2025 Reading List Monthly Update: December (Finale) onyxglossary.blogspot.com/.../2025-rea....

I will share a secret with you that until now only a small percentage of the human race knew: this year peaked on March 8, 2025, when Lady Gaga appeared on SNL www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrPN...

2025 Creative Writing Productivity Report

Merry Christmas! Here's a picture of a Santa ornament I made in 1999. I think I was trying to be "edgy" then . . .

The Insect's Christmas (1913) www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_dL...

Aaron Lange interviews Justin Isis, one of my favorite people to argue/disagree with! All joking aside, there are some areas on which we stand on common ground. neopasseism.substack.com/p/justin-isi...

Currently Reading: THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway This is actually a reread. I first read the book in 10th grade, around 1996, so it's been almost 30 years

I recently found out that years ago there was an OCTOPUS PIE Christmas video of sorts vimeo.com/8303495

Currently Reading: CONSCIOUSNESS: A NEO-DECADENT MANIFESTO by Siobhán M. La Grippe (Church Ghost)

Currently Reading: PASSIONS AND TEMPERS: A HISTORY OF THE HUMOURS by Noga Arikha I think I'm going to REALLY enjoy this book, having long had a fascination with the humours, a fascination which has only increased in recent years what with my readings + researches into medievalism & Shakespeare

Currently Reading: LIKE YOU HAVE A CHOICE by Ivan Niccolai

2025 Reading List Monthly Update: November onyxglossary.blogspot.com/2025/11/2025...

You know it's the end of November when I put up my annual Cat Nativity Scene. The Bradford Exchange only sent me one figurine this year (the Traveling Musician), which is for the best because I'm running out of space (and also, these things are expensive).

Neo-Decadents vs. AI. My own contributions to this series are usually 50% serious, 50% joking around, but this time the gloves come off and I let my hair down (so to speak).

Currently Reading: THE BROKEN SPEARS: THE AZTEC ACCOUNT OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO by Various/Edited by Miguel León-Portilla

Currently Reading: THE OBLATE by J.-K. Huysmans (Dedalus) This is the second time I've read this book, though the first time I've ever read this particular translation

Currently Reading: PULP FIN DE SIÈCLE by me (Purple Bearded Uncle)

My author copies of PULP FIN DE SIÈCLE arrived in the mail today! It's always nice to be able to add a new member to my humble family of titles.

Currently Reading: THE ABSENCE: MEMOIRS OF A BANSHEE DRUMMER by Budgie

2025 Reading List Monthly Update: October onyxglossary.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...

Currently Reading: THE HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF NEW SPAIN by Bernal Díaz del Castillo (edited by David Carrasco)

Recently got a new friend for my bookcase skull

Currently Reading: THE DECADENT BESTIARY: FIN-DE-SIÈCLE ANIMAL POEMS & PROSE by Various Authors/Translated by Sam Kunkel + Jessica Gossling (Strange Attractor Press)

Currently Reading: SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW by Tom King (writer) & Bilquis Evely (artist)

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