G K Lomax

Baker Street, obviously.

You are what you eat, and you write what you read

Goodnight from Ben Knight, wondering if there’s a special god he can pray too that will reward him with Aurora Monster Scenes model kits. Goodnight from Clive Farley, sleeping in a burnt out Ford Consul on Gutridge waste, surrounded spirits curious about his dreamt terrors. Goodnight from Hookland.

Spring is told in bulb bloom, wild garlic crowding. Spring is told in stretching shadows, the waking of ghosts. For the gentle kiss of the sun is a summoning. Whether at meadow edge or a town's neglected alley, few things can refuse it's call. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982

Goodnight to @hookland.bsky.social and to us all.

Waltz in Black - The Stranglers

The reason people say vinyl sounds better is because the music was better. 😎

We instinctually know some buildings hold their hurt, release it as shades, coughs of bad memory. We pass them by with almost an expectation of ghost at the glass. Some feel relief when one is not glimpsed, others like myself, feel only an aching disappointment. – Dr. M. Benn, 1982 #Ghosts

Goodnight from The Bloody Babe pub, where the ferret fashion parade has sharply divided regulars on the wisdom of ever putting animals in costume. Goodnight from Dr. Fiona Low, continuing her experiments on containing spirits in the magnetic fields of C90 cassettes. Goodnight from Hookland.

Did they make that specifically for that film? When I first saw AD 1972 mumble years ago, I assumed they'd taken the end scene of a previous film, and added the guy collecting the ashes.

At least they got AD 1972 right, rather than write it the other way round.

So -

One Cat = An infinite number of monkeys?

Outland. Saw it at the cinema when it was first released.

It was only later that I realised it was High Noon in space.

me seeing christopher lee is trending: oh no!!!!
me after clicking on it: oh its just a character on some show that has the same name
me:
me: wait christopher lee died like ten years ago

I feel your pain. A series of books should LOOK like a series when they're on a shelf.

'The modern young man,' said Aunt Dahlia, 'is a congenital idiot and wants a nurse to lead him by the hand and some strong attendant to kick him regularly at intervals of a quarter of an hour.'

P. G. Wodehouse

I am SO guilty of this.

Fuck yeah.

Goodnight from Joel Holen, captain of the tug boat TB Grey Mare, still shaking after near collision with a submerged sphere of green glowing light. Goodnight from Kit Barton, trying to stay awake to see the ghost he’s sure is stealing from his stash of barley sugars. Goodnight from Hookland.

May your shoes become mysteriously filled with treacle, and may an onion fall on your head at an inconvenient moment.

Every salt-hag has her place of standing. Rocks upon which she sings to summon the winds. Choired by gull shriek and surf rasp, these are her tide temples. These are her places where waves whisper wonders. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.

How does he sleep at night?

If you think the book was "A trudge at points" you may need to be liberal with the fast-forward button when you see the film.

Herbs and stewed rabbit?

To quote my Granny - If we were all the same, it would be a dull world.

It has to be admitted, however, that Tolkien changed the rules. There was fantasy before 1954 (Dunsany, Edison); indeed fantasy goes back to Beowulf, the Greek myths and beyond.

But I struggle to think of any modern fantasy that's free of Tolkien's shadow. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes not.

Last year I saw the entire second season of Twin Peaks back-to-back at the Prince Charles Cinema London. One twenty-hour session.

As a student I once did shift work in the holidays. I found the night shift was easily my favourite. It suited me somehow. I don't think I'd've liked to be a DJ, but graveyards shifts? Yes please.

Ah, I see. There again every writer has been influenced by every other writer. All stories are simply re-packaging of old stories. That doesn't mean they're bad - though obviously some of them are.

Well yes, that's true.

What it has to do with what I posted is unclear.

Every fantasy author since 1954 has imitated Tolkien, knowingly or otherwise.