Actor. Author. Blue Box Boy.
Joined July 2014
- Tweets2.9K
- Following189
- Followers9.1K
- Likes465
Pinned Tweet
I'm pleased to say my short story collection Sugar has now been published. The book is available from the publisher whatnoise.co.uk/index.php/eb…
Matthew Waterhouse retweeted
I will now be on Bluesky @MatthewWaterhouse, where all the usual news and info will be findable! Hope to see you there!
I was set up already as @MinettaLane but that's being left to die and I'm using my name instead.
2/2
Farewell! This is my last post on X/Twitter. I'm hardly alone in feeling increasingly uncomfortable with it over the last several years, and now Musk has jumped the final ethical shark it's goodbye from me.
1/2
I will now be on Bluesky @MatthewWaterhouse, where all the usual news and info will be findable! Hope to see you there!
I was set up already as @MinettaLane but that's being left to die and I'm using my name instead.
2/2
As someone who loved Marvel comics as a boy, especially the art of Jack Kirby, for whose work I have a lingering affection, here's an amazing observation from the comedian and Guardian columnist Stewart Lee:
1/4
“We must drive all the foreigners back where they came from. We must show no mercy to those we hate,” he cries, in his purple hood, as his followers agree – “Long live the Hate-Monger. He’ll clean up this country for us!” –
3/4
I'm reminded of the biblical story that Jesus on the cross cried out, "Forgive them, father, for they know not what they do."
1/3
In Philip Jose Farmer's novella Riverworld, the reincarnated Jesus (all the characters in the Riverworld series are dead humans reincarnated) is crucified a second time and says, "Father, they do know what they're doing."
2/3
More from DICTATORS: "He often shirks the drabness of regular administration, so cannot shed repression. Grandiose schemes are not always completed. Histrionics, intuition, intrigue, propaganda, outbid tact, delegation, routine...
1/3
...He is like one who enjoys saying 'Mozart' but is bored by music. He seeks increasing despotism, spiritual and practical, for the miracle to ensure his fortunes forever. The most simple and enthralling is that of renewed violence, at home and abroad...
2/3
"He is welcomed by the rich as a restorer of order, by the mob for his sensationalism... Promising miracles, he slays the monster - street fights, inflation, political turmoil, demoralisation - takes the kingdom, initiates reforms, through force...
1/4
...With further miracles breathlessly expected he must continue, robbing people of their identity on pretence of restoring it, so that they need him, the permanent, indispensable rainmaker, as urgently as, drugged by his own glamour, he needs himself"...
3/4
At the strong recommendation of a friend we have been watching Heartstopper!! Just finished the second series. It really is a charming show, sweet and warm and generous.
There is something relaxing about a show where Charlie discovering he has a hickey counts as a major cliffhanger! But these small things really are major to a teenager.