The Sunken Bell is an unpleasant pub. Grim men, salt-scarred and edging mania, hold to its tables as if to let go would cast them adrift in some terrible storm. Even the local farm perries cannot compensate for what can only be called an atmosphere of doom. - Hookland Fruit Cider Pub Guide, 1980

“Known as the Motorcycle Queen of Miami, Bessie Stringfield started riding when she was 16. She was the first African-American woman to travel cross-country solo, and she did it at age 19 in 1929, riding a 1928 Indian Scout." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_...

New blog post: Month Notes, September 2025 www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

Sainsbury's corn flakes, 1973. From the Sainsbury Archive. Its a little too 'Wicker Man-ish' for me... www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/se...

Occasionally, one finds a street where time flows a little slower or a mews that remembers its former horses in discarnate sounds of hooves clipping its cobbles. For not all hauntings are psychic stain of violence. We are just as likely to be haunted by absence. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

'For all its apparent celebration, the narrative of ‘Cloudbusting’ recounts the repression of utopianism: #WilhelmReich would die in prison within a year of his arrest, his machines destroyed and writings burned by the US government' #KateBush’s Hounds Of Love, 40 Years On buff.ly/B1GSAn1

Today’s Metal & Premodernity class discussed the reception of ancient Egypt by modern Egyptian bands like Crescent 🇪🇬, then read passages from Vergil & Horace in comparison with how bands like Everdawn, Nile, & Ex Deo portray Cleopatra, by way of Elizabeth Taylor, HBO’s Rome, & 300, respectively.

Approaching Shadow Fan Ho

After 35 years of reinventing British pop, Saint Etienne are hanging up their samples, synthesisers, feather boas and football strips for good. Jude Rogers offers 10 ways into their always surprising, genre-splicing back catalogue The Strange World Of… #SaintEtienne buff.ly/eLHPmTz

Late Roman Republic: odi et amo. Late American Republic: odi et ammo.

Wednesday's Weather Rating: 10/10 I am at a loss for words. For the first time ever, five straight days with a perfect rating. And it's just like the rest - sunny with high temperatures in the upper 70s, low dew points and a breeze. The vibes are STILL immaculate!!

“PrOtEcT tHe cHiLdReN”

Tuesday’s Weather Rating: 10/10 PERFECTION!!! High temperatures near 80° F with mostly sunny skies, ridiculously comfortable dew points and a light breeze. The vibes are immaculate out there today!!

1970's Goat pendant and pomander for storing mysterious herbs. It wasn't an era big on subtlety......

Gonna unpaywall and repost this for no particular reason

BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Yes yes yes. theconversation.com/at-50-the-ro...

Aw man. pitchfork.com/news/the-jes...

YOU DON'T NEED (ANY MORE) HEALING How the Wellness Industry Sells Your Pain and How to Reclaim Your Practice 👩‍🔬 marcovisconti.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...

Hey, Just a loving reminder… It maybe just allergies, it may be covid! Many of us are walking around unaware of the residual impact covid is having on us. Be considerate. ♥️

I don't care if a band has antifascist or leftist themes. I want more bands to BE openly antifascist.

NEW: Mayor Eric Adams cut the ribbon on a new campaign office on Thursday, but the Brooklyn storefront it’s inside has a full vacate order following a wall collapse two years ago — meaning technically it isn’t supposed to be occupied. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/08/a...

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Today my blog turns seventeen years old, and my website that it is part of is now twenty-nine years old www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

Friday’s Weather Rating: 9/10 MORE. MORE. High temperatures in the low 80s with comfortable dew points, sunny skies and a light breeze. Still some leftover haze, but the vibes are very good out there!!

Please stop this shit. You are manifesting the very thing they want. Ffs.

As 'Running Up That Hill' turns 40, Matthew Lindsay takes a deep dive into how was it made, what it means and why it's connected so strongly with a younger generation #KateBush's Running Up That Hill turns 40 today! buff.ly/2NJPuKn

English rock singer-songwriter Terry Reid has died at 75. He turned down offers to front both Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin but would end up recommending John Bonham and Robert Plant to Jimmy Page. He went on to an oft-heralded but quieter solo career. #RIPTerryReid m.youtube.com/watch?v=gY-y...

Didn't Google try this a few years ago, and all the people spotted wearing them were either avoided or got a slap?

👀 Looks like the Forgotten Borough will be getting an upgrade…

Leo Season has arrived

Wednesday's Weather Rating: 8/10 STILL ROLLING. High temperatures in the mid 80s with sunny skies and a light southerly breeze. Dew points have risen a little compared to prior days, but it's far from uncomfortable out there. The vibes remain very good today!!

Ozzy Osbourne visited my magic shop. He said he'd like to buy some stink bombs. How many? All of them. I had to go through drawers finding every last one. He bought 900 of them. To sign the credit card slip I handed him a shock pen, which he thought was hilarious and bought that too. RIP

Severaunce The birdes of leavinge Calle to us Yet heere we stonde Endowid Wyth feare of flighte Over lande The wyndes of chaunge Consume the lande While we remayne Yn the shadowe Of someres now passid

Tuesday's Weather Rating: 10/10 THE ELUSIVE JULY PERFECTION!!! High temperatures reach the low 80s with sunny skies, very comfortable dew points and a manageable, pleasant breeze. That's the secret formula, man. The vibes are immaculate out there today!!!

'In my garden' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Please, think about all the poor confused British right wing columnists and politicians who shill for Trump yet still love Murdoch

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Friday's Weather Rating: 7/10 AT LONG LAST. Warm and sunny, but most important of all is that dew points will drop as the day goes on with a nice northeast breeze. For the first time in a while, the vibes are actually comfortable out there!!

With the Annabelle doll in the news, I feel it needs to be said: A lot of popularized ghost hunting is trauma tourism and maybe we should reflect on why that appeals so much

A high schooler has returned home to NYC from ICE custody, released without food or money. Other women in detention told her, "No one leaves from here."

Part of me is “Fuck it, I’m out”, another part is “Fuck it, I don’t need DMs or that other 💩, I’ll stay once this hits NYC”, and a third part is “Fuck it, the entire premise sucks, this is unacceptable”. 2025 has not stopped for ONE SECOND, has it? Damn. 😿

maybe we see people in history the same way we see people online—we constantly forget about their personhood because they're communicated to us in the same medium as fiction

This warm morning’s mango-coloured #buckmoon, with its empty dark seas, hanging low above the sleepy village of Llwyngwril before slipping into that indigo sea.

Such a pleasure to be at the opening of Martin Wright’s beautiful exhibition Sun Discs-an exhibition of works in turf and 23ct gold leaf at Marsh’Library in Dublin last night. The work is a response to Early Bronze Age gold discs in the exhibition Ór @NMIreland. Don’t miss it.

Happy International Day of Ogham! Although the OG(H)AM project has sadly now finished, work on ogham continues. Here is a sneak preview of our digital corpus, still under development, but due to be launched in September! #InternationalDayOfOgham #OG_H_AM

A local video store owner informed me that kids in their 20s are buying up all his VHS horror movies because they think it's "scarier due to the graininess of the video" and that was the most heart-warming thing I've heard in a long time.

Men-An-Tol: Previously at Tate St Ives, now at Tate Britain until 19th October 2025 - the first major exhibition of visionary artist Ithell Colquhoun. A holed stone thought to be the remains of a stone circle.

"This is a Classicists List not a political one." A field of study is doomed when it surrenders its claim to be relevant to the real world, to how we live our lives in relation to other human beings, & cultivate mutual understanding. Isn't that the very point of the humanities?

It *is* kind of wild how the dominant aesthetics of the new fascist movement are AI slop and cosmetic surgery so excessive you look like the Black Hole Sun music video. Nobody ever told them “no that’s a bad idea” and they’ve scared off or pushed away anyone who might.