I have 369 followers here, and I hardly ever post anything. And I imagine that I'd recognise only a tiny fraction of them, at that. The ways of social media are strange...

There must have been some quality drugs going on at DC HQ the day the green-lighted that toaster.

I also wrote this!

I wrote this one!

Very cool to get this card in the post from Pádraig Ó Méalóid, featuring a portrait of Flann O'Brien by Littleman, published by Pruett in 1982!

No word of a lie!

I’m working on it right now!

English: Irish seems like such a conservative, pious language.

Gaeilge, naming places: An Dá Chích (Two Boobs)

English: No. Wait-

Gaeilge: Baile Phíte Méabha (Townland Of Medb's Vulva)

English: Stop that.

Gaeilge: ...

English: ...

Gaeilge: Magairlí an Deamhain (Devil's Testicles) ☺️

I am rewatching House. Hugh Laurie is absolutely brilliant. In fairness, so are the rest of the cast.

indeed.

Brilliant!

The unforeseen ones are the worst.

Not wishing to be difficult, but surely one cannot funnel anything *into* a source?

Robert ‘Pen-Face’ Farren: The Man Who Wasn’t Flann O’Brien Writing to Timothy O’Keeffe of British publishers MacGibbon & Kee on 19 August 1961, about the cover art for his forthcoming novel The Har...

Nope!

slovobooks.blogspot.com/2020/08/robe...

Yer man on the front cover isn't actually Flann, even.

I got about a quarter through it a few years back and never got back to it. I still have a bookmark in it where I stopped, so I may yet go back to it. But I’m currently still obsessing over Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds, for about half a century now.

Poisoned Chalice: The Extremely Long and Incredibly Complex Story of Marvelman (and Miracleman) The comic character Marvelman (and Miracleman) has a fascinating – and probably unique – history in the field of comics. His extended origin goes all the way back to the very beginnings of the America...

Seeing as there might be a few people who haven’t bought my magnum opus yet, here’s a link! There are a few new chapters that need to be written, covering the last year or two, but I’ve no idea when I’ll be getting around to those.

www.lulu.com/shop/p%C3%A1...

I am having similar thoughts about Neil Gaiman’s work, after the revelations in July, and since. But what I’d really like is to see a resolution to the accusations, one way or another. NG not responding to them publicly in the past 4+ months doesn’t help, though.

If only I was (counts on fingers and toes, twice) forty years younger!

"Daddy, do you know you're a complete and utter dirtwad?"

Three Little Pigs!

These days, I’m pretty sure it does.

5 authors I’ve read 5+ books by

Alan Moore
Flann O’Brien*
Richard Osman
Martha Wells
Arthur Conan-Doyle

*Flann is tricky because his output is so small

(I don’t doubt that as soon as I hit ‘post’ I’ll thing of *hundreds* of writers I should have listed…)

Ooh, never saw this before!

Greatest book cover ever!

For a minute there, I thought this was Peig Sayers...

a black and white photo of a woman with a shawl looking directly into the camera madame blavatsky

posts on bluesky are blavatskys

I feel your pain!

Hello again! Can't promise I'll follow you back if you follow me, or even that I'll use this much. But I'll try to keep an eye on it, and see how it goes.

I am away off up the stairs now, to snuggle up in my duvets, plural.