Al Kennedy

@alkennedy.bsky.social

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50% of the world's ninth longest running comic book podcast, House to Astonish. 100% of interview/book group podcast Desert Island Discworld. New Warriorologist. He/him.

A badge from the early 1980s which says British Meat's got the lot!
A magical athlete character in first place, with everyone else about as far away as it's possible to be, geometrically
A pile of four Magical Athlete tokens in a Twister-esque heap on the board
Pic showing my choices from the Criterion Closet, being Charade, La Haine, House and His Girl Friday, as generated on thecriterioncloset.com
Cover of the London Boys' album The Twelve Commandments of Dance
Mhairi Black, wearing a grey shirt and black top and trousers, against a grey background, scratching the back of her head
A Larry Stroman-drawn panel from X-Factor 71, showing Lorna Dane looking how nobody else could ever make her look
Screenshot of a picture of Super Megatron from the Transformers: Battlestar manga. His headpiece looks like the hat Frances McDormand wears in Fargo
Teieri Anei from Blue Lock. She's a brown-haired, brown-eyed woman in a tan skirt suit and navy blue blouse
Harry Hill look to second camera
Gillian Anderson, in the 1990s, with wild hair and a black leather dress, in front of a background of disembodied eyes
WhatsApp messages where I'm saying "Nobody should be allowed to be in the X-Men if they joined after Jubilee except Marrow in very limited circumstances"
Ted Danson and the cast of the good place, dancing
A graph, with Chief O'Brien vertically oriented and the words Colm Meaney, and the same picture horizontally oriented with the words Row Meaney
Picture of Kaneda from Akira and Major Kira from Deep Space 9 with her mirror universe double, and the words Akira - Two Kiras
Mitchell & Webb snooker commentators saying "ohh, and that's a bad miss"
Silver Sable in an old Hawkeye comic where someone in a costume says "Madam Sable! The Avenger has escaped!" And a guy with a moustache says "Wha--?!" and Silver Sable, with the most amazing shit-eating smirk, says "Relax, Minister..."
Screengrab of the first episode of The Tick (2001) on Netflix
The covers of Shakira's Laundry Service and the Strokes's is This It arranged in such a way as to imply they're both part of one picture
The Tick: Big Blue Destiny: The Complete Works, a trade paperback collection published by New England Comics
Shot from Severance of Adam Scott and a model tree, with the words "do you think a depressed person could make this?" overlaid
Screengrab from Libsyn's dashboard, showing House to Astonish and its all time downloads as being 1,000,004
Sign saying "this hole is not for everyone. Know your limitations."
Sign painted on a wall, reading "free bird seed"
The Daisy/Peach "are you tired of being nice? Don't you just want to go ape shitt?" meme, but with the words cut off
The Soup Dragon hanging over the shoulders of two Clangers, making a face like she's just told a terrible joke and is super proud of it
The Soup Dragon hanging over the shoulders of two Clangers, making a face like she's just told a terrible joke and is super proud of it
Billie Piper as Rose Tyler in front of a bit of graffiti saying "welcome to hell" and giving a jaunty double thumbs up
A photo of Margaret Qualley and Jack Antonoff with the words "Margaret Qualley and Jack Antonoff Separate" under it, and a phot of Margaret Qualley and Jack Antonoff with the words "Margaret Qualley and Jack Antonoff Have Separated" under it.
A Lego version of the Defiant, a beautiful ship from the Star Treks
The currently out of print Thin Man seven-DVD slipcase collection
Michael from The Good Place, standing next to Janet, saying "Sepp figured it out? Sepp?!" Then a second image, similar to the first, where Michael looks less incredulous and more disappointed, saying "This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts."
Marvel Masterpieces trading card of Magneto, surrounded by lots of flying tools. Sawblades etc.
Gene Kelly singing Gotta Dance in Singin' in the Rain
Tony Stark saying "let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing"
Screengrab of Hagai, Dave and Adlai's posts where Hagai says "Christ", Dave says "POTY" and Adlai says "oh my god Al"
A set of numbers on a piece of paper from 1-0, with symbols next to them representing "capital" numbers, such as a treble clef for a 6 and an infinity symbol for an 8
Taxi air freshener which says "sweet almond and macaroon"
Missy from Dr Who saying "Also it's his real name"
The Transformer Streetwise, in both robot and police car modes, with an inset image of his face sculpt. He looks rubbish
Political quiz results which put me at 88% woke, 12% chud, 36% techbro, 64% neo-Luddite, 63% hopepilled, 37% doomer, 86% Davis, 14% Dubai, and closest match being Zohran Mamdani
Train station sign which says "Croy" It also says Crothaidh, which is the Gaelic, but that's not relevant to the joke
The actor Wallace Shawn, wearing a pink shirt, a fleece-lined jacket and circular glasses, and looking genially amused
Peter Bradshaw's Supergirl review which begins "The sexual politics of perceived female maturity has always been a problem in this particular set of superhero films. Quite why Kara Zor-El gets to be a "supergirl" while Kal-El gets to be a "superman", despite not being that much older, is not obvious. Even that notorious wokester Friedrich Nietzsche went with the non-gender term "Übermensch". The issue is in fact pre-emptively raised here in an early scene, but the dialogue breaks off without the question being explicitly resolved. Maybe there is a copyright issue. If our heroine really did have a title exactly corresponding to "Superman", the spirit of Shirley Conran would no doubt angrilv barge"
A can of Margiotta lager. It's just an asphalt grey can with LAGER written across it in gold letters
Amazon order confirmation for Cyberworld Scourge which says he'll be arriving with me at some point between 27th July and 28th December
A large Lego Man-Thing and a small Lego Man-Thing
Me, sitting on a bench under a tree with grass behind me. I'm a bald white man in 3/4 profile with a blue checked shirt, a green t-shirt, an accidental beard and a new pair of glasses
The advertising posters for Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island and Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost
Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron saying "somehow, Ike Perlmutter returned"
Violet Baudelaire in the Series of Unfortunate Events movie saying We're very concerned
Metal Cardbot Black Hook in pirate ship mode
Oscar Isaac and Gwendolyn Christie gazing into each other's eyes with joy
Screengrab of an Instagram post there an account called "reelcinema_hub" has posted a clip from Mae Martin's sitcom Feel Good and captioned it as follows: reelcinema_hub Title: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Director: Mary Bronstein Genre: Comedy, Drama Runtime: 1h 53m Language: English Release Date: 2025 Cast: Rose Byrne, Conan O'Brien, A$AP Rocky, Danielle Macdonald, Christian Slater
Peter Parker, with beaten up face and arm in a sling, asks his aunt if she wants to dance, from Spider-Man's Tangled Web: The Thousand, by Garth Ennis and John McCrea
Post by Red Box Noodle Bar One Last Box: The End of an Era For nearly two decades, Red Box has been more than just a noodle bar. Since opening in the late 2000s, it has been one of Edinburgh's longest-standing noodle spots, known for a simple ritual: choose your noodles, your protein and your sauce, then watch your meal come together fresh from the wok. But Red Box was never only about the food. For many of us, it became part of life in the city; a quick takeaway before sitting in the park, a warm meal after a night out, a small escape from the library during exams, a place that connected people from all walks of life, creating precious memories. Through changing times, difficult years and even the challenges of Covid, Red Box continued serving the community that grew up around it. Generations of customers passed through its doors, each leaving with a box of noodles and a memory of their own. Now, every story reaches its final chapter. On 13th June, Red Box will open its doors for the last time. While the woks may fall silent, the memories will remain-shared between friends, families, students and everyone who made Red Box part of their Edinburgh story. The shop may be leaving the city, but its place in Edinburgh's memories will endure, one noodle box at a time. Thank you, Red Box, for being part of our city, and part of our story. Thank you all for being part of our journey. One last box. One last goodbye.
Email to the House to Astonish address saying: Trying To Find House to Astonish I just checked out House to Astonish and I had to pause. Important ones. Your podcast should be a search-driven engine. Instead, it's barely discoverable. Here's the issue. YouTube has almost no context who your episodes are meant for. Potential listeners search YouTube and your episodes don't show up. The good news? Surprisingly simple. Open to a short conversation? Your next 1,000 viewers are actively searching right now. They're just ending up on competing shows. Kathryn Wallace
Sanjeev Kohli and Janet Ellis sitting on a bench. Sanjeev is saying "go Kitty Pryde, go Kitty Pryde, go Kitty Pryde"
A cross-stitch that someone once did of a tweet of mine in which I bash a lot of poems together. The text of it is: MY NAME IS COW WEN I BEHOLD SOME FRUIT GET KEPT WERE IT IS COLD I GOBBLE UP WAT I FIND DERE LOOK ON MY WORKS I EAT DIS PEAR ROSE IS RED VILITS BLU NEVER GONNA GIVE UP U WHOSE WOODS ARE DESE BEET BEET DRUMS MY SEKRIT IS I ET YR PLUMS
Tweet by someone called Zero whose username is at yves8nts which says "widows bay might be the best television on air right now because it's the only show that has patricia in it"