Dr Charles Hay

"The Office at Night", a homage to Edward Hopper by British artist Phil Lockwood.

One vote here for chums.

At this time of year I normally attempt Inktober but it’s mainly annoying so this year I’m drawing ace animals. Here’s a hyrax, close relative of elephants and all round entertaining fanged brown fluffball.

Fixing Democracy: Compulsory Voting Podcast Episode · Past Present Future · 08/10/2025 · 58m

This was quite a good podcast on that topic: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Hah, yeah fair enough!

#phdchat #lotr

News reader at a desk. Transcribed Text: Left bubble: "Next up we will discuss the topic with someone whose job is to be a well researched and respected expert in the area." Right bubble: "And in the interest of balance we will also talk to an idiot."

In the interest of balance #news

I think my orange tree is confused.

It *might* have been Hornblower I was thinking of. I think Meyer said it in interview at some point. It’s hazy.

Not evidence as I’m clearly not creating a case here. I’m obviously thinking of something else and I’m not sure what.

Honestly not sure the pay off in my story is worth the pain on the arse.

Oof ignore me, I’ve got this wrong and I’ve not got evidence on hand to work out what I was actually getting at.

I could not agree more. I was so confused when I read The Dead on recommendation after hating Ulysses. I was loving it, expecting it to degrade into bollocks, but it never did. It was just good.

Anything by Derrida

He’s the Edward Hopper of literature.

This is phenomenal

I'm not sure if this is an opinion, but I once saw a student use the Art of War to bash another student over the head. That felt like more of an application of reading concepts.

I’m amazed anyone would say it wasn’t Breakfast of Champions. Crash was incredible but I needed a bath and a holiday after reading it.

Fairly sure the Kirk Spock McCoy triad are explicitly based on O’Brien’s work.

Thanks for this. I’ve been playing with a short story that I thought would be more immediate in third person present tense and I was falling over myself. Will fix it.

I don’t find jazz fun and easy either though. I had to study Joyce at uni and I took that pretty personally.

It is so good to hear people in power finally say this. Yes I get that it can be a cheap shot to blame previous governments but when your previous government was the Tories 2010-2024 who were a maelstrom of chaos, incompetence and the most banal evil, it’s actually reasonable.

We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius. Nearly 2000 years later, we can at last read these lost treasures

Amazing story of the scrolls of Herculaneum, thought lost after Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. Could we find lost works by Aristotle and Theophrastus? www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

ITV you say?

Shout out to Charon, the coolest moon. It’s so big. I think it and Pluto orbit around a point between them because it’s so big.

Brings to mind a Cretaceous lazy hazy hot day with T rexes arsing about and velociraptors preening their tail feathers while hadrosaurs enjoy the peace by the water.

This has so much personality, it’s wonderful.

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

Was gonna say, Moonfall was the most entertaining blunt object to the head I’ve ever witnessed.