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David Simpkin Jul 4, 2023

So, after Henman Hill and Murray Mound, what's next? Broady Bump? #Wimbledon2023 #TheTennis

David Simpkin Apr 21, 2023

Hugely enjoying the current series of Race Across The World (BBC) as both travelogue and character study, but I am continually reminded of Biddy Baxter's useful rule of documentary filmmaking: where is the camera and *how did it get there* ?

David Simpkin Mar 9, 2023

Spoilers for a 60 year old film, but there's this episode of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries called The Main Chance (1964) in which our hero (Edward de Souza) connives to steal a wedge of money from a *bad* baddie (Gregoire Aslan), and at the end he... gets away with it. That's it. No recriminations, no ironic destruction of the loot, no "actually I was a policeman all along"-type revelations. I asked @Brooligan once, and he wasn't sure, so can anyone tell me - was this a first?

David Simpkin Mar 1, 2023

Maria Popova Mar 1, 2023

Twitter died because what was once a space for openness and connection metastasized into a space for warring certainties. There is a cautionary metaphor in its demise — an important thing to guard against within ourselves.

David Simpkin Feb 9, 2023

Currently wrestling with sentences in my MA dissertation, due sooner rather than later, and learning lines for The Nottingham Passion (books down at the end of February). All prayers, thoughts, and other good vibes gratefully received...

David Simpkin Feb 5, 2023

@hardy24 Are you moving over here, then?

David Simpkin Feb 3, 2023

I'm in this, giving my best Caiaphas. If you're around on Friday 31st March or Saturday 1st April, please come along. Tickets available from https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/nottinghampassion

David Simpkin Jan 31, 2023

Dr Jonathan Downie Jan 31, 2023

I actually really like a lot of modern worship music and find it often as theologically meaningful as old hymns. Just as shouldn't stereotype people based on the groups we are more comfortable with, the same goes with music.
Just because I grew up hearing it, that doesn't make it better.
#church #fedichurch

David Simpkin Jan 18, 2023

The photo in my profile header, by the way, is of beautiful downtown Winchester in the year that I was born, and can be found in the Charles W Cushman collection at https://libraries.indiana.edu/charles-w-cushman-photograph-exhibition .

Charles W. Cushman Photograph Exhibition

Charles Weever Cushman, amateur photographer and Indiana University alumnus, bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome color slides to his alma mater. The photographs in this collection bridge a thirty-two year span from 1938 to 1969, during which time he extensively documented the United States as well as other countries.

David Simpkin Jan 17, 2023

People who are baffled that Radio 2 is playing 90s club hits may need reminding that 90s club kids are now in their 40s and 50s... #TimeMarchesOn