Still processing…could be some time.

My takeaway from this whole situation is that DeWitt’s blog post is a great work of literature in its own right.

Looking forward to reading this.

I had the Akira bike poster on my bedroom wall. It truly was a gateway.

Coming soon: The Haunted Archive - A Ghost Story Manuscript of M.R. James A beautiful annotated facsimile manuscript edition of M.R. James's classic ghost story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'.

M. R. James and #WeirdFiction and #GhostStory people might be interested in this Kickstarter, which is to help fund a print run of annotated manuscripts of James's most famous stories. You can find out more on this project at the website, crumpledlinenpress.com

RIP

Irony is that STEM degrees will be the actually worthless qualifications in an AI-centred world. Critical and creative thinking that LLMs cannot/struggle to process will be the high value asset to have for future economies.

The joys of second-hand bookshops. I picked this up in London, and look what fell out…assume Mr Brownjohn is literary critic and poet Alan Brownjohn, who died in 2024.

Totally!

“Adolescence” is the greatest British drama in years. It’s soul-destroying television. Like all great social drama, it will change and save lives. The final dialogue of the parents, and the interrogation of the child murderer by the psychologist, are acting masterclasses. Must win every award.

Superb piece by Jess. John and Christian are North. I was lucky enough to award them the Publican Award for Best Brewing Pubco back in 2017. What they built was very, very special for British beer, UK business, and for the city of Leeds. A sad day.

Here In the dark (The new moon long set) A soft grumble in the breeze Is the sound of a jet so high It's already long gone by Some planet Rising From the east shines Through the trees It's been years since I thought, Why are we here?

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"In the dark, the new moon long set..."
—Gary Snyder

#poem #poems #poetry

Great fiction writers pay close attention. They always see the undercurrent.

New biohack announced for Bryan Johnson’s blueprint.

The lack of interrogation by broadcast
journalists of the impact of Brexit on all political shows is just bizarre. Only when @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social or Lib Dems appear does it ever come up, normally through their own instigation as well. Should be first question for Farage every time.

Always thought it was wild that this image of the World Trade Centre was selected as the front cover design of Underworld (1997).

Happy New Year.

It's Timothee Chalamet with his cunty little moustache with a "hmmm why not" expression

Marcel Proust after eating a tiny little cake

At Christmas, remember the loved ones we have lost.

The Second Poem of the Night-Walker Over the hilltops Silence, Among all the treetops You feel hardly A breath moving. The birds fall silent in the woods. Simply wait! Soon You too will be silent.

The birds
fall silent in the woods—
simply wait!

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1780)

#poem #poems #haiku #foundhaiku

Murnane is bantz.

T.S. Eliot would have loved Chas and Dave

wow the parade this year was crazy

Robert Crawford’s Young Eliot is excellent. Looking forward to reading the second volume “After The Waste Land” and its focus on the Hale letters.

Let’s make this place full of art and creativity and fair debate and just bloody life and let the frog meme people over in the other place slowly implode.