I've seen your work in the New York Times Inked in the martyrs' blood of Palestine As before: in Dachau, Auschwitz & Buchenwald Between blackletter Fraktur bylines to genocide

I've seen your work in the New York Times Inked in the martyrs' blood of Palestine As before: in Dachau, Auschwitz & Buchenwald Between blackletter Fraktur bylines to genocide

As promised—a short ghost story to put you in the Halloween spirit! The House on Galloway Road: a Small-town Haunting 30 min. Best enjoyed in the dark with 🎧 Trigger warning: EVERYTHING. Listen at your own risk! Don't blame me if it ruins your life. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/col...

I hope everyone is doing well! I'm still alive, tho I don't really get online much these days. I've been drifting around and doing some photojournalism recording our current reality. I don't know when I'll be back this way again but I wish you all the best of luck and success. Stay safe, my friends!

Folks, we've had a great time but my ride is here.

Dear 30 sickos, I've decided to retire from the digital realm & return to civilian life. I wanted to thank all of you for the support, company & laughs over these last few years. "The House on Galloway Road" will be my last gift/curse to you. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/col...

Nothing makes bedtime cosier than some taboo-breaking soul-violating Horror! Enjoy it while you can—I'll probably take it down again after Halloween.

To celebrate the publication of my new ghost story episode "The House on Galloway Road" I redid my profile banner! You can find the real publication post below. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/col...

As promised—a short ghost story to put you in the Halloween spirit! The House on Galloway Road: a Small-town Haunting 30 min. Best enjoyed in the dark with 🎧 Trigger warning: EVERYTHING. Listen at your own risk! Don't blame me if it ruins your life. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/col...

Hope to have this up tomorrow night!

Recorded a special free Halloween ghost story for you all & I'll put it up this weekend. Some ghost stories aim to terrify the listener. Some—like the Rime of the Ancient Mariner—leave the listener a "sadder & a wiser man." I hope my ghost story ruins your life. Like it ruined mine.

Absolutely fucking wild to share this elsewhere, only for people to respond with “yeah, I only use ChatGPT for personal recreation!” or “according to the laws of thermodynamics I think individual queries only use up half a bottle of water each, not a whole bottle.” Y’all…

I think I will put up a special true crime/ghost story episode of my podcast...if I can ever remember how to log in. This is not the previously mentioned project that I also hope to get out this month. It's just a fun one-off. I like ghost stories.

So, I'm working on something to share with you all for Halloween. Hopefully I'll have something to announce concretely on that shortly. I hope you've all been dealing with the seasonal change better than me!

“I don’t take any heat because I know who I am”

Anyone who thinks old movies aren't funny has never watched My Man Godfrey.

Anyone who thinks old movies aren't funny has never watched My Man Godfrey.

you wouldn't believe what happened to me. but it's too long to explain anyway.

Gon out. Bisy. Backson

You can't write a story about people in the world without making a series of political choices. However, many authors do this without realizing it & believe their work apolitical. Reader, consider the assumptions an author makes about human nature—there you'll find the politics.

Stories—of any genre—w/ human-like characters in material worlds ALWAYS contain political elements. Politics emerge wherever you find social relationships & resource management. Patterns of conflict & control are limited in their variety & will often echo our own experience.

I decided to take a break and reread The Name of the Rose—and what a great book for the times it is!

I only have one Cadfael audiobook read by Derek Jacobi left to go and I'm already sad of it. Have you listened to his reading of Ackroyd's Hawksmoor? You should. I looked around for what he's recorded that I don't have—picked up Le Morte d'Arthur (even tho it's abridged!!!).

imo the nicest english word is "neorxnawang" which ælfric of eynsham used in his translation of genesis to refer to the edenic paradise. it is likely, however, that the word itself had prechristian roots & originally described an afterlife concept from earlier germanic religions.

Rewriting a book is basically like the bit in the Doctor Who story Castrovalva where they're deleting TARDIS rooms to generate thrust.

I QT'd something on twitter with like a "Nice!" and a 95k follower account RT'd it, and now I'm getting spammed with infinite notes on something that's barely a sentence. So, I shall sit here in the dark for a bit.

When we teach Shakespeare it's common to say his plays are meant to be heard/watched, not read. I'd say too that Shakespeare is best understood by actors—not folks from the literature dept. Watch this now, it is very informative. Ian McKellen on MacBeth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGbZ...

The Jena Codex

The Jena Codex

Hussite imagery from the Jena Codex c. 1500

Found a 25 year-old blue book exam from an Intro to Shakespeare course I took 25 years ago. I did pretty well for not having read the plays.

Found a 25 year-old blue book exam from an Intro to Shakespeare course I took 25 years ago. I did pretty well for not having read the plays.

I find it strange that in the 21st century people are still writing histories of the Peasants' Revolt that portray the "peasants" as greedy, ignorant, ill-mannered bumpkins who deserved to be ruthlessly suppressed by the state.

Have you seen this? Alan Cumming singing "I Don't Care Much" from Cabaret. I think this is from the first '93 Donmar Warehouse revival—but don't quote me on that. This is how Shakespeare's fools should be played. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDS3...

AI's first priority being the elimination of creativity rather than drudgery tells you all you need to know about the intended purpose of AI.

In other words, it's not "inevitable" and there is in fact a point to resisting it.

Have you seen this? Alan Cumming singing "I Don't Care Much" from Cabaret. I think this is from the first '93 Donmar Warehouse revival—but don't quote me on that. This is how Shakespeare's fools should be played. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDS3...

The look my cat gives me as I spend ten minutes searching for the remote control he's napping on.

Hey, kid...wanna see something good? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdn0...

Hey, kid...wanna see something good? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdn0...

With AI beating down the door, I feel we're past worrying about "good/bad" art. Art's not about achieving some ideal form. Art is ALWAYS an attempt. Did a human make it? Did you learn by making it? Did you do your best to express yourself? Art is life. Live it on your own terms.

With AI beating down the door, I feel we're past worrying about "good/bad" art. Art's not about achieving some ideal form. Art is ALWAYS an attempt. Did a human make it? Did you learn by making it? Did you do your best to express yourself? Art is life. Live it on your own terms.

the defense is going to be "we didn't have a choice, it's too expensive" which is true! it is too expensive, because these models are at the point of being trained on all of human output and still running out of good data to train on but that's not the problem of the people whose data they stole

Newsweek Cover, April 6, 1992: Computers to Go

Back on my bullshit again.... [translation] rewatching season 1 of Cadfael

Writers have been some of the worst people about using AI & making excuses for why it's okay to use in THEIR illustrations, covers & promos. Most of these types never wanted to write anyway—they wanted to make a comic/film/videogame but lacked talent, so they write a book & hope it gets "adapted."

There is no art without an artist. AI is theft.

Writers have been some of the worst people about using AI & making excuses for why it's okay to use in THEIR illustrations, covers & promos. Most of these types never wanted to write anyway—they wanted to make a comic/film/videogame but lacked talent, so they write a book & hope it gets "adapted."