Been thoroughly enjoying Rick Veitch's lost Swamp Thing storyline, now published 35+ after it was banned. Part of my joy has been through DC's commitment to the bit with the period adds etc. The weekly check list is a big instant nostalgia fest...read that, had that, L.E.G.I.O.N!

Is your child texting about Steely Dan? OMG: One More Gaucho DIA: Do It Again DSWANLADBTW: Drink Scotch Whiskey All Night Long And Die Behind The Wheel BODHISATTVA: Bodhisattva

Had a lovely last day at work with the best team ever. It was a day full of emotion, and also lots of Natalie Imbruglia conversation.

One of the things I'm going to miss about my job is the once a season long rail journeys to the office which gives me time-out to properly listen to a Dead show with no distractions. This time it's Dave's Picks Vol. 57 as I have a little backlog built up. I really love 1978.

Morning walk from Swanpool to Maen Porth, on my last non-working Monday before all Monday's become non-working.

So far this weekend - 2 new brewery outlets in Falmouth, a gin taproom, a food festival and a mountain stage of the Giro (TV only, sadly not participating myself). Not bad, with 2 more days of this bank holiday still to come.

Ten acts you've seen, female lead singer edition: Daisy Rickman Joanna Newsom Lily Seabird This Is The Kit The New Eves Shonen Knife The Cranberries Sleator-Kinney Rozi Plain Rachael Dadd

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! Nomeansno Bob Weir and Wolf Bros The Grateful Dudes The Misfits Julian Gaskell and His Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Bonnie Prince Billy Half Man Half Biscuit Voka Gentle The Beta Band Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

I have become fixated on the idea that Starmer and Streeting are secretly father and son. In the picture you see here, Streeting fumes because while Daddy is allowed a real coffee drink, he only gets a "babyccino".

Feels weird that Wes Fucking Streeting is lining himself up as being the UK's next PM at exactly the same moment I'm going to be out of work due to his chaotic, directionless leadership of healthcare in the UK. Fuck him. Fuck his transphobia.

In May, a Deadhead's thoughts turn naturally to '77.

Envious that there are no elections in my part of the UK today, as I really want to show my utter disdain for the right wing parties through the medium of voting.

Let me see... Repoman Aliens Predator 2 Akira The Thing Stalker Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure Under The Skin 2001 Enys Men

Top 15 TV Shows ever, by gut instinct only. Twin Peaks Patriot Community Gilmore Girls Deadwood Scooby Doo The Bridge Better Call Saul Babylon Berlin A Very Peculiar Practice Arrested Development Bubblegum Crisis The Thick If It The Expanse Cowboy Bebop

A new definition of the sunk cost fallacy = being 500 pages into Joyce's Ulysses.

Been a week since I saw @vokagentle.bsky.social at Wanderfal and can't stop listening to their marvellous Cheddar Man. Not only is it powerful inventive song, its factually right about datums too, which caters exactly to the music nerd/cartographer niche I inhabit.

New Yacht or Nyacht podcast, just like every Tuesday. Retweet this so folks have a chance to learn about what is and is not yacht rock. Let’s make the world a smoother place. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Happy Milan-Sanremo day to all that celebrate!

Another vote for this too @thestorygraph.com Reading so many Runequest books at the moment, and have an extensive backlog of Cthulhu to work through too.

Signed my voluntary redundancy agreement today so I guess there is no going back now.

I keep forgetting that no matter how dark the world gets and threatens to drag me down into a pit of depression and anxiety that it can always be improved a fraction by the liberal application of Phallus Dei by Amon Düül II.

Well looks like I'll be redundant from the end of May, thus ending my fledgling carto/geospatial career. Still time off to do more important things in life, like try and find a #TTRPG group around #Falmouth #Cornwall with the vague hopes of picking up a #Runequest or #CallOfChulhu game.

RIP Tatjana Wood 1926-2026

Next time you need a list of creative prompts, why not use the episode titles of charming 1977 ovoid automaton TV cartoon "Ludwig":

I love this goofy ass pic of the band so much ENHANCE

Happy to be back doing one of my favorite things: Talking about Grateful Dead live albums that have "Picks" in the title with my best pal Rob Mitchum. tinyurl.com/52m65emf

Does anyone I know have a means to get me a sweetshop invite? I’ve been on the waiting list for a while and I’d really love to be able to start getting my couple of monthly digital comics from there rather than amazon.

Every day I open up the internets, I'm amazed to find that no matter how low my expectations are, Wes Streeting manages to be an even bigger shit than the day before.

I have drunk all the Putty tonight.

Great to hear some Cornish Flag discussion on @yachtrockpodcast.bsky.social this week. @jdryznar.bsky.social @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social. Despite the high volume of yatchs and marinas on the south coast, I'm sad to report there is no lack of native yatch or marina rock scenes here.

For your enjoyment, the Superman screenplay. www.superman.com/script/super...

Feel like the only way to get into the mindset of Arthur Seaton outside of working on a lathe in a bicycle factory is by having a beer while reading Alan Sillitoe. Note I said a beer, not 14 pints and six gin and tonics like in the opening chapter.

wow, a just-surfaced audience tape of a never-heard 1970 version of "box of rain," played in the album arrangement (lesh on guitar, garcia on piano, etc.), probably 9/18/70 at the fillmore east. now the 2nd of 2 known versions like this. tape details in comments. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PkU...

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safe travels to bobby weir in the greater weirdness.

Oh no not Bobby too. So glad I got to see him in London last year. Rest easy my favourite rhythm guitartist. #GratefulDead

Happy New Year and stuff...

One of my fave books of 2025. Go read people!

Spent the day in Minions, stone circles, menhirs, The Cheesering and views galore. Cornwall at its best on a grey, moody December day. #Cornwall #Megaliths

Last night I was visited by three spirits ( my three fav by far )

Spent the weekend prepping for Christmas, and seeing all kinds of lovely people in all kinds of lovely ways. Which is why I'm now feeling totally fucked and want to hide from the world until next year. #socialanxietysucks

Each January our friends at @montecookgames.com run a month-long seminar to help you GM your first game. Once again, Chaosium is one of the game companies taking part in New Gamemaster Month. And for 2026 our featured system is the award-winning Age of Vikings!

Beer after mezcal after wine after frozen margaritas after beer makes you feel...I dunno, gonna have to wait till the morning to find out exactly, but I'm betting not 100%

Note to all HR professionals, don't wear a fucking Santa hat while discussing redundancy options with staff. Thought I'd seen everything shitty in the workplace environment, but there is always something even worse around the corner.

"I would recommend this to fans of #Glorantha... I perceive it as taking us back to the tactical wargaming origins of the Greg Stafford's world, but with modern graphics and gameplay." Here's what video gamers are already saying about the newly-released #RuneQuest Warlords:

Gorse was one of the best books I read this year, so original, and yay Cornwall, because we need more great SF and fantasy set here! I was over the moon when I found out the sequel was immenent, and could read them back to back.

Welcome back to 18th century Cornwall, where Keeper Nancy Bligh is still holding the line against the dark... @samkhorton.bsky.social 's deliciously dark folkloric fantasy Eythin Legacy began with GORSE and continues in RAGWORT! Buy now👇 geni.us/gorse geni.us/ragwort