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My housemate just said that Lust For Life is ‘y’know, that song where Iggy Pop takes his top off’ and I’m just giggling at the idea it’s just one song where it’s his gimmick and then he puts his top back on and things go back to normal.

Someone keeps sticking googlie eyes on everything in our pub. It’s terrorism I tell you! Pure terrorism!

Apparently we’re in the midst of another X-odus. Welcome one and all. If you’re a fellow fantasist you might want to check out my starter packs: 🧵 1/5 Fantasy Authors Part 1: go.bsky.app/2juFpGj

Harry’s apartment in When Harry Met Sally is absolutely gorgeous. Never noticed before.

I feel like in the space of my lifetime brutalist architecture has gone from being a pleasure of a small minority and become a question where what you choose puts you in a defined camp and says something about you. The pro argument gets stronger as the crapper Brutalism goes and the great remains.

I finally uploaded my Mr Benn/Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion pic to Redbubble so here's some ideal Christmas gifts for the Gen X Fantasy Nerd in your life www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1769...

Helen Gaius Mohiam in Dune Part Two: “We Bene Gesserit do not hope. We plan.” Helen Gaius Mohiam in Dune Part One: “Goodbye young human, I hope you live.”

People aren’t ready for my Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein is an Emperor Of Mankind origin story theory…

Meanwhile on Twitter I may have found peak 2025…

PER MY LAST TABLET,

A guy came into the pub last night whose high paid job was in AI. He was exactly the hollow, soulless, right wing, passive aggressive, entitled prick you’ve already expected him to be when you started reading this.

Could I just have one day off, one good writing day, where my manager at my pub doesn’t post something weird and frustrating in the WhatsApp group? I sense this isn’t a niche quibble that only this writer has.

The Goddess of Braunston, discovered in 1920 when builders lifted up a stair and found the other side had a face. No one is certain of its historicity. Some argue it’s pre-Roman (and neo-pagans occasionally leave offerings before her), but no one is entirely sure. I just think she’s neat.

Enjoying The War Between The Land Snd Sea. The Aquas are fucking lucky they selected the right ordinary person to be the land’s ambassador though. The man’s middle aged, white and divorced. He could easily have started going on about vaccination conspiracies and cryptocurrency.

Thoughts about The War Between The Land And Sea jamesworrad.com/2025/12/08/q...

The truth is I never left the studio. They just let me out of the cupboard twice a year.

Just used the phrase "Chuckaroo Banzai" about a food item that needed to be thrown out. In case anyone needs a nerd reference to food today.

Watching the movie Fury. Major: ‘How many Sherman’s did you bring?’ Sergeant: ‘Four.’ Major: ‘Shit. We need ten.’ Me, watching and punching the air:

Train delayed, I’ll get bus. Bus delayed, I’ll get uber. Uber will be fifteen minutes. Ever had that feeling that some days there’s a force actively stopping you getting somewhere? An invisible sludge…

Saw a long hot water bottle round my friends’ house and it looked like a scene from Jim Henson’s Dune…

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

Squirrel update: took a little chestnut mushroom to the park and broke a bit off for my new pal (Wikipedia said they can eat fungus) but he wasn’t keen. Maybe he prefers shiitakes.

There’s a deep cosmic horror to Macbeth that I’m currently trying to process. He was doomed to kill Duncan even through he could have sat and waited, but he couldn’t because of his personality. Character defines fate, as the old Greek said, and that’s true, but it also means there’s no free will.

Lil guy came up to me again today. He’s only trying to feed his family in a cold season. I told him I had nothing but I’d bring him something tomorrow. Couple packs of noodles or something. 😊

This lil guy kept looking at me for about a minute or more while I worked out on the park. Nice to make friends.

Some TERF added me to their little Twitter list, not entirely sure why. I’ll take it as a compliment.

Early Christmas present to self. Just in time for some editing.

This coming Thursday I am at Waterstones Gower Street talking 10 years of Children of Time with Temi Oh. www.waterstones.com/events/celeb...

It’s been a hilarious day over there.

Anyone else noticed this trend of silent adverts on Youtube? They pop up when you're listening to music on YT or an audio story. The idea is, I think, to make you think there's something wrong with your wifi and thus you'll look at the screen. Maybe I'm paranoid but I'm sure that's the damn plan.

"One day our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.” -Orson Welles

It’s taken decades and countless frustrations for me to accept I am a terrible judge of character. And you know what? I think we probably all are. Some deep and final vanity beyond looks and intellect gets in the way.

I noticed Epstein’s email address hadn’t been removed from the new releases and so, in one of my more tasteless and ill-advised moves, I tried sending an email for a laugh and was surprised it didn’t bounce. Sixteen hours later I got this reply and now I’m a bit creeped out.

So I can announce I’ve a story in this here beauty from Flame Tree Press. It’s a spitfire vs dragon situation with a sapphic romance thrown in. You know, the usual. blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

I’d love someone to take all the famous alleged photos of Bigfoot and photoshop them into one single picture so that we can see the whole darn blurry-ass family.

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

They say our culture lacks coming-of-age rites but honestly I think a boy becomes a man when he realises Scorsese is superior to Tarantino.

Joe Worrad (1938 - 1925) jamesworrad.com/2025/11/03/j...

The Andrew formerly known as Prince...

It’s the conservatives in a society that are responsible for revolution. They conserved too much.

So if AI can write a work email for you do you think that’ll make your life easier or will your boss realise they can just give you an absolute shit ton of emails to do?

Goodreader takes a stand for Pennyblade…

Picked up a newspaper for my dad and it feels different nowadays, carrying a paper through town. A little old-fashioned but also a little aristocratic, like walking around with a riding crop. You feel a cut above the smartphone masses, almost as if you’re on a penny farthing.

Midnight plushie appreciation

If You’re So Vain is secretly about Mick Jagger then Carly Simon pulled a baller move asking him to sing backing vocals on the track.