My new novel, DRUNK ON ALL YOUR STRANGE NEW WORDS, is out from on 28 June 2022. It's a locked room murder mystery about telepathic aliens, intoxication and cultural exchange. Links:
publishing.tor.com/drunkonallyour
barnesandnoble.com/w/drunk-on-all
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Scriptwriter & novelist. Welcome To Our Village Please Invade Carefully, Sarah & Duck, 2000AD, Doctor Who, etc. Rep'd by he/him
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I bought 's debut album after seeing him live on Friday night and I am very very into it:
Watched some of the excellent Fanny: The Right To Rock over lunch and I think more people need to know they fronted a campaign encouraging more British youngsters to drink tea
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Having an idea doesn’t make you a novelist any more than having some ingredients makes you a chef.
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I did complete the Rito Village blizzard quest yesterday, so feel I've earned the right to dick around for a bit
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Couldn't work out how to climb up to a shrine at the top of an icy rock so went to the nearest Skyview Tower and hopped across about a dozen sky islands so I could glide down to it. There was probably a much easier way of doing that but fuck it, it was very satisfying
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real rorschach test here: steely dan lovers are going to think "hell yeah this rules" while the haters will say, "see i told you this was mario kart-ass music"
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hacked my nintendo switch to make all the music in mario kart steely dan songs
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Short #BookReviews: A Smart Alien Murder Mystery #DrunkOnAllYourStrangeNewWorlds
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In fact I can tell from the date that copy of Loveless wasn't for me, as I already had one - it was for my then girlfriend, now wife, as her birthday was the next day. We'd only been going out for a month at that point
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The 12yo borrowed one of my books and found this receipt inside. That was a good day
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Harrison was actually deported from Germany in 1960 - and the band were deprived of their star guitarist.
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The Beatles - and George Harrison in particular actually had significant visa problems in Hamburg as any fan knows. But more to the point - how the fuck do you misspell "Beatles"
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The studios to the press: oh a strike is no problem for us. It helps us actually. Have fun out there
The studios in emails to writers: you need to get the fuck back to work right now or we're going to shoot this dog
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I had to do a speed awareness course and, as a famous actor, it was really humiliating…no one recognised me.
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Maybe the Conservatives might consider looking for a leader who can answer questions he doesn't want to answer without losing his rag at the impertinence of the oiks. Cameron and Johnson were also terrible at this.
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Grouchy Rishi Sunak gets annoyed at questions from TV reporters about Suella Braverman mirror.co.uk/news/politics/
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Having just binned an IKEA chest of drawers because all the drawers had irreparably buckled under the weight of the contents, I'm glad to see the replacement has these simple metal supports under each one. Do wish they'd thought of this ten years ago tho
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Reminder that and ’s new single ‘You Don’t Have To’ is out now, streaming everywhere, and available to buy from Bandcamp here - delesosimi.bandcamp.com/album/you-don-
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thinking about the guy who played BOB on "Twin Peaks" & how he was initially a set dresser... imagine showing up to work, wandering into a shot by accident & the boss is like "you are so scary & disgusting that this tv show is about you now"
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I have to say this has to be one of if not the biggest PR blunder I've ever seen any industry make.
What in God' name were they thinking about. "I know, our customers hate us so let's tell them we want to charge them an extra £10bn." WHAT?!
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I love Queer Eye but they urgently need training on neurodivergence because if I have to sit through them shaming one more very probably undiagnosed autistic person for not being able to eat vegetables or dressing for comfort I’m going to flip a table
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Fucking hell, Hendrix and Arthur Lee were talking about putting together a new group with Steve Winwood and Buddy Miles at the time Hendrix died.
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There's something quite heartening about that. He wasn't born with the ability to play face-melting guitar solos. He just worked at it.
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Terrific interview with Love's Johnny Echols in . Love his account of playing with Hendrix in 1964 and 1965 and saying he was "a so-so guitar player, a journeyman" and then being astonished in 1967 to find how shit-hot he'd become. He'd just practiced a lot.
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I interviewed Martin Amis for the last edition of Word magazine in 2012. My job was to get him to divulge lessons he’d learned in life. He was surprisingly attentive, kind, not what I expected. I bet these words washed past me then. They don’t now. (I turned 45 in April.)
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how many books do these people think I'm reading. why do they think I need the cheap white mass produced loaf of books in my life.
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gotta say, when someone advocating for AI describes the future with something resembling "human-written books won't disappear, they will be like artisanal bread" that legitimately sounds like a hellscape of the worst shit. Like it does not sound remotely appealing to me.
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So close to a 2, dammit!
Wordle 701 3/6
Line 1: 1st and 4th correct but in the wrong place.
Line 2: 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th perfect.
Line 3: Won!
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This Steve Coogan interview with this pull quote has been linked on the BBC Sport pages for literally about six months
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Potatoes got their name in French because of pommenative deterreminism
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So I got my dad a motorised pepper grinder, where all you have to do is tilt it and voila. He told me it's the best thing I've ever given him. For his 50th birthday I spent six months tracking down his childhood schoolmates, recording their memories and compiling a video package.
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New #DoctorWho colourisation: The TARDIS lands in the Wasteland outside the Colony in Lime Grove D on Saturday 4 March 1967 for Ep 1 of ‘The Macra Terror’.
Which means I’ve now colourised (at least!) one photo from every single b&w story!
Ko-fi tips: ko-fi.com/claytonhickman
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#OnThisDay 2003: The Boosh: Tundra - pilot episode for the Mighty Boosh series - debuted on . Noel Fielding and Julian Barrett spared a few minutes from the former's final day of his twenties to chat to Liquid News.
Catch the series on bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod
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As I get older I find it hard to take my own life too seriously but I find it harder everyday to understand why anyone, especially those with power, would expend energy on making other people’s lives more difficult… Just be and let others be too. Kindness is transformative.
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I once attached the wrong file to an email and, for about a week, the official image to illustrate a Lemn Sissay BBC series about fictional orphans and foster children was a photo of my own two actual children.
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After 20+ years in journalism, another first today. I ask a woman for a pic of her and husband for a story. She sends me it. I do interview. We print story. She texts me today to say: ‘That’s not my husband, I must have sent you wrong pic’. 
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The moment Blur finally appeared onstage together again. Tonight, a special night, in Colchester.
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Shat myself while out walking - pulled off my boxers and lightly buried them in a wood. A year or so later, a body was discovered in the same wood. Thinking my soiled kecks might be found as 'evidence', I went to the police station and explained. They're probably still laughing.
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Lancelot assumes a new name to help a damsel in distress! SIR LANCELOT (1957) 9:30am #WilliamRussell in 'Sir Crustabread' #TPTVsubtitles with guest star #PatrickTroughton
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