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Neil Willcox, Looking For The Other 98 Saints
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Poet, Writer, Jack Of All Trades
https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/
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It's sadly that time again; a post of other places I can be found on the internet if you're thinking of leaving the site.

1. My blog, Night Of The hats, which I update most days, is on blogspot because I have never moved it /1
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Night of the Hats
Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006
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Cafe at The Portland art museum has Rothko no. 5 cakes. Something intellectually meaty about seeing the painting in person, and then eating a cake copy. The complete experience. Full spectrum.
January 28, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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This is doing numbers on t*mblr dot com, and it's the silliest post I've ever made
January 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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You are assigned repair bay thirteen for some minor upgrades and tuning, ignoring it's bad reputation. When you return after a shift and a half of waiting to report in headquarters you find the engine dismantled but somehow all the supplies have vanished.
January 29, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Bet yall didn’t know that hell was a musical.
January 29, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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This kind of thing has been done: Dean McLaughlin, "Hawk Among the Sparrows" in the 7/68 @analogsf.bsky.social. Great Kelly Freas cover.
January 29, 2026 at 2:33 AM
It's #goblinweek and Goblin Winter has been over so long, you probably think I made it up
January 29, 2026 at 9:46 AM
I read The Hunting Of The Phoenix by S L Harris in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social a story about loyalty, betrayal and destruction. Also a phoenix. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/01/i-re...
I Read Stories: The Hunting Of The Phoenix By S L Harris
The Hunting Of The Phoenix by S L Harris in Kaleidotrope Rufus, the Captain Of The Guard has returned and the city is in flames. The ...
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January 29, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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NeCROWmancy is that anything?
January 28, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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"Goblins are humanoid creatures who can be found across the wide world. They are reluctantly differentiated by gender, size, profession, class, and grotesquery. They are sometimes confused for gnomes, to the disgust of both sets of creatures." worldstar.miserytourism.com/index.php/Go...
Goblins - Worldstar
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January 28, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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If you go into a McDonald's and order a McKnuckle Sandwich, the staff will escort you to the basement where you get to fight a shirtless Ronald who hasn't been let outside in 30 years and has subsisted only on the flesh of all those he killed in the ring.
If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼
January 29, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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She could have fact-checked the opening lines of 'Waterloo'.
Greenland sharks are believed to be the longest-living vertebrates on Earth.

Researchers have determined that one female is around 400 years old.

That means she was alive during the Napoleonic Wars, the Boston Tea Party, Charles Darwin, and ABBA winning Eurovision.
January 29, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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I watched The Crow: Salvation in which Alex Corvis, unjustly executed, returns from the dead to wreck vengeance. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/01/i-wa...
I Watch Films: The Crow: Salvation
The Crow: Salvation Alex Corvis is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Lauren; he maintains his innocence right up unt...
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January 28, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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I would have only charged $14,999
Roughly $200,000 in today's money.
January 28, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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[I step forward and everyone whose seen this before groans, knowing what I'm going to say]

I only charge a $24 reading fee
From a guidelines:
"Please note that there is a minimal $25 reading fee to help cover our costs."

LOL, to "help" cover our costs seems to say it costs that publisher more than $25 in expenses to read a single submitted manuscript? Man, how you reading it? Printing it out on dollar bills?
January 28, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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Just overheard outside my office: “It takes a very oblique understanding of goblins.”
January 28, 2026 at 7:01 PM
NeCROWmancy is that anything?
January 28, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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St Winefride had her head lopped off by a brutal prince annoyed she'd rejected his advances. Where the head fell, a spring of healing water emerged. Later the holy well at Holywell, Flintshire, was built round it. Winefride's uncle, St Beuno, kindly put her head back on again.
#WyrdWednesday #legend
January 28, 2026 at 2:02 PM
[I step forward and everyone whose seen this before groans, knowing what I'm going to say]

I only charge a $24 reading fee
From a guidelines:
"Please note that there is a minimal $25 reading fee to help cover our costs."

LOL, to "help" cover our costs seems to say it costs that publisher more than $25 in expenses to read a single submitted manuscript? Man, how you reading it? Printing it out on dollar bills?
January 28, 2026 at 4:11 PM
It's #goblinweek and here's my story For Sale, Creator's Throne, Never Used in Misery Tourism miserytourism.com/for-sale-cre...
January 28, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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for Poe's birthday (which was on Monday the 19th) i decided to write about Robert Bloch's fantastic story "The Man Who Collected Poe" from 1951 over on the ol' blog. Check it out, why dontcha?
geoliminal.com/2026/01/22/t...
The Man who Strained Pulp #45: “The Man who Collected Poe” by Robert Bloch, Famous Fantastic Mysteries v. 12, n. 6, Oct 1951
January 19th, which was last Monday, was Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday, one of the high holy days for weird fiction! Poe, of course, is hugely important, not merely as an antecedent to what woul…
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January 22, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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Arriving at the remote Avanc Station the locals demand proof you are not robots from an automated ship. Although you are able to convince the authorities, some groups continue to doubt, and begin protesting against spyborg infiltration.
January 28, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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"Watch out! I know Crane stance kung-fu!"

*accidentally invites two ladies to the same opera on the same night, gooseberrys a meal between my brother and my father's live-in carer*
January 27, 2026 at 11:48 PM
I watched The Crow: Salvation in which Alex Corvis, unjustly executed, returns from the dead to wreck vengeance. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2026/01/i-wa...
I Watch Films: The Crow: Salvation
The Crow: Salvation Alex Corvis is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Lauren; he maintains his innocence right up unt...
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:56 AM
I would have only charged $14,999
Roughly $200,000 in today's money.
January 28, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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Monster Of The Week 307 is BadMap, won't steer you wrong, in many ways a metaphor for modern life in that the directions do not match the terrain, recently raised their rates.
January 27, 2026 at 9:55 AM