Luke: grue fodder

Today's best typo: orc chart.

Supermarket strawberry mochi flavour is making me see through time.

Got my copy of the new Necks album in the mail today so despite appearances, TODAY IS A GOOD DAY.

Elizabeth Harrower wrote some of Australia’s best novels then disappeared for decades. Even she wasn’t sure why A new biography unravels one of Australia’s great literary mysteries and comeback stories, and teases out details of the troubled early years that informed the author’s devastating studies of domestic...

Mental note: read more Harrower. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Following up 253 with Michael Moorcock's MOTHER LONDON and by Jove it's a Good Thing.

AI: the Human Centipede of Content

And here is its original version!

www.253novel.com

I have wanted to read this since I first knew of the website version. It’s even better than I had imagined.

A book titled "253: The Journey of 253 Lifetimes" by Geoff Ryman is displayed on a textured gray surface. The cover features colorful graphic elements, including horizontal lines in various colors reminiscent of the map of the London Underground, and the prominent number "253."

2025 book sixty-three: Geoff Ryman: 253 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I am here for the blogger dot com self-hosted weirdness to make a resurgence.

If BlueSky falls apart I’m going back to the original social media: not talking to anyone ever.

Yeah nah. A curmudgeon writes.

(It’s at www.captainfez.com if you’re unaware. Expect rambling.)

Tim Dowling: I love books – but can’t remember anything about the ones I’ve just read In bed I lie awake, staring at the books on my nightstand, trying to remember a single salient fact about any of them

Hence the blog. It’s for me rather than anyone else.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Kids at the next table:
“We want chocolate to eat!”
“Open your mouth! POO POO POO POO THEY ATE MY POO.”

The classics are classics for a reason.

It’s so good and while I know I’m not who it’s aimed at, it’s really clear and based on experience. I love this sort of shit because the default position in metal (particularly black) is white.

Watch the whole thing - he addresses the Japan soft power thing, which stemmed from postwar culture adapting to accommodate US overlords.

I think he’s really cogent. For example, there’s likely more white supremacist or racist dogwhistle bands than there are POC bands, sadly. (Hey, Europe.)

Therapy and meds will change your life.
Embrace contentedness, not happiness.
Don’t make it harder than it needs to be.

100% this.

YouTube video by andrew lee How Heavy Metal Upholds White Supremacy

This is great. youtu.be/_o5RzlzKE4I

Audio cover for "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens, narrated by Miriam Margolyes. The design features a rainy window, with the title "Bleak House" prominently displayed in red. A candle emits a warm glow in the foreground.

2025 book sixty-two: Charles Dickens: Bleak House ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Masada Quartet I - Big Ears In the last 50 years, very few artists have been as boundless as John Zorn, from his ideas to his energy to his organization. After first emerging in the experimental Wild West of New York’s downtown ...

There is no way I can go (either moneywise or due to not getting into the country for being a smartarse) but OH MAN this is a SHOW to SEE if you can.

What a band!
bigearsfestival.org/event/masada...

The poster for the movie DEAD & BURIED which features a head coming out of the ground.

I like to think that DEAD & BURIED is Grandpa Joe's origin story before the events of CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.

Bullshit fact learned today: Diagnosis: Murder was a Jake and the Fatman SPIN-OFF.

If you understand that sentence, lol you old.

My evil dog has also heard

YOU BETTER RUN, EGG!

and

Can your grandfather do THIS?

more than is healthy, I think.

My evil dog has also heard

YOU BETTER RUN, EGG!

and

Can your grandfather do THIS?

more than is healthy, I think.

I SEEM to have MISPLACED my PANTS.

100% - it’s a collection of possibilities!

THE CART METAPHOR.

If you're talking BH, I think I'm hearing that part RIGHT NOW. OMG. (Though there's a couple in here...)