Colin Smith 💙 🇺🇦 #Xdissentersさんのイラストまとめ

So it's here, Ships Of Battlestar Galactica, & I get to read myself to sleep in its company, safe in the knowledge that at least one of the fantastical franchise fictions I loved as a 14 year old still retains all the absurd wonder that it once did, long ago. #onlyAdamacanjudgeme

Some of others I think I can work out. Is that p'haps @seanpphillips - it was his cover! - & @mccreaman? Then (2) Alan McKenzie & Graham Higgins, (3) Dave King, and is (4) Steve Pugh?

I wonder who Vicki was? I do genuinely hope she enjoyed the book.

This isn't how I expected to be spending my days in lockdown. Rather than missing the sport or obsessing over the news, I'm just working my way through a pile of classics that I'd put aside for a rainy day & feared I might never get around to. Small mercies,silver linings etc etc

I've posted the photo before. Forgive me. But then, it was a snapshot from a largely forgotten day. I've always been a touch dubious of the benefits of personal diaries & mundane personal details. But 'yesterday' soon becomes 'long ago', & I'm glad for the record now, 36 yrs on

Barely any mail in weeks & then the welcome subscription copies of @empiremagazine, @SFXmagazine & @MOJOmagazine all arrive with a thump. Hurrah! It's grand to have a pile'o'mags to read. One more lockdown afternoon instantly transformed into something to look forward to.

A new ritual of ours that really helps: at 3pm, whenever possible, we stop for an episode of a classic serial together. We've just finished 1979's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - which is still wonderful - & start 1982's Smiley's People today. Alec Guinness: so breathtakingly good.

There doesn't seem to be anything these things have in common. But I fell in love with all of them, & I'm still just as in love with them now. So much that I thought would stay with me hasn't. But time never tarnishes Seurat & Battlestar Galactica, John Peel & David Low. (2/3)

St Francis and the Birds, Stanley Spencer, 1935.

Portrait of the painter Karl Zakovsek, by Egon Schiele, c.1910

And so to lunch, in the company of the recent Chrononauts: Futureshock mini-series ...