Various photos.

Pollinator garden, from an evening walk last week.

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Two of Salem. 🖤

Rocks, ripples, reflections in water, Granville Island.

Moonset, sunset.

Spring flowers: mock orange blossoms, irises, roses.

Salem wishes you a very happy and inclusive World Goth Day! 🐈‍⬛ p.s. so do I 🧛🏻‍♀️

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I'm not doing the 10 defining live bands; much of my life was spent without travel money in places bands didn't tour, and I was too young to see bands when they were active that I grew to love through recordings. People are sometimes impressed that I saw Talking Heads on the Stop Making Sense tour.

Unbelievable. #grickledoodle #goldilocks #threebears #wifi #cartoon #fairytales #art #drawing #funny #humor

Salem 🖤

More photos! Roses and a ginger kitty, again from daily walks.

Photos! Irises from gardens of the daily walk.

This has been a week, and in unexpected ways, but I do have a few photos to post later.

And you maye aske yourselfe "Why ys thys bow made of burninge golde?" And you maye aske yourselfe "Wher are my arrowes of desyre?" And you maye telle yourselfe "These are not my spear and unfoldinge cloudes" And you maye telle yourselfe "Thys ys not my chariot of fyre"

Wildflowers in the Mendip Hills.

Moonrises, in reverse order.

Dogwood, poppies, tulips, forget-me-nots.

Irises and lilacs.

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Hookland is closed due to sudden hospital admission. Don’t worry if there is no goodnight. Don't attempt to talk to the ghosts on Brighthaven Pier till it re-opens. The only thing likely to be on @cultauthor.bsky.social is pictures of corridors. Please don’t reply to this post.

36 years ago today I successfully defended my PhD dissertation, which means (gasp) 50 years ago this year I started university; I took time off between degrees, partly to decide whether to go into journalism (ran screaming) or radio music programming, partly to teach, which led to the road I took.

SUPPORT THESE DATA CENTERS {from Magic City Books magiccitybooks.com }

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I don't know what it is about this site but I don't feel at home here, I feel old (though technically I am old) and uncool. I will delete this post and maybe this account but might also just post photos and no updates or just silently stay to keep in touch via chat with friends who are only here.

On this day in 1979, Tubeway Army released "Are Friends Electric?" as a single from their second album "Replicas". Written by #GaryNuman, it spent four weeks at No. 1 in the Singles Charts and has remained iconic not only of his live performances but of the entire 80s #synthpop genre

May the fourth be with you or whatever. #grickledoodle #pun #millenials #milleniumfalcon #starwars #maythefourthbewithyou #cartoon #birds #art #funny #humor

The photos will be soon: likely not today, but soon, and then on a more regular basis, at least weekly.

Home internet rewired today. I think Salem will eventually forgive me. Treats help.

Slow burn. #grickledoodle #commodore #PET #computers #AI #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #horror #humor

Just drew a line under the last full-time term (two summer courses to go), and it feels very weird (I've worked almost nonstop for a very long time), but it does mean there will finally be new photos from the daily-walk backlog this weekend. spring flowers and moonrises and possibly Salem. 🖤

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Probably no photos till May: too much work. I am thinking of retiring the vampire novel and reverting to my first idea: a longish short story with a quirky title. Maybe I don't have, despite my writing mentor's faith, the novel writing gift or drive. I really don't have the needed research time.

From Goethe to Novalis, 19th-C novels about artists offered stories about self-invention and self-discovery, but what happens to the artist-protagonist in an age where no-one any longer feels in control of their own destiny? Künstlerromane in an Age of Uncertainty buff.ly/gP8yBwB

I liked John because he was one of the few people who'd take a chance. He'd change tempos, keys and the order of songs because he was interested in improvising. www.herecomestheflood.com/2026/04/chri... #chrisspedding #johncale

The day Prince died, two magnificent purple irises, well ahead of their ordinary season, bloomed in front of the building where I live. My best friend and I spent the summer watching videos of live performances online.

True art lover. #grickledoodle #vampire #farmersmarket #cartoon #horror #art #drawing #funny #humor

This app doesn't work, I lack the patience for this right now and am torn between just going on indefinite hiatus or deleting this account. Meanwhile life is just work and trying to write and Salem. As you were.

Slayage 11, July 9-12 at Illinois State University, has more time to submit your #Buffy #cfp #firefly #DoctorHorrible #Avengers #superheroes #girlpower #popculture for online or in person academic conference. New deadline 4/15 #academicsky call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...

Dinner and a movie roundup. I watch more than ends up in these posts but can't get reasonable photos watching anything I stream.

Salem. 🖤

Ripples and reflections, near Granville Island, low tide.

Blue flowers!

Your ghost story prompt.

That must be quite a drink if it needs a huge sack of oranges. I'll show myself out.

Timeline cleanse. #Cats

We must not become less of ourselves in the face of annihilation. We must hold to who we are, hold tight to our joys. i came into this world dead, grey and silent. I shall go out of strange, full of love and wondrous curiosity. I shall go a fully-grown changeling with a kiss of intent on my lips.