Rain
After spending too long in the sun yesterday, it’s raining here. Coat weather!
Read MoreJuly, 2021
Summer Meadow
Maintaining a #digitalgarden
Since the mid-1990s, I’ve maintained a personal web site of some sort. Originally my sites were constructed using Frontpage and Dreamweaver, then I used Blogger for a period until around 2010 when I moved over to keeping self-hosted WordPress sites. There was a period when I used it as a…
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Skyward Sword
Somehow I’ve not played Skyward Sword before. It’s really good!
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Robert Aickman’s Introduction to The 5th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1969)
Aickman’s fifth introduction is brief. He summarises his previous views: that ghost stories are separate from both horror and SF and that its “true affinity” is with poetry as it is “a projection and symbolisation of thoughts and feelings” that are excluded from usual written discourse. Ghost stories, he believes,…
Read MoreUK-Krakoa relations
Love how the UK is the country that breaks off relations with Krakoa in X-men #1. It’s the sort of thing the UK would do after booing during the Hellfire Gala.
Read MoreBuscema & Roussos
Been looking at some early 80s covers for Marvel’s Conan the Barbarian by John Buscema. Hit by nostalgia which more than anything is down to George Roussos’ colouring. I have vivid memories of picking up these comics at newsagents on the way to school as a boy. Just delightful and…
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