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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 2h

Now that most of the contributors have their copies. We are making the rest of sets of this imited edtion project available to buy.

Details here:

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 13d

Lovely to be a contributor alongside lots of wonderful people to this 50th anniversary tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
If you're interested in getting hold of a box of Ambagious Tactics email the address below for price and payment details:
[email protected]

Image shows a box of cards / a tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 19h

#nowplaying Drone Month.

A 2-CD compilation album: Ambient 4: Isolationism (1994) by Various Artists. Compiled by Kevin Martin.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 19h

Ta. Always a challenge to do it without running the sentence too far.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 22h

#nowplaying Autumnal. (Well, it has a version of Autumn Leaves on it...)

An album release on compact disc: Ellington Indigos (1958) by Duke Ellington And His Orchestra.

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Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 23h

Oct 12th 802701 - George Wells' time machine finally stops travelling forward. After saving Weena, and meeting the Eloi, he discovers the underground race known as Morlocks.

📽️📅 The Time Machine (1960)

3 Screenshots from the movie "The Time Machine" (1960): First, a close-up of the time machine's control panel with colorful dials and ornate detailing, indicating a time of October 12. Second, a scene with a man and a woman sitting on steps, engaged in a serious conversation with the subtitle "Twenty of your friends were watching you drown." Third, a group of Morlocks, creatures with pale skin and white hair, standing in a cave-like environment, exuding a menacing presence.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 23h

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

A yellow badge with with word AKLO printed in black inside a double-lined oval frame.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 23h

Amour fou.

A pair of badges for the Mad Love publishing imprint each of which shows a black heart dripping onto the handwritten words "Mad Love".

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 1d

It's interesting seeing them thrash out the issues in real time. And with no idea of what was coming ten years down the line...

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 1d

Every time Mescalina is mentioned I imagine a small dog wandering around a house in Canada in the 1950s, vibrating like one of Louis Wain's cats.

$Six drawings/paintings of cats by Louis Wain in various stages of psychotropic flux, from the straightforwardly representational to the fractally polychrome abstract.$

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 1d

Reading a book of letters between Aldous Huxley and Humphrey Osmond (psychiatrist, psychedelic researcher & the man who coined the word "psychedelic"), one of the minor revelations is that the Osmond household included a chihuahua they named "Mescalina".

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 1d

Odd, StudioCanal released it on BD only two years ago. Maybe he's talking about a US version?

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 1d

New blog post: Weekend links 799

Weekend links 799

A Night Alarm: The Advance! (1871) by Charles West Cope. • At Spoon & Tamago: Meet the artist creating humorous, nihonga-style images of daily life with their rescue cat. • The thirteenth installment of Smoky Man’s exploration of The Bumper Book of Magic has been posted (in Italian) at (quasi). • New music: I Remember I Forget by Yasmine Hamdan; …

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 1d

Shambleau is great! I've got a small paperback with all the Jirel stories. Tempted to read some of them again.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 1d

One of my fragile copies of Weird Tales (Feb. 1935) contains a Gertrude Hemken letter in which she praises CL Moore and her Jirel of Joiry stories (quite right, too), and suggests that if the USA had a Conan of its own "there wouldn't be any depression" (debatable).

A photo of the letters page of Weird Tales magazine with the following section highlighted.

"Jirel of Joiry

Gertrude Hemken, of Chicago, writes: "About C. L. Moore and The Black God's Kiss: that Amazon, Jirel, is a gal after me own heart, by gum. Somehow I always preferred women of that type, to clinging vines, or sweet little ones who shudder at the thought of killing a fly. Of course, it isn't supposed to be nice for women to curse a blue streak as Jirel did, but, shucks, it makes her all the more interesting (to me). And now we find Jirel again in this issue (December). Gosh,I could stand her for every issue, and keep yelling for more. She's just that kind of a girl. What more can I say but that I am immensely fond of her, and stand a bit in awe of such a maid, although fictitious? Long live C. L. Moore, who has the ability to create such dynamic characters as Jirel of Joiry and Northwest Smith of the skyspaces. I must also commend Robert E. Howard for his new Conan story. Such a brave man as Conan may exist only in fiction, but, doggone it, we should have such men in our times. Maybe there wouldn't be any depression. Conan, like Jirel, is a dynamic character — what would happen should the two ever meet some day? Or maybe I'm crazy. I don't know, I don't care, but I'd do without all my other reading matter rather than give up WT. It takes me from the realm of harsh reality to enchanted gardens that no man can ever conceive other than in his mind. To descend the dizzying..."

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 2d

I don't like to burst bubbles, but this is from the Mar 1938 issue of WEIRD TALES, and was in a letter from Gertrude Hemken (1912-1992). Who was not a teenage girl, but one of the prolific letter-writers in WEIRD TALES during its initial run (1923-1954).

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 1d

The V&A was very worthwhile when I was there in March. I walked past the NHM on the way there: loads of coaches/crowds in the forecourt, more people swarming down Exhibition Road but very few at all in the V&A. Added bonus: the biggest buttocks in SW7...

A full-size reproduction of Michelangelo's David in the Plaster Courts of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Smaller reproductions of other sculpted artworks may be seen on the walls and on stands around David.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

Ha, yike. I'm okay with the CBR copy.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

They were also very novel concepts at the time, cutting-edge theories.

John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

The Spirit of 1977 from the Quark tour programme: Dead Elvis, Mary Whitehouse, punks, Pistols, NF, drugs, Divine (twice!), etc.

A collage spread from a tour programme showing photos of Hawkwind in concert (inc. spaceman battling/dancing with? a robot monster) plus various random news clippings, photos, ads, etc.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

Calvert may well have got the idea from a book, of course, as he did with several of his other songs. Or a magazine... One of my annoyingly precocious friends used to read Scientific American.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

I definitely saw something on TV discussing quarks, "strangeness" and "charm" prior to 1977 because I'd discussed it with friends at school, two of whom enjoyed weird science stuff. When the album was released I knew immediately what the title was referring to.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

I've often felt--without any evidence at all--that Robert Calvert got the idea to write the song Quark, Strangeness And Charm from a BBC science documentary, possibly this episode of Horizon from 1974...

A screenshot from the BBC Genome website showing an old TV programme listing:

"21:45 Horizon -

BBC Two

Mon 6th May 1974, 21:45 on BBC Two England

The Hunting of the Quark

No one knows for sure what quarks are because no one has yet found one. Some physicists believe though that they might be the first particles to be created after the big bang beginning of the universe - and that is why quarks might be very important. The search for the existence of the quarks is one of the most intriguing detective stories of science. It exercises the minds of the world's leading physicists who are attempting to take matter apart and look back at the very early stages of creation. Why do they do it? Curiosity-the sheer excitement of discovery and of finding beauty and unity in nature at its most fundamental level. Narrator PAUL VAUGHAN Film editor CHRISTOPHER WOOLLEY Editor BRUCE NORMAN Producer DAVID PATERSON

Contributors Narrator: Paul Vaughan Editor: Christopher Woolley Editor: Bruce Norman Producer: David Paterson"

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

#nowplaying

A compact-disc box set: Days Of The Underground (The Studio & Live Recordings 1977–1979) (2023) by Hawkwind/Hawklords. "Psi-Power" tour badge bot included.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d

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art-of-tron-1982-michael-bonifer-0671455753 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Scans from The Art of Tron featuring sketches and illustrations by artists such as Syd Mead and Jean Moebius Giraud.

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 3d

Hallowe'en season doesn't really begin round here until the arrival of Mr Shea's card from Connecticut.

A hand-made card imprinted with an old illustration showing a cowled and caped witch with broomstick lurking in a graveyard beside a large pumpkin with a face carved into it. A vast moon rises in the sky while a bat flits about.