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🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 7h

There’s a moment in Ozzy: No Escape from Now where they’re rehearsing ‘Mama, I’m Coming Home’ for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Jelly Roll isn’t there to rehearse the vocals, so they’re just doing the instrumental, and Ozzy, with Jack Black sitting next to him, starts singing, and I got real weepy.

🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 7h

You know things are bad for Kevin Costner when he has to turn to Saudi Arabia to fund the sequels to Horizon, and even they're not fully willing to provide the amounts of money he's seeking.

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🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 16h

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🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 1d

Tron: Ares is going to be a complete blink-and-you-miss-it film. I guarantee in a year from now people will be saying, ‘They made a third Tron movie?’

🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 1d

Robin Williams didn’t want Disney using his unused Genie outtakes to the point he put it in his will, so he DEFINITELY wouldn’t want his likeness used like this.

Robin Williams’ Daughter Tells Fans to ‘Stop Sending Me AI Videos of Dad’: It’s ‘Gross’ and ‘Not What He’d Want’

Zelda Williams tells fans not to send her AI recreations of father Robin Williams, calling them "gross."

variety.com

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🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 1d

I’m going to put my head above the parapet and say that it’s impressive how aggressively mediocre the new Taylor Swift album is, and that it’s borderline offensive that she’s tried to do Sabrina Carpenter when lacking the charisma and wit to pull it off.

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🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 1d

Well, this promises to be a gentle and emotionally rich experience, with hopefully some surprising bops!

‘Steven Universe’ Creator Rebecca Sugar Set for Animated Feature From Annapurna, Moomin Characters (EXCLUSIVE)

'Steven Universe’ creator Rebecca Sugar to write and direct Moomins animated feature for Annapurna.

variety.com

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🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 1d

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Major Spoilers @majorspoilers.bsky.social · 2d

The next installment of the Asterix series from Papercutz finds Asterix and Obelix in Lusitania. @papercutzgn.bsky.social

majorspoilers.com/2025/10/06/a...

Asterix heads to Lusitania — Major Spoilers — Comic Book Reviews, News, Previews, and Podcasts

The next installment of the Asterix series from Papercutz finds Asterix and Obelix in Lusitania.

majorspoilers.com

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🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 2d

🚨New Dorkout drop🚨

To help you on your Monday commute, or to keep you company on the loo while you deal with that curry and six pints of Stella you had last night, we’re introducing our new Top 7 listicle.

This week is about comic book video games NOT about superheroes.

#Nostalgia #VideoGames

Top 7… Comic Book Games That Couldn’t Care Less About Superheroes

Turns out, you don’t need spandex or a tragic origin story to make a killer game.

open.substack.com

🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 2d

Monday

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 3d

OMG Charles Schultz foresaw the rise of YouTube and Tiktok way back in 1989

A panel from a 1989 Peanuts strip in which a girl on a doorstep tells Linus and Snoopy: "I NEVER READ ANYTHING!! IF IT ISN'T ON VIDEO, FORGET IT!!!"

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🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 New Dorkout drop 🚨

This is it, the definitive version of my ranking of the Ernest movies.

#Filmsky

KnowhutImean? The Definitive Ranking of the Ernest Films

From saving Christmas to battling trolls, Ernest P. Worrell bumbled through it all and we’re here to sort the classics from the curiosities.

open.substack.com

🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 5d

Exquisite.

🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 5d

Sleep well, Queen.

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🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 5d

“I’m here at ground zero. Don’t worry, I don’t mean the New York tourist attraction.”

I think How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) and I are going to be fast friends.

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🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 5d

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🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 6d

The DC Comics x AEW announcement got me thinking about Marvel’s WCW comics from the ‘90s.

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🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 6d

Thursday

🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 6d

In addition to continuing to avoid politics, Jimmy Fallon plans to maintain his longstanding policy of not doing anything that might make the viewers laugh.

🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 7d

Wednesday

🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 8d

30th September ➡️ 1st October

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 8d

#ThingsIJustSawOnline #StarTrek

Trekker Things •
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These weren't nearly as pleasant-smelling as the Six Million Dollar man urinal cakes. Spock's scent was similar to the Incredible Hulk's though, and that was a good one.
I used to love to pee on those.

(The picture is a package for Star Trek Urinal Cakes. To boldly go, &c. &c.)

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🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 8d

For a man who left the Labour Party expecting some kind of North Korean-esque outpouring of grief at the act, turning up to the Labour conference is a bit attention-seeking, not going to lie.

'Absolutely pathetic': Owen Jones 'kicked out of Labour Party conference'

Owen Jones has claimed he has been kicked out of the Labour Party conference.

www.thenational.scot

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🎃 Gary West 🎃 @snodwicktarnish.bsky.social · 8d

When this comes out it’ll be almost 20 years to the day of the first one. Jesus.

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