Reading up on the salaryman genre to get my head around these three dorks!

Researching the time-honoured tradition of Kongsploitation. King Dong (2005), King Klunk (1933), Kinky Kong (2006), Queen Kong (1976)...

NEW PUBLICATION! My second essay this month on Eye in the Sky: "TARGET CONFIRMED: DRONE VISUALITY, DEHUMANISATION AND THE WEEPING SOLDIER IN EYE IN THE SKY" In War Faces on Screen, ed. Mani Sharpe and Katy Parry. Full info here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/war-faces...

NEW PUBLICATION: "The Ticking Bomb Drone Strike: Drone Warfare and Emergency Ethics in Eye in the Sky", in a new book called Human Rights in the Age of Drones. I've written a lot on this film, and I'm proud to publish this concise version of my thoughts on it here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Researching for King Kong 1933...

If you enjoyed Skreeonk's remarks about bisexual lighting in Godzilla Vs Kong, you may enjoy my essay that I wrote on exactly that! Here's a long read about colour, 'seriousness', and queer-coded lighting in the MonsterVerse: popmec.hypotheses.org/5186

The Mighty Kong (1998)

Doing some background on Eiji Tsuburaya by watching The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya. Really interesting historical piece!

Bargain alert! In the Routledge end of year sale, my book POLITICAL TORTURE IN POPULAR CULTURE is reduced to a mere £120 hardback and £33.59 paperback! www.routledge.com/Political-To...

Looking for Christmas presents? Allow me to recommend Kill Box, my book on cultural representations of drone warfare, now only £85! www.bloomsbury.com/us/kill-box-...

Writing about Gigantis again: youtu.be/Qj4dZpqec5E?...

if youre trans and youre struggling to justify why you as a person should be allowed to take up space in the universe just consider that by your sheer existence you make a lot of the worst people on earth mad enough that they will die early deaths from stress. so thats a p good reason

Love songs from the swamp: Support indie publishing by grabbing your copy of DEVASTATION SONGS from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Luminous Fairies and Mothra shipped!!

If you want a model of how to do Kaiju scholarship, look no further than @chrisstewardson.bsky.social's great book on Ghidorah, the Three-headed Monster! Snappy & accessible, but wide-ranging and informed by deep knowledge of relevant historical, political and genre contexts. Highly recommended!!

Trying to find the article that Honda wrote about his time working in a comfort women camp - "Reflections of an Officer in Charge of Comfort Women", in Movie Art Magazine (perhaps Eiga geijetsu in Japanese). Does anybody have any insight into finding this article, or better, a copy of it?

About to watch Predator: Badlands & trying not to get too caught up in the hype. Here's my We Are The Mutants essay on the original, in case you missed it: wearethemutants.com/2020/12/03/i... #predator #predatorbadlands #demonology #monstermovie

Quick reminder that my episode of KAIJU COMICCAST discussing GODZILLA IN HELL is live now: open.spotify.com/episode/5nCQ...

I had a great time talking to the lovely Russell at @kaijucomiccast.bsky.social about GODZILLA IN HELL. It would mean a lot if you could have a listen via @kaijuunited.bsky.social here: kaijuunited.com/kaiju-comicc... 1/

I really enjoyed talking to Russ about GODZILLA IN HELL. Check it out!!

Very excited about this news, and intrigued about what we will see in this sequel. Also fairly irked by the mathematically incoherent title

Holy moly 😍😍😍

NEW LONG READ on Kaiju United! (@kaijuunited.bsky.social). "God-killing and the Gag Order: Revision, Rearmament, and Takashi Yamazaki’s ‘Minus One’ Novelization" looks at the politics of G-1 thru a close reading of the newly-translated novelization. Get reading, gang! kaijuunited.com/2025/10/03/g...

After years of being unable to remember the name of a weird & unsettling movie that I saw way too young, I finally cracked the mystery. It was ALTERED STATES. Though it is dated and pretentious in places, its visions of hell struck me as strongly this week as they did when I was a baffled teenager!

Godzilla 2000 (1999) Trailer #godzilla

As an LGBTQ+ writer/creator, I stand in solidarity with @hamishsteele.bsky.social & all other LGBTQ+ creators. #lgbt #solidarity #writer

For anybody who enjoyed my recent @kaijuunited.bsky.social piece, a quick thread of some of my other Godzilla writing! First up: The Colour of Monstrosity, an essay about the MV's use of colour! "Godzilla Vs Kong needs you to know that it likes to party." popmec.hypotheses.org/5186 1/

Very pleased with this essay on @kaijuunited.bsky.social! It was a really interesting piece to think about and research, and the guys at KU are wonderful to work with. Give it a look if you can!

NEW COMMUNITY ARTICLE Guest Contributor @gdemonology.bsky.social dives into the political themes of the newly translated 'Minus One' novelization. Read here: kaijuunited.com/2025/10/03/g... #Godzilla #Kaiju #Esasay #GodzillaMinusOne

NEW LONG READ on Kaiju United! (@kaijuunited.bsky.social). "God-killing and the Gag Order: Revision, Rearmament, and Takashi Yamazaki’s ‘Minus One’ Novelization" looks at the politics of G-1 thru a close reading of the newly-translated novelization. Get reading, gang! kaijuunited.com/2025/10/03/g...

Excited to see the new Ishiro Honda documentary at a cool cult cinema in Manchester!

Yet another novelization for the collection - this time the junior novelization of G98. Just waiting on The Luminous Fairies and Mothra...

Novelization collection grows!!

Novelization Day!!

Trashtastic DVD haul: This Island Earth, Piranha, and M3GAN!!

Today's reading: Edwin Hoyt's biography of Tojo, WARLORD

A publisher just sent me a docusign link inviting me to make my work available for generative AI licensing. No fuckin thanks scumbags

Enjoy!!

A certified good post day. Time to listen to poundshop smut and read some Kaiju tales @cheapshow.bsky.social @gdemonology.bsky.social @godzillakent.bsky.social

Some Australian colleagues are being tendentiously sued by hardline Zionists. This case goes to the heart of freedom of speech and the right to criticise Israeli genocide. Any donation will help them! "Help USyd Palestine advocates defeat Israel Lobby legal attack!" chuffed.org/project/1432...

Recommended: Speculative Whiteness by Jordan S. Carroll. Fantastic short read about fascism and science fiction!

Radioactive dreams, hallucinated memories, love songs to the swamp: DEVASTATION SONGS collects essential poetry and short fiction about kaiju. Order now via @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page... #godzilla #kaiju #poetry #shortfiction #gamera #gorgo

Working on proofs!

Researching an essay on Dirty Harry and catching up with Travis Linnemann's excellent book on police and the horror genre!

Conservative grievances are eternal: "When, apart from today, has such a lazy, soft, idle and sensual manner of living, which overturns the foundations of Christian penitence and banishes the austerity of the New Testament from the world, ever been seen?" (1786)

Conservative grievances are eternal: "When, apart from today, has such a lazy, soft, idle and sensual manner of living, which overturns the foundations of Christian penitence and banishes the austerity of the New Testament from the world, ever been seen?" (1786)

Podcast research...

Happy Father’s Day!