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!

More on that thing

It’s never too early #Pride #Godzilla

no, next question

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) | Terrifier 3 (2024)

Godzilla Vs SpaceGodzilla (1994) | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

The Cass Review gets peer reviewed and absolutely shredded Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight

Strong candidate for stupidest Godzilla movie title ever (complimentary)

Looking forward to speaking at the centre for Drones and Culture tomorrow! I will be discussing gender and drone warfare to launch my book KILL BOX: MILITARY DRONE SYSTEMS AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION. Register free here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

Amused to be cited in this scientific article that proves - through recourse to various physical principles of fluid dynamics - that the Japanese plan in Godzilla Minus One would not, actually, kill Godzilla: www.mdpi.com/2571-8800/8/... 1/5

Amused to be cited in this scientific article that proves - through recourse to various physical principles of fluid dynamics - that the Japanese plan in Godzilla Minus One would not, actually, kill Godzilla: www.mdpi.com/2571-8800/8/... 1/5

new pfp who dis

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

Does anyone have access to digital back copies of G-Fan? I'm particularly interested in "Monster of Mourning, Ritual of Remembering: Ishiro Honda’s Godzilla" by Sigmund Shen - I think it is in issue 107 (2014).

Research question: Any recommendations for a good history of the UN?

"In The Creator the drone is a tool of state terror. Its approach is the approach of death from above; its targeting light a macabre warning of imminent atomisation." My latest, "Drone as Death Star: The Creator and the Task of Critique": cinemasocialjustice.org/2025/03/31/d...

"In The Creator the drone is a tool of state terror. Its approach is the approach of death from above; its targeting light a macabre warning of imminent atomisation." My latest, "Drone as Death Star: The Creator and the Task of Critique": cinemasocialjustice.org/2025/03/31/d...

"Throughout The Creator, NOMAD is evocative of today’s many military drone programmes; The Creator’s representation of this technology as a kind of sinister, oppressive death star carries with it a potent critique of contemporary drone warfare." My latest: cinemasocialjustice.org/2025/03/31/d...

ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS, Dir. Roger Corman, 1957. Wonderfully buffoonish slice of low budget atomic monster schlock!

CFP for edited collection Feeling Contemporary War: How Global Regimes of Sensing and Emotion Facilitate and Resist Military Power docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Reading about cursed scientists for my section on Serizawa!

THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953)

THEM! (1954)

IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA (COLOURIZED)

Revisting some old atomic monster movies - I loved TARANTULA (1955)!

Do I know how to party or what

Still time to grab DEVASTATION SONGS for your Valentine! www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Very proud to have an essay coming out in this book, due April 2025: THE LONG ROAD TO CLOSING GUANTANAMO: ACTION, ACCOUNTABILITY AND JUSTICE. My essay is a swift tour of the ways that popular culture articulates justifications for the violence of the torture program: ethicspress.com/products/the...