A rare day with just the boy today - girls are away to college then the cinema so we're planning something exciting - which has turned out to be Cass insisting on a trip to Aldi after lunch. The fun never stops in this house! A grand day out according to Cassidy. Counting down to Christmas (and my birthday) with a mix of the usual frantic to and fro' college trips, a few meetings, picking up the new car (much to the annoyance of everyone who hates the disabled/Motability users) and a school session next week featuring me indulging in my old job of balloon modelling which is nice, hopefully we'll managed to make it that far without collapsing in a tired heap as this term has really taken it out of us both physically - we're not getting any younger - and mentally with the amount of form filling/organisations losing claims/lack of support etc. Fingers crossed that the arse end of 2025 is a wee bit kinder on us.
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Nature Calls.
Spotted by statistician Dr Kareem Carr on X, an actual, honest to goodness, real figure taken from a research article in a Nature journal. Yes, this was in fact reviewed and published. Seriously, look at it and (try to) read it. I genuinely feel like I've lost IQ points - and bladder control - just having it in front of me. To be fair tho', if nothing else I've at least got my new band name:
Teen Scene.
The four things you needed to be a teen in the 80's - Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, Times Square and Rivers Edge on VHS and a Betty Blue poster. Usual Autistic ranting will be resumed as soon as.
Good Night, Sweet Cinema Prince.
Woke up this morning to the news that my favourite actor, art school hero - and the silver screens greatest Dracula - Udo Kier has died. Which is a wee bit rubbish for a Monday morning. Looks like a tribute viewing of Andy Warhol's Blood For Dracula tonight, reckon the kids'll love it. Udo Kier 14 October 1944 - 23 November 2025 And as a wee bonus (for those who like that sort of thing) here's the missing page from The Three Mothers comic I illustrated a few years back featuring a copyright skirting appearance by the man himself. Normal Autistic ranting will return as soon as.
Delia Derbyshire: Audiological.
As well as being Doctor Who Day , the 23rd November is usually #deliaderbyshireday too (they moved it to Saturday this year in a kinda timey wimey way, figures) but let's celebrate all weekend instead with my tribute to the high priestess of British electronic music? Plus I'm dead sure she was one of our mob! Nuff said.
Ready, Steady, Draw!
Something to (hopefully) raise a smile this cold winter weekend. As some of you may - or may not - know young master Cassidy has always been slightly obsessed with Mark Mothersbaugh's Magic Pictures segment from that work of teevee genius that is Yo Gabba Gabba. To be honest I always assumed his love of Mark would be from an obsession with DEVO like me but hey ho, he'll get there eventually. And for those of you who've never experience the sheer and utter joy of Mark's drawings here a wee taste: Cass will spend hours drawing whilst explaining the pictures - just like Mark - and has also been known on occasion to paint on a wee beard and don an interesting hat to add to the effect, videoing his work and editing it together on his (overworked) laptop. This week tho' things change when he stumbled across Grok AI which much to his delight enabled him to animated his work much like Mark does each episode. Suffice to say no computer in the house is safe now from his a...
International Mens Day: Let's Hear It From The Dads!
Seeing as it's International Mens Day I thought I'd reshare the top Autism dad chat (featuring a fair few Actually Autistic peeps) we did for Scottish Autism a few years back.... Enjoy.