…and while we’re on the subject of late-period Walker Brothers, it’s obvious to everyone that “The Electrician” is a masterpiece, but so is “Lines”. youtu.be/nVb98gI3hfU?...

Apple Music serving up a Joe Fagin hits album because obviously it thinks I'm a trucker living in 1983.

This is going on the shopping list. Not one I've seen before but judging by the trailer, the soundtrack is a doozy too.

My first thought? "Great weekend".

For anyone who isn't inclined towards making their own art or design but wonders what it's like for those who attempt to make a living out of it, I'd be willing to bet that this a fairly common outlook:

See this? QRT with your ghost art 👻💀 #horrorart #illustration #ghost I *still* haven't come close to finishing these, but in fairness I've got a lot of other projects on at the moment.

As a reasonably fat-arsed gentleman, I would like to assert that the return of low-rise jeans can fuck right off back to the early 2000s. My intellectual and emotional cracks are frequently on display, I don't need to add any physical ones to the roster.

Oh god. @scarredforlife.bsky.social, have you clocked this one yet?

BlueSky: the social media network for kids who were excited when it was a Wet Playtime.

Ephemerama - out today. Links below to parts 1 and 2. Spread the word. Ta.

Can't fail to be cheered up by the sight of Lowly Worm pootling around in his little car.

Spring!

"Well that's thoroughly worrying, depressing, unnecessary and infuriating, isn't it?" he asked, rhetorically.

My partner has had a truly rotten couple of weeks discovering that her beautiful artwork has been stolen & sold by sellers (a print we purchased to do detective work👇🏻) on Amazon, Temu, Redbubble, Etsy & others. Please visit her own Etsy shop & cheer her up www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Clar... Thanks 🙏🏻

Yeah, well I’m glad I’m at work and unable to watch Top of the Pops, so whatever.

I’ll be having some of these magnificent buggers when they’re available.

And now I'm thinking about the Blankety Blank chequebook and pen. Again.

Original artwork for The Woman in Black. £150 plus P&P (pen not included) 21.2 x 30.5 cm Email: [email protected]

Today, I learned the word "gombeen" and what means. It is a truly splendid and useful word for the time we're living in.

As if working in any sort of retail environment in 2026 wasn’t enough of an ordeal already.

We need democratic equality. We should demand proportionate voting. Labour’s members, unions and growing numbers of MPs already back it. We must end the era of accepting democratic legitimacy exists on a minority of votes. It doesn’t.

I think the werewolf from Paul Naschy's "The Werewolf and The Yeti" (1975) might be the best werewolf.

That's a wutherin'.

No, I do not want to abseil down my local hospital - even for charity. I work there, I know what state NHS buildings are in.

I appreciate the fact that Firefox are at least offering the option to disable all of the shiteware.

The daily news cycle was even bumming Cthulhu out. #grickledoodle #horror #news #cthulhu #lovecraftian #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

New #LOTR production cels and drawings are now up at our official ebay shop: ebay.us/m/zVATIu

In-store compilation tapes mandated by head office are the reason I detest Robbie Williams' "Millenium", Eagle-Eye Cherry's "Save Tonight" and Jamiroquai's "Deeper Underground". I know many other poor souls will have internalised similar trauma over the years.

Er... no thanks Apple. Although this does remind me of having to listen to "Everyone's Gone to the Moon" and Chicory Tip's "Son of My Father" seven or eight times a day over a dull P.A. system, during my first supermarket Sunday job in 1989.

Animated Pinter is completely new to me and Pleasance is a bonus. Love this. youtu.be/duTSP6trZ24?... If you aren't already aware of it and old T.V. plays are your thing, the Play For Forever channel is well worth perusing on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@playforfore...

When product design hits you with an immediate and profound sense of joy.

The Woman in Black. An unpublished illustration I made for the book by Susan Hill. Image size: 21.2 x 31.5cm £150 plus P&P Email me at: [email protected] for enquiries (Pen not included).

Chris put it better than me, so I'm deleting my post.

Obviously they don't mean "restoring Britain's Christian heritage", they mean importing the U.S.-style evangelical Christo-fascism of their backers. Fortunately, the idea of forcing religion on people here goes down as well as cat sick vol-au-vents.

Oh Christ Jesus NO!!! www.ebay.co.uk/itm/38964066...

I say "great band!" at far too many things these days. "Fungal Nail Infection? Great band, saw 'em supporting Calloused Heel in '97".

...for it is written that at some point, all who learn the art of book layout will find themselves to have strayed unwittingly onto the treacherous, cratered battlefield of footnotes. Great will be their anguish and cursing of Adobe, loud their cries of "fuck this, I'm doing it manually".

One week until I’ll be chatting with Mark Norman about my forthcoming book on the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas at QUAD in Derby. And it’s just one event amongst a plethora of eldritch endeavours at this year’s UK Ghost Story Festival

OK motorists: I'd value your opinion please. Someone crashed into the back of my car today and it was agreed that it was 100% their fault. Do I process the claim through my insurer which may affect my premium and involve an excess, or through theirs and risk them cutting corners? Need new boot hatch

You're usually wrong these days John. Still an amazing song though. #TOTP

I unironically love ROCKY IV, but thank god America is no longer a place where repellent, jingoistic meatheads can make it to the top. #TOTP

Depeche Mode are always far and away the best thing on #TOTP. They always look like they've come straight from the sort of 'party' that you've not even had nightmares about.

And now the missus is laughing at me. Great.

Yeah, I've only *just* twigged what "Chain Reaction" is SPECIFICALLY about.

Actual crime against humanity.

This song would be better if Becky was the one who served the justice #TOTP

I've got a soft spot for the occasional Kenny track, but this one is fucking hideous. #TOTP

Another slice of Imperial Phase Cliff. #TOTP

"Together We Are Beautiful" is a banger, but then what do you expect from the same songwriter who wrote the theme to Doctor Snuggles? #TOTP