TL:DR (That's Long, DID Read) https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html goodbye 2025 – the year in review real horrorshow jack told him about the thing – updating children’s books It’s not real if you don’t feel it – but what is ‘it’ and what is ‘real’ and who’s to say anyway? chosen ones and dark lords and everything in between Play For Today: long overdue catch-up, spring 2025 Play For Today: special summer bonanza edition 2019 11 June 1936: The International Surrealist Exhibition ghost cities of cyberspace turning rebellion into money some kind of loss I went back to rockville a plea for comparative rudeness the end of all songs Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside) – “shoegaze” 1988 – 1993 Once Upon a Time in Argentina: Swords & Sorcery, 1980s style crafting a memory of Christmas ‘Cheryl Heard A Wet Thud’: Tread Softly by Richard Kelly the cult of maimed perfection Petty Obsession: Hair Metal you never hear in the movies the law won – police academy and 80s pop culture the vanishing everything of everywhere – elegies and illusions lost and found in translation Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere; notes on the margins of everywhere henrik palm and the releases of the year 2024 (with typically lengthy disclaimer!) a portrait of the author as a young arse NSBM (and possibly NSFW) cycle; woods and fields and little rivers a pressing necessity: International Women’s Day 2026 of comfort no man speak …and hello 2026 chocolate eggs & bunnies & pregnancy & blood: happy Easter! “Ane doolie sessoun” covid-19 and the art of isolation confessions of a godless heathen Enter Title Here: unblocking as the first quarter of the century draws to a close… a reading of Orwell in the 21st century an alan smithee war passive-digressive to the victor… a victory over ourselves – versions of 1984 in 2025 notes in may a simple question about dead children bathroom blade runners – who polices the toilet police? gratuitous text and bloody violence – the commercialisation and death of 80s horror a short essay about killing meted out to the man a dream itself is but a shadow what do you look like? a conflict of ghosts