[A Pleasurable Headache] Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water.
A wedding to attend. Walls to pain. Words to write. So it’s straight into things this week. Links # 20 years ago, The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind changed...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Justice is Compromised
News I'm now free of COVID after being plagued for about a week and a half. The first few days were the worst, with the mother of all headaches along with a...
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Apologies for the lack of newsletter this weekend. I have finally gone and gotten Covid after almost two years of slipping through it’s grasp. I’m over the...
[A Pleasurable Headache] imagine unironically calling your group Alpha Men Assemble and keeping a straight face
Another short one I'm afraid. I'm up against a deadline for a story submission window and I have a million and one tasks to do to prep for the little one's...
[A Pleasurable Headache] everything is a mess
Not much up top this week. A lot of this week’s issue is about the invasion of Ukraine. Given the saturated and overwhelming coverage and the very real...
[A Pleasurable Headache] carbon per kilobyte
The last few weeks have been marred by chaotic periods at the day job, jumbled sleep patterns and every other obstacle you can think of for being productive....
[A Pleasurable Headache] Tumblr Is Everything
Some quick housekeeping to begin with. The URL for this newsletter now lives at: https://buttondown.email/aph/ It’s been like this a while but I’d completely...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Fissure, Writers Resolutions, Encryption bad!
My second short story to see the light of day, Fissure, features on the latest episode of The Other Stories podcast as part of their Doppelgangers season. 'A...
[A Pleasurable Headache] right where you left it
A short entry to start the year off. No fuss, no muss, just the links. Links The Web is Fucked https://thewebisfucked.com/ Incendiary URL aside, this is a no...
[A Pleasurable Headache] so far, so Neeson
I am sending this one out slightly earlier then usual. I will only forget in the post Christmas haze. So here it is. Enjoy! There are not too many links this...
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One more edition until 2021 sails into the sunset. As tradition I shall probably go through some of the things I enjoyed and consumed this year, media wise....
[A Pleasurable Headache] please move the box every 6-8 seconds, thank you
The last two weeks featured…a story acceptance. This one was a short I had written a year or so ago but it never really clicked. Months pass. I asked myself...
[A Pleasurable Headache] a carefully architectured nightmare
Nowt but links this week. A batch of shorts have gone out to various publications. Breath held as always. In the interim I’m breaking ground on another new...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Headcheese
Heavy spoilers for Texas Chainsaw Massacre abound in this first section. Skip to the links section if you have no wish to partake. The Texas Chainsaw...
[A Pleasurable Headache] I understood that reference
Let’s get straight into it. The aforementioned Project Greenfingers is now being submitted in the usual places. One stock rejection already so far. I’m not...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Indiana Jones and Forty Years of Social Atomization
Project Greenfingers, as I've previously called it here, is done. Take what you fear and stick it in a story - climate change, responsibility, parenthood,...
[A Pleasurable Headache] almost wantonly unreadable
Links, links, nothing but the links. Good Luck Finding a Stranger, More Interesting Game in 2021 Than 'Cruelty Squad'...
[A Pleasurable Headache] What is that large, ominous cupboard sitting directly on top of the toilet?
Just the links this time around too I'm afraid. Links Surviving a Decade as a Full-time Author No One Has Heard Of <https://litreactor.com/columns/surviving-...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Dark Matter in Crates off a C-130
It has been an unrelentingly grim time in the day job this past week or so, so please excuse the brevity of this week's edition. Links i had a problem with...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Catching a meteor with your bare hands as therapy
Another two weeks and some great progress on Project Greenfingers. I finally cracked the spine of the thing, introducing some conflict that was just not...
[A Pleasurable Headache] American rope, put there by American soldiers
Let’s get right into it, shall we? Why it’s (almost) impossible to argue with the right https://www.salon.com/2021/07/18/why-its-almost-impossible-to-argue-...
[A Pleasurable Headache] When something's good it's never gone
Updates The short story mentioned previously (lets call it Project Greenfingers) continues to plague me. I'm trying to adhere to my own mantra here of "Trust...
[A Pleasurable Headache] a little bit of everything all of the time
Updates I've been beavering away at another short. At this point, I think it's missing something. Most of my projects usually come about when two previously...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Godless Grifters & The Swartzelder Method
A short one this week as the day job becomes a chaotic mess. Never take time off, kids. You’ll just come back to so much work. Links Young, Male and Anti-...
[A Pleasurable Headache] we can remember that for you wholesale
Apologies for this one. A system snafu means I am reconstructing this edition of the newsletter mostly from memory after the last version was swallowed up by...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Bolt-01; regeneration; escape
Updates For those in the British comics scene you will probably already know about the passing of Dave Evans (aka Bolt01) recently. For those not in the...
Simmer; a sense of direction; cheese
News & Bits https://twitter.com/ryanklindsay/status/1388200772823748608 As mentioned in the previous issue, Everfrost (Words: Ryan K Lindsay, Art: Sami...
[A Pleasurable Headache] actual updates; logging off; a hidden horror gem;
Updates First up, Everfrost #1 drops in June from Black Mask Studio. "All scientist-warrior Van Louise wanted was to retire and get off-planet as her society...
[A Pleasurable Headace] she ain't no human being
It’s another short one this week I’m afraid. I’ve been spending the last week or so looking at (like really looking) at some of my favourite newsletters, the...
[A Pleasurable Headache] the language of destruction
It's a bit of a short one this week. I'm still sitting on a huge amount of links to read in my backlog. This week has been my first real week off at the day...
[A Pleasurable Headache] man of clickbait, man of longreads
Updates A rejection this week for a piece of flash fiction. Originally the piece was a Drabble that I had punched up to take advantage of a pretty high level...
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Some quick updates: I continue to suck badly at Chess. But I’m enjoying playing. And then losing. Lockdown Haircut 2 is imminent. Reader, I am genuinely...
[A Pleasurable Headache] the real lesson was the knights we lost along the way
Over the years I've tried to kill the perfectionist streak in me, trying everything from self-imposed deadlines to CBT. The latter has probably been the...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Habits; Tenet returns; Zwift; Q-Anon's structural integrity
We’re already nearing the end of the first month of 2021. This year, for me at least, is all about going back to basics after the plague year shattered all...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Rebooting Cyberpunk; the small web; Gatwick drone; Tenet; the mighty giraffe
We're pretty link heavy for this years first edition. Have at it! Cyberpunk Needs a Reboot by Ryan Zickgraf...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Shadowrun; Le Carre; 2020 in movies and books
I hope you all had the best Christmas you possibly could, given the circumstances. 2020 continues to act like the antagonist of every slasher movie ever,...
[A Plesurable Headache] the wolf; web waste; bro culture; manchette; pilger
Not a huge edition this week. The day job has been hectic with a return to work after having to self-isolate. That said, next week is my last full working...
[A Pleasureable Headache] KSR; Violence and Watch Dogs; the lowly Kettlebell; House of Fear
This weeks links: Kim Stanley Robinson and socialist sci-fi Owning your computer Watch Dog Legion and depictions of violence The Kettlebell House of Fear Kim...
[A Pleasurable Headache] AOC; Dark Souls, X-Men: The Animated Series; Boomers on the internet
This week’s links: AOC on the Democratic Party post-election Dark Souls & Capitalism BEN is drowned X-Men Animated Series Picks Haunted Radio Boomers Brain’s...
[A Pleasurable Headache] No running in the pool; horror that sticks; genre cinema in 2020
This week's links: Strangers: Prey at Night Moorhead & Benson Interview Horror that Sticks Superman in the modern era The horror movie in a horrible year...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Peak 90s comics; Books are hardy; Empires are shitty
This week’s links: Maximum Carnage (yes, that one) The book as a resilient artifact The facade of Britishness Non combatants in videogames American Empire in...
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Just a short note to say there won’t be a newsletter this week. After much scrabbling and changing plans at the last moment I shall be getting married on...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Black Dahlia; Food Chain Complicity; The Town
This week’s links: On being thirty-five and not speaking French The Black Dahlia Single-page protest websites Writing via the subconscious Covid-19 and the...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Modernist Horror; Dead Plots; David Graeber
This week’s links: Alan Moore on Modernist Horror GQ profiles tech-oracle Jaron Lanier The Baffler on alleged militant, and first U.S citizen to be...
A Pleasurable Headache: Interlude
Due to a number of factors, mostly the fact that my draft of this newsletter did not back up properly, I'm afraid this week's edition of the newsletter is a...
A Pleasurable Headache: 9th August 2020
Time seems broken right now. I'm not sure if it's living under pandemic-induced guidelines or the ridiculously hyper-kinetic news cycle (or maybe both of...
A Pleasurable Headache: 26th July 2020
Not many links this time around as I've been ridiculously under strain in the day job, to the point that burn out approaches. God bless this pandemic. The...
A Pleasurable Headache: 12th July 2020
Links Someone is Wrong on the Internet: A Study in Pandemic Distraction I feel attacked. YMMV. Michaela the Destroyer How a young talent from East London...
A Pleasurable Headache: June 28th 2020
Links How a Right-Wing Movie Studio Enabled the ‘Harvey Weinstein’ of Indie Film The Daily Beast (reporter Marlow Stern) reports on Cinestate and its...
A Pleasurable Headache: 14th June 2020
Links The Pillage of India The NYRB cover two recent (ish) books covering Britain's colonial reign in India, a dark period of rampant imperialism, starvation...