Zombie

some creatures just look like a mishmash of body parts

I messed up editing my post, mistakenly creating this new post instead which I can’t delete So here’s a bonus post - a fascinating and weirdly beautiful version of Prelude #1in C major from Book 1 of JS Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Bach is famous not just for his music, but also his compositional technique, reversing + inverting phrases throughout many of his works. This is an entire piece (the prelude) that’s been ‘inverted’ by American composer, Andrey Stolyarov. Although turning the music ‘upside down’ keeps the same rhythm, it changes the key from C major into a diminished minor and creates something very surprising, completely different in sound, mysterious and wonderful. You’ll want to play it again!

TV companies sometimes commission surprisingly good quality original compositions for their shows. This is Jim Parker’s Agnus Dei, a short but beautiful piece written for the second episode of ITV’s popular police detective series Midsomer Murders, Death Of A Hollow Man, first shown in 1998 Edit: silly zombie - Agnus not Angus!

ditto

Just skimmed this story + comments on my iPad and not an ad in sight. Zero, zilch nada Maybe an issue with your device / browser / settings? iPad 6, iOS 16.6, Safari

Aww, sweet. The favourite gay trope - a chance meeting… And Matt was super cute 💕

I have no experience of drug use so I cannot begin to understand what you and your body are going through, but know that others on this site care about you and your daily ordeal with drugs. Please keep us updated.

interesting 2018 paper on the chaotic orbit of this ‘sometime minimoon’ https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/473/3/2939/4265379#

codeysworld.com produces a very scary message Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

yeah, bad name choice needs something to hook your interest at seven am maybe Brad or Seth perhaps Skip better still, Everard…

Surely that’s the nub of this lively discussion and it applies equally to use of the vernacular Barry Hines’s novel, A Kestrel For A Knave, simply would not have worked had it been written in ‘standard English’. He just had to write the dialogue in the dialect of those working class Barnsley mining communities in order to bring to life, on the page, the characters and their living conditions. The book sold well internationally, and I doubt most Americans would have difficulty understanding passages like this: “Billy lay with his back to him, listening. Then he turned his cheek slightly from the pillow. 'Jud?' 'What?' 'Tha'd better get up.' No answer. 'Alarm's gone off tha knows.' 'Think I don't know?' He pulled the blankets tighter and drilled his head into the pillow. They both lay still. 'Jud?' 'What?' 'Tha'll be late.' 'O, shut it.' 'Clock's not fast tha knows.' 'I said SHUT IT.' He swung his fists under the blankets and thumped Billy in the kidneys. 'Gi'o'er! That hurts!' 'Well shut it then.' 'I'll tell my mam on thi.' Jud swung again. Billy scuffled away to the cold at the edge of the bed, sobbing.” Poor Billy. It’s a hard story of a hard life For the same reason, Irvine Welsh wrote most of Trainspotting in the Scottish dialect ‘Scots’ (more than half the chapters are completely in Scots, and 17 are a mix of English and Scots) that outside Scotland can be challenging, but it’s sold more than 1m within the UK and in other countries: "Ah'll huv tae stoap sayin' 'ken' sae much. These dudes might think ah'm a sortay pleb." "The lager's loupin. Seems tae huv gone dead flat, ken. Tastes like fuckin pish." "zit-encrusted squeaky-voiced wankers playing oot a miserable pretension tae the arts" I’m sure there are plenty of examples of state-based American fiction which might be challenging in other states, never mind internationally, but they still sell.

Good night, sleep tight! 💕

I was never into Playboy too much writing and not enough boys

cute little butt

@Slytherin https://gayauthors.org/forums/topic/44932-make-us-laugh-2/?do=findComment&comment=1193695

the penguin’s evil twin taunting another little kid

We need to have a talk… …about who’s boss around here.

OMG!

interesting that Michael Cimino (Victor) and George Sear (Benji) decided they didn’t need or want an Intimacy Coordinator

I created a new thread and reported this problem in the ‘Help’ forum (‘Embedded YouTube changed’) last November but at that time no-one else had reported the same problem, so it was suggested it might be a YT playlist issue. It would be good if you could add a comment to that thread (link below) about the YT that displayed on your device (I used the ‘Quote’ button) because there may be an issue with the forum software / YT interface

sorry, I can’t watch films with this trope. I just can’t

‘Intimacy Coordinators’….?

one good thing about being a penguin is they don’t get lumbago er, that’s it…

Every UK citizen is bound by this Act (or Acts) and if you “sign(ed) the Official Secrets Act” back then it may well have been a brief guide to what the Act is about in order to confirm your awareness, as part of your employment contract paperwork. But things were done differently then, and what’s left of “the Post Office” is now just a government owned commercial business providing a counter service (mostly franchised) for parcels / special delivery, with basic banking and other bits and pieces. So the OSA is no more of an issue than it would be for any other public service company employee, and certainly no excuse for not speaking out against the catalogue of egregious crimes that the company senior management seem to have committed. More importantly, the OSA does not protect anyone from disregarding the justice system. As ever the difficulty with any large organisation (and, in this case, the large turnover of directors and CEOs over 25 years) is pinning responsibility onto individual senior managers, but there’s now so much audit trail evidence emerging that it seems very likely that several CEOs, directors and lawyers will be prosecuted for serious crimes including conspiracy to pervert the course of justice (which carries a maximum life sentence) and, if convicted, could get long prison sentences. Those innocent postmasters/mistresses ruined and killed deserve nothing less.

What’s unusual here is the timescale, almost 30 years from the 1995 beta software launch (with the same problems reported almost immediately) until now. And there’s been nearly 15 years regular media reporting since 2009. The problem here wasn’t lack of media attention but people losing the plot - literally - because the story had unravelled so slowly, in dribs and drabs, and over such a long period that no-one could see the whole horrific narrative and get excited by it. Streaming companies might have all the money, but they wouldn’t have made this (expensive 4 hours quality drama and a likely ‘niche’ audience). Fortunately a traditional TV company, ITV, took a gamble and was prepared to take a hit. But they didn’t take a hit, they made one. And we’re still only half way through the story…