Spinky’s Mama

Cis is a category of woman. Trans is a category of woman. We have overlapping and unique experiences. And we have to stand together.

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Eric Bauza’s final film performance, as of right now, is Coyote VS ACME. Roadrunner’s testimony is one of his final character performances in the film. He says “Beep” around 46 times, that’s all he says. Yet it says everything about his strengths and passion as a voice actor, with just one word.

A brief look at two very different reviews of Doctor Who by the two very different men who reviewed it for The Spectator at the turn of the 1970s. Free to read on the site, but you can always pick up a free or paid subscription while you're there. buttondown.com/cooray_smith...

Obrigado, povo brasileiro! 📸 Ricardo Stuckert

I was married to @cooraysmith.bsky.social for 6 years before he revealed that he was forklift-certified. I was married to him for 8 years before he revealed he had played Robert Hubert (Rouen watchmaker who falsely confessed to starting the Great Fire of London) in a Channel 4 Schools programme.

Another reason to thank @gossjam.bsky.social After his talk, I got the privilege of getting to tell Stephen Wyatt how much I loved his stories when I was a child. He was so gracious- I’ll treasure that. #TargetBookDay

On my way to Target Book Club. If you’d like to say hello, I’m the small Desi woman with lots of chocolate 🍫.

Mine: Disney’s Aladdin. 9 yo: The Death of Stalin. (Baby Cinema is awesome)

S’good this. Does not include my suggestion that there’s a Dalek Supreme who bathes in white wine and mushrooms.

Despite wegottickets being down yesterday for *cough* reasons, someone still managed to buy a ticket so we've.... TEN TİCKETS LEFT for #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub on Saturday if you're feeling lucky, try buying one at bit.ly/smallbluebox

Come and see the mighty @cooraysmith.bsky.social on differences between Doctor Who on screen and Doctor Who on the page and why we’re richer for them.

Can you help #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub? BBC Books had organised a Target Book Shop but it's fallen through. Do you know a cuddly trader who'd like a free table to sell Dr Who books? Maybe old Targets like the market stalls of our childhood?

Looks at new Derek Jarman doc, "Queer Edward 2", plus "A Long Winter" & "La Bola Negra", from #LFF. First one free to read in on the site, second two behind the £1.00 a month paywall, along with our rapidly growing archive, and a promise of three pieces a month for the foreseeable. Check us out.

"Bonetta would go on to live a life of renown, becoming one of the most artistically represented and widely reported African women of her time. But she was never truly free." An extraordinary life: descendant welcomes biography of woman ‘gifted’ to Queen Victoria www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

I’m glad local MPs are speaking out about a Reform Councillor’s dating profile on a Nazi site, but given the seriousness I really hope that the phrasing is here is accidental.

I’ve done another guest post for the long running twinpeaksblog, looking at the neglected topic of the series’ UK viewing figures back in 1990 / 91. twinpeaksblog.com/2026/10/11/h... Free to read. Lots of other great stuff on that site too. Check it all out.

A Brian Blessed convention story from @cooraysmith.bsky.social In 1998, there was airtight secrecy for The Phantom Menace. He was asked about the film, and span a ridiculous yarn. On release: Jim realises that Blessed had given a completely accurate summary of the story *from Boss Nass’s POV*

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Accompanying 9 yo on his Ancient Greece school trip tomorrow. I’m intrigued by the British Museum’s choice of room number for ‘Greek Everyday Life’.

So, what can the censorship history of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the UK teach us about the GLC, and devolution of powers more generally? Amazingly, it’s not nothing. Free to read on patreon, with free & £1 a month subscription options when you’re there. #yousavedthepcc

BFI have updated the episodes (Children of Auron and Terminal) and guests (Jan Chappell, Richard Clifford and MichaelTroughton) for the Blake’s 7 screening on Halloween:

Just 19 TICKETS LEFT for #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub on Saturday 24th October. Buy yours at bit.ly/smallbluebox

Moving from a mixed state primary school to an all-girls private school, aged 7, in 1989. The cliques would probably have started by then anyway, but starting over with new people just compounded my sense of being thrown in at the deep end and being jeered at for not doing butterfly.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Pamela Nash: Primarily the cost of reusable transmission videotape.

Make a war film rubbish Full Metal Jacket Potato

Captain Kirk on watching Doctor Who’s grandchild.

We’ll have multiple pieces each week for the rest of October thanks to #lff #londonfilmfestival & #horroctober (h/t @princecharlescinema.com), with one film that qualifies for both. £1.00 a month for most of this stuff, with a free tier for a taste of it. #filmsky www.patreon.com/cw/MiddayMat...

Working on an AI Third Doctor fan-film and the results are uncanny.

Ruin a book by adding a word The Friend Zone of Interest The Cement Garden Gnome A Suitable Boy Band

“The Mondas Cyberman dog jumper can’t hurt you” The Mondas Cyberman dog jumper:

I am one (ONE) paid sub off a nice round number, so why not come in for £1 a month and make a happy man very old?

Read this to condemn/applaud a parrot even more diabolical than Iago.

Brother staying over for an early train, asks to be woken up. 9 yo offers to handle it. With a deafening cry of “HE’S GOING TO LOVE THIS” he: - Sets up flamenco music on his tablet. - Dances into brother’s room. - Yells “WAKE UP NOW PLEASE” - Dances out of the room. Brother is, indeed, awakened.

I want to see the Sam Raimi adaptation of this story.

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I would also like to add Justin Johnson’s priceless Brian Blessed story from the recording of the Cutaway Comics bonus commentary. BB is merrily TALKING when he stops dead- “OH SHIT! I FORGOT KENNETH BRANAGH’S COMING TO TEA!” Followed by a confused Sir Kenneth looming into view on the webcam…

If you’re interested in this first, may I recommend my wonderful husband’s wonderful post on @middaymatinees.bsky.social about the first film? bsky.app/profile/midd...

This is glorious. I’d usually extract a good quote, but it’s truly all killer, no filler.

“things you could have removed while you waited were your wallet, your stomach lining, your mind and your will to live. The muggers and pushers and pimps and hamburger salesmen, in no particular order, could arrange all these things for you.” Kings Cross as described by [checks notes] Douglas Adams

Never obvious despite herself. RIP.