I find this image terrifying. I spotted it on Twitter and immediately recognised it as an Assyrian relief then almost as immediately realised that I would have seen it before now, given I’m an ancient history nerd. It’s an AI generated image. But I only spotted that because I’m of the last few generations who […]
Read more "A Suffocating Feeling"Found this illustration (by Meig Dickson) and it could almost be the cover of the book I’m writing. I’m 97,000 words in and I think it’ll top out at 120.
Read more "Work In Progress Update"David Cameron’s favourite eighties movie, according to Amazon Prime’s trivia. However, I didn’t let the former prime minister’s approval put me off. Eyes Of Fire is about some European settlers transgressing taboo land and features a patriarchal character full of belief in his abilities but lacking any sense or spine. Weird how the art we […]
Read more "What I Watched: Eyes Of Fire (1983)"QUEST (1984). Saul Bass is rightly famous for his title sequence designs for Hitchcock and Kubrick but he also turned his hand at film making, like this short fantasy/sci—fi movie based on a Ray Bradbury tale. Humans live for only eight days on a strange world, but they send a boy on a quest to […]
Read more "What I’m Watching: Quest (1984)"There’s a lot of memes nowadays about the blithe serenity and sanity of the 90s/early 2000s and I get it, totally. The world before the social media demon burst forth was, looking back, a more certain place. A place we wished we’d saved as a checkpoint so we could have a crack at things again […]
Read more "Of Then vs Now"Cripes, there’s an image to appear in my FB memories. Sat in Room 3 of Premier Inn Leicester North West during lockdown and editing a manuscript of Pennyblade to the tune of both my editor and agent. A weird time, a crossroads, full of fear and excitement: disease stalked the land and I was caretaker […]
Read more "A Photo From Four Years Past"Saw this very niche bumper sticker in my neighbourhood. It’s funny how a guy from 5000 years ago is now cursed to have his shady business practices mocked all over the internet. And, you know what? Screw him. His copper’s shit.
Read more "The Curse Of Ea-Nasir"(Slight spoilers for Furiosa). An underrated henchperson of the Mad Max universe is Mr Norton from the latest and hopefully not last film, Furiosa. Played by Elsa Pataky, we first see Norton in the chopper fight, where she is wearing a dress and is very much coded as backseat-of-the-chopper gal. But when they’re inducted into […]
Read more "Why Aren’t People Talking About This Gender Expression Arc In Furiosa?"
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