Cormac Pentecost’s latest issue of the Temporal Boundary Newsletter chimed with me in many ways. For those who haven’t come across this newsletter before, Cormac runs Temporal Boundary Press, a small press that publishes a number of zines including Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion (in which, I...

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird - all discovered through my RSS feed reader...

I’m happy to say that a piece of mine—Ritual, Part I, from my England’s Dark Dreaming series—is being exhibited in the Hastings Arts Forum Spring Show from now until May 25th (11am – 5pm from Wednesday to Sunday). Entrance is free and the gallery can be found at 20 Marine Court, St Leonards on Sea TN38 0DX. You can...

Scene from season two of Andor. Source: Disney+ For obvious reasons this post contains spoilers for all the episodes in Andor season 2. I wrote about season one of Andor back in April 2023, and wrote about whether a capitalist corporation like Disney could really do an anti-capitalist show in October the same year....

My copy of the festival brochure, the bark mask I wore, and the lucky leaf I managed to get after the Jack had been slain This May Day bank holiday was my first attendance as a local at the Hastings’ Jack in the Green festival - although I had previously travelled from Hove in 2023 to see it and posted some notes...

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird - all discovered through my RSS feed reader...

At ten o’clock this morning my front door bell rang. Outside was a woman with a dog on a lead—probably heading down to the nearby park to walk the dog—and a small bundle of fur in her hands: I found this dying kitten just near your house - can you make sure it’s ok? I don’t have a car. I said yes, took the little...

The monks’ common room beneath the dormitory of Battle Abbey turned into the chapel of the Green Knight, and the nearby Battle Great Wood. Photographs by the author. I’ve got the week off work (I had some annual leave I needed to use or lose before April 30th) so I have time to log some week notes: Out & about On...

Sunset at Hastings beach. Photograph by the author. Now that I’m settled in I wanted to try to start exploring personal (IndieWeb) websites from people here in Hastings & St Leonards in the UK. I’m just collating personal websites of people in Hastings & St Leonards - not websites for local companies or...

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird. From Nikolas Vitus Lagartija at I Was A Teenage...

Last month I published my contribution to the UK Government’s ongoing Copyright and AI Consultation. I forgot to mention in that post that I had also written to my MP Helena Dollimore (Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Hastings, Rye and the villages), and today I received her reply, so I wanted to...