@charlieconnelly.bsky.social
Stage haunter, writer, Addick in Dundee. Attention All Shipping live show coming to a theatre near you as long as you're near a theatre where it's on.
@charlieconnelly.bsky.socialReposted by @charlieconnelly.bsky.socialIiiiiiit’s happening!
@100yearsagonews.bsky.socialReposted by @charlieconnelly.bsky.socialOct. 12, 1926: The smallest and the largest speakers at the Chicago Radio Show are exhibited by Miss Denver, Deloras Conrad.
@classicmoviehub.bsky.socialReposted by @charlieconnelly.bsky.socialBorn Today, October 12, in 1916 Lock Martin -12 roles but probably best remembered as the robot Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) :)
Did You Know? Before playing Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still, Lock Martin worked as a doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
#botd
@charlieconnelly.bsky.socialIiiiiiit’s happening!
@boschbot.bsky.socialReposted by @charlieconnelly.bsky.socialTemptation of St Anthony
@gralefrit.bsky.socialReposted by @charlieconnelly.bsky.socialYou can’t really understand yourself from your own choices. I suspect most of us don’t even know what those choices would be. We measure ourselves by our varied reactions to fixed culture. And we can discuss that between ourselves, to understand one another. Anything else is thick as mince.
@charlieconnelly.bsky.socialTonight’s show is in an actual cinema so my head has never been more ginormous.
@charlieconnelly.bsky.socialMysterious ways, or something.
@charlieconnelly.bsky.socialIn Beverley this morning saw a family of Hull City supporters in full amber and black regalia leaving the Minster. If they beat Everton this afternoon it’ll be down to divine prudence.
@bladeofthes.bsky.socialReposted by @charlieconnelly.bsky.socialSuella Braverman too proud for benefits... Went to university for free Studied in Europe using the heavily subsidised Erasmus program Claimed ALL her rent, energy, council tax bills for at least 5 years Millions of pounds in expenses claims She just doesn't call them benefits
@charlieconnelly.bsky.socialMe for two years of English A Level.
@100yearsagonews.bsky.socialReposted by @charlieconnelly.bsky.socialOct. 9, 1926: This is believed to be the shortest toll bridge in the world. The portable span over the Bude River at low tide in Cornwall, England, is operated by William Brinton (right), who asks pedestrians to chip in a penny when they cross.
@boschbot.bsky.socialReposted by @charlieconnelly.bsky.socialGarden of Earthly Delights
@nothingsmonstrd.bsky.socialReposted by @charlieconnelly.bsky.socialYOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s
@charlieconnelly.bsky.socialJust remembered the time I found this in the 1851 census for Greenwich. The enumerator must have knocked at an inconvenient time as he found the resident with “a common prostitute called Dandy Liza”. Relationship to head of household: “whore”, emphasised by suitably appalled squiggles.
@charlieconnelly.bsky.socialOverheard in Chester: “You can’t go wrong with a tea towel.”
@angusmain.bsky.socialReposted by @charlieconnelly.bsky.socialThe maddening thing is that the BBC can, uniquely, offer the opposite of AI algorithmic recommendation. We can get that anywhere. It’s not what people want. What’s missing is expert, human, curation. Knowledgable people you trust *telling you* that something’s worth watching. That’s what the BBC has
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@charlieconnelly.bsky.socialThis looks fantastic.
@wildtwin.bsky.socialReposted by @charlieconnelly.bsky.socialSix days left to listen to this Radio 4 series based on the Bayeux Tapestry I wrote with Simon Armitage in 2001. Simon wrote the kings, I wrote the soldiers and peasants.
