Colin Broadmoor

@colinbroadmoor.bsky.social

Adventurist. Cyber-culture analyst. Protoculture addict. Ghost. Mostly inactive since Nov 2024. "Donne-moi du sucre, je suis ton voisin!"—André Trois Mille

I hope everyone is doing well! I'm still alive, tho I don't really get online much these days. I've been drifting around and doing some photojournalism recording our current reality. I don't know when I'll be back this way again but I wish you all the best of luck and success. Stay safe, my friends!

Recorded a special free Halloween ghost story for you all & I'll put it up this weekend. Some ghost stories aim to terrify the listener. Some—like the Rime of the Ancient Mariner—leave the listener a "sadder & a wiser man." I hope my ghost story ruins your life. Like it ruined mine.

Colin Broadmoor@colinbroadmoor.bsky.social · 2y ago

I think I will put up a special true crime/ghost story episode of my podcast...if I can ever remember how to log in. This is not the previously mentioned project that I also hope to get out this month. It's just a fun one-off. I like ghost stories.

Absolutely fucking wild to share this elsewhere, only for people to respond with “yeah, I only use ChatGPT for personal recreation!” or “according to the laws of thermodynamics I think individual queries only use up half a bottle of water each, not a whole bottle.” Y’all…

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I think I will put up a special true crime/ghost story episode of my podcast...if I can ever remember how to log in. This is not the previously mentioned project that I also hope to get out this month. It's just a fun one-off. I like ghost stories.

So, I'm working on something to share with you all for Halloween. Hopefully I'll have something to announce concretely on that shortly. I hope you've all been dealing with the seasonal change better than me!

You can't write a story about people in the world without making a series of political choices. However, many authors do this without realizing it & believe their work apolitical. Reader, consider the assumptions an author makes about human nature—there you'll find the politics.

Colin Broadmoor@colinbroadmoor.bsky.social · 2y ago

Stories—of any genre—w/ human-like characters in material worlds ALWAYS contain political elements. Politics emerge wherever you find social relationships & resource management. Patterns of conflict & control are limited in their variety & will often echo our own experience.

Stories—of any genre—w/ human-like characters in material worlds ALWAYS contain political elements. Politics emerge wherever you find social relationships & resource management. Patterns of conflict & control are limited in their variety & will often echo our own experience.

I only have one Cadfael audiobook read by Derek Jacobi left to go and I'm already sad of it. Have you listened to his reading of Ackroyd's Hawksmoor? You should. I looked around for what he's recorded that I don't have—picked up Le Morte d'Arthur (even tho it's abridged!!!).

imo the nicest english word is "neorxnawang" which ælfric of eynsham used in his translation of genesis to refer to the edenic paradise. it is likely, however, that the word itself had prechristian roots & originally described an afterlife concept from earlier germanic religions.

I QT'd something on twitter with like a "Nice!" and a 95k follower account RT'd it, and now I'm getting spammed with infinite notes on something that's barely a sentence. So, I shall sit here in the dark for a bit.

When we teach Shakespeare it's common to say his plays are meant to be heard/watched, not read. I'd say too that Shakespeare is best understood by actors—not folks from the literature dept. Watch this now, it is very informative. Ian McKellen on MacBeth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGbZ...

Tomorrow, and tomorrow -- Ian McKellen analyzes Macbeth speech (1979)

This is a chunk of archival gold from British television, circa 1979. As part of an "in-studio master class" on speaking Shakespeare, Ian McKellen talks in d...

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