Brian Edwards

@brianftang.bsky.social

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Novelist, playwright, webmonkey, T1 diabetic. Fiction represented by David Grossman Literary Agency.

Victor Mature
The cover of Simon Guerrier’s biography of David Whitaker
Arthur Dent’s dressing gown.
Ford, Arthur and Marvin from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Shooty is a cop. Shooty writes novels, in crayon. None of them have been published yet.
A photo of an iPad screen saying "Temperature - iPad needs to cool down before you can use it."
The cover of the DVD of World of Pub.
Poster for the Tate Gallery David Hockney retrospective exhibition 1988/89
A screenshot from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade showing the gentleman who “chose poorly”.
Host of Club 5 by 5, a Buffy based cabaret.
The Last Chancers, a band from a comedy 2004 drama series on Channel 4 starring and co-written by Adam Buxton
Antony Hopkins as Captain Bligh - a screenshot for the BFI audience awaiting Reece Shearsmith’s introduction
A can of Toast lager.
A building with windows and coal cellar access(?) resembling an old buffer registering drunken surprise.
Director Ben Wheatley and actors Billy MacLellan and Bob Odenkirk doing a Q&A about the film Normal at the BFI Southbank
Wine expert Oz Clarke is one of two actors in this shot aboard a boat after taking part in a robbery. He is playing “4th Hood”
Lego NCC1701D partway through construction.
Samuel Downing, one of last survivors of the 18th century American Revolutionary War of Independence to be photographed. He is pictured aged 102 in 1864, and looking remarkably like a former resident of Gallifrey.
The album cover of The Rutles on my phone, with Barry Wom turned to the left and Stig O'Hara turned facing the right. For some unknown AI reason.
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album cover, edited so he has the head of Dyan the rabbit from The Magic Roundabout instead.
Anna Wing playing Lou Beale from EastEnders
Old Marty McFly in Back to the Future 2 is wearing 2 ties for some insane reason that probably made sense when they made the movie. His elderly mum is also there.
Downstairs on the Golden Hinde with a crowd of music fans.
Picture of me at university playing a restoration comedy character there. 1994. FFS
Mickey Edwards and colleague with the Kroll in a tank, probably at Ealing studios but not entirely sure.
BBC Crackerjack pencil
An earlier chairman had been lan's younger brother, Richard. Sir Claude Hankes was at a meeting where two Americans tried to offer some incredible opportunity to the bank. ‘When they finished, he said, "I'm afraid I'm not interested. "But you were writing everything down." "Yes," and he turned the notepad for them to see "NO" twenty times.’
A screen grab of the current homepage of the BFI player app which shows a four hour long documentary about a French restaurant as its most popular title at the moment.
Cover of the book Croydonopolis by Will Noble.
A Chinese rubber mask attempting to be Chris Sievey’s creation Frank Sidebotton.
Text saying Seasons Greetings, with a waving salt cellar and pepper mill.
Quote from Clown Town, the new Slow Horses book “He'd better hope he's killed attempting a wheelie, because what I have in mind for him will be more protracted.' 'I'll let him know. Yellow car.' 'What now?'
Headline seems to read David Walliams, Putin, Contactless payments
Sting O’Hara and Arthur Sultan, the Surrey mystic, in the film The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
A place where your reality strand diverges from ours. And that is not a sentence I expected to hear when Bob Nash brought me my vitamin juice cuppa this morning - even if it isn't strictly a sentence, as my old English teacher 'Leggy Mountbatten would have pointed out.
Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent and Marvin the paranoid android.
Programme of the play End by David Eldridge
The LEGO starship enterprise from Star Trek the Nect Generation
A still from a “Charley says” public information film.
A report on Trump demolishing part of the White House. And a quote from William Shakespeare talking about his house being ruined.
Lovejoy, Eric Catchpole and Tinker Bell having a drink in the pub.
The cover of "I don’t want to set the world on fire, I just want to keep my nuts warm" - by Ernest Borgnine.
The cover of the Blu Ray of Peter Watkins’ Culloden and The War Game
Brian is a gurning fool sporting a badge that reads “Never too old for a birthday badge”
ceci n'est pas pipe-mania
Tom Baker denies this reality in Doctor Who.
Jim Lovell the astronaut who commanded the Apollo 13 mission
BBC news readers with banner which reads "Secret of universe revealed"
The old Microsoft tweet fax template, filled in to say - Remember when you had to fax in your tweets? That was a faff, wasn't it?
Fesshole post: I have a few bits of cutlery/crockery that I don’t live like the others. So what I’ve done, I’ve told my son that those are his very own special forks, glasses etc. He loves them now. Meta AI prompted links: More ideas for kid-friendly tableware. More creative ways to reuse old items.
The actor and singer-songwriter Hoagy Carmichael.
Sinister floating interrogation thing off of Star Wars
Eliot Fletcher phones 5 Star on Saturday Superstore.
I don’t want to set the world on fire, I just want to keep my nuts warm - by Ernest Borgnine.