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I've been touting a Crowley/Parsons/Cameron/Anger novel around various literary agencies for the past six months. Only to modest interest, sadly.

Have you got a physical copy of the essay collection? If so, you might be surprised at how fucking expensive it is to get hold of a second hand copy now. In decent nick, you're looking at somewhere between £400-1000.

Just discovered this album, and totally agree. The other thing that stands out about it is its unashamed optimism, which feels even more poignant because of the dated quality you mention. All those good intentions, all so long ago. It will be alright is a constant refrain in one of the songs. I...

Lagavulin is my go-to - just the regular 16 year old bottling, though it's getting more expensive every year. I also like Highland Park (the supermarket bottle with no age statement is very drinkable). On the less abrasive side, Macallan is great. A couple of years ago my brother in law bought...

They can play 'Oh Patti' by Scritti and 'Sailing' by Christopher Cross on a loop when the time comes for me to go to the Thanatorium.

Didn't Frank Farian do all the singing on Milli Vanilli's records? Think he was also the 'real' voice of Boney M.

There's a documentary series about Garret McNamara and Nazare on HBO over here at the moment. Another terrifying individual. He reminds me of the climber Alex Honnold. They don't exude confidence, they exude certainty. Which is pretty fucking strange considering what they're doing and the...

Just noticed that Spotify has an officially curated Hauntology playlist. Mark perhaps haunting a future he would have wanted to hate.

At worst, all that would happen is the ultra rich would fuck off and over time everyone else would move up a rung or two on the London property ladder, leaving room at the bottom. The rich would remain rich, and probably remain aloof, so it's not going to remake society, but I'm struggling to...

I'm perplexed as to which forces of global capital would prevent the government from levying a punitively enormous land tax on unoccupied properties owned by non-doms or other foreign entities. It's only a year or two since the NZ government banned foreign citizens from buying property there...

You say hermeneutics of suspicion, I say ontology of order.

Like God, he withdrew in silence, ashamed of his creation.

Cheers - my mind is still absolutely boggled that this place is almost twenty years old. Glad it's still here. Another thing I wish I'd appreciated about Mark at the time is that all his talk of bodies without organs, Deleuze, Rhizomes etc. wasn't an act of spontaneous intellectual creation...

I wonder now how closely the vehemence of Mark's defense of music and art from a given period coincided with the success or not of his career at that time. Not that this would undermine it at all, but I did always wonder where the energy for those extremes of assertion came from.

Susan Casey's book 'The Wave' is pretty interesting, both on the science of rogue waves, and the psychology of Laird Hamilton, who just seems like an absolutely terrifying individual. As a writer she seems drawn to obsessive men who spend a lot of time on the water, as her previous book 'The...

My place as a minor figure in Adam Curtis's forthcoming history of millennial blogging is assured. The time Mark Fisher once politely disagreed with me will be narrated over BBC archive footage of someone trying to do basic CSS formatting.

Better if they're dead. Can't answer back then.

Yup, though it's his second or third cancelling at this point. He hired her to write for a show on HBO. Judging by the trailer, it's about skinny girls with superpowers, only this time they're Victorian. LP has been conspicuously silent about him.

She decided to give up moral grandstanding for a career writing tv for Joss Whedon.