[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...
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[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...
[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...
A Pleasurable Headache - 31st May 2020
Updates The non-fiction piece mentioned in previous updates is now a lock. After some excellent notes and suggestions it’s good to go. I shall reveal more...
A Pleasurable Headace - 17th May 2020
Nowt but the links this week. Links Cory Doctorow on 'Rules For Writing' Link Doctorow discusses some rules for writers, mostly via the prism of the Turkey...
A Pleasurable Headache - 3rd May 2020
Updates Not too much to get into up top. The deadline for Project Kaiju passed a few days ago, so I'm now truly in the waiting game period of fiction...
A Pleasurable Headache - 19th April 2020
Pandemic Notes Writing and putting these out is hard at the moment. My reading has slowed down a bit in the past few weeks in terms of longform articles. I’m...
A Pleasurable Headache - 5th April 2020
A smattering of links I have read whilst staring wistfully out of the window. 1) John Scalzi with advice for the creative during what he’s calling ‘the great...
APH: Look After Yourself Edition
Needless to say, the past two weeks have been bizarre, panic-inducing and without precedent. Covid-19 of course is pretty much all of the zeitgeist right...
Ask yourself, what would a rat do?
Updates A short one up top this week as I am (yet again) up against it deadline-wise. I’ve got a non-fic piece to get started and finish up in the next few...
Wading Into Trouble
Here We Go Again The last week has been a strange one with a large part of the county I live in being underwater (I’m thankfully unaffected). Imgur: The...
Oh the horror!
Up Top Currently it's 'Women In Horror Month' so I'm going to delve into some of my favourite horror fiction that I've read recently. Rust Maidens by...