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arratoon, to random
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Spam caller, ‘Chris’, trying to wheedle money out of me, presumably: “Customers are saying they’re having problems with their phone network. Are you having any?”
Me: “Yes, I am.”
‘Chris’: “What sort of problems?”
Me: “A screaming sound.”
‘Chris’: “Erm…?”
Me, getting into my stride: “Yes, whenever I try to make a call there’s a screaming sound. I think my phone might be haunted. By a ghost, maybe a spectre, possibly a wraith…”
‘Chris’: “ ¿”
Me, flying now: “I took my phone to a priest and he confirmed that it’s definitely haunted. I think it’s by the spirit of the little girl who was killed in a bombing raid in the 1940s…”
‘Chris’: hangs up

arratoon,
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@mothninja Thank you. I figure the longer I can keep them listening to my drivel the less time they have to con people out of their savings.

arratoon,
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@emmaaum I defeated one a couple of weeks ago by being INCREDIBLY ENTHUSIASTIC about everything he said, heh heh

arratoon, to random
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Bloke on the train blasting a TV show from his phone. I tap his shoulder and ask: “Could you turn it up, I missed a bit?” Twat.

franciscawrites, to movies
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Can you name a film that was adapted not from a novel, but from a short story?
Here's one:

The Illusionist (2006)

#writingcommunity @bookstodon #moviesandbooks #film #AdaptedFromaBook

arratoon,
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@franciscawrites @bookstodon El Sur/ The South by Adelaida Garcia Morales was made into a film of the same name by her then husband, Victor Erice. OK, technically it’s a novella, but at 50 pages I’ve read longer short stories. I actually started reading the novella last night, because I love the film, but finances were pulled from the movie production before the final third could be made, and I’ve always longed to find out what happened.

#films #Movies

arratoon,
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@franciscawrites @bookstodon Claire Keegan’s Foster was filmed as The Quiet Girl/An Cailín Ciúin (2022), and was a magnificent film. Her So Late in the Day is being filmed currently, I believe, and will star Cillian Murphy. Both novellas are less than 100 pages.

reginasbread, to random
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Internet this morning is 50% met gala and 50% Rafah. the result is heart-wrenching. I don't know how other people's brains digest it. I'm angry, heartbroken, and ashamed.

arratoon,
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@reginasbread 0% Ukraine. 0% Congo. 0% Chad. etc etc

stefan, to cycling
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Folks who do , what are your favorite locations/routes?

https://support.zwift.com/en_us/zwift-worlds-and-cycling-routes-rk3PMBUht

arratoon,
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@stefan Depends what I’m looking for. For ready Z2 rides I like Desert Flats. For a good up-and-down 30-minute workout I like the Richmond course. Innsbruck is a favourite too.

CultureDesk, (edited ) to books
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"The pile beside my bed never shrinks; at the bottom of the stack are books I've been planning to crack open for months. My shelves remain full of lingering aspirations," writes the Walrus's Michelle Cyca. She looks at the problem of unread books, and the difficulty in offloading our libraries. What do you do with your unwanted books?

https://flip.it/aLVxC5

@bookstodon #Books #Reading #Libraries #Literature

arratoon,
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@CultureDesk @bookstodon New hardbacks that I know I won’t read again I put on eBay. Other ones I give to friends or donate to a local book stall that sells them for charity. I have a cull once a year or so.

arratoon, to movies
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Somebody - I’ve never really got on with Miranda July’s films but this short for the Miu Miu Women’s Series is fun and enjoyable. Maybe I’ll give her features a go again. Any recommendations?

House of Tolerance - I started this months ago and got sidetracked but watched it again when it popped up on MUBI. Adele Haenel stars in this look at the lives of women in a French brothel from their point of view. It looks great, yes, but is full of searing rage and despair. In the US it was called House of Pleasure, when, mostly for the women in the film, their indentured lives are full of anything but pleasure.

Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster - A dry, droll Turkish film about your young people in the country, all of whom we see crying alone, as they face hardships. It’s funny, though; think Roy Andersson or Ali Kaurismäki.

Challengers - The trailer made me think I’d hate this film but I read lots of reviews praising it, and went in open-minded and hopeful. First off, Zendaya is good. But the characters are inanely one-dimensional, it jumps around all over the place, Trent Reznor’s techno drowns out the dialogue, and the ‘shock’ ending is telegraphed miles out. And worst of all it’s just boring. The first hour would have been a spinning-newspaper headline in a 1930s film. And it’s got tennis in it. Ha, to make the tennis interesting Guadagnino uses every cliché, making it look like the camera’s in the ball, sticking a GoPro on the racquet, and those scenes end up being laughable. TL:DR I didn’t like it.

arratoon,
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@Alice Thanks. And I see John Hawkes is in it, which is always a plus.

arratoon,
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@Alice Yes, I think the performative whimsy is what’s put me off her but I’m always willing to give people/things a second chance. Not in real life of course; don’t do what you’ll say you’ll do and you are dead to me.

arratoon, to books
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Book 30, 2024: Dark Lustre, fifth instalment - Roy Wilkinson

The penultimate volume of this story sees Tommy Quantox dice with death at Berchtesgaden, while The Countess Marie-José de la Barre d’Erquelines Hextet play a gig with Die Leeren Dosen, a four-strong female band that perform instrumental versions of Can songs. @bookstodon

buffyleigh, to random
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Do I like Styx or do I not like Styx?

arratoon,
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@buffyleigh Amazed you didn’t make this a poll but I’m going to guess in the affirmative

reginasbread, to random
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I watched a thing with Joanna Lumley. she said:
"Ours is the first generation that doesn't know what to do with its hair as you get older. in the older days, you would go gray and just get it permed (...) Now, with modern things you can do and maybe the vanity, people like me are stuck trying to look like I looked in the 1960s because you don't know another way to look. I don't know how to look old. I mean, I look old, I am old, but I don't know how to accomplish oldness."
hah, interesting

arratoon,
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@reginasbread I shared a box with her at the Albert Hall in London at a Cirque du Soleil show.

arratoon, to books
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Book 27, 2024: Hunter in Huskvarna - Sara Stridsberg
Short-story collection by Swedish writer. I picked this up on a whim in a bookshop’s closing-down sale, and I’m glad I did. Many of the stories are in different styles, demonstrating her versatility. It’s great to discover a new writer whose work you want to explore further. @bookstadon

reginasbread, to random
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English speaking person: pigeon
English speaking person with a Polish accent: pidżon

arratoon,
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@reginasbread Haha. Now do ‘squirrel’! 😉

arratoon, to london
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Went to the Biba exhibition at the Museum of Fashion and Textiles in London. #London #fashion #Biba #clothes #museums

A collection of Biba dresses. Because of tax laws, in the 1960s some dresses were sold as ‘dressing gowns’.
A bright orange top and shorts.
A brightly coloured blouse

arratoon,
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Barbara Hulanicki started life as a fashion illustrator, and her work was really impressive

Illustration of a woman, in white on black paper
Illustration of a woman wearing a black vest top with a long skirt
Illustration of a woman wearing a diaphanous dress, with large sequins on the sleeves

Alice, to random
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I like being chubby because that leaves my skeleton open to the imagination.

arratoon,
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@Alice Taunts you with a photograph of my knees…

arratoon, to books
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Book 27, 2024: Your Love is Not Good by Johanna Hedva. Best book I’ve read this year, this incendiary novel follows an artist who becomes obsessed with a model, builds a career, fucks up their career, reflects on trauma, whiteness, Berlin, kink, dogs… So good.

@bookstadon

reginasbread, to random
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day 1 of wearing Mitsouko.
right after spraying, it gives rich old woman because the initial powdery notes are similar to Chanel no. 5. they have similar notes, but Mitsouko is much warmer and spicier.

arratoon,
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@reginasbread I was once working in an office in London during a disgustingly hot sticky summer. No air con. I nipped to the loo and sprayed myself with a Penhaligon’s lime cologne. When I got back my colleague sniffed the air, and said, approvingly: “Good idea; insect repellent.”

arratoon, to random
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Me, two drinks in, picking up my phone for an evening on Mastodon

Emathion, to random German
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Sir Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinov, CBE, FRSA würde heute seinen 103. Geburtstag feiern.

arratoon,
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@NatureMC @Emathion FRSA means he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

arratoon,
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@NatureMC @Emathion Ustinov was one of the great raconteurs who would often be on UK TV when I was a child, just talking marvellously. Kenneth Williams could be relied upon for that too.

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