reboosting for those who missed it (pub date of the collection reviewed is TOMORROW)

mark sinker@hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social · 7mo ago

here's my love & rockets review (xaime mix) for 4columns 4columns.org/sinker-mark/...

"Cool precision broken up with all-black pools of ink, dramatic silhouettes, faces lit white in noir lighting, flows of impenetrable troubled evil." 4Columns takes a close look at Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories by Jaime Hernandez--out Tuesday! https://ow.ly/uXrl50YqxIp

Hey* comics people! Go read @dubdobdee.bsky.social unpacking the many layers of Locas and the lives it contains 4columns.org/sinker-mark/... *(all together now) Hay’s for horses, ass bite!

Locas: The Maggie & Hopey Stories

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here's my love & rockets review (xaime mix) for 4columns 4columns.org/sinker-mark/...

Locas: The Maggie & Hopey Stories

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‘Looking at the billboard, we don’t understand what we face: is it a gothic ironist’s forbidden craft or the malevolent bludge of a context-collapse machine?’ Mark Sinker (@hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social) on Kingston upon Thames’s divisive AI mural, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch

Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...

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‘Was this a commercial art blunder, lazily unpoliced, or an art prank, bad by trolling design? “There’s clearly something political about it,” the manager of a local restaurant said, “but nobody knows what it is.”‘ @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social on an unsettling mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch

Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...

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‘Was the mural in Kingston ever meant to be looked at carefully, even? Or was it a bogus inkblot test intended to be misread in multiple ways?’ Mark Sinker on a disturbing festive mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch

Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...

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‘Imagine a whole army wading ashore at you through the snowmelt, writhing fused limbs and non-Euclidean torsos, every zoomed-in detail a hideous AI patchwork. The chicken-dogs were even worse.’ Mark Sinker on Kingston upon Thames’s festive AI mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch

Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...

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my LRB blog-post on the weird kingston mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch

Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...

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rolling stones day: these lads were all p silly ppl* but the noise they made is good not bad *(maybe not charlie RIP)

also ogunrecords.blogspot.com with which I am especially pleased thus far!

many happy returns @djpunctum.bsky.social !! ppl shd all be reading all your BLOGS: nobilliards.blogspot.com/2025/01/depe... uncorrectedboundproof.blogspot.com funthirty.blogspot.com (this is only some of them!)

DEPECHE MODE: Ultra

(#569: 26 April 1997, 1 week) Track listing: Barrel Of A Gun/The Love Thieves/Home/It's No Good/Uselink/Useless/Sister Of Night/Jazz Thie...

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the 1976 bbc horror series BEASTS: specifically this episode (= "Baby") (@bat020.bsky.social posted this image on twitter last year and the hairs on my arms stood up in shock-memory)

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch.bsky.social · 2y ago

What was the most frightening (British) thing you watched on TV as a kid?

toying with the notion of blocking no one at all on this my professional thread -- like those guys in CHERNOBYL (2019) who open a door and find themselves straight into the blue hellish heart of the core meltdown what happened to those guys? it wasnt good! they literally melted themselves!

lol i wrote abt megacity one (here) vs the cursed earth (also here) https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/november/twitter-dispersed

my @4_columns review of the science fiction show at the science museum is up :) https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/science-fiction

it me (writing abt tove) https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/tove-jansson

i wrote about twitter for the LRB (where i've also written about nigel kennedy and the beano, so a pattern is surely emerging) https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/november/goblins-r-us

Hallo @thamesandhudson, I emailed your press office about a book I am meant to be reviewing -- but have had no response yet. Name as per this account, DM me if that's easier. Thank you! x ms

time to bring back BIG EGGO: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/december/in-beanotown

reupping my 1998 S&S piece on glam alongside @TobyManning's recent piece in new socialist: http://newsocialist.org.uk/children-revolution-glam-rock-and-70s/ https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/features/velvet-goldmine-todd-haynes-thriving-70s-glam-scene

my blog for the LRB (abt nigel kennedy and the odd politics of crossover music): https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/september/the-fifth-season

rip alan lewis: at the time i was no fan of where he took nme (long story for another day) but respect to a great editor at a string of titles from 70s-90s: for the book i interviewed him about black music magazine (and with hindsight shd also have quizzed him more abt kerrang)

my first piece for 4columns, on the V&A's alice show https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/alice-curiouser-and-curiouser

My first piece for 4Columns (on the Alice show at the V&A); retweeting before it leaves the front-page: https://4columns.org

a direct link to my first piece for https://4columns.org/sinker-mark/alice-curiouser-and-curiouser

hi @royalmailhelp -- i am trying to locate a parcel that arrived at heathrow from the US that has gone missing: i have a USPS tracking number but all USPS seem to know is that it was picked up at heathrow on 8 feb

As a big thanks for excellent help and good (disinterested!) advice supplied when my laptop was in a parlous state last summer, may I recommend https://x.com/ApplecoreServs http://applecoreservices.com for all yr mac needs

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