"Ah, Watson - I see you are establishing a new medical practice/recently married/nursing your war-time traumas, but I would appreciate your companionship on my latest investigation. Could you spare the time?" "Of course, my dear chap!" "Excellent - let us hail a cab and go fuck this shit up."

I hasten to add, Mr Pastry wasn't in for murder

Columbo's ACTUAL comic book appearances -- cameos, really -- happen in The Brave and the Bold vol.1 No.109 (Oct 1973, “Gotham Bay, Be My Grave”) and then again in Adventure Comics vol.1 No.439 (May 1975 “The Voice That Doomed the Spectre”), below:

Good idea!

Something often unaddressed when discussing writing is that you have to actually figure out what you want to say before you can write anything worth reading. Often, the act of the WRITING is how you figure out what you are saying. Then you edit to SAY it. That process is what many lose with LLMs.

We did that in Yorkshire, too. Candlewax and turnips, a very evocative smell.

The "Dracula Effect" also hit me when watching Abel Gance's Napoléon, when the boys at military school bother to fight a snowball battle against the kids led by the Corsican boy called Napoléon who's even wearing the hat.

A Look Around You-ized sitcom. What's not to love?

I have issues rendering the multitrack (where I add the music clips) into a file of a certain length. The solution is to render it as two shorter files and combine them re-encoding the wavs to mp3.