Proofs for my new novel, GHOST MONTH, are in and shimmering⦠Out with @faberbooks.bsky.social later this year!
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Proofs for my new novel, GHOST MONTH, are in and shimmering⦠Out with @faberbooks.bsky.social later this year!
I had to look up Lizardman's Constant: the 4% of people who will tell a pollster lizard people are taking over the world, ie the minimum answer you will get for even the most absurd question.
photo of someone covered from head to toe in predominantly blue ceremonial attire.
someone wearing red ceremonial robes and masking
someone completely covered feom head to toe in orange ceremonial attire
someone dressed in green ceremonial attire covering their head, face, and body.
participants from Benin's Vodun Day Festival, celebrated every January 10th.
There's a boy in you about three Years old who hasn't learned a thing for thirty Thousand years. Sometimes it's a girl. This child had to make up its mind How to save you from death. He said things like: "Stay home. Avoid elevators. Eat only elk." You live with this child, but you don't know it. You're in the office, yes, but live with this boy At night. He's uninformed, but he does want To save your life. And he has. Because of this boy You survived a lot. He's got six big ideas. Five don't work. Right now he's repeating them to you. Robert Bly, 'One Source of Bad Information'
One Source of Bad Information, by Robert Bly
(quoted in Wild Things: A Geography of Grief by Barbara Wansbrough)
i donβt particularly care for the current angle of the sun
Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with their story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. The Salt Path became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film.
But we can reveal it wasnβt the whole truth.
@chloehadj.bsky.social
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A poster for The Godfather. Marlon Brando, as Don Corleone, holds a humungous cat in his lap. The cat is bigger than he is (in the film, it's a tiny kitten) but looks contented enough. The frame is strewn with fish bones. At the bottom of the frame is a severed horse's head and a bloodied axe.
Probably my favourite Ghanaian film poster.
Amazing correction in the Telegraph.
Wonderful read
"The moral of NiemΓΆllerβs poem, then, isnβt really 'speak up even if you arenβt in danger.' Itβs 'speak up, even when the Nazis threaten marginalized groups that you yourself despise.' Fascists do take advantage of indifference and apathy to some degree. But they also build on widespread prejudice."
Trump now worse than a global killer disease, not yet as bad as Hitler's tanks rolling into France and the Low Countries. More as we get it.
In 25 years of covering national security, Iβve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
My mother wrote a lovely obit of David Lynch in this weekβs Economist
www.economist.com/obituary/202...
Flowers for Lynch at Bobs Big Boy.
left: Nicolas Cage with long black hair and a moustache in a black top right: Spinoza with long black hair and a moustache in a black top
a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers
1. Spinoza
Er..so, thereβs this. Should we be concerned? bgr.com/tech/chatgpt...
Which Booker novel was rejected because some people at the publishing house didn't like the characters?
What winner chose his publisher "I had not many other options, frankly"?
I had great fun writing this piece about rejected Booker books:
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
go.bsky.app/KDY26rh
Illustration of a tiger, wearing a snazzy red jacket, smoking a pipe
Instead of βonce upon a time,β Korean folk and fairy tales often begin with νΈλμ΄ λ΄λ°° νΌμ°λ μμ μ. It means βback when tigers smoked (pipes)β
#Stonehenge bought for #wife #archaeology #history