It’s been a fruitful week for synthwave fans who love well-crafted pop songs from talented Scots fowk. A week after we got a new FM-84 track, out comes the inimitable Michael Oakley with the…

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This was previously published in the Artificial Divide anthology I remember the first out-and-proud fiction book I read that included an openly gay character. Actually, this book had gone above and…

Copper Coins by Mu Su Li The Story A ghost, a dragon and a monk go on supernatural adventures. Things get interesting when you discover that the monk is an amnesiac. The dragon is partly paralyzed…

LEGO has revealed a wide range of new sets arriving this summer. Since the list is quite extensive, instead of simply listing them all, I’ve included video previews from JANGBRiCKS, who walks through…

28 Years Later (2025) dir. Danny Boyle I finally got around to watching 28 Years Later, the new Danny Boyle directed addition to this series. I think I maybe avoided it for a few months because I'm…

Since becoming 25, I've been asking myself one very vital question: Am I an unc now? I googled it and came up with an unc is someone who is in his 30s, which technically disqualifies me, but again,…

AI bubble treats are going away, boring conversation topics, and my review of Ghost in the Machine

Ed Atkins, Flower, 2025About fifteen minutes into a run as Sammy the caterpillar, the phone can go on your lap. The thumb has finished its work. You are still technically playing.Flower (Fitzcarraldo…

Watching De Explainerr (2025), Every Banned Book Explained in 14 Minutes, has me thinking why are books (or movies…) banned. In all but the most extreme cases books and movies are banned either…

Frequently Played 🔗I tend to listen to the same songs or albums on repeat that are evocative of how I’m feeling or what’s going on with me. Here is what I’m currently listening to…

I’m in a Japan moment. Maybe it’s the influence of the cherry blossoms of New York’s parks and botanical gardens in April, but Perfect Days, “Shōgun,” and a recent…

Most people hear Clears Again as a song about catching a cold. It isn't. The metaphor runs right through the middle of it and most listeners don't catch it until something clicks. The rebuilt version…

Skin Deep is on hiatus until August! Until then, every weekday I’ll be posting a Reader Question! These first reader questions were asked by my Patrons, and if you’re a patron you can ask…

I should imagine that in 2020, it was tempting to read Sarah Pinsker’s novel A […]

I’ve been looking at some of the past lawsuits over Peanuts. The various owners of Peanuts over the years have been aggressive — generally appropriately so — about protecting their…

We're taking a brief break from the monthly British Path é series to put the spotlight on another great archive to be found on Youtube: The Rootes Archive . Unlike the British Pathé series of…

Hi, My TBR list is getting longer and I swear it's not on purpose. PART 2: My (neverending) TBR list: On The Road by Jack Kerouac It was pretty funny to remember how I discovered this author, which…

I've been reading the new Sally Rooney novel, Intermezzo . It's really beautiful. The perfect kind of novel to read slowly. She manages to write prose that's engaging at the micro and macro levels -…

Following my winter reading list, here’s what I’ve been reading this spring. The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen The story of Sam Zemurray, a Russian immigrant who started by…

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Last year (2025) some colour vinyl copies of Black Flag 7"s started popping up. Quite early on I managed to work out that these were not labelled as colour vinyl, and a lot of the sellers didn't…

Premieres May 8, 2026 FREE performing 'Ride On A Pony' live at Beat Club in 1970. Click for 30 second preview clip

Playing with "Hollow Hike", a pocket-sized Soulslike TTRPG by Jake C-B (RollForThings), available on itch.io Prelude Estrid of the Eadgyth People feels empty. Hollow. Sitting at the edge of the…

In the recent years, a lot of Asian, contemporary books with pretty covers have been popping up. While at first I was tempted to read some of them (and did so) exactly because of their exterior, I…

T o mark the 50 th anniversary of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society (aka DWAS) here’s a two part personal account of what it was like to be part of the organising committee. And check out a trio of…

Everything I learned about gear, editing, performing, and ripping myself off.

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A quick review of Akira after seeing (and loving) the 2026 re-release.

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I've much to say about listening to entire albums and the soundscapes they're able to create, but I'd like to direct some appreciation towards singular, long-length tracks. To categorize a song as…

The moment has arrive! Get ready to grin, giggle and guffaw as The Classic Movie Blog Association rolls out our Spring 2026 Blogathon, “Make ‘Em Laugh,” running Monday, May 4 through Friday, May 8.…

Six years in development, it’s fitting that Stand and Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In has...

ALTEven stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herders know why these Galaxy’s Edge trash cans bear the identification number of 3263827.// Walt Disney World, Disney’s Hollywood…

The D&D to OSR to Deep One Cult Pipeline, a Tale as Old as Time

Pals! Here’s my favorite Sheldon comic from THIS DAY IN 2020! If you’re a Patreon Pal, you can log in and check out 5,000 more comics in the archives! And if you’re not yet a pal on…

Wrapping up April in music.

I enjoyed the first two volumes of Kyu Takahata and Yuwji Kaba's Now That We Draw (reviewed in this column and this one ) enough that I wanted to keep reading it. The premise is quite fun. High…

Audio The stories in this fourth anthology of this series are all tonally pretty dark, with each incarnation of the Doctor on several backfeet, all of them illustrating Clive Finch's warning to Rose…

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Yes it's Star Wars day again ( which is most days in my house) but this is the worldwide recognised one. Todays post could have been called Furry Nice, but I'll stick with the official one ! LOL…

We love classic cinema throughout the year, but Saturday, May 16th, is a special opportunity to share that love with others. It's the 12th annual National Classic Movie Day! Here are 12 ways that you…

The General Died at Dawn (1936) An Action Oddity <img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="734" height="640"…

As one door closes, another must open. In the great shake-up of late 2024, E4 became the only place to see new-to-linear-TV Simpsons in the UK, following their releases on Disney+ a few months…

Look it was either this or the Pac-Man TV show, and I have a lot of crap ahead of me, so I’d rather start by watching something interesting. Tron, released on July 9th, 1982, is the brainchild of…

"Untitled (How Does It Feel)" by D'Angelo Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song you love that has parentheses (in the title). D'Angelo hit this one out…

The gǔqín 古琴 is a seven-string zither, regarded as one of the oldest and most prestigious instruments in the Chinese musical tradition. Unlike other instruments designed primarily for public display…

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