James Cooray Smith

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Freelance Writer. Highgate Dad. Bit Desi. Uxorious. Tired. You won’t know me from DWM and that. Once had a hit tweet about a scumbag & maggot who taped over Taggart. Now has a Doctor Who Deep Dive Newsletter. https://buttondown.email/cooray_smith

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Jefferson Davis Vance, but he’s named after Boss Hogg from The Dukes of Hazzard.

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Brand new on Dirty Feed: the penultimate part of my End of an Era stock footage investigations. This time: PUNK! "And boys, I believe you like swearwords?" www.dirtyfeed.org/2024/07/dave...

One of son’s class is dressed as the Scarlet Spider today. There’s a reasonable chance that at least one of *his parents* wasn’t born during the Clone Saga.

Jefferson Davis Vance, but he’s named after Boss Hogg from The Dukes of Hazzard.

Fixed it.

Has led to the weird sight of Spanish subs warming up to the sound of Joe Biden talking about a secret service review of Trump’s protection, tho.

BBC1 picture, Radio 5 sound. The connoisseur’s choice.

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When I go out to eat with my wife, if I think the food is not worth what we paid, I steal a spoon.

Millions of men on social media on a hair trigger, waiting for a fluffed sitter by someone in tonight’s #euro2024 final, all desperate to do the “second biggest miss this weekend” gag first.

Anything to avoid spending a whole weekend in Clacton, I suppose.

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Passed the Conservative Club in Swaffham today.

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"dammit virgil why you gotta hang them fellers so goddamn sexy"

Even more bored of this Trump story than the usual ones now. Move along. Move along.

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All aired in the last week on 4 Extra, all returned from private collectors, and we get to hear them all. Hartley's The Go Between, Wyndham's Trouble With Lichen, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Du Maurier's House on the Strand, Hampton's The Philanthropist. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Hidden Treasures - Available nowwww.bbc.co.uk Available episodes of Hidden Treasures

In a directory of GPs from 1980.

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Men only want one thing* and it’s disgusting**. * for the transmission version of Day of the Daleks to be on iPlayer. ** that the dvd “special edition” version is on there instead.

Yeah, everyone has already done all the reactions and Bluesky isn’t really for news stuff, but I was asleep, and I don’t do twitter. Back to nudging @jonnymorris.bsky.social to re-watch Day of the Daleks.

Now there are going to be people going around pretending Trump deserves to live. That’ll be tiresome.

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I expect a clampdown on roof ownership

Better luck next time, America.

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“There’s no place in America for this sort of violence”, because if there’s one thing America is known for around the world it’s the lack of gun violence.

Men only want one thing* and it’s disgusting**. * for the transmission version of Day of the Daleks to be on iPlayer. ** that the dvd “special edition” version is on there instead.

Hero.

I stay in the same hotel a few times a month, I've got a spreadsheet of rooms I've stayed in previous and always request a different one. Just so I can switch off the stupid Smooth Motion settings on all of the TV's so people can watch things how they were intended to be viewed.

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This remains the meme I have most felt at a bone-deep level.

I once saw something on a Wikipedia page, thought “That’s an interesting interpretation!” followed the link to the citation and it was a book I’d written.

I just saw a quote and was thinking, "Wow, that's a great quote" only to realize it was a quote from one of my novels. 😬

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Think the highlight was noticing the Montrose sub forward - an 18 year old - had a perm AND mullet. He’s a moustache away from playing for a German side in the 1980s.

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Three Lions on a shirt, Mr T’s still gleaming….

I love this programme. But I have met pretty much every person to whom it could possibly appeal, and have the personal phone numbers of a not insignificant percentage of them.

It's a real shame that no one remembers 'Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible', because - after Partridge - it's the funniest thing Steve Coogan's done. One of the great BBC Two comedies.

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It's a real shame that no one remembers 'Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible', because - after Partridge - it's the funniest thing Steve Coogan's done. One of the great BBC Two comedies.