The Garden

Io Saturnalia, friends, and welcome to the fifth annual edition of The Satyrs’ Forest Lords of Misrule!

Hello from Hoorn!

I’ve been getting into Nine Inch Nails recently, and i have to ask… how the hell did The Downward Spiral elude me for this long?

I think that, when the suits at Netflix talk about “second-screen content”, that should be interpreted to mean that they’re gonna start making movies exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS.

I’ve been in the process of writing sci-fi furry smut recently.

Quite a few this time!

I went to a Unitarian church service1 yesterday, the first time i’d ever done anything of that sort in my life — having been raised atheist, and Paganism being a quite lonely path — and it was… surprisingly affirming?

An odd commonality with many of today’s films is that, because either their production companies have gone default or nobody really cares about them any more, you can watch them for free on Youtube in varying degrees of quality right now.

I was going to try out a Unitarian “church” for the first time today, but i overslept and because the buses are on their Sunday schedule there’s no way for me to get there on time. 😔 I guess that’ll teach me for next week?

Everyone hates “stomp clap hey” until “Little Talks” comes on.

I recently learned about binturongs, ridiculous animals which look like a hybrid of roughly five different cute critters, galumph about the place, and smell suspiciously like popcorn1.

You, too, can be the proud owner of a bull-penis walking cane for just $99.00.

In keeping with the spirit of the last post, i’ve done a wee bit of autumn cleaning on the blog’s theme, including a dingus showing the phase of the moon at the time of each post.

I’ve always been enamoured with the idea of the website as a living, breathing place; not just a dumb, static object, like a book or a reel of film, but, well, a site, like an ancient oak that bears the scars of all who’ve scrawled their loved ones’ initi…

Bought some blu-rays.

The Witchfinder-General is the head of His Majesty’s Finder Corps (known as HM Witchfinder Corps until 1952), the undisclosed agency tasked with classifying occult and otherwise anomalous phenomena in the UK and keeping their occurrence a secret from the…

As someone learning Ancient Greek, the modern iteration of the tongue often strikes me as far more similar to… i don’t know, Italian or something, having been shaped by millennia of loanwords and the influence of neighbouring peoples.

A brief prescript: if you want some links that were too good for this roundup (not to shatter the illusion too much…), check out the nine new ones on the main site’s linkroll!

Just found out that instead of “XD”, Hebrew speakers use “םא”.

The ten dead people i would most want to have a discussion with over a cup of tea,1 in no particular order: Jesus of Nazareth (c. 4 BCE–33 CE) Emperor Julian (331–363) Hildegard von Bingen (c. 1098–1179) Nikolai Fyodorov (1829–1903) Srinivasa Ramanujan (1…

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Edwardsiella andrillæ, a rare sea anemone discovered in 2013 that lives clinging onto the bottom of the Antarctic ice sheet.

I don’t know whose dumbfuck crawler is responsible for this, but whoever it is, can you please calm down?

Sit tibi terra levis, Jacobe Lovell.

Last time on “Stuff i watched recently”, i covered four thriller films.

Unfortunately, due to the Online Safety Act, i have decided to become an Annoying Privacy Guy.

Wow.

Periodisation, the splitting of history into neat ’n’ discrete temporal chunks, is a time-honoured matter of debate among historians.

I’ve done some fairly interesting things this month, and had planned to write posts for each of them — but, for whatever reason, none of them provided that particular spark to me.

Current mood: Me, i’m found floating round and round Like a bug in brandy in this big bronze cup Drowning here in summer’s cauldron Christ, it’s hot.

I love the Steam summer sale.

In 1986, a lake in Cameroon exploded and killed seventeen hundred people.

The urge to make my fursona a taur vs. the struggle of figuring out what an otter/deer hybrid body would actually look like.

Last weekend i found myself with an unexpected glut of downtime, and i figured i’d put it to good use by crossing four films, all thrillers, off my “to-watch” list.

Internet Roadtrip!

The first half of June is going to be pretty busy for me in meatspace, so there might be a paucity of updates for the month.

I don’t like the goat from the Paramount+ ads.

The Naked Gun (1988) I couldn’t possibly give a better review than a paraphrase of Roger Ebert: First, you laugh at the joke; then, you laugh at yourself for laughing at something so stupid.

Sometimes i translate news headlines into Ancient Greek for practice — i thought i’d post a recent one here, just because. :-) Ὁ Κόσμος ΥΠΒʹ, σοβιετικὴ ἀστροναῦς ἣ πεντήκοντα τρία ἔτη ἐκύκλει, κατέρραξέ ποι ὑπὲρ τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς Θαλάττης.

“Buddy Holly” but it’s a Pokémon battle theme Man sets off on 53-mile walk dressed as a curlew The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great Biocubes.net I didn’t know i needed T. rex–scented perfume until now.

My favourite number is 137.

I have a general policy of not blabbing my mouth about politics on the site, because it just makes everyone miserable, but i just woke up, and i’m quite fucking angry at the Supreme Court, and that’s all i’ll say.

Using machine learning to repurpose existing drugs for rare diseases New York chefs are dulling their spicy food Black leopards are, allegedly, quietly thriving in the British countryside A trip to Stoneleigh, Surrey, home of the Original Cockney Museum.

Given that they did it for the original Mega Drive games, Sega should totally rerelease the Sonic Rush duology for mobile phones.

Pictured: what the main characters would have done if they were not pro-cancer Yesterday i went to the cinema to go watch Death of a Unicorn, A24’s new one-horned horror-comedy-thing.

Neo-dire-wolf puppy pics © Colossal By now, you’ve probably heard the breathless news that they’ve brought dire wolves back from the dead.

Jackie Brown What a great flick!

I’ll elaborate properly on getting around to the bimensal stuff-i-watched-recently post, but for now, you should absolutely go and watch Flow and Felidæ right now.

The worst part about China’s anti-mapping laws is that there’s no street view or 3D in China on Google Earth — just a vast, gaping gap in the global patchwork of imagery.

Washington1, a town in urban County Durham long since incorporated into Sunderland, is not a place where one expects much nature.