Ged Parsons

Writer. Painstaking eye for detial.

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@pikesley72015 @Brian_number_1 @eggforbread @prodnose

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@For_Film_Fans Oh, and his performatively-strapped right knee.

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@For_Film_Fans Superb film/novel. Back then, most 'fan' football shirts didn't have numbers on. Not all the kids here even have a 'proper' shirt, and of those that do, none has a number on. It's a telling detail as to the PE teacher's mindset, as is his kit's dazzling 'freshly-laundered' look.

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@kevinhunterday Anything happening in the football, Kev?

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@ancientmarinade As both a Boro and Antonioni fan, I've seen this whole thing Blow-Up out of all proportion.

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@mjsimpsonfilms The B-52s - their work already had a 'party' feel, and this release made it more so ...
https://t.co/wSuVmdh3QB

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@sjmawhinney @DrMatthewSweet @spectator 2/2 Now, from distance, it looks like a handle's there, but it's entirely non-functional, a mere trompe-l'œil. Eventually all three drawers lose both handles. 6 fakes of 2 pieces each, 12 in all. Flat, illusory. We had to open the drawers by using the breadknife like a crowbar.

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@sjmawhinney @DrMatthewSweet @spectator 1/2 An example. A handle snaps off a drawer on a cheap chest-of-drawers. Dad cuts out 2 'cross'-shaped pieces of Fablon, the space in the centre of a 2 x 2 pattern of circles. Each Fablon cross is then stuck over the handle screw-holes on face of drawer, positioned side by side.

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@sjmawhinney @DrMatthewSweet @spectator Yes. My dad used a lot of Fablon to 'enhance' many surfaces in our 1970s council house. It didn't work.
https://t.co/AMTqwtV66p

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@IrkthePurists If only there were some calendars we could use to plan this.

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Terrible goals conceded in the Champions League game #AtleticoMadrid v. #Spurs, because players keep slipping on the pitch, for some unknown reason. I blame this guy Griezmann.

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2/2
He really didn't enjoy that Super Bowl Halftime Show, did he?

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1/2
"Spain has been terrible. In fact, I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain. Spain actually said that we can't use their bases. And that's all right. We could use their base if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody's going to tell us not to use it."

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@mralistairgreen Love your work, sir.
Here's a Paddington / Werner Herzog mash-up you might enjoy, that I wrote for Jon Holmes' 'The Skewer' on Radio Four. It also ended up here, in the 'film' version. Starts at 5' 25" ...
https://t.co/ehrn0yIkw6

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@TheSimonEvans Woo, and indeed, -hoo! Look what I just found.
By the way, Burgess himself pronounces it 'Sta-ja' (with two short 'a's, almost like 'badger'). Anyway, it's brilliant to hear this ...
https://t.co/l1eno4n0tc

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@TheSimonEvans I just finished reading his 2-volume autobiography. Frequently astonishing. I read 'A Clockwork Orange' at about 14-15 (Alex's age). My edition didn't have the Nadsat glossary, which is as Burgess intended.

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@ConfessionsPete @BurghillGirl @oldtvprograms @HeyHeyDerekFaye @Croft_comHQ https://t.co/HKdzXgmLc4

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@JulianDutton1 Like Viv Jones earlier, I also thought the guy in full profile on the left is Victor Spinetti. His hairline and ear-lobe shape (useful identifying elements) seem to match this photo (signed 1967, but could be a bit earlier).

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@TheSimonEvans https://t.co/w7iw4znObT

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@TheSimonEvans The painter was dismissed today.
We paid him off and put him away.
He'd drawn us true to life and then,
He'd just refused to do it again.

For we were not amused at all
To see a painting on the wall,
Which clearly showed what fools were we
To jealously guard a pedigree.