James Leech

@jamesleech.bsky.social

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Show me your dogs. Comics, Sherlock Holmes, and wrestling, too

Homer putting up a poster comparing his inventions to those of Thomas Edison, with each of them on a horse
“Doctor Pepper, Baby”, in the style of the Doctor Who logo
In March 2010, former group member Mutya Buena applied to the European Trademarks Authority for ownership of the group's name. The application was submitted amid the controversy of Buchanan's departure, in which Buena insisted that "the Sugababes have ended" without a founding member still in the group. 134] It was confirmed that Buena had obtained rights to use the name on paper, cardboard and goods; namely stationery, paper gift wrap and paper gift wrapping ribbons. 135]
My lock screen, showing Sidney Paget’s Sherlock Holmes in the background, while the track playing in the foreground is “filthy bangers for hot girls with loose hips”
Brian Pillman Jr. a wrestler who now goes by Lexis King, a man with long hair and a weird painted-on beard
[Verse 2: Method Man] They call me Big John Studd, my middle name Mud
poster advertising a show called “That’ll Be The Day!”, the 40th Anniversary Show. It’s also labelled “Trevor’s Farewell Tour”
Text: The opening paragraph is, with hindsight, rather remarkable, given that the story originally appeared in 1938. Douglas Sewell, the fruit farmer who narrates, makes this introductory remark: Is it my imagination, or have other people noticed, too, that there is always something slightly sinister about the third of September? Given Berkeley's propensity for introducing material from his own life into his fiction, it may be that something extraordinary had happened to him on that particular date. What is beyond doubt is that, the following year, the third of September was the day that Britain declared war on Germany.
“Farts” made up of aerial photos that look like letters
Three audiobooks titled “The Daughter”, “The Wrong Daughter” and “The Last Witch of Scotland”
In 1899, Edwin Samson Moore, the owner of the Midland Vinegar Company in Aston Cross, Birmingham went to see one of his customers who owed him a debt for vinegar. The man was Frederick Gibson Garton, a Nottingham grocer who had a small sauce factory at the rear of his premises. The 2013 book HP Sauce My Ancestors' Legacy tells the story of how Moore saw a sauce brewing in the back copper while visiting Garton. Garton explained it was his new sauce called Daddies Sauce. Moore cancelled the debt and paid Garton £150 (around £15949 in today's money) for the recipe of his sauces and chutneys which included Daddies Sauce and HP Sauce.
a comment on YouTube: My son was 7 and liked to listen to music as he went to sleep. One night he asked for the CD with the song "Snap my Picture" and I had no clue until he sang a bit of it for me: "take my picture...snap my picture" Being a good mother I got him the CD and he happily went to sleep listening to Smack My Bitch Up.
a shelf of DVDs, all saying “Mamma Mia!”
Will saying “I got her number! How do you like them apples?”
Queen Victoria in From Hell, saying “Mr Gull, please. My family is dying”
Roy Walker from Catchphrase talking to Dr Manhattan
The cover of The Man in Grey, by Baroness Orczy, which for some reason has Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man on the cover
screenshot of Doja Cat’s Go To Town with the comment “@numchaps20 This song played as I was driving my grandma to town to get groceries and she said oh gee that sounds a lot like what we're doing.”
Audible summary, saying: In 2025, you journeyed through 59 titles and averaged 85 min per day. You listened the most on Sundays and achieved your longest stretch of 7 hrs 43 min on August 20. You also pulled off an impressive 90-day listening streak starting on June 1. Here's how the rest of your story unfolded.
Cover of Animation Art, the title of which is in a bizarre font in raised letters, and the artwork is a semi-photorealistic eye surrounded by a Paint Shop Pro 1995 style spiral, with a tiny picture of Shrek reflected in it
Back of a van, reading “Abnormal Load McGee”
Trevor’s cat Spitfire with some movies. Spitfire is also on the cover of Flow