Month: September 2025

Dalek tripper?

Going through my download folder, I was reminded that I grabbed this off Bluesky a few months ago… two of my favourite 1960s British pop culture icons together? Amazing. But today I suddenly had an attack  of “oh no, what if this is actually a Photoshop job or, worse, AI?”; I couldn’t imagine why someone would do such a thing, but at the same time it also feels like the exact sort of thing someone would do… So, quick research ensued, and lo, this bloody thing is apparently authentic; apparently it was taken at the Cannes Film Festival, the Fabs had just finished making Help! so they had a film to promote… and so did Milton Subotsky, that being Dr. Who and the Daleks, the big screen version of a certain BBC show that I suppose Amicus/Aaru thought they should make a film of while it was still popular and before it faded from TV screens, never to be remembered again… So yeah, evidently a Dalek did have a close encounter with Lennon, at least; both films came out within a few weeks of each other, too. I just wonder now who the guy lurking ominously to the back and left of the photo is…

Steven Patrick calls it off again

Oh look, it’s Morrissey cancelling shows again! Who’d have ever thought? This time, though, he apparently has a good excuse:

Morrissey has cancelled two shows in the US over a “credible threat on his life”, according to his official Facebook page.
The former Smiths singer, 66, was due to appear at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, on Friday night, and at MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston, Massachusetts, on Saturday.
But a statement posted on his Facebook account on Friday evening said: “In recent days, there has been a credible threat on Morrissey’s life. Out of an abundance of caution for the safety of both the artist and audience, tonight’s engagement at Foxwoods has been cancelled. We appreciate your understanding.”
A second post said both the shows had been cancelled due to “recent events and out of an abundance of caution for the safety of both the artist and band”. […]
Earlier this week a 26-year-old man from Ottawa, Canada, was released on bail after allegedly threatening to kill Morrissey at his performance in the city.
The man is accused of issuing a threat against Morrissey on Bluesky on 4 September, the Ottawa Citizen reported, citing court documents.
According to the news outlet, a post on the social media platform read: “Steven Patrick Morrissey when you perform at TD Place here in Ottawa next week on the evening of September 12th, 2025 at about 9pm, I will be present at the venue in the audience and I will attempt to shoot you many times and kill you with a very large gun that I own illegally.”

I’m not sure what difference the legality of the very large gun makes here, and I just find that a very odd statement. But, as the article also notes, the Ottawa show went ahead as normal, unlike these other two shows he’s pulled out of. Is Moz just full of shit, or was the American threat more credible than the Canadian one? Admittedly I feel like he’s more likely to be the quarry (sorry) in the US than in Canada, because, let’s face it, America, but still… Anyway, I think if someone really wanted to hurt SPM, they’d do it by going up to him and rubbing a steak in his face…

History repeating

Wonder how long those guys remained “Aryan” after this…

There’s been a LOT of this going around, so much so I’m just leaving this Guardian link here cos I don’t want to go over it all. Jimmy Kimmel has just been the highest profile target, by virtue of him having a TV show and all that… and if you doubted Stephen Colbert’s cancellation had some political motivation, there’s no doubt in this case, since the network was essentially threatened by the chair of the FCC:

The decision came hours after Brendan Carr, chair of broadcast regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), threatened to act against ABC and its parent company Disney over the remarks.
In his monologue on Monday, Kimmel said the “Maga gang” was “desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them” and of trying to “score political points from it”.
Mr Carr said Kimmel was “appearing to directly mislead the American public”. Kimmel has not yet commented. […]
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr, a Trump appointee, told the Benny Show, a conservative podcast.
“These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
Hours later, Nexstar Media, one of the biggest owners of TV stations in the US, said it would not air Kimmel’s show “for the foreseeable future”.
Nexstar called his remarks about Kirk “offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse”.
Mr Carr thanked Nexstar “for doing the right thing” and said he hoped other broadcasters would follow its lead. Nexstar is currently seeking FCC approval for its planned $6.2bn (£4.5bn) merger with Tegna.

Which I’m sure has nothing to do with their promptness to haul Kimmel off the air. The thing is, the latter said nothing about Kirk himself at all. Tyler Robinson, the suspected shooter in the incident, actually seems to be something of an enigma, in that I don’t think anyone’s actually been able to confirm where he’s at politically and thus determine motive; if the right have been trying to smear the left with him, I haven’t yet been convinced by the people on our side insisting he’s a groyper. (I know I was sniping at Nick Fuentes the other day about that, but I still need more evidence.)

I think, though, it’s pretty fair to say MAGA are trying to paint him as not of them, and it’s even fairer to say MAGA are exploiting him. In other words, this isn’t really about Kirk, it’s about the behaviour of the cult. And that’s really why he bothered them, I think. Cos what did he actually say that was wrong as such? What was misleading about it? No, it’s about the cult, and consequently about the cult leader:

You heard the man, the first amendment is dead, just like the Unhinged States itself. People who keep saying the US is “sliding into fascism” need to stop doing that, and acknowledge it’s already there. There’s no movement towards it, it’s long since taken up residence. Whatever ideas about freedom and so forth the US was founded upon are dead. And it’s only taken eight months. No wonder I didn’t write anything here for a couple of days, there’s been piss all in the discourse except that dead cunt and his Horst-Wesselisation… everything’s hideous to write about and I’m sick of it.

Hmmmmmmm… no

I’ve passed the point where I can even muster a basic platitude about murder being terrible. Rebecca Watson, it should be said, is correct in what she says at the end of this video: empathy really IS one of the best things about humanity. That’s exactly why mine is generally limited to those who actually deserve it, rather than, you know, THAT individual who didn’t believe it was even a thing. Fuck him. Remember I said the other day that I didn’t want him dead? I still don’t, because of how he’s being exploited in death by MAGA. Charlie himself I don’t give a fuck about. I’m done with all of these people. I’m done with this fucking world I live in. It’s like that right now.

RIP Robert Redford

And there goes another of the good ones. Of people that have died in Utah in the last few days, this is the one I’m most likely to mourn; Redford made an actual positive contribution with his work, variously as an actor, a director, and the guy behind Sundance which boosted the careers of so many others. 89 was a good innings, and he put it to good use. I find that much more worthy of memorialising than that other individual from last week.

I suppose that’s a cheaper solution…

Fox “News” hosts really hate people:

LAWRENCE JONES (FOX HOST):  We don’t have to — we feel so compassionate because you see the mental health crisis happening.
AINSLEY EARHARDT (FOX HOST): You just get — exactly.
JONES  But it’s not our job — we shouldn’t have to live in fear while they figure out what is going on right there.
EARHARDT: Right, right.
JONES: Put him in a mental institution, put him in a jail, and you guys figure it out. But people having to duck and dive on the trains and the buses, walking through the street, this is one case, but this is happening all across the country, and it’s not a money issue. They have given billions of dollars to mental health and the homeless population. A lot of them don’t want to take the programs, a lot of them don’t want to get the help that is necessary. You can’t give them a choice. Either you take the resources that we’re going to give you and — or you decide that you are going to be locked up in jail. That’s the way it has to be now.
BRIAN KILMEADE (FOX HOST): Or involuntary lethal injection.
JONES: Yeah.
KILMEADE : Or something. Just kill them.
EARHARDT: Yeah, Brian, why did it have to get to this point?

And she didn’t ask that question in the sense of “what the fuck is wrong with you, you psychotic cunt?”, which is the question a normal person would ask if someone said the homeless deserve death for doing bad things. (By “involuntary lethal injection”, no less. What an idea to just… you know, leap to.) But these are not normak people, these are Fox hosts, and Kilmeade is a particularly vile example. I wonder if he imagines this as a general solution to the homelessness problem… you know, can’t have homelessness without homeless people…

But remember: it’s left-wing rhetoric that causes violence in America. Obviously.