Hello MQ readers

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So this week is the first time I’ve mentioned my website on Midnight Quatermass. First time I’ve mentioned it anywhere online since I soft launched it a while back. It has a trickle of readers and I know a few people have stumbled across it or searched for it and contacted me. Which is nice.

This thing came into existence, initially at least, because I’m supposed to have a website. As I moved the thing to self hosting my own domain and running a WordPress install (like the good old days) it became an itch to scratch and I’ve been slowly adding and updating it. It’s never gonna be finished, but now I’ve mentioned it I’ll attempt to keep on top of it a little better.

I often feel like I’m not doing enough online and other times I feel my online presence is spread far too thin. As with the newsletter I’ll work this out as I go along and add the updates to my workflow for a while and then make a decision in a few months as to how useful/necessary/fun this place is.

But thanks for dropping by and I’m sorry that not everything that should be here is here.

Ready. Not ready.

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The original is my favourite John Woo movie.

It’s also possibly the movie I’ve watched the most times.

Seems nuts they didn’t even mention John Woo on the poster.

RIP Shelly Duvall

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Here’s a thing. The wonderful Shelly Duvall had a tv show called Faerie Tale Theatre.

Fresh off POPEYE (1980) she got Robin Williams for the pilot which was written and directed by Eric Idle. all the episodes will reward your curiosity.

But my favourite one was narrated by Vincent Price and was sadly the only time Christopher Lee worked with Frank fucking Zappa. In Lee’s own words:

“In the early seventies I moved to America and it was there where I had my first direct contact with the genre. I’d played golf a few times with Alice Cooper. Not many people know this, but I worked with Frank Zappa. He was a fan of my work so he asked to star with me in a TV show. It was called Faerie Tale Theatre.”

What a life.

It’s called ‘The Boy Who Left Home To Find Out About The Shivers’.

The above was a quick post elsewhere. Notes over on Substack is my favourite platform right now and the more I use it the more I think I don’t need a blog here. Than again if it got nuked it wouldn’t be the first online home that fell away beneath me. But also the blog is more of a notepad archive. Maybe. Dunno. It’ll all work out.

Bonus thing with following me on Notes is that there’s no need to subscribe to my newsletter to experience me waffle.

“Give me the money, fucker.”

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Got a meeting tomorrow to discuss starting a Substack with another writer built on a shared love of a particular movie genre. May come to nothing but I guess I am taking the platform seriously now.

John Candy serious, mammyrammers.

 

I accidentally wrote a childrens’ book.

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I’ll let it sit for a while before I go back to it and work out what to do with it. Feels more like a picture book or at the very least an illustrated short story.

Started as something just for my own kids who asked me to write something for them with a very specific theme.

It may have legs. We’ll see.