Got the Insider’s Guide to Inside No 9 book for Christmas and there are some hella cute pics of Reece in there😍😍😍
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Good Omens is up for an Award and YOU can vote for it!
The Comedy.co.uk Awards are an annual poll of tens of thousands of British comedy fans in which the best TV and radio comedy programmes of the last year are named.
Running since 2006, the awards provide an accurate gauge of the most loved modern British TV and radio comedies as every single programme is included in the nominations list (for our 2022 vote it was 379 different shows!), and the results are 100% based on the public vote. There is no biased jury or naive judging panel involved here - just comedy fans.
Good Omens is up for a TV Comedy Drama 2023 Award in the Comedy.co.uk Awards !
The other nominees are :
Boat Story
Brassic
Inside No 9
Sex Education (which is excellent and also deserves to win)
There She Goes
Good Omens won this category back in 2019, it also won the Comedy of the Year for 2019 too!
You can cast your vote to help ensure that your favourite duo has an angelic shot at winning by casting your vote !
To cast your vote for this and other categories (Our favourite Ghosts are up for a couple of Awards too)
Vote here https://www.comedy.co.uk/awards/2023/
Voting closes on Sunday 21st January 2024 at 23:59 GMT.
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Abusers’ responses to a possible breakup
Siege and Storm- Chapter 19
Ghosting, simmering and icing are colloquial terms that describe the practice of suddenly ending all communication and avoiding contact with another person without any apparent warning or explanation and ignoring any subsequent attempts to communicate.
... The term has also expanded to refer to similar practices among friends, family members, employers and businesses.
The most common cause of ghosting in a personal relationship is to avoid emotional discomfort in a relationship. A person ghosting typically has little acknowledgment of how it will make the other person feel. Ghosting is associated with negative mental health effects on the person on the receiving end and has been described by some mental health professionals as a passive-aggressive form of emotional abuse or cruelty.
But, but Mal DID tell Alina he's done with her! They had an argument!
One-sided, in which he didn't care about what SHE has to say. And once he has time to cool down, he proceeds with the method described above. If we're acting as if their co-dependence should be labelled relationship, decision to end it shouldn't be made by a single party during a temper tantrum with no input tolerated from the other side.
Not to mention they're supposed to be friends so close they're almost like a family. Do I need to write this isn't how you treat either?!
Pathetic. Of course he has to be regularly getting drunk and into fights. He's a manly man- how else would he express his emotions? What else would daily remind Alina, what she did to him?
Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men (Lundy Bancroft)
When hangover and beaten? Aren't we still pretending he's representing Alina?! That he's fit to PROTECT HER, when needed?!
And Malyen's punishment for her lack of enthusiasm works splendidly.
Alina's own issues already made her stay away from other Grisha, she's drowning in tasks she isn't qualified for, and Malyen's silent treatment isolates her further.
I'm sure it will make her realize how ungrateful she has been. How a little more effort on her part isn't such a terrible price for some company.
Perhaps now she would agree to that target practice.
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Best books you've read about 9/11/2001?
The books that come to mind immediately are:
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
Mitchell Zuckoff
(BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff
(BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
(BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
And, honestly, I think one of the best overall accounts of the events of September 11, 2001 is the government's actual report issued by the 9/11 Commission:
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
(BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
The report is available in the usual formats just like the other books, but since it's a government report, it's also in the public domain, so you can instantly download the entire thing for free.
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BOOKS OF 2022
Yes, you read correctly. I'm a ninny and forgot to post this last year so I'm posting it now so I can get all caught up. (2023's list is coming soon)
I got books on Inside No. 9 and Blake’s 7 (two of my favourite TV shows) plus a book about Alice in Wonderland (inspired by the V & A exhibition) and one about how Disney was inspired by rococo art (based on the exhibition that I think was held at the Wellcome but I could be wrong).
Also read Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen’s book, More More More which examined the art of maximalist interiors and Runway Bird by Irina Lazareanu which was sort of a style guide to being a rockstar’s girlfriend. I read Growing Up. Sex in the Sixties which looked at sex in society/popular culture at this time and Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall. I read Zoe Howe’s guide to witchcraft, Witchful Thinking plus Lisa Kroger + Melanie R. Anderson’s 2nd book, Toil and Trouble, which looks at notable women in the occult in America. Plus Dress Code by Veronique Hyland
Also managed to bag a copy of the book of Velour (the drag magazine) when I went to see Sasha Velour perform. I read And the Category Is by Ricky Tucker which examines the ballroom drag culture + voguing plus How You Get Famous by Nicole Pasulka which looked at the rise of some of the drag queens from the Brooklyn scene + the impact of Drag Race.
Read The Queer Bible which has various LGBT+ celebrities talking about the different people who inspired them and a couple of books which looked at the rise of lesbian popular culture in the early 2000s – The 2000s Made Me Gay by Grace Perry and Girls Can Kiss Now by Jill Gujowitz.
I don’t tend to read that many novels but I did read some really good ones this year – My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Yinka Where’s Your Husband? How to Kill Your Family and The Albion Initiative (the final part of the Newbury & Hobbes series of steampunk detective novels with an occult twist). And I finally managed to get round to reading Shuggie Bain (which I loved) as well as tracking down copies of The Elementals (Southern Gothic horror novel) and Interfictions (which contains the story about Nancy Spungen called Rats).
I read memoirs by Joan Collins + Esme Young (from Great British Sewing Bee) as well as an excellent biography on Jayne Mansfield called The Girl Couldn’t Help It and an oral history about Antony Bourdain called Bourdain.
I do tend to read a lot of music books. I read memoirs by Kid Congo Powers and Miki Berenyi plus Bodies by Ian Winwood (which looked at how the music industry affects mental health mixed in with his own story) and Exit Stage Left by Nick Duerden (which looked at what happened to a variety of stars after their fame dwindled). Also read Southend on Zine by Graham Burnett which was a history of fanzines in the Southend area which included interviews with a lot of the zine makers + touched on the history of alternative music/culture in the area.
One of my favourite books this year was Millenium Gothic by Dorian Bridges (known as of herbs and altars on YouTube) which deals with her growing up as a goth in the 00s but also deals with her mental health issues including anorexia and self harm. Another couple of favourite authors returned with second memoirs, Emma Forrest with Busy Being Free and Amy Liptrot with The Instant. Also Ione Gamble (who does the Polyester website + zine) wrote a brilliant book of essays called Poor Little Sick Girls which I highly recommend.
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