There was this creepy little shop when I lived in South London - and I can't even remember what they sold or why I started doing this - I suppose I had my reasons - but I got several packets of these 99p dog stickers and stuck one on the door of the shop. 1/

Making friends on Threads again

It would be really weird to go and see Bad Bunny in Newcastle. I hope somebody teks him oot on the toon like.

I think I first heard Bad Bunny as a guest MC on this Becky G tune - and he immediately stood out to me on this because of how distinctive his style was. I could not have possibly predicted the current cultural moment from this video though. youtu.be/GMFewiplIbw?...

Let's not also forget that Peter Mandelson once sent money and a thank you note to a Brazilian Candomble priest for services rendered, which was allegedly for cursing Gordon Brown's press secretary. wwrn.org/articles/6127/

"I was not involved in any of the fascist noncing" announced Deepak Chopra earlier today on the fascist noncing app.

When I interviewed Deepak Chopra for work about a decade ago, it crossed my mind that it would be funny to conduct the interview as a clueless UK journalist who had no idea who he was and thought he was interviewing Tupac Shakur, somehow still alive.

2026 is making me hate the word "aura" in entirely new ways from how I already hated the word "aura"

Did the courageous citizen journalist that's debunking the torrid web of lies to clear Neil Gaiman's name call his substack "Techno Pathology" because it would have been too obvious if the very real crusading journalist had been called "Morpheus the Dream King"

Punxsutawney Phil is in the Epstein Files.

Looking forward to S1 of X-oronation Street

I tried to summon the Sea Leviathan to consume you all 25 years ago and now finally we're getting somewhere. Come on in. The water's lovely. youtu.be/ZOBQMPtH_Qo?...

Heard the sad news about Sly Dunbar on the school run of all places. I don’t even really know where to start with his immeasurable contribution to music and, well, everything, but watching him at work is best. Here’s Sly and Robbie in action with Black Uhuru at the Rainbow in Finsbury Park in 1981

RIP Sly Dunbar www.dancehallmag.com/2026/01/26/n...

As I wait for the oncoming winter storm to hit Atlanta, here's a haunting swing tune by Ken Snakehips Johnson. Snakehips was a Black swing band leader in 1930s London who died on stage at the Cafe de Paris during the Blitz and his ghost is said to haunt the building. youtu.be/SySgcMRW0XQ?...

Preparing for the incoming ice storm like

I made myself a Martini and a frozen pizza instead of going to Karate, and I feel quite guilty about that, but some nights you need to serve Mars and some nights you need to serve Dionysus (who was the deity of weeknight drinking and frozen pizzas).

Have been rediscovering some of my vinyl LPs since setting up the turntable the other week. This and the record that it's on and Elenco generally are so great. youtu.be/13HdCRc9krU?...

Time-traveling back to the 00s to do a "hauntology" blog post about a future where all social media platforms are mind control psyops ran by global fascism, but you will still use them anyway to chat around the psyop about occultism with the friends you made on other now-defunct mind control psyops.

Cooper Howard's retro futurist apartment in Fallout has the same 70s stone fireplace that we have, except he has it as walls rather than as a fireplace in a sunken lounge, which means my environment is in fact *more* absurdly mid-century modern than Fallout's cartoon vision of a space age pad.

Turntable set up for the first time since before the pandemic. All stereo components and the units they are on were first given a spiritual bath (or technically a wipe down with a damp cloth) of basil, holy water and salt.

Happy New Year to all my good social and parasocial friends that are on Bluesky!

Now the Jinglehop has begun

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Have to say those photos of the surviving members of the Stone Roses as pall-bearers carrying Mani's coffin painted by John Squire to look like a Stone Roses record cover is some fittingly portentous symbolism to end 20-fucking-25 on.

I should probably just recuse myself from conversations about easy starting practices in occultism, given that my version of a "starting practice" was trying to get myself possessed by the Great Old Ones after joining a Lovecraftian chaos magic group without having previously read any H.P. Lovecraft

Back when I was writing a substack I collated together the various writing I did over the years on Christmas and its mysteries. It also has the links to all of my many mixes of Xmas music at the end. anthonynine.substack.com/p/rude-inter...

When I see the term "TikTokers" I still read it as if Tik is some weird new synthetic drug like something out of William Gibson and TikTokers are the people who smoke it.

For years - decades - I thought the bit where Brenda Lee sings "he'll say are you married, I'll say no man, but you can do the job while you're in town" meant that she was gonna fuck the snowman.

My Xmas music playlist goes harder than yours. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Vaguely Halloween themed Old Fashioned. Blood orange peel muddled with brown sugar and angostura. 1/4 oz maple syrup, 1/4 oz maraschino liqueur, 3 oz Makers Mark bourbon. I could call it an "Old Fashioned Scare" or something, if I were a twat, but I'm just going to drink it.

My daughter thinks my Halloween costume is just lazy, but I think there's something slightly perturbing about my minimalist "Devil in Ben Sherman sportswear with Geordie accent" effort at American Halloween.

People are always like "modern Satanists don't actually worship the Devil" - but then instead of worshipping the Devil they are almost always somewhere between Ayn Rand and outright being a Neo-Nazi, and frankly I prefer the Devil trafficking variety. Goatskin pact or go home.

John Wick 5 should just be the story of the Baba Yaga, with no gunplay or martial arts, but with Keanu Reeves playing a gender fluid Baba Yaga living in the chicken legged house, flying around medieval Russia in a magical pestle and mortar, with no explanation or any connection to the other films.

Where I grew up we called the primordial sea queen whose fishtail scales glimmer under the pallid moonlight and whose cold embrace drags sailors and dreamers under the abyssal waters "auntie".

My Halloween playlist goes harder than yours. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I force down my daily ration of the Amazon Basics mealworm protein bar and try not to hear the screams of my neighbors in community internment block 13 as the AI droids make way for a new data center. "This is straight out of the authoritarian playbook" I type out one last time and press send.

Rick Flag Jr and Rick Flag Sr but they just go out painting roundabouts.

I once took my daughter to a Halloween pumpkin patch when she was little, but I had forgot that the pumpkin patch was outside an evangelical church and had more of a harvest festival vibe with no Halloween decor at all, and I was the only adult wearing a costume, which was a costume of the Devil.

I'm grateful that when I was a teenager "masculinity" seemed like it was more about taking gargantuan amounts of Es and dancing to beeping sounds in a random location for 24 hours at a time, rather than watching Ben Shapiro videos and getting really angry about women being in Star Wars.

I like that when I was trying to type the words "Joe Rogan" in a message just now, my predictive text wanted to change it to "Joe Meek" instead.