At the risk of being a total saddo, a bit of Antiques Road Trip at lunch only to discover the auctioneer has a Crass badge?!

Rutland Weekend Television (2nd June 1975). Time to relax with the latest edition of The Old Grey Whistle Test.

This is a messed-up world for sure but there are also literally too many amazing books and records and films and ideas to devour at the moment and that’s gotta count for something.

New zine/pamphlet/booklet/whateves - A Celebration of the General; a poem of enclosure with words by Justin Hopper, artwork by Tom Eglington and design by Stefan Musgrove. Now available... jackdawshivers.bandcamp.com/merch/a-cele...

New zines incoming next weekend, with gorgeous covers (and insides) designed by Stefan Musgrove of Moth House Studios: A Celebration of the General (found poetry of enclosure for Constable 250) and They Live By Lamp Light (psychogeographic strategies for data centres, for Weirding Sustainability)

Events in June - 4th in Norwich at the Bookhive, 5the in Cambridge at the Weirding Sustainability Symposium, 18th in York and 19th in Sussex - all FREE but for Sussex Retold. linktr.ee/oldweirdalbion for the 🔗 s

New game: decrease a graffiti writer. I’ll start:

An ultra low-budget adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, made by a school in Fulham in 1972. Realistically the most interesting film you'll watch this year. youtu.be/Yhht9DFqlxU?...

I went on the Uncanny Landscapes podcast to discuss the complex natural and social history of Epping Forest, the problems of rewilding and nature cure orthodoxy, sex, and instinctual fear of woodland at night. Images from Epping Forest, earlier. uncannylandscapes.podbean.com

On 4 June I’ll be at The BookHive in Norwich, chatting to @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social about ‘Paradise’ and ‘Dead The Long Year’. I imagine a conversation about landscape, thresholds, Modernism, art, magic and much more. Come join us! It’s free - reserve your place at www.thebookhive.co.uk/evebnts/

I'm a huge fan of Uncanny Landscapes, so massive thanks to @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social for having me along. I still love raving about Epping Forest, now seven years after Out Of The Woods was published. www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/luke-...

Bone tired, so am going to the door in the wood. I may be some time.

My man looks like he directed an arthouse biopic about the Pillsbury Doughboy.

Tha missus has been making crochet cryptids and such. Crochet Cthulhu is adorable.

A few reasons to order books from Longbarrow Press: 1. First-rate poems 2. Scrupulously edited 3. Meticulously designed 4. Handsomely produced 5. Fastidiously packaged longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Christopher Budd, of Shindig! and Belbury Poly fame, has released a springtime mix of his current listenings in (mostly) psychedelic pop www.mixcloud.com/cbudd/spring...

I always preferred Billy Bragg's love songs to his political stuff.

"What a queer duck!" —H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, 14 Dec 1933 re: Aleister Crowley

At some point being a parent began to mean 40+ WhatsApp’s before 8am.

Lots of deadline pressure today and, unrelated, some granola just fell out of my hair. I swear it didn't used to be this way.

As a child in the 1970s, I remember thinking: gosh, when I grow up I hope there are no libraries, no English Literature degrees, no bookshops, no decent public services, no Top of the Pops, no Woolworths, just an endless plain of sport and home computers. Feel blessed to have lived to see it happen.

Happy 143rd birth-anniversary to Victor B. Neuburg - poet, publisher, occultist, here in a very rare image from 1917.

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

Nero playin fiddle was b.s. but normal people playin fiddle during the burning were a-ok with me.

While forest furs the earth, a subterrain shrugged from shrubbery and trees mulches over land’s rock-bones, our lungs unpleat and iron streams our veins. 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite A new collection Published today by Longbarrow Press: longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

It's #DistanceDrift time, and as we're still in the midst of May weekend, today's prompt celebrates some iconic symbols of the season: maypoles and milkmaids. Wherever you wander, seek out evidence of them lurking in the environment... Interpret freely, as ever; share finds as you go or at the end.

Q for football fans: who do Chelsea fans despise more, Spurs or West Ham? I feel like there is an answer - like, it’s not just ‘both’… and obvs has implications…

It appears based on experience of moments ago that when a white man of my age group types it, iphone autocorrects the word 'rush' to 'Rush'. Sigh. #powerwindows indeed.

what a terrible day to be able to read

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About once a year I'm reminded of the nonexistent album I once read a review of believing it was real - 'It Takes a Nation of Millions Now Living Will Never Die to Hold Us Back: A post-rock tribute to Public Enemy' - and google it just in case. Nope, still doesn't exist. Annoying.

I've had the pleasure of a) seeing this book materialise as object during design stage, b) hearing Fay read the developing work over the last few years, & c) welcoming it into my studio for yesterday's photoshoot. Fay is a terrific writer. This is an important, lyrical, & gently political book.

Lots of Victor Neuburg activity at the moment - not bad for a guy who's been dead 86 years! First today I found a never-before-known poem Neuburg wrote in 1919. Now, a photo of his friend - who became Mrs Neuburg's friend-w-benefits - the magnificent Ivan Collins (real name: Colin Evans)!

London: Monday, 13 April, I'm in-conversation with Travis Elborough at the legendary Colony Room (Green), Heddon Street, in the Mayfair/Soho borderlands, talking occult modernism in London, 1912, re my book Dead the Long Year! come ahhht!

London: Monday, 13 April, I'm in-conversation with Travis Elborough at the legendary Colony Room (Green), Heddon Street, in the Mayfair/Soho borderlands, talking occult modernism in London, 1912, re my book Dead the Long Year! come ahhht!

I can't believe a FIFA Peace Prize winner would do this

This is the president and he’s basically saying he’s going to order genocide against the people he told ‘help is on the way’ earlier this calendar year. He’s absolutely got to be removed from office. There is a mechanism and today is without any shadow of a doubt what it is there for.

I’m in a cafe by the highway and they’re playing the divine Bettye Swan. It’s been too long since I heard her voice. One of the greatest of the greats she must be.

New episode of Uncanny Landscapes is out now. On alls the platforms. Ben Tufnell discusses his new novel Paradise - a brilliant slice of pastoral-noir fiction inspired by his decades as a curator of contemporary landscape art in London.

New episode of Uncanny Landscapes is out now. On alls the platforms. Ben Tufnell discusses his new novel Paradise - a brilliant slice of pastoral-noir fiction inspired by his decades as a curator of contemporary landscape art in London.

Turns out there is a danger of extinction to indigenous inhabitants of the British isles, so maybe we ought to do something about it? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today in Cronenberg.

Oh wow. Never seen that performed. This clip of @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social doing the aforementioned is something I wished I witnessed. youtu.be/f9RvZLXW5xg?...

London Irish in full force at Stansted airport - I assume going to the match? Cockney accents and Ireland football tops today’s top style. 💚

Is it a giant wooden horse

If there's one thing that everyone agrees on it's that I'm on the cutting edge of hip-hop culture. Which is why Rimas e Batidas - 'A cultura hip hop e sons emergentes em português' - has written about our event Thursday night in Lisbon... www.rimasebatidas.pt/damas-exibem...

Fifth 'cold' of 2026. Me 'n' Thomas are on the sofa watching One Piece... there are literally >1,000 episodes of it. 🫠 What's a movie I could stand that a 10-yr-old might be interested in?

Penny Rimbaud, later of Crass, receiving records as a prize from John Lennon on Ready Steady Go, 1964 🤯

Strong ‘battle of Stalingrad’ energy from A.Kiedis here. Gutting a horse to keep warm etc eaten his shoes; Pervitin running low.

Remembering Prince Far I who was born on this day in 1945. This 7" of Zion Call is on the same rhythm as Errol Holt's Gimmie Gimmie. Prince Far I later re-voiced it as Concrete Column on his Message From The King LP... youtu.be/gQqoCetRJ_g?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky