Patrick Kincaid
@patrickkincaid.bsky.social
Doctor of Shakespeare, Master of Writing.
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“The light fitting began to flicker and the room suddenly succumbed to an unnatural chill; the edge of the mattress dipped as if sat on by a heavy unseen presence and a deep unearthly voice was heard to whisper urgently ‘𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘺, 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 ’.”
In Staffordshire ahead of a workshop at HMP Drake Hall for Stratford Literary Festival. No Premier Inn around these here parts, so this was home for the night. I half expected to spy an immovable dachshund by the fire and a silent parrot in a cage…
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
“The light fitting began to flicker and the room suddenly succumbed to an unnatural chill; the edge of the mattress dipped as if sat on by a heavy unseen presence and a deep unearthly voice was heard to whisper urgently ‘𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘺, 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 ’.”
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Anyone enjoying the current re-runs of vintage Call My Bluff on BBC Four might like to check out the show's cameo appearance ten minutes into this barking mad NF Simpson parody. I remember watching this in 1973 and being flabbergasted.
Elementary My Dear Watson (1973)
YouTube video by TV Gold
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November 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Anyone enjoying the current re-runs of vintage Call My Bluff on BBC Four might like to check out the show's cameo appearance ten minutes into this barking mad NF Simpson parody. I remember watching this in 1973 and being flabbergasted.
In Staffordshire ahead of a workshop at HMP Drake Hall for Stratford Literary Festival. No Premier Inn around these here parts, so this was home for the night. I half expected to spy an immovable dachshund by the fire and a silent parrot in a cage…
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
In Staffordshire ahead of a workshop at HMP Drake Hall for Stratford Literary Festival. No Premier Inn around these here parts, so this was home for the night. I half expected to spy an immovable dachshund by the fire and a silent parrot in a cage…
He was wonderfully natural and able to convey so much with so little. He is *extraordinary* as Renfield in the BBC Dracula with Louis Jourdan.
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Wycliffe and The Golden Compass star dies after 'short illness'
Iconic Wycliffe actor and The Golden Compass star Jack Shepherd has died at the age of 85 following a short illness, a sad statement has revealed
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November 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
He was wonderfully natural and able to convey so much with so little. He is *extraordinary* as Renfield in the BBC Dracula with Louis Jourdan.
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You can tell the AI bubble’s going to pop - and they’ve known for a while - by checking the new titles / Smart Thinking display in a big bookshop. It’s all about the grift and the coming collapse (quite the reverse a year or so back). Since it’s all wild speculation anyway, that’s a fatal sign.
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
You can tell the AI bubble’s going to pop - and they’ve known for a while - by checking the new titles / Smart Thinking display in a big bookshop. It’s all about the grift and the coming collapse (quite the reverse a year or so back). Since it’s all wild speculation anyway, that’s a fatal sign.
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Hendrix was a huge SF nerd - I know this because I once commissioned a feature called Jimi Hendrix’s Five Favourite Science Fiction novels - so I’m in no doubt as to who is the biggest fan here.
If this doesn’t brighten up your feed just a bit then I don’t know what.
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Hendrix was a huge SF nerd - I know this because I once commissioned a feature called Jimi Hendrix’s Five Favourite Science Fiction novels - so I’m in no doubt as to who is the biggest fan here.
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Grief created by Joan Wisdom, November 1967, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey where she was compelled to live.
Her surviving works express distress & critique the psychiatric system which held power over her & the dehumanisation she experienced within it
Her surviving works express distress & critique the psychiatric system which held power over her & the dehumanisation she experienced within it
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Grief created by Joan Wisdom, November 1967, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey where she was compelled to live.
Her surviving works express distress & critique the psychiatric system which held power over her & the dehumanisation she experienced within it
Her surviving works express distress & critique the psychiatric system which held power over her & the dehumanisation she experienced within it
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The excellent @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social (which has done such great reporting on the flag epidemic over the last few months) delivers the goods again today with this deep dive into the Midlands mythology of Penda's Fen.
Penda’s Fen reinvents Mercia for the modern age
How an experimental British 1970s television play pioneered a folk horror revival
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November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The excellent @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social (which has done such great reporting on the flag epidemic over the last few months) delivers the goods again today with this deep dive into the Midlands mythology of Penda's Fen.
“trusted” not “trustee”. One thing I won’t miss is typing microblogs with my thumb and relying/battling against predictive text. This thread has been really difficult to write, only partly because the content is painful to me.
It’s nine years since a publisher offered me a contract. Since then I’ve worked hard to professionalise what I do, and I believe I’ve written two novels I can be proud of, based in part on the judgement of my trustee beta readers. But I’ve not come close to securing another deal.
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
“trusted” not “trustee”. One thing I won’t miss is typing microblogs with my thumb and relying/battling against predictive text. This thread has been really difficult to write, only partly because the content is painful to me.
This week I worked 1) on copy editing a novel, 2) on supply in a primary school, and 3) doing outreach work in a prison. All three were enjoyable and rewarding.
But I made myself miserable checking my emails constantly to see if I’d had a response from the agents and publishers I’ve submitted to.
But I made myself miserable checking my emails constantly to see if I’d had a response from the agents and publishers I’ve submitted to.
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This week I worked 1) on copy editing a novel, 2) on supply in a primary school, and 3) doing outreach work in a prison. All three were enjoyable and rewarding.
But I made myself miserable checking my emails constantly to see if I’d had a response from the agents and publishers I’ve submitted to.
But I made myself miserable checking my emails constantly to see if I’d had a response from the agents and publishers I’ve submitted to.
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Early trolling by Flash Gordon
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Early trolling by Flash Gordon
Wandsworth parakeet. It’s an absolutely gorgeous morning.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Wandsworth parakeet. It’s an absolutely gorgeous morning.
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
Expected time of train to London growing by a minute a minute. I could be standing on this platform for the rest of my life.
November 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Expected time of train to London growing by a minute a minute. I could be standing on this platform for the rest of my life.
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I don't know what the correct musical term is for the vocal melody finishing up where it does but the rest of the tune ending up where it does, but it's a stroke of bloody genius.
Anyway, I watched this when it went out too. This very day.
Anyway, I watched this when it went out too. This very day.
The first edition of Emu's Broadcasting Company was broadcast on this day in 1975. It ran for five series between 1975 and 1980.
November 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I don't know what the correct musical term is for the vocal melody finishing up where it does but the rest of the tune ending up where it does, but it's a stroke of bloody genius.
Anyway, I watched this when it went out too. This very day.
Anyway, I watched this when it went out too. This very day.
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Oh, but they’re good when you do!
I needed both of these jokes to figure out either of them
November 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Oh, but they’re good when you do!
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Just to prove you are worth an 8p stamp.
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Just to prove you are worth an 8p stamp.
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I’m on my nonsense again. This week’s Six Things:
– Delia Derbyshire
– First Last Anything
– global webcams
– Trainspose
– Shakespeare deaths
– groovy word game
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– Delia Derbyshire
– First Last Anything
– global webcams
– Trainspose
– Shakespeare deaths
– groovy word game
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Six Things, Volume 135
Delia | First Last Anything | Webcams | Trainspose | Shakespeare Deaths | Omiword
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November 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I’m on my nonsense again. This week’s Six Things:
– Delia Derbyshire
– First Last Anything
– global webcams
– Trainspose
– Shakespeare deaths
– groovy word game
open.substack.com/pub/levparik...
– Delia Derbyshire
– First Last Anything
– global webcams
– Trainspose
– Shakespeare deaths
– groovy word game
open.substack.com/pub/levparik...
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Frozen morning and no bread in the house for toast. This is when I miss the old days when the Toast Man would be outside first thing, with his cart of sliced breads, shouting “Get Your Hot Buttered Toast”. And you’d rush out, choose a bread from the basket , and he’d brown it over an open flame.
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Frozen morning and no bread in the house for toast. This is when I miss the old days when the Toast Man would be outside first thing, with his cart of sliced breads, shouting “Get Your Hot Buttered Toast”. And you’d rush out, choose a bread from the basket , and he’d brown it over an open flame.
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Sensible adults (derogatory)
November 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Sensible adults (derogatory)
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To both possess and be possessed by what has been forbidden.
Do we ever learn to live with less? The literal work
of keeping the apricots from going to waste. I want this.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
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Do we ever learn to live with less? The literal work
of keeping the apricots from going to waste. I want this.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
To both possess and be possessed by what has been forbidden.
Do we ever learn to live with less? The literal work
of keeping the apricots from going to waste. I want this.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Do we ever learn to live with less? The literal work
of keeping the apricots from going to waste. I want this.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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Everyone should repost this until the fucking sky splits open.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Everyone should repost this until the fucking sky splits open.
Top 5 movie genres:
1. 1960s Victorian capers that critics claim are overlong
2. Two or three men being silly in b&w
3. Films shown after News at Ten on Fridays when I was a kid
4. Films made by people who like other people
5. Trench coats and fedoras/hats with veils
1. 1960s Victorian capers that critics claim are overlong
2. Two or three men being silly in b&w
3. Films shown after News at Ten on Fridays when I was a kid
4. Films made by people who like other people
5. Trench coats and fedoras/hats with veils
Top 5 movie genres:
1. Themed revenge movies starring Vincent Price
2. Melancholy Female Vampires
3. Nicolas Cage
4. Christopher Lee gets "tricked" into making a smutty film
5. Films vastly improved by the presence of Jeffrey Combs*
*ie. any film with Jeffrey Combs in it
1. Themed revenge movies starring Vincent Price
2. Melancholy Female Vampires
3. Nicolas Cage
4. Christopher Lee gets "tricked" into making a smutty film
5. Films vastly improved by the presence of Jeffrey Combs*
*ie. any film with Jeffrey Combs in it
Top 5 movie genres:
1. Peter Cushing has a cravat
2. That ghost stole my jewels
3. Me? Alone in this house. With just a negligee and candelabra?
4. Hi! I'm a communist from outer space!
5. I don't know what it is. But it's weird and pissed off.
1. Peter Cushing has a cravat
2. That ghost stole my jewels
3. Me? Alone in this house. With just a negligee and candelabra?
4. Hi! I'm a communist from outer space!
5. I don't know what it is. But it's weird and pissed off.
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Top 5 movie genres:
1. 1960s Victorian capers that critics claim are overlong
2. Two or three men being silly in b&w
3. Films shown after News at Ten on Fridays when I was a kid
4. Films made by people who like other people
5. Trench coats and fedoras/hats with veils
1. 1960s Victorian capers that critics claim are overlong
2. Two or three men being silly in b&w
3. Films shown after News at Ten on Fridays when I was a kid
4. Films made by people who like other people
5. Trench coats and fedoras/hats with veils
I don’t really like being perplexed; but I am, always have been, and (it’s painfully clear) always will be perplexed.
November 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I don’t really like being perplexed; but I am, always have been, and (it’s painfully clear) always will be perplexed.