Mark Patterson

He/him. Musician, translator, nerd. English exile in the icy wilds of Norway. Drinks a lot of tea. Man-hating feminazi, or so I've been told. Rarely on Twitter.

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

@FroodMultiple @TheWhoDivision @empiremagazine Well, "terrible writer" is subjective, so can't really be argued with. But the sheer range of shows he's created over the years objectively disproves "no original ideas", and "take all the credit" is an odd take on an interview where he's literally crediting the original story.

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

@DavidLFC_Vought @wenbbilliams He wrote a few DWM strips at the start of his career because the magazine needed writers who would work for very low pay, and he needed the work/writing experience. He's mentioned it occasionally since, only because fans/interviewers keep on asking him about it. Seems fair to me.

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

@stephenmarmo @DefDylan The tour started up again in Osaka last night - same setlist as previous legs, but with a new drummer and, reportedly, new arrangements of I Contain Multitudes and...ummm...one other R&RW song I can't remember right now.

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

@BebopJosh @shaun_vids But...like...that's the point. He isn't real. He was only "wrong about how he resolved them" because the writer(s) made him do those things - in (arguably) a way that felt lazy and contrived. That happens more often than can easily be written off as coincidence.

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

@DefDylan I was at the concert, can (sadly) confirm that this is false information :-( Wish it were true, but there was nothing of the sort. Concert was still superb, though, some early first-night shakiness and the static setlist notwithstanding.

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

Jesse Watters sort of accidentally predicted the exact type of classified material the FBI and DOJ were looking for in Mar-a-Lago when he said,

"Garland better find the nuclear football in there."

This was at about 7PM EST. Who wants to tell him?

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

Who the hell is Axel Lunden?

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

@LizMcKinnell Hello :-)

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

@ElSandifer Any argument that "it was a different era" falls apart completely when you realise that TVOntario refused to air the whole serial even at the time, expressly because of the racism. It'd be a pathetic argument even without that context, but that detail renders it laughable.

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

@PaperPlatePete @ElSandifer Understandable suggestion, but having rewatched Deadwood very recently indeed, his death serves a substantial narrative purpose - one of the major plot strands of the first season, with consequences extending all the way to the very end, depends on it.

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

'The Great Rock and Roll Swindle' should totally have been called 'Never Mind the Sex Pistols, Here's the Bollocks'.

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

Yes. https://t.co/hzjm4SE28A

[TechnicallyRon (On all the platforms) @TechnicallyRon]

LEAKED: First look at the Justice League script

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

I'm quite sure I'm not the only one who'd pay a lot for a touchscreen phone with a satisfyingly physical "hang up in a fit of rage" button.

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

Millennials: a word for when you want to tell young people to get off your damn lawn, but are too embarrassed to actually say "young people"

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

Outside of a few rhetorical/land management contexts, fire is, in fact, a quite remarkably counterproductive weapon with which to fight fire

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

Oh, that's right, I have a twitter account. Some day, the number of tweets not about the Twilight saga may even exceed those about it.

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

@Schwwatzy @lizbth_geeks
4) Goodnight :-)

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

@Schwwatzy @lizbth_geeks
3) I have to get up for work in 4 and a half hours. I was asleep. I love you both dearly, but PLEASE STOP NOW

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

@Schwwatzy @lizbth_geeks
2) but instead I'm going to turn my phone off because it's driving me up the bastard wall.

[Mark Patterson @groucho_mark]

@Schwwatzy @lizbth_geeks @king_magu
1) Just FYI, my phone has started notifying me every time you tweet at me. I would try to figure out why