Just released Ep.7 of my documentary podcast series, this one written/recorded in the Lake District, retracing the great literary partnership: See: ‘Drinkers with Writing Problems’ Wordsworth Grasmere Friends of Coleridge @ColeridgeMT The Romanticism blog Friends of the Lake District pastnow Visit Lake District, Cumbria

When a great writer has one last gift to give. The Book of David. Definitely worth a read.

My debut collection The Night Jar available from Salt Books The perfect valentine gifts if your beloved likes poems about self-trepanation, nuns, and Jaws from from the James Bond movies

It's International Wine Day & if you're looking for a sonic journey into sherry culture, the new 'Drinkers with Writing Problems' podcast was written/recorded in Gibraltar. Interviews with Lindsay Weston Gibraltar Stories Poetry Goes to the Movies Wordsworth Grasmere - shoutout to Louise Peterkin

Pleased to have a poem published along side a brilliant line up of writers in the always wonderful One Hand Clapping @clapping_one 1handclapping.online/post/louise-pe…

California’s capital city on a fall morning

For ⁦Scott T. Anderson⁩, working on his crime podcast ‘Trace of the Devastation’ meant revisiting events some would rather forget. But is forgetting them even possible? sacramento.newsreview.com/2024/03/01/for…

BREAKING! Arrest in a 40-year-old Roseville cold case that I’ve been writing about since 2020. It was one of SN&R’s last cover stories, ever, in print & we’re able to tell the entire saga now: tinyurl.com/4td7p776

I finally saw Taxi Driver projected on 35mm film & its so beautiful. Maybe even too beautiful. The rain slicked neon landscape filmed on that 1970s Kodak stock is a richly textured wonderland compared to the rather bland corporate Manhattan of today.

Congratulations to Face in a Book, 2025 Raven Award recipient! #Edgars2025

There is a weird amount of overlap between the people who insist that we take climate experts seriously when they warn of big changes on the horizon, and people who refuse to take AI experts seriously when they say the same thing.

BREAKING: On-scene for a chaotic moment of reported gunfire on Sacramento’s Ethan Way. sacramento.newsreview.com/2025/05/25/cha…

BREAKING: sacramento.newsreview.com/2025/05/25/cha…

Cheers to everyone who doesn’t use ChatGPT🥂

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

M Zuckerberg has already made it known that if things get heavy he's going to go hide in a hole while the rest of us gut things out. But in the meantime he and his pals would like to scrape everything we say and make for their proprietary AIs. For free. Matter of nat'l security,

this should be a felony

As someone whose job is mostly researching and formulating arguments, I cannot emphasize this strongly enough: no it absolutely does not.

AI is rubbish at history. It just makes stuff up. I gave ChatGBT a go yesterday, thinking it might boost my productivity, and it fed me a completely bogus quote by Pindar. But making sure it WAS bogus took time - so far from boosting my productivity, AI had actively sabotaged it.

Really looking forward to AI yassifying and flattening everything human and weird and beautiful about our film and cultural history. Excited about what it means for historical reality, human foibles, idiosyncracies, physical difference, and beauty standards. Things are great!