[a pleasurable headache] distant and invisible humans
A short one this week. Suicide Mission https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/ A deep dive on the absolute shit...
[a pleasurable headache] the desire to get a tattoo without a strong preference of what it is
A short one this week as the clocks changing and Easter weekend kind of threw me for a loop. === Links Kaiju Look https://thebaffler.com/latest/kaiju-look-...
[a pleasurable headache] learn how to be a human being by watching normal people
An incredibly short edition this week. I am toying with sending this out monthly, or when I actually have a large amount of links to send out as I'm aware...
[a pleasurable headache] the absence of Culture
The State of the Culture, 2024 Via Sentiers All in all this is a pretty depressing read, but puts a finger on so many elements and symptoms of the current...
[a pleasurable headache] incredible wood welder
Deer Editor Issue 2 is out in stores. Click through to be taken through to Ryan's newsletter and some lovely preview art as well as another look at that Phil...
[a pleasurable headache]a swamp of circumstance
The last two weeks have been a cavalcade of health scares in the family (all good now), Florence bringing back a plethora of illnesses from nursery...
[a pleasurable headache] critical periods
A link-only edition this week. It's been a fairly turbulent week with a sudden health scare/shock in the family meaning the majority of the week has been...
[a pleasurable headache] errant parachutes
First up, Deer Editor is coming on January 10th from Mad Cave Studios. Written by Ryan K Lindsay, art by Sami Kivela, colours by Lauren Affe and letters by...
[a pleasurable headache] See you in the new year!
No links this week or newsletter. I mean, who’s going to read a newsletter on Christmas Eve? The next entry will be in the new year. See you in two!
[a pleasurable headache] unfit for human life
The toe heals. I submitted one of the two short stories I wanted to finish by the end of the year. The second story is taking it's time to reveal itself to...
[a pleasurable headache] war through a screen
It's been a wild two weeks again. My aim to finish two short stories before the end of the year is well on track, but real life is trying to have the last...
[a pleasurable headache] contradictory modalities of living a life
Apologies, it's a small one this week. It has been an eventful fortnight. We got our first real bout of 'toddlers being disease vectors'. Flo had a round of...
[a pleasurable headache] hot pink spartan
A short one this week as the week has slowly derailed through Flo bringing home another illness. === The situation in Gaza is rapidly evolving. It almost...
[a pleasurable headache] it's not complicated
So, this was announced during the week on Twitter: 💀SHORT SCARES TOC ANNOUNCEMENT!💀69 two sentence horror stories from 69 authorsComing Spring 2024This was...
[a pleasurable headache] flourishing with a gun in our hands
Not too many links this week as I've been trying to conquer a TBR pile that I've allowed to get quite out of hand and make headway on two writing projects I...
[a pleasurable headache] a perfectly fine newsletter
Updates It was recently announced that I will have a story in the upcoming "The Perfectly Fine Neighborhood" from French Press. The TOC (Table of Contents)...
[a pleasurable headache] step up onto that piss-poor foothold
It's a short one this week I'm afraid as I've had a hell of a week. Nursery starts in a few weeks for Flo, but until then we're having to plug the stopgap...
[a pleasurable headache] spied on spies
Still no word on the submission alluded to in the last edition. This is how the wheels of progress turn in the writing game a lot of the time. Slowly,...
[a pleasurable headache] a different kind of heat
Apologies for the errors that have plagued this newsletter for the last few editions. Worryingly, I have no idea what went wrong. Buttondown is usually so...
[a pleasurable headache] broken and late edition
Apparently the last three editions of this newsletter have not gone out. This is the one that was supposed to have gone out on the Sunday just gone....