Even if you only watch the first 5 seconds... that BBC Northern Ireland ident! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3zc...
1981: Michael J. Murphy – The Folklore Collector | Ulster in Focus | BBC Archive
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Ray Newman
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He/him. Bristol. Writer, content designer. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: Thin Places in Hard Concrete https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4 Agent: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/ray-newman
I know it's pretty tedious for writers to talk about their word counts but... I've made it to 10,000 words on the novel. Feels like a big milestone, if only because it's the longest continuous chunk of narrative I've produced in a few years. I think they're good words, too, because I seem to have...
Prepping for a big pitch meeting tomorrow, so of course it's time to start coming up with titles to James Bond / Studio Ghibli mash-ups: ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET DELIVERY SERVICE OCTOPONYO FOR YOUR EYES ONLY YESTERDAY ...
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Lord knows I've had my complaints about my boss but today she's running a workshop with a new client and is wearing a t-shirt that says 'I will succeed because I am insane'. I have no choice but to respect it.
Found a joke just for me: in the episode of Futurama where they go to a realm of pure numbers, Dr. Farnsworth calls it a "realm of beauty bare," a hilarious reference to the Edna St. Vincent Millay line "Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare." The fewer people get a joke, the funnier it is
“Extracts from National Highways report 1727a, subject M5 Interchange, author redacted, UK Home Office eyes only...” ‘The Interchange' is a story in the form of an official road infrastructure report and, people seem to agree, one of the standouts in this collection.
Ray Newman@raynewman.bsky.social · 5mo agoMy latest collection, Thin Places in Hard Concrete, is now out, with 10 new stories of cults, ghosts, impossible infrastructure, haunted Mellotrons... Paperback www.amazon.co.uk/Thin-Places-... eBook www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B... Find out more precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/04/30/t...
The biggest jumpscare in the IT miniseries is when Richard Thomas turns his head and reveals his ponytail.
‘The Life Drawing Class’ – a thread that could be a story by Robert Aickman.
Stone Cold Jane Austen@woolbotherer.bsky.social · 13h agoWent to this life drawing class last night, and it was so weirdly run, I don't think it's just me, maybe it is..I am very, very odd (genuinely, mental health people tell me they have never seen anyone manage their life the way I do, so...) they have a massive wooden door on the building thats hard
On the liminal weirdness of Super Mario 64: “My personal memories of playing Mario 64 are somehow like those about a physical location — or perhaps more like an uncanny dream of a place that never existed — than like memories about a game.” denniscooperblog.com/marilyn-roxi...
Marilyn Roxie presents … The Inescapable Weirdness of Super Mario 64 * – DC's
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Peter Bradshaw reviews an advert for ballbearings starring an AI recreation of Greta Garbo. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future
Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI
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"If we are to reinvest the world with meaning, I suggest we use the fragments of our old shattered mythologies to build ourselves a new one." -- Alan Moore in 'And What Are We Supposed To Do With All These Busted Myths' (additional short essay in the special edition of 'I Hear a New World').
Dear terrible writers yo don't have to add 'and personal' every time you write 'up close.'
Made an appointment at le salon du kitchen scissors & once again, I’ve given myself a fringe that’s a cross between the Dave Hill in a Romulan Slade tribute band & something a cruel 17th century priest might inflict on a woman accused of pridefulness, consorting with imps or strumpetry
Train passes through Purley a vale-bound ghost of old suburbia now benighted and entropic. Deeply eerie and fascinating. It has the feel of some once grand Amazonian city subsumed by dank nature, an exhausted 20th Century hub dragged into desuetude by the thalloid might of the lower plants.
Create generative music by gliding around a virtual landscape choosing which tree to head to next. ambient.garden
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As another month draws to an end it's time for my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
Monthly Link Dump: September 2026
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, haunto...
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‘The Rich Man's Frug’ which subtle clues lead me to believe dates from the 1960s. “Wow, this place sure is crawling with celebrities. I'm the only person here I never heard of." youtu.be/5jio0ZzK4fI?...
The Iconic Dance at the Pompeii Club 'The Rich Man's Frug' | Sweet Charity
YouTube video by Musical Picks
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i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
I take it you all knew there was a disco version of the theme from Alien? youtu.be/vdcOVjbP1TY
Alien Theme by Nostromo
YouTube video by Guy Forshaw
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Whenever one of these creeps turns up, it's always the same four mutuals who are following it. Stop automatically following people, people. Jesus. Audit your contacts. It's not your first day on the internet.
THANK YOU FOR THE RAIN FACTS MATE I SHALL BEAR THEM IN MIND
Here to tell you that the chemistry and tension in this scene still hits for 2026 teenagers, as evidenced by the very vocal reactions of my students today
