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mikethegerm.bsky.social
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Last month, interviewing the great crime-journalist / screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, I asked why his mother painted a photo from National Geographic, and exactly how it ended up in Goodfellas. This was the missing piece of the puzzle for me, and completes my master opus on this whole affair. Here!

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Give the papacy to Allardyce until the end of the season

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Cheers and up the Vale!

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A classic.

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That ref who couldn’t wait to send off a Vale player while Crewe booted us round the pitch has reffed us again and sent a Vale player off? Colour me shocked

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That is a shocking effort in the cricket, got to be the end of Buttler as captain

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Never “convocation of stoic philosophers” or “John Rudge” is it

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One day about 18 years ago I was looking around a Yoko Ono exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum when an old wall phone in the gallery rang. This phone was part of the show. I looked around & I saw that it was just me & a security guard in the gallery. He said, “oh my god you need to answer it! 1/5

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This is true. A pal of mine who is a policeman went to a Scottish island recently to investigate a missing person and when the locals found out he was a Christian they stuck him in a giant human-shaped willow branch construction and burned him alive.

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@gwladruns.bsky.social have a good one, we had a great time there pre-kids, could still reel off some of the meals.

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Off for a week, cheers

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When Gary Neville says "you wouldn't see this in under 9s or under 10s football" - you would though, wouldn't you. In an U9s game I once saw a goalkeeper shout to his teammate, as the game was going on, "JAMES, HAVE YOU FINISHED CHARLOTTE'S WEB YET?"

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8yo is parading round in one of her mum’s bras singing a song of her own composition called “I’m a growing woman” if anyone is wondering how my evening is going

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….He sent a letter to the government…

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Evening

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@johnneptune.bsky.social will need some fanning down if this carries on

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