Yes! The Book of Dust volume 3 is out in October!

The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three a book by Philip Pullman and Christopher Wormell.

Finally!

Ah, my Letterboxd post finally made it. Just a lag in the feed handling, I suppose.

My Latest Letterboxd post hasn’t synced to Micro.blog (and hence my blog), and I can’t get iCloud photos to sync to my Mac. Or not all of them yet, at least.

Everything’s not quite working. Maybe it’s the heat. 31°C here in London at the moment.

A fortnight in Canada, a long weekend camping in Somerset, and a couple of days back at work. Couple of film notes and now a Crucial Track. Off we go, then, with a Summer of Blogging.

(Or not, let’s wait and see.)

Out of the park, RTD. Out of the fuckin park.

I just hope he can bring it home next week.

What is this archaic nonsense? Seems the only way we can vote for Eurovision in the UK is by making a phone call! What century is this?

Well, I’m not doing it. Iceland will have to do without my vote.

I wonder what they call VE Day in Germany?

Kind of hard to believe, now, the one on the left would go on to lead Britain’s worst (or maybe best) spies. Still with fag in hand, mind you. I wonder if Gary Oldman smokes.

A crop from the cover of the ‘Sid & Nancy’ soundtrack album, showing Gary Oldham and Chloe Webb as the titular characters.

I still don’t understand why AI gives me such a visceral negative reaction.

The intellectual reasons for concern are well known.

But right now, I just wish apps would stop adding AI and trying to tell me it’s great. I’m looking at you Raycast, but you’re just the most recent culprit.

Wordle 1,407 2/6*

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I must say, I’d’ve been very disappointed if I hadn’t got this one, but I haven’t often got it in two.