Alan Trotter @alantrotter@mastodon.social

My colleagues dressed Sylvie up all French? Pictured here without the beret, but she did have one https://mastodon.social/media/_ldY8JLBqvAKSf1YgWk

My pride at getting into the top 75 of this game a little diminished by beating out someone called ‘Im2poopy’ https://mastodon.social/media/eoyYo-E-Px5MS3SKHC0

I’m ready to move into a house I own so please transfer me two hundred thousand pounds thank you

My book has a cover, designed by gray318. I’m proud as all punch. https://mastodon.social/media/fBKNKIbh-TsDtpoDC4U

Cheap electronics packaging continues to be good https://mastodon.social/media/5tYfwu56Zy9wzC5te90

I say this from the perspective of working in publishing (and it can therefore be readily dismissed as tedious work moaning) and not from being published (which has so far been nothing but a great experience)

I think maybe I hate everything about publishing apart from books

this is going to sound like a string of words that bounced drunkenly into my head as I fell into a coma, but Ace from the Powerpuff Girls has joined Gorillaz?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Q52cVx7Bo

Unexpectedly good packaging https://mastodon.social/media/Q7PCx3zRyp-sRk5HL20

Maybe this isn’t the place for stupid jokes but sometimes you think of a stupid joke and you need a way to slough it off

[Mafioso:] I’m telling you boys, something ain’t right. Any way we turn, the cops are two steps ahead of us. Someone ain’t what they seem. So who is it? Who’s a good boy? WHO’S A GOOD BOY??
[Undercover Officer Rusty:] *tail wagging uncontrollably*

Mobile phone https://mastodon.social/media/SkgchoHnLVttWjfBw1g

bits of story

I'm still adding things to my website which means re-exploring an old story with enforced extreme care.

We've been watching Brooklyn 99 and seeing two prominent black characters talk who aren't criminals really makes you realise how depressingly unusual that is on screen

Can we have an adjunct to the Bechdel Test that requires that:
1. There be two named black characters
2. Who have a conversation
3. About something other than committing a crime

And these tend to grow more ornate over the life of the podcast, until every episode begins with a 5 minute bit that needs to be carefully enacted before anything else can happen.

Which is particularly interesting in a medium that (without much commercial incentive or pressure) doesn't formally require much of anything. Any tv show or commercial radio programme will have both formal requirements and (almost as stringent) generic expectations to abide by, which will naturally lend it a feeling of constancy. Podcasts instead have to summon rituals (in order to be able to adhere to them, in order to feel familiar).