Spooky Stuff over at John Scalzi’s Whatever…
…where I discuss how the local spooky lore of my home city influenced me book, The Keep Within. Oooooo…
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On Watching 1917 A Second Time…
Weird how events change you. When I first saw 1917 back when it came out it hit me in the feels, sure, but I watched it last night and the end teared me up (I honestly can’t remember when last that happened). I now realise the difference is I hadn’t been through a Big Thing […]
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The story of No Other, Gene Clark’s searingly beautiful album terrifies me. Gene Clark sobered up, toiled hard and opened his D-minor heart to the world and the world of 1974 didn’t want it. In fact the record company removed it from their catalogue entirely and it was only after Clark’s sad death in the […]
Read more "The Sadness Of ‘No Other’"History (increasingly) belongs to the bullshitters
No one takes the Rome-never-happened person seriously on account of her being so ludicrous and thin-skinned. But it’ll only take someone charismatic and superficially reasonable to jump her grift and I’ll be spending my final years being mocked by midwits for believing Ovid wasn’t Stephanie Harris or Zack Snyder or whatever. And it’ll be my […]
Read more "History (increasingly) belongs to the bullshitters"The Questionable Beast Of Gloucester
Maybe the best dream I ever had came in the form of a cheap History Channel-style documentary, In Search Of The Questionable Beast Of Gloucester, a cryptid seen only once by an 18th century pastor who espoused the healing properties of gin. The America narrator kept mispronouncing Gloucester. There was a reenactment of the encounter. […]
Read more "The Questionable Beast Of Gloucester"Glitterati
I had the rather swell privilege of getting to read Oliver K. Langmead’s ‘Glitterati’ before it comes out and I really recommend you look out for it. It’s a satire about a caste of super fashionable people in a dystopian future they benefit from but don’t even understand. It’s really imaginative and funny and- surprisingly- […]
Read more "Glitterati"The Many Eyes Of Mrs Worrad
Dreamed I was lying in bed with a big spider on my chest. It kept seeing off other spiders that approached and then I realised it saw me as its mate. A Victorian-style headmaster appeared and said something like ‘Worrad, don’t you think it’s time you made an honest arachnid out of her?’ and next […]
Read more "The Many Eyes Of Mrs Worrad"How To Be Happy
Happiness is like a flock of butterflies, fragile and ignorant to your beck and call. But satisfaction? That’s something you’ve power over, can make grow by working on things that truly fire you. Satisfaction is a field of flowers and flowers attract butterflies from time to time.
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