My 19th-century French Decadent short novel PULP FIN DE SIÈCLE has been published by Purple Bearded Uncle! You can order it here: purplebeardeduncle.com/pulp-fin-de-...

Also Currently Reading: FIFTH SUN: A NEW HISTORY OF THE AZTECS by Camilla Townsend

Currently Reading: SHADOW TICKET by Thomas Pynchon

I can't be the only person who kind of misses mullet-era Troye Sivan, right?

I know the Peanuts Christmas soundtrack gets all the love, and I will admit to being a fan, but in some ways I almost think the Halloween episode got the better soundtrack. This one in particular is very nice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxGJ...

Currently Reading: MOAN by Junji Ito

2025 Reading List Monthly Update: September onyxglossary.blogspot.com/2025/09/2025...

Currently Reading: MY FRIEND HITLER AND OTHER PLAYS OF YUKIO MISHIMA by Yukio Mishima

Spencer bed sighting

Also Currently Reading: RED AND ME: MY COACH, MY LIFELONG FRIEND by Bill Russell (+ Alan Steinberg)

Been relistening to my Fad Gadget CD collection

Recent photo posted by Lady Gaga of herself and her fiancé Michael Polansky. No, he's not really tall, it's just that she's 5′ 1″ (the same height as Angela in THE OFFICE, incidentally).

Currently Reading: ALCHEMY by Philip Ball

Currently Reading: THE SUMMER HOUSE by Masashi Matsuie

A new entry on the Neo-Passéism substack, this one on Occulture. Though I would advise the reader to pay more attention to the entries of Damian Murphy and Justin Isis, who are actual practicing occultists. As usual I'm just kind of being a bitch here. neopasseism.substack.com/p/occulture

Currently Reading: THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING AND OTHER WORKS by Anonymous

2025 Reading List Monthly Update: August onyxglossary.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025...

Currently Reading: LUD-IN-THE-MIST by Hope Mirrlees

Currently Reading: JUMP TRIBE by Clive Barker (Subterranean Press) I will admit that I pretty much got this one because I adored the dust jacket

A few days ago I finally got my "20 years of service" glass paperweight from Barnes & Noble (about a year and a half after the anniversary of my 20th year, but as I told my boss, "better late than never").

"My life, when I think about it, can be summed up like this: the past was horrible; the present seems dim and dreary, and as for the future, it's appalling." -J.-K. Huysmans, THE CATHEDRAL

Currently Reading: THE CATHEDRAL by J.-K. Huysmans This is a re-read. I first read the Dedalus/Clara Bell translation in 2010 (15 years ago). This revised version (also from Dedalus) keeps the Bell translation, but was updated/revised/amended by Brendan King.

Currently Reading: THE WANING OF THE MIDDLE AGES by Johan Huizinga (Cluny Media)

I really like this Wikipedia picture of the Chengdu skyline with the mountains in the background

Also Currently Reading: THE KING OF ELFLAND'S DAUGHTER by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany (Weird House Classics)

Also Currently Reading: FEAR AND TREMBLING by Søren Kierkegaard

"The Fireside Angel (Triumph of Surrealism") by Max Ernst

Currently Reading: NO MOON by Colby Smith (Outlandish Press)

July Progress Report

2025 Reading List Monthly Update: July onyxglossary.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025...

This is pretty much what the inside of my head looks like. All that's missing is a castle and a few cats

Currently Reading: THE SPICE MUST FLOW: THE STORY OF DUNE, FROM CULT NOVELS TO VISIONARY SCI-FI MOVIES by Ryan Britt

For some odd reason in the span of a few days I've had two dreams involving women flirting with me. I say odd because it's happened so infrequently in real life (to the point I can probably count the times on one hand) that when it DOES happen I'm usually totally flummoxed

Kind of feel like I've been going through my version of a midlife crisis these last few years. Looking over my diaries from 2021-present day, I just seem all over the place

Also Currently Reading: TYGER by SF Said + illustrated by Dave McKean

Currently Reading: CONQUISTADOR by Buddy Levy

William S. Burroughs NAKED LUNCH got a shout-out in today's installment of HAGAR THE HORRIBLE. I can't even begin to understand WHY this should be so, but I feel it is my duty to keep people informed about things like this.

This afternoon I finally saw ROMY & MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION (1997, which seemed to be the Year Zero for "10 year high school graduation anniversary films with 80s soundtracks": see also GROSSE POINTE BLANK). I have now seen 254 films from the 1990s

Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spear, o clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbMJ...

Currently Reading: THE IDEAL CANDIDATE by Damian Murphy (Occult Press)

Currently Reading: RIDDLEY WALKER by Russell Hoban

Currently Reading: OUT THERE by Quentin S. Crisp (Occult Press)

2025 Reading List Monthly Update: June onyxglossary.blogspot.com/2025/06/2025...

Currently Reading: THE PEPSI-COLA ADDICT by June-Alison Gibbons

Currently Reading: CATACLYSM MOVES ME I REGRET TO SAY by Stephanie Yue Duhem (House of Vlad)