to last time. It's going to slam! #punk #LiveMusic
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There is an incredible essay by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on
imprisonment & the meaning of freedom in the FT Edit app today. She writes about what books meant to her during that time in Iran, and how taking away a person’s ability to think herself away to a different place is a form of torture.
imprisonment & the meaning of freedom in the FT Edit app today. She writes about what books meant to her during that time in Iran, and how taking away a person’s ability to think herself away to a different place is a form of torture.
December 8, 2024 at 9:41 AM
There is an incredible essay by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on
imprisonment & the meaning of freedom in the FT Edit app today. She writes about what books meant to her during that time in Iran, and how taking away a person’s ability to think herself away to a different place is a form of torture.
imprisonment & the meaning of freedom in the FT Edit app today. She writes about what books meant to her during that time in Iran, and how taking away a person’s ability to think herself away to a different place is a form of torture.
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There is no greater compliment for an author than being asked to sign a book that is just WRECKED. Binding cracked. Pages curled. Finger grooves in the edges. A book that has been read to death, and is still a prized possession.
December 7, 2024 at 11:40 PM
There is no greater compliment for an author than being asked to sign a book that is just WRECKED. Binding cracked. Pages curled. Finger grooves in the edges. A book that has been read to death, and is still a prized possession.
Go and buy it then!
It’s come to my attention that quite a lot of people don’t know I published a novel earlier this year (my second). It’s quite silly but a tiny bit serious too, and is about - amongst other subjects - the East Midlands, aliens, childhood, mining, education and alpacas. I had great fun writing it.
December 7, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Go and buy it then!
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This is a book that's been frequently dismissed by people who only read its first 1/4 and thought it was a different book to the one it actually is.
So it's especially nice when a true, passionate reader - who's also a great writer - properly gets it
thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2024/08/14/1...
So it's especially nice when a true, passionate reader - who's also a great writer - properly gets it
thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2024/08/14/1...
1983
1983. The year of breakfast telly, the afternoon kids’ tv slot being rebranded Children’s ITV, Thatcher’s Tories winning a second general election by a landslide, the Little Miss …
thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:10 AM
This is a book that's been frequently dismissed by people who only read its first 1/4 and thought it was a different book to the one it actually is.
So it's especially nice when a true, passionate reader - who's also a great writer - properly gets it
thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2024/08/14/1...
So it's especially nice when a true, passionate reader - who's also a great writer - properly gets it
thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2024/08/14/1...
Solving a problem that doesn't exist. A laundrette in a supermarket car park.
December 5, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Solving a problem that doesn't exist. A laundrette in a supermarket car park.