[Currently Reading] "Beyond the Veil: The Victorian Obsession with Death and Mourning" by Paul Gambino. It's a lovely book on morbid Victoriana in fashion, literature, photography, and memento mori. So good!

40 years ago today, The Cure compilation “Standing on a Beach” aka “Staring at the Sea” was released marking a decade since their founding in 1976. The cassette edition features many of the bands fantastic b-sides. What are your favorite Cure b-sides?

Bit late but here's Episode 6 of Season 2! All about instrumentals. Superb pieces by Marvin Gaye, Visage, Sakamoto, Orange Juice, Doris Norton and the composer Penderecki... And fabulous contributions from @broughton500.bsky.social and listener Stuart. open.spotify.com/episode/1RHH...

Don’t believe me when I say nothing in Hookand is made up, just remembered differently? Please read Richard’s wonderful Alt text. Folklore is an amazing living current with wonderful manifestations. Scratch the surface and stories like this always turn up.

It's been a month since we were last with you! But we have a new episode out on Monday. In the meantime, we had so many suggestions for reggae nuclear war songs that we've compiled another special playlist of 20. Some gems on there.. have a listen. open.spotify.com/playlist/1HT...

Some people hear the call of the wild, but the only call I respond to is the call of the mild, which includes hiding in a pillow fort with books & tea.

In case you missed it, US folks can now pre-order the first issue of CROSSROADS.

“With the Human Organ Atlas (HOA), users can travel through the brain, heart, lungs, kidneys, and liver and better understand our anatomy and the diseases that threaten it. The platform is detailed in a paper published today in the journal Science Advances” 🧪 #Scicomm www.popsci.com/health/human...

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Now reading “I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right” by Matt Kaplan. Excellent book about how accepted science is decided on and it covers way more than poor Ignaz Semmelweis. Be sure to read the author’s asides because they add to the enjoyment.

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love [twangy, jaunty lute arpeggio] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love

"Exquisite Creatures: A Dialogue with Art, Nature, and Science" by Christopher Marley. This is a gorgeous exhibition book featuring photos of a variety of small creatures in artistic display. The exhibit itself was intense color and so mesmerizing! (Sourcing: christophermarley.com/pages/conser...)

We just bought our longtime building! Purchasing our forever home marks an exciting and transformative turning point for our physical media library and Seattle’s creative ecosystem. We cannot wait to share more exciting updates with you in the months ahead! scarecrowvideo.org/posts/scarec...

huge fantastic news for us--a big weight off of our shoulders and I truly love to be a part of the small beautiful movie garden that is somehow still surviving in the gross decaying crack of ugly tech bro concrete that is Seattle!

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love [twangy, moody lute arpeggio] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love

A long long tyme ago Ich kan yet remembir How the music oft wolde make me smyle And Ich knewe that yf luck payed me court Thenne Ich koude make the folk cavort And mayhap to be mirtheful for a while

For MLK Day on @letterboxd.social I decided to do a list of essential Civil Rights and Black Liberation movies.

[Book] "Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore" by Char Adams. It's a comprehensive history of both Black and Black-owned bookstores as centers of Black life, culture, and political history. Deeply interesting and well worth reading.

Why ben thei so numerous The songes about rainbowes And what ys on the othir syde? "Rainbowes are visiounes Yet onlye illusiounes, And rainbowes have no thynge to hyde."

We're back! Season 2. Monday. Come and join us. We've found 101 More Songs about Nuclear War from the 1980s. More guests. New design. Same old @davenuclear.bsky.social and @pankp007.bsky.social

Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.

[Book] "Protecting the People: The Central Office of Information and the Creation of the Nanny State 1946-2010" by David Welch. Was hoping for info on British public information films, with which I am fascinated, but book was more like real-life #Scarfolk. Interesting but slightly disorienting.

I decided to track all the books I read in 2026 just to see how much I actually read instead of what I think I read. Probably won't post them all, but it feels like a fun task.

[Finished] "Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other" by Ben Alderson-Day. It's about the neurology & psychology of sensing a presence—hearing voices or feeling like there's someone else in the room when there isn't—but also touches on the Third Man Syndrome. Recommended!

There are a surprising amount of episodes of 120 Minutes, with the videos, (and sometimes commercials) on YouTube already if you haven’t seen them. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Reading: "Designing with Smell" ed. by Victoria Henshaw. It's a textbook on using scent in art, architecture, and performance. Disney's use of Smellitizers in Imagineering started me on this reading topic, but it's also made me more conscious of paying attention to the scents around me.

These visits by ghostes koude have been three emayles.

Thank you so much @holpublishing.bsky.social for my raffle prize! Loads of cool stationery things just in time for Christmas and also lovely tea!

New Children’s Book ‘Good Afternoon Moon’ Celebrates Seattle’s Painfully Early Sunsets: tinyurl.com/yrze7kp8

Current Book: "Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag: Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity" by Jackie Feldman. I'm reading this part of my ongoing interest in dark tourism and heritage/ museums/ memory.

I’m going to get so many of these!!

One more time: My action film book is still available and still on sale. tinyurl.com/45nsucs5

Here it is! We count down from 98 to 101. We did it! A wonderful message from the legendary Nena. We pay tribute to Jimmy Cliff, discuss two v different Xmas tunes by Jona Lewie & Weird Al Yankovic before finalising our list with 99 Luftballons/Red Balloons! open.spotify.com/episode/1uk0...

Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff has died at 81. Massive influence to The Clash, The Slits, The Specials, The Police, The Selecter, No Doubt and countless others. RIP

How am I sooo many years old and did not know this?!

On this day in 1987, The Sisters of Mercy released their second studio album “Floodland”

#VeteransDay Remember the Lincoln Brigades -- notably absent from many textbooks & from Ken Burns' "US & the Holocaust" series. “Black Americans in Spain were among the first to try to stop Franco, Mussolini, & Hitler.” -- @mattdelmont.bsky.social | Read⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-o...

Horrific times create an ethical imperative to ask yourself “What can I do?” The answer is of course, “everything you can.” How that translates into specific actions is gonna be different for everyone.

[Book] "America's Horror Stories: US History through Dark Tourism" by Kevin Revier and Favian Alejandro Martín. One of my major interests is dark tourism and efforts to portray troubling history well, but too many books are either too academic or too aimed at "gore-hounds". This looks reasonable.

I actually voted well over a week ago, but I don't have a cute picture for that.

Preparing for the annual National Séance (watching Ghostwatch along with hundreds of other people and tweeting about it together)! It's slightly less spooky for me since it's the middle of my afternoon, but the community of it is so much fun! www.ghostwatchbtc.com/p/national-s...

Happy Halloween!

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

It's been 25 years since we wrapped SESSION 9. Here are some dumb photos I took in between gathering leaves, running fog machines, strapping tool belts on actors and finding stuff for the coin cache. flickr.com/photos/russf...

In 2002, ABC-TV ran a telecast of Stephen King's Rose Red, about a haunted house in Seattle. The story was completely fictional (www.historylink.org/File/5351) but HistoryLink was flooded with demands that we tell the "truth" about this horror house on the hill. www.historylink.org/File/4001

Episode 17 is out! Happy Diwali everyone. We look at artists who featured on day 1 of MTV broadcasting. The Buggles, Fischer-Z, Genesis, The Vapors and Talking Heads all up for discussion (even though @pankp007.bsky.social has a cold). spotify.link/cp5xNXAKCXb