Steve Lacey

@quizlacey

Podcaster, Fantasticast host, improviser, comics and Doctor Who fan. Brit abroad in Belgium. Barely making it past lunch.

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Steve Lacey@quizlacey· 11h

View of the eclipse from before it actually eclipsed.

A small grassy slope in front of a large body of water with a fountain in it, with a bright ass sun waiting to be eclipsed.

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· 4d

Now cover generator output reading
WON’T
YOU SHOW MERCY TO YOUR OWN
AAAARRRRGGHH

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· 9d

It’s another mini-heatwave in agent, so I’m enjoying cold drinks on a bar built on a barge, ahead of going to see The Odyssey (with air conditioning). Also really enjoying the Map Men’s map book!

A copy of This Way Up and a long fruity
Icy drink on a bar table.

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· 11d

On the way to a wedding.

Three people in a car on their way to a wedding. Taken while stopped at a red light.

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· 16d

Did you work on this show?

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· 26d

Turned up late so stuck at the back, bit enjoying Trixie Wheatley performing in her hometown on the first night of the Gentse Feesten

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· 28d

Sitting nicely in the timeline there...

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· Jun 27

Last show of the trip - Ania Magliano’s stand up show at the Soho Theatre Downstairs.

Soho Theatre downstairs as it fills up with people

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· Jun 27

I’ve gone to see Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia again, this time at the Duke of York’s Theatre. Oliver Chris and Nikki Amuka-Bird have joined the cast, and I couldn’t resist. I’ve also brought my best friend, who has come in completely cold, and is absolutely loving it!

Duke of York theatre with Arcadia hoarding

Interior of the theatre, with a revolving set (with stagehands) and the theatre interior rising up behind.

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· Jun 26

This is a much better view than the last time I was here (when I had to leave at the interval because I couldn’t see 2/3 of what was happening on stage).

Leicester Square Theatre stage with four empty chairs, taken from the front right of the auditorium

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· Jun 26

Well, that was fantastic. So much fun. And I now have a copy of this!

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· Jun 26

Bringing the source material to the cinema.

A copy of the DC Compact Comics edition of Supergirl: World of Tomorrow held in front of a cinema screen

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· Jun 25

Brussels Zuid is engaging in a one-shelf operation to keep people reading bande desinee instead of those foul American comics.

Many copies of Ultimatum, more than you would expect for a train station bookstore.

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· Jun 22

Seeing this musical on Thursday, so doing some homework and watching the film for the first time ever.

A television showing the page for Beetlejuice on HBO Max

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· Jun 13

My friend Sean has just been served freshly baked bread side dish with scissors to cut it.

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· Jun 5

Remember the days when students would just build a barricade and sing at the authorities, then… uh… yeah, I remember how it ended, actually.

Riot tank with water cannon on the streets on Brussels

Riot tank and riot police on the streets of Brussels

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· May 28

Faux-Tenth Doctor title card with fake title 'Barrowman's Got His Cock Out Again'

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· May 28

Feeling the more recent pain

Faux-Fifteenth Doctor title screen with fake title 'Someone Thought ASMR Breath Noises Were A Good Idea'

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· May 28

One for those of us still living in 1998

Faux-Eighth Doctor title card with fake title 'Pretending to Care About Sam Jones'

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· May 28

Faux-Second Doctor title screen with fake title 'Look At The Size Of That!'

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· May 25

And, as I'm riffing on Fouracres...

Faux-Star Trek (TOS) title card with the title "...And Epstein Didn't Kill Himself"

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· May 25

Fine, here's one...

Faux Star Trek: Voyager episode title card, with the title "What Kind Of Irish Is Fair Haven?"

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· May 20

Received this image in an email from the Comedy Store in London earlier today. If you want to celebrate their anniversary with an audience composed of people semi-manifested in our universe and clones of each other seated throughout what I'm assuming is an audience...

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· May 17

Seriously, someone thought this would be a good idea.

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· May 14

The new Spotify app logo is apparently a glitterball, but it wasn’t until I cropped the screenshot that I could see it. Just looks like a green slopmess.

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· May 6

Omnibus reading got me to this point:

Fold-out splash page from Superman #75, the death of Superman, with Superman’s body lying prone on rubble, Lois crying, and the tattered cape acting as a flag.

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· May 4

Ooh, the cinema have put on music before the film. A nice thematic touch.

A violinist and a flautist on a stage in front of a cinema screen.

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· May 1

Sure, but it also had Fred van Lente writing this excellent villain introduction in the Power Man spinoff...

The villain Spear pins a new Power Man to the wall with a spear through the shoulder. He then monologues:

SPEAR!
It's who I am! It's what I do! It's what I use!
SPEAR!
Noun! Verb! Proper name!
SPEAR!

Steve Lacey@quizlacey· Apr 25

I’ll end this up with the opening of The Reign of Terror, with the TARDIS arriving in a fantastically atmospheric fashion, with more than a hint of how the modern series would handle materialisation. Some truly lovely writing.

11 A Glimpse Of Things To Come
12 Escaping From History.

So Near And So Far

The twilit forest was hot and muggy.
Not a breath of air stirred the motionless trees and the invisible creatures were ominously silent, as if they were waiting for some cataclysmic storm to erupt around them. There was an electric menace in the humid stillness and the trees hung like dormant monsters awaiting their hour to spring to life and stalk across the land in reawakened and invincible majesty. For the land was troubled. Majesty had been abolished and an unnamable terror lurked everywhere.

Without warning, leaves suddenly shivered and branches creaked and swayed. In the thickly clustering under-growth, twigs broke off and flew in all

directions as the foliage whipped back and forth, and leaves were sucked in a violent swirling vortex into the air. The tall shadows were filled with a harsh grinding wail, as if some vast primitive being were in torment. A dark alien shape thrust the branches aside and flattened the mossy ground like a giant foot, growling and rumbling as it gradually solidified.

Its great winking yellow eye gave a final malevolent glare and went dark. Its tormented roars subsided. The flying leaves and shattered twigs fluttered to the ground as the tortured foliage ceased its lashing struggle.

The forest held its breath as if listening and watching to see what the alien intruder would do. But for a long time it did nothing at all. It was a blue-painted wooden structure, rather like a fat sentry box. On its roof was an amber-coloured beacon and around the top sat a row of frosted glass win-

-dows. Above the windows on each side was a neatly painted notice announcing that it was a: POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX

Another notice on a metal panel beside the main door explained how the public could use the telephone behind the panel to contact the emergency services.
In the humid shadows the object looked completely out of place. It was also completely out of its time...

Inside the police box four people were standing around a large hexagonal console which was covered in dials, displays, gauges, buttons, levers and other highly advanced instruments. In the centre of the console, a transparent cylindrical mechanism which had been slowly spinning to and fro and rising and falling was just settling to rest, watched intently by the four onlookers.
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Steve Lacey@quizlacey· Apr 24