Charlize Theron is phenomenal in Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003)

Whatever happened to the existential fear of nanobots?

Assaulted by the elements

Same! Hmm, shall I go to sleep or play World Cup Striker before watching Commando for the 7,000th time?

Tradition demands it (via @daveyjones.bsky.social)

Some terrific stories, artwork and interviews in this marvellous Beltane folk horror issue

"What would a bald man do with two hairdryers?" is a question you've unwillingly learned the answer to if you've spent enough time in a men's communal gym changing room.

I'm in it, as is @pgwodelouse.bsky.social. My piece is a sort of urban folk horror story set in a patch of woodland that *everyone* knows you don't walk through after dark.

Pope Leo XIV dropped his first encyclical, a celebration of humanity in the face of AI. It must be ‘disarmed, freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion and death,” he wrote.

The night I espied, as the scriptures foretold, three moons shining bright ‘pon the night sky, heralding my coronation as king of all lands between Paignton and Caithness

Lol

It's that time again, happy birthday Cilla!

Wednesday

Celebrate Vincent Price’s birthday by watching one of his greatest pieces of work, about his beloved ‘rolly coasters’, and absorb some joy from a human being who knew how to have a good time youtu.be/Wlq8Z7U-WL8

Give this a read - flash fiction, so will only take you a few minutes

Treat me gently… @saltpublishing.com

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Petition to prevent the use of the ubiquitous ‘it’s like a fever dream’ in film and book reviews

RIP, you colossus youtu.be/1KW-dAAT2cQ

Ah, no. RIP tidal.com/track/777333...

These boots were made for wanking over

As ever, I admire Price’s commitment to the advertising/ah fuck it why not buck for projects

I’m making the crusties listen to November Rain and my 14-hour ‘Epic guitar solos’ playlist as revenge for their CONSTANT moaning

‘Is it supposed to be smoking like that? It’s blowing right in my face?’ ‘How long’s it going to take? We’ve got to be back for Corrie’ ‘Urgh, I don’t like them’ ‘Have you got anything else to drink? Gives me heartburn, this’ ‘Oh no, I don’t want any of that gunk’

Oh my fucking word, the stress of having boomers over for a barbecue

Suzanne Vega releases “Luka” 39 years ago this weekend. She said she once received a fan letter about it: “Dear Suzanne, Luka is the most compelling piece of music I’ve heard in a long time. There are no words 2 tell U all the things I feel when I hear it. I thank God 4 U, Prince”

For thousands of years, man yearned for the electric guitar without knowing it

Mais si tu dois partir, va-t'en Mais si tu dois partir, va-t'en Si non, tu dois rester la nuit

You'd better get your head and your ass wired together, or I WILL take a giant shit on you

Won 2-1. Made the assist for the winner with pass of the season. Thanks for asking

Agree wholeheartedly with you on all 3 there!

When you put what was left of your disastrous bitcoin investment into the, admittedly volatile, mini sponge market.

I want to write a novel because I am plagued by visions, but your thing is valid too I guess.

"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life — the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it — can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances." George Eliot Middlemarch

Joey, Joey King of the streets, child of clay Joey, Joey What made them want to come and blow your head away? Oh, right, that. Oh, and that too. Jaysus, he didn’t did he?

I’m going full Bob here and simply REFUSING to list my ten favourite Dylan songs (but you can be sure there’s a lot of Blonde-on-Blonde in there)

I’ve got to play football in this

Sometimes, finding the right partner seems to take an age; and sometimes, you just know. My latest flash science fiction story, About Turn, appeared today courtesy of @365tomorrows.bsky.social - enjoy! 365tomorrows.com/2026/05/24/a... #amwriting #flashfiction #sciencefiction

Happy birthday to Bob Dylan. I’ve met him many times, but he's a notorious prankster and always pretends to be someone else, like a postman, a priest, or a doctor’s receptionist. No matter how doggedly I insist “I know it’s you, Bob!" he never breaks character. Often the police are called. Legend.

Never made it through to the end* of Logan’s Run but may give it another go just for Jenny Agutter *Hey, wait, that sounded wrong

Just admit that Octopus’s Garden, When I’m 64 and Maxwell’s Silver Hammer* are in your real list of favourite Beatles songs *Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is a corker, btw; Octopus’s Garden is lovely; When I’m 64 is a crime against all that is decent in this universe

Rupert Murdoch and current wife

Oh my goodness, Dune: Part Two is fucking amazing

Delighted that my copy of @raynewman.bsky.social exquisite book has also arrived today. Perfect chillers for this excessive heat, I cannot recommend his brilliant writing enough

Dogtide by Christa Ermiya and illustrated by Caitlin Rose O’Connor in the Beltane issue of the @generalwitch.bsky.social zine is superb

That “In My Life” harpsichord is something else.