2020-09-02 09:00
Summer is gone and autumn is here. Here's another Insecure Writer's Support Group. You can sign up here.This month I learned that a book about The X-Files that I contributed to is… Read More
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2020-08-28 09:00
Good news has been in short supply of late.Outside In Trusts No One has gone to the printers Read More
2020-08-25 19:41
Second half of July 2020: Once we get past your homophobia + racism, the least offensive part of this tweet is the weirdestThe Master has always been derangedDespite a veneer of respectabil… Read More
2020-08-22 09:00
First half of July 2020: I just published Monkey Tennis: how #AlanPartridge singlehandedly created the TV landscape of today... https://t.co/r0wu0BwHV6 pic.twitter.com/dAEvipim42— Dav… Read More
2020-08-05 09:00
It's time for the Insecure Writer's Support Group again. You can sign up here. This time it's co-hosted by Susan Baury Rouchard, Nancy Gideon, Jennifer Lane, Jennifer Hawes, Chemist Ken and… Read More
2020-08-01 09:00
August 2010 on the Carruther's blog saw post on pests of the week five, six, seven, eight and nine.Of the other posts, I quite like this one and this one Read More
2020-07-28 09:00
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is obviously best known for its movies, but there have been an ever increasing number of television shows. There have been eleven, but Disney+ is set to change… Read More
2020-07-22 13:19
Following the success of Aliens, the Xenomorph made its insidious way into comics. Some were terrifying, some were gory, some were funny, all were distinctive.Marvel has recently taken… Read More
2020-07-19 09:00
Carleton In Lockdown has been released.I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the fifty villagers who took part and you for watching.We'd love to know what you think Read More
2020-07-16 09:00
Here's the trailer for Carleton In Lockdown:Please join us for our online premiere on Saturday 18th July at 7pm on either Facebook or YouTube. Please see the PMH Productions website for more… Read More
2020-07-14 12:52
The 'socially distanced documentary', Carleton In Lockdown, has a suitably socially distanced and virtual premiere this Saturday the 18th of June 2020 at 7pm, Greenwich Mean Time.It's due to… Read More
2020-07-12 09:00
June 2020 on the Twitter:Wow. It took a while for this tweet to come of age, but here we are... https://t.co/JOuII2apeZ— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) June 1, 2020I read this as James… Read More
2020-07-09 09:00
I've been making a concerted effort to publish some articles on Medium. I'm still new at this and working out how it ticks.Monkey Tennis?, about how Alan Partridge singlehandedly created the… Read More
2020-07-04 09:00
July 2010 saw the blog reach 800 posts. By now the photos were probably more important than the words which were becoming glibber and glibber. The Pest Of The Week posts were a real favourit… Read More
2020-07-01 09:00
Last month, I failed to write a proper Insecure Writer's Support Group post. Well, not this month. This month I attempt to atone for that. Sign up here.I have no more time, but I have manage… Read More
2020-06-25 09:00
After this post about Outside In Makes It So Supplemental which contain no work form me, I discovered that ATB Publishing had given away several pdf freebies before and that one of them did… Read More
2020-06-22 09:00
So the first project that I am working on with PMH Productions is called Carleton In Lockdown and it concerns how the North Yorkshire village of Carleton-In-Craven has been affected by coron… Read More
2020-06-19 09:00
ATB Publishing's book about Star Trek: Picard has been released as a pdf. Guaranteed no papercuts.Outside In Makes It So Supplemental features zero writing by me, but instead contains the wo… Read More
2020-06-16 09:00
May 2020 on Twitter:Nobody in this video understands social distancing at all. https://t.co/kSQtEGrwTq— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) May 2, 2020I wonder how you would say that in ger… Read More
2020-06-13 09:00
The Harry's Heroes piece appeared on BBC Look North's Evening News Broadcast as well Read More
2020-06-12 15:05
I recently took a job working for PMH Productions and we are in the midst of filming a documentary, more on that subject later.Footage from the documentary has been used this lunchtime on Lo… Read More
2020-06-04 09:54
The months are just flying by, aren't they?I literally have no time to write a decent post today. I'm looking after a nearly sixteen month old. He's frustrated. I'm frustrated. He's just eat… Read More
2020-06-03 09:00
June 2010 on the Carruthers blog. There was clearly nothing happening, so I created a number of posts using photos I'd taken in Bradford, including this one and this filth.And these photos o… Read More
2020-05-19 09:00
April 2020 on Twitter:Lockdown Day 9 - "Daffies"Just a nice bunch of daffodils!Follow/Like for daily uplifting landscape photography. pic.twitter.com/mNsea2DizK— Tom Holmes (@TomHolmes… Read More
2020-05-06 09:00
It's time for the Insecure Writer's Support Group again. You can sign up here.This month's co-hosts are Feather Stone, Beverly Stowe McClure, Mary Aalgaard, Kim Lajevardi and Chemist Ken. So… Read More
2020-05-03 09:00
May 2010 on the Carruthers blog was dominated by a game to see how many words could be made from the word, Carruthers. It turns out there are 404.I took a number of photos this month, includ… Read More
2020-04-19 09:00
I'm not in episode five of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, Religion, but I make a return in the last episode of the first series, Comedy.Somehow Stewart Lee managed to forge on without me for… Read More
2020-04-15 09:00
March 2020 on Twitter:Ah yes, the three genders. pic.twitter.com/WLEZg4H9ge— yeah ok (@poutinesmoothie) February 23, 2020Just watched a half a dozen live @CornershopHQ videos in succes… Read More
2020-04-10 09:00
Another day, another episode of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle. This time it's episode four, Global Financial Crisis, I have a more substantial role in this one. I speak actual words.I am that… Read More
2020-04-07 09:00
April 2010 saw the Carruthers blog reach 700 posts and began with an April Fool's day post that I still quite enjoy.I really upped the amount of blog photos that I had taken myself Read More
2020-04-04 09:00
I'm not in Television, episode two of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, but don't that put you off, it's still very good. Then along comes episode three, Political Correctness. Again, I'm in thi… Read More
2020-04-01 11:25
It's time for the Insecure Writer's Support Group again. You can sign up here.The co-hosts this time around are Diane Burton, JH Moncrieff, Anna @ Emaginette, Karen @ Reprobate Typewriter, E… Read More
2020-03-29 09:00
Almost catching up, here's February 2020 on the Twitter.I think Camfield speaks for us all. https://t.co/IQS6ZSlB4j pic.twitter.com/Sgmlvq5PIy— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) February… Read More
2020-03-26 10:00
Possibly to help in these days of self-isolation, every episode of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle has been made available in the UK on the BBC iPlayer.I went to see this TV show being recorded… Read More
2020-03-23 12:32
In this post, I stated that I had a piece for the first volume of ATB Publishing's Outside In book about The X-Files and that I was thrilled that Harsh Realm was getting some recognition.In… Read More
2020-03-20 14:12
Train Of Thought goes stationary. The audience could hear the thoughts of the characters on radios as they watched the action unfold.I wrote for two of the characters in Thinking Aloud, the… Read More
2020-03-17 10:00
ATB Publishing have revealed the covers for their Outside In volumes covering The X-Files universe.They've used the same template as the covers for their previous Outside Ins, but with a dif… Read More
2020-03-11 10:00
ATB Publishing has released this image to clarify the contents of their two Outside In volumes covering The X-Files...The real takeaway here is that Harsh Realm is joining Millennium and The… Read More
2020-03-04 10:00
Another month, another Insecure Writers Support Group.This month's support group is co-hosted by Jacqui Murray, Lisa Buie-Collard, Sarah Foster, Natalie Aguirre and Shannon Lawrence. A big t… Read More
2020-03-01 10:00
March 2010 on the Carruthers Blog. It was a pretty boring month.The best post is Non Sequiter. It's probably truer now, than it was then.Satire Read More
2020-02-26 10:00
January 2020 on Twitter:It's 2020! Let's see what's in store for us... uh, it's not good. @Davetweetedthis https://t.co/wqo52SYLtF— Will Potter (@Hero_Collector) January 1, 2020HAPPY N… Read More
2020-02-23 10:00
The next show I was involved in was another of the New Factory Of The Eccentric Actor's mass cast historical epics. As the name suggests this one concerned the General Strike of 1926.It was… Read More
2020-02-20 10:00
The end of November and all of December 2019 on Twitter:WATCH 🎥 - Matt Hancock Loses His Cool At Haverhill HustingsAudience Boos & Chants 'Liar!@MattHancock really doesn't like b… Read More
2020-02-17 10:00
February 2010 on the Carruthers Blog. It was a particularly moribund time. Some of the Sex Therapist posts have not aged well.I suppose I still quite like the silliness of Stool Sample and B… Read More
2020-02-14 10:00
Some Twitter nonsense from the last days of November 2019:Season One...An Unearthly ChildThe DaleksInside The ScissorsMarco PoloThe Quays Of MarinusThe GaztaksThe SensoritesThe Reign Of Tara… Read More
2020-02-11 10:00
The first Behind The Bike Shed was held at Cafe 1001 on the 17th of March 2007 and with a repeat performance a week later.The cast were Hilde Drevsjomoen, Raif Esendagli, Michael Everhard, A… Read More
2020-02-08 10:00
November 2019 on Twitterpic.twitter.com/AuLdoGgaYi— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 1, 2019pic.twitter.com/jfcI6VOXhm— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 2, 2019"Car… Read More
2020-02-05 10:00
Has it really only been a month since the last Insecure Writers Support Group? So much has happened since then that it doesn't seem possible. This month's support group is co-hosted by Lee L… Read More
2020-02-01 10:00
October 2019's TwitterJust watched The Wonder Of Animals programme about bears. Magnificent television, absolutely fascinating, but seeing @ChrisGPackham existing in a white void with only l… Read More
2020-01-26 10:00
September 2019 on TwitterI'm absolutely devastated to hear that Terrance Dicks has died. In a very real sense the man taught me how to read. I met him once years later and tried to thank him… Read More
2020-01-23 10:00
I've trawled through posts that I drafted but for some reason didn't get around to posting. I plan to rectify that over the next few months.I took this photo for Adam and Joe's Black Squadro… Read More
2020-01-20 10:00
August 2019 TwitterTHE single greatest children's illustration of ALL time. pic.twitter.com/T7t5rE0qD5— Johnny Mausoleum (@ohsinnerman) August 4, 2019Sigourney Weaver test-firing the f… Read More
2020-01-17 10:00
I took part in the Insecure Writer's Support Group Twitter Pitch on the 15th of January 2020. The idea is that writers turn to twitter to pitch ideas and any prospective interested parties c… Read More
2020-01-14 10:00
January 2010 on the Carruthers blog. This is the month that the blog reached 600 posts and we hit number one on the Noostar chart, whatever that was. It was also the month that I drew a fish… Read More
2020-01-11 10:00
July 2019You know what day it is!#DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/F9wbIoeN12— TardisMonkey (@tardis_monkey) July 6, 2019UK Brexiteers: "We need to find a way to de-sensitise the idea of chlo… Read More
2020-01-08 10:00
I'm new at this. I've been meaning to join in with the Insecure Writer's Support Group for years and never gotten around to it. Well, that changes now.It's hosted by Alex Cavanaugh, T. Powel… Read More
2020-01-04 10:00
So I made my own predictions for the year ahead, but science fiction has made many more. It comes with the territory. If you set things in the future, the future has a habit of catching up t… Read More
2020-01-01 10:00
For four Earth years, I have been predicting the annum ahead with perfect prognostication.Allow me to present a preview of the year to come. Here are my predictions for 2020:After years in t… Read More
2019-12-31 10:00
"So this is Christmas and what have you done? Another year over and a new one just begun"This has been an extraordinary year. Obviously, the most important and life-changing event all year w… Read More
2019-12-28 12:14
Today, is The Tweenies Blogfest where I invite you to tell me your favourite things from the Tweenies.It's not too late to join in. Choose one thing from each year from 2010 to 2019, be it a… Read More
2019-12-27 10:00
Here's a little reminder that The Tweenies Blogfest is taking place tomorrow. Here are the details on how to take part:• Leave your name and link on the linky below.• Feel free to… Read More
2019-12-25 10:00
2019-12-23 10:00
June 2019 on TwitterWhen I watched this with @uppityfabulous, the final shot rolled around and she cried. As Jake and Kira stare out into space, our house was filled with the sound of an exc… Read More
2019-12-20 18:31
Sooner or later, most science fiction television series will dress up as cowboys and have a go at a western episode. The characters will swap space helmets, ray guns and uniform insignia for… Read More
2019-12-16 10:00
Twitter May 2019:Congratulations to Penny Mordaunt for being made Secretary of Defence. After Williamson, it’ll be a pleasure to have someone as straight-talking and honest as the woma… Read More
2019-12-10 10:00
Twitter April 2018:Thank you to the person who taught me the phrase 'I'm sorry but I haven't budgeted for any more unpaid work this month' https://t.co/DKsdkELVrk— Kerry Hudson is (mos… Read More
2019-12-07 20:41
As this decade draws to a close, it's inevitable that people take stock. A few years ago I ran The Noughties Blogfest and The Nineties Blogfest, in that order. I had written Review-Of-The-Ye… Read More
2019-12-06 10:00
As 2009 drew to a close, I was pretty pleased with the sitcom porn Christmas specials and this Ding Dong joke, while Igloo seems more topical than it ever did in 2009.I love absolutely every… Read More
2019-12-03 10:00
March 2019:Watching #BehindTheCurve, a documentary about the #FlatEarth movement. Best quote so far: "when you see it in 3D, it's a little easier to get the concept..."— David Black (@… Read More
2019-11-26 10:00
February 2018's Twitterings:#DoctorWho Behind The Scenes: @BarnabyEdwards performs 'The Dying Swan' inside a Dalek casing on the set of Asylum Of The Daleks (2012), while everyone else prete… Read More
2019-11-20 10:00
January 2018 on Twitter:Happy New Year to you all... pic.twitter.com/gN8P8LCE5Q— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 1, 2019So now that it's 2019, I'm really looking forward to fina… Read More
2019-11-17 10:00
It's been a while since I've posted an acting post. It's time to change that.In 2007, I took part in the New Factory of the Eccentric Actor's production of AK-27. The play concerned the 1927… Read More
2019-11-12 10:00
December 2018 on the Twitter:Which former companion would you like to see the 13th Doctor reunited with? For me, it’s 100% Jamie. #doctorwho @bbcdoctorwho pic.twitter.com/yPldaBUFui&md&hell…Read More
2019-11-09 10:00
Taglines, those pithy one-liners on movie posters, come in all shapes and sizes. Some are great and some are...not so great. Some are beyond awful, while some are works of art in their own r… Read More
2019-11-06 10:00
November 2018 on the Twitter:"Danger is my middle name..." https://t.co/YVJohf7pxB— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 1, 2018In 1875, a whiskey storehouse caught fire in Dublin… Read More
2019-11-03 10:00
November 2009's Carruthers bloggings were nothing special, but as usual I'm pretty pleased with a Sitcom Porn post.This post was clearly all set up for Scrabbled, but I feel it was worth it Read More
2019-10-31 12:31
It's Halloween. It's the time for ghosts and ghouls to go bump in the night and television schedules gets a little bit scary. Science fiction TV shows try to give us the best scares they can… Read More
2019-10-28 10:00
October 2018Carlos Ezquerra has died. The world is poorer for it. pic.twitter.com/0pgAZhVdMp— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) October 1, 2018The Man In Room 17— David Black (@Dave… Read More
2019-10-19 09:00
October 2009's Carruthers posts brings us back up to date. And obviously, by up to date I mean ten years out of date.The study of BSL continues and ten years later I still enjoyed O, W, and… Read More
2019-10-16 09:00
September 2018 on the Twitter:I’m not saying that Jarvis Cocker is one of the least appreciated lyricists of our time, but Jarvis Cocker is one of the least appreciated lyricists of ou… Read More
2019-10-12 09:00
In the September of 2009, the Carruthers blog reached its 500th post and featured the first half of the letters of British Sign Language. Of these I'm quite of the posts about B, E, H and I… Read More
2019-10-09 09:00
Today is my thirty-eighth birthday Read More
2019-10-03 09:00
August 2009 on the Carruthers blog was full of posts of the find-a-silly-picture-and-write-some-vaguely-connected-to-one-of-our-sketches variety. None of them make me laugh now. I wonder if… Read More
2019-09-30 09:00
I recently set up a Ko-Fi page. It doesn't come easily to ask for support, but if people feel moved to offer support who am I turn that down? That would be churlish of me. Am I a churl? No… Read More
2019-09-27 09:00
July 2009's Carruthering, this photo really made laugh when I took it.Other than that, not a lot happened Read More
2019-09-24 11:46
In a move designed to make me feel very old indeed, the sitcom Spaced is twenty years old today. I demand a recount. If you haven't seen it, do.I wrote this in honour of Spaced's twentieth a… Read More
2019-09-22 09:00
June 2009's Carruthers bloggings reached 400 posts.Favourite posts include more sitcom porn and a post about urine.I posted about the first anniversary of Peel This, and then tried to move o… Read More
2019-09-19 12:01
Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. You are actively encouraged to say things like "shiver me timbers!" and "avast behind!" all day, because you get so few real chances.In related… Read More
2019-09-17 09:00
ATB Publishing have announced the titles of the essays, who wrote them and which episode of Angel and Firefly they correspond to. There are lots of essays to enjoy by people that aren't me… Read More
2019-09-14 09:00
May 2009 saw the first birthday of the Carruther's blog.I like this ransom-note style demand for payment.When Andy tasked me with making a mask, I was fairly proud of using components One, T… Read More
2019-09-11 09:00
So, this happened.Sarah and I were having a baby. We were very excited. We decided not to find out what we were having. I mean it was a baby, obviously, but you know what I mean.We were expe… Read More
2019-09-07 09:00
For much of April 2009 on the Carruther's blog, I serialised the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, because it features a character called Carruthers.I still like t… Read More
2019-09-04 09:00
The Masked Raider was another character to appear in Marvel Comics #1 and like many of his peers he seemed to be doomed to obscurity.Marvel is currently celebrating its octogenarian status a… Read More
2019-09-01 09:00
March 2009 was pretty bleak. It did make me look up the word 'osculate'.I like don't cuss the bus, Simon Says and Hop, while this one uses a joke I came up with when I was seven. It made my… Read More
2019-08-29 09:00
Marvel is celebrating it's eightieth birthday this week. The date on the cover of Marvel Comics #1 is October 1939, so presumably it's for business reasons that the celebrations have shifted… Read More
2019-08-26 09:00
February 2009I'd clearly gotten into a bit of a routine of searching for things that could lead to multiple post and Pursue was no different. An abuse of a Trivial Pursuit card, which wasn't… Read More
2019-08-23 09:00
ATB Publishing have announced the contents of the next four five volumes of Outside In.The X-Files Outside In will be split into two separate volumes. The first entitled Outside In Trusts No… Read More
2019-08-20 09:00
I started a run of posts on the Twelve Days Of Christmas in December 2008. The first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth, ninth and eleventh were nothing particularly special, but I was… Read More
2019-08-17 09:00
Doctor Who has always had an interesting relationship with the viewer at home. Characters can look out through the television screen and talk directly to the audience. This breaking of the '… Read More
2019-08-14 09:00
We had talked about doing a Christmas show in December 2008, but it didn't happen because among other things I was in the doomed second Dickens Of A Christmas show. We managed to film some s… Read More
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