Wonderful, Wonderful Worlds Colliding 🤗🇬🇧

Moi Say Moi back when I was making a few connections between the brilliant Extras and the brilliant Only Fools and Horses, and rather brilliantly mused as I do about Stephen Merchant, a very-much avowed superfan of OFAH:

I can't find a clip of it but I distinctly remember Merchant pretty much re-creating the Del Boy bar scene at a fitness center vending machine in a scene from his HBO series Hello Ladies.

SWEET, HORRIBLE VINDICATION people, via Stephen Merchant himself! Enjoy! And yes, you ARE welcome, Earf!! 

 

In America.

We live in an absurdly & terrifyingly over-policed state whose authoritarian thirst for cruelty will be pushed to its bounds by Trump so I generally don’t love bringing up the police in the first place but I would like to live in world that doesn’t include our having to chain down the rocking chairs outside Cracker Barrel. 

 

 

Presenting to You "A Haunting but Succinct Note from a Stranger", by Xmastime 😔

Insta du Jour

MUKLUKS: paintingsoflondon

 

A Note on Our President

One of Trump's many, many infantile Achilles heels is that even after being handed all of the cookies at the table but one, no matter how underserving he is in the first place, he can’t let that one go & inevitably that’s what unspools everything in the end, drowned out by his endless bitching & screeching about how unfair everything is except that instead of hi8m at some point being taught a lesson to just shut the fuck up and enjoy the cookies he was handed for no fucking reason, eventually someone gets tired of the whining & gives him the last cookie, therein setting off the same toddler Olympic game for the next time.

RIP Hal Williams

Hal Williams died yesterday; I don’t think I could’ve pulled his name out of my own head, but I also feel like when I was a kid the odds of him turning up on whatever tv show I was watching was always pretty high. You’d always feel good whenever he’d show up onscreen, and it’s a credit to him that someone like me could feel even a tiny bit of loss upon hearing of his death, which certainly makes him deserving of my generation in particular taking a minute to say thanks for always being such a positive presence in all our lives, even if from so far away.

XMASTIME FILMS

POPEYES, YOU'RE NOT FOOLING US WITH THIS BULLSHIT

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A Few Thoughts After Finally Watching the First Episode of the Final Season of THE BEAR

Damn I forgot how much I love Richie

Can I trust a show about chefs that fetishizes the McGriddle?

Do people really stand around under umbrellas in the pouring rain just chatting? In this century?

Questions. I Have Them.

Why don't we have assembly lines in water tanks so workers can float in warm water instead of standing on concrete all day, which would surely be much less punishing on their bodies over the years & therefore make them more productive?

BREAKING: Uber at Cracker Barrel

Trash Can Thoughts, by Xmastime

#2; in Other Words, I'm a Human Person on Planet Earth

Boomers Suck, Vol. LCVI

I've bitched about the Boomers being the worst generation in modern history for years & years now but I think kookyfook sums it all up very nicely here.

XMASTIME FILMS

HISTORY'S GREATEST "WHAT IFS?" WITH XMASTIME: How Could the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team's Historic Gold Medal Run Have Very Easily Gone Very, Very Differently?

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Life. It's Really Happening, Isn't It?

The other day somebody used the word "nonchalant" & I thought they said "Don Chalant" and I didn't hear a word they said after that because now I can't stop thinking there's no way there shouldn't be a supercool suave supersecret spy named "Don Chalant" (cool fedora included).

Xmastime Provides

An update to the age-old "bros before hos":

WANKS BEFORE SKANKS

Happy Bastille Day! 🤗🤗🕺🕺🇫🇷 🥐🇬🇧

HAPPY GRIZZADAY!

GrizzaDay (n) - July 13, the day between Mamalizza and Xmastime's birfdays. Also: an excuse to eat a whole ice cream cake guilt-free.

The inaugural in 2008!

The sequel in 2010!

Xmastime Quote du Jour

“The mass of men lead lives of being terrible at telling a goddam story.” - Xmastime

Why so Sad?