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academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Science Fiction. Next up: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (October 2025)
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France now offering asylum for American research scientists

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Very funny and very accurate rendition of what it was like to be an English student in the mid-1980s when High Theory arrived.

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In more shitty news, Repeater Books being shuttered by its owners is beyond depressing.

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I can't be the only person who feels that the official Sesame Street website missed a trick by not first asking you to accept all Cookie Monsters

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Just been to a very good conversation between Olivia Laing, Philip Hoare, and Philip Hoare’s knees.

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Live next door to an Academy school in Clerkenwell, which makes for pretentious #WorldBookDay costumes. There’s a kid over there dressed as Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

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#WorldBookDay, 2025

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Am currently watching Migraine Aura II: Revenge of the Scintillating Scotoma. Once around this morning not enough for this bad boy. The endless neurological modulations of migraines are both fascinating and really fucking annoying. Enough already!

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Watching the not entirely convincing sequel to The Blob, directed, unbelievably, by Larry Hagman. Contains the line “Let’s go back to my place and have an avocado sandwich”

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Wouldn't it be great if Macron started giving speeches about the terrible deal of the Louisiana purchase in 1803, and that France is tearing up what was a terrible deal, the worst deal in history -- 'one way or another, we're gonna get Louisiana back, it'll be a beautiful thing.'

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Had to come to East Putney for an appointment: here’s a photo of me safely landed, only second private mission to make it this far

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She wore Blue Velvet ❤️

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I do love it that this bursary is still going: Bosanquet was the mildly exasperated assistant who took dictation from Henry James in his ponderous last years, and as a spiritualist medium negotiated about whether to continue after he had died. Sensibly, she chose to write her own books instead.

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Kim Deal, with bits of Teenage Fanclub! Home by 10! 👌👌👌

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Eating Belgian pizza, listening to bon tempi organ muzak version of Smells Like Teen Spirit, the vocal harmony picked out on a xylophone #goodtimes

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Call for abstracts: I’m putting together an edited book on archaeology and horror. Details below. Contact me for full CFP or to discuss potential submissions. 🏺👻🧟🏛️

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I am now refusing all apologies for cross-posting and moving towards retaliatory drone attacks

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This explains the steady and implacable rise of cultural Marxism around the world, obviously

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My review 👇👇

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Long and involved conversation on the next table in this coffee shop about a friend of these 2 blokes who they only refer to as ‘The Brewmaster’. Are brewmasters like composers/conductors who insist on only being addressed as ‘Maestro’?

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It’s Bread Awareness Week, which sort of explains that bloke outside waving an unmuzzled baguette around like there’s no tomorrow

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Once you claim to have destroyed a phantasmatic Deep State and still nothing improves, you have to invent the Even Deeper State, then the Deepest State, and then the Abyssopelagic State

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Live feed of a sink hole in Surrey also seems very 2025

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Overheard: “There’s more chance of Cthulhu rising than me going to that meeting” 🐙🐙🐙

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What if I refuse your apology for cross-posting? What then?

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The UK must obviously now invade North America, maybe by establishing some beach-head settlements along the East coast, with some sites in Virginia already looking promising.

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This form that asks you to ‘fill out your research plans for the next three years’ has a very strong orchestra on the Titanic energy #AcademicSky

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In Shoreditch yeah?

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Last night I went to the world premiere of Mickey 17 and nearly trod on the back of Toni Collette’s dress on the stairs on the way out, which sums up my whole relationship to the razzmatazz of film culture in so many ways

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Man Fights Vainly Against Overly Neat Symbolism of News Story for Summing Up of Zeitgeist

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That man over there just said into his phone, very resignedly: “Yeah, the more I think about the more it just has to be a ghost. I mean with all the tortured souls in that building it just makes sense, yeah?” Consider me intrigued

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I’m just going to West London, I may be some time

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Shockingly poor levels of knowledge about different schools of political economy in academy sector

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Just sat on my hands for several minutes until the cheap-joke reply-guy impulse flushed out of my system, very proud of myself, this is top notch personal growth

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Thinking of moving to a small Suffolk coastal town and setting up a shop of old knick-knacks called ‘Racist Antiques’

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Just had a MASSIVE kip though an avant-garde non-narrative film, which I feel really honours the directorial objective

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