Christopher Lockett
@doclock.bsky.social
Associate professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland. 20C American Lit, Science Fiction & Fantasy. Earnest ironist and magical humanist.
Blog: https://cjlockett.com/
Substack: https://magichumanism.substack.com/
Blog: https://cjlockett.com/
Substack: https://magichumanism.substack.com/
Totally including this in my course syllabi next year.
November 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Totally including this in my course syllabi next year.
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Arrakis, a desert, planet, can you believe it? Some people call it Dune, I call it Arrakis. The SPICE must flow, and quite frankly, it will be flowing much faster than under the failed DUKE LETO. Maybe he was a nice guy, maybe not,I think he was jealous of me! We're looking into that very strongly.
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Arrakis, a desert, planet, can you believe it? Some people call it Dune, I call it Arrakis. The SPICE must flow, and quite frankly, it will be flowing much faster than under the failed DUKE LETO. Maybe he was a nice guy, maybe not,I think he was jealous of me! We're looking into that very strongly.
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Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
December 4, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
It’s the fifth of November.
I have this nagging sense that I’m forgetting something, but for the life of me I can’t imagine what.
I have this nagging sense that I’m forgetting something, but for the life of me I can’t imagine what.
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It’s the fifth of November.
I have this nagging sense that I’m forgetting something, but for the life of me I can’t imagine what.
I have this nagging sense that I’m forgetting something, but for the life of me I can’t imagine what.
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Pretty goofy the Cuomo bros are trying to claim Mamdani ran an "identity politics" campaign when Cuomo spent the whole time going "Bada bing it's-a me Mario Cuomo's son saying fuggetabout it to this Muslim who loves 9/11 because he's muslim. Now that's a spicy meatball from me, Mario Cuomo's son."
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Pretty goofy the Cuomo bros are trying to claim Mamdani ran an "identity politics" campaign when Cuomo spent the whole time going "Bada bing it's-a me Mario Cuomo's son saying fuggetabout it to this Muslim who loves 9/11 because he's muslim. Now that's a spicy meatball from me, Mario Cuomo's son."
Sing it, Brad. #AlwaysMyLyman
Pregnant Women, DON’T TAKE PARENTING ADVICE FROM A CONVICTED FELON WHO OWNED A TEENAGE BEAUTY PAGEANT AND HAS SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT TO HIDE THE FACT THAT HE WAS BEST FRIENDS WITH THE MOST NOTORIOUS CHILD RAPIST IN MODERN HISTORY.
October 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Sing it, Brad. #AlwaysMyLyman
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George Orwell’s Animal Crossing
October 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
George Orwell’s Animal Crossing
Here the poet moves backward through the stages of decline and fall. The conceit of the staircase at once grounds the text in the realities of aging and its difficulties while also effecting a strange katabasis, the descent at once a return to youth that necessitates an appreciation of his nemesis.
October 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Here the poet moves backward through the stages of decline and fall. The conceit of the staircase at once grounds the text in the realities of aging and its difficulties while also effecting a strange katabasis, the descent at once a return to youth that necessitates an appreciation of his nemesis.
New Discworld reread is up! One quarter of the way through now ...
magichumanism.substack.com/p/discworld-...
magichumanism.substack.com/p/discworld-...
Discworld Reread # 9: Moving Pictures
The magic of cthinema
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September 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New Discworld reread is up! One quarter of the way through now ...
magichumanism.substack.com/p/discworld-...
magichumanism.substack.com/p/discworld-...
Someone check to see how many people in the Trump regime dumped Tylenol stocks (or bought Advil).
September 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Someone check to see how many people in the Trump regime dumped Tylenol stocks (or bought Advil).
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Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
September 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
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Disney learned nothing from Andor.
September 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Disney learned nothing from Andor.
Bartleby, the Cat, invites everybody to join him in screaming into the abyss.
August 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Bartleby, the Cat, invites everybody to join him in screaming into the abyss.
My newest Discworld reread is up! This time: a dragon, shadowy brethren, put-upon city watchmen, and a royally arsed-off Librarian.
magichumanism.substack.com/p/discworld-...
magichumanism.substack.com/p/discworld-...
Discworld Reread #7: Guards! Guards!
The first of the Watch novels
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August 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
My newest Discworld reread is up! This time: a dragon, shadowy brethren, put-upon city watchmen, and a royally arsed-off Librarian.
magichumanism.substack.com/p/discworld-...
magichumanism.substack.com/p/discworld-...
On Cooking Slow
Thinking, reading, writing. And cooking.
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August 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Man stung by radioactive wasp finds himself compelled to invade people's personal space and stick his nose in their chardonnay.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Radioactive wasp nest discovered at old US nuclear weapons site
The nest with 10 times more radiation than permitted was found at a facility that once produced parts for US nuclear weapons.
www.bbc.com
August 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Man stung by radioactive wasp finds himself compelled to invade people's personal space and stick his nose in their chardonnay.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Just went to buy some bourbon for the coffee-bourbon BBQ sauce I'm making to go with the brisket I'm smoking tomorrow. Took me a moment of staring at the shelves to remember we're boycotting U.S. booze.
Coffee-screech BBQ sauce it is! (he says, patriotically.)
Coffee-screech BBQ sauce it is! (he says, patriotically.)
July 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Just went to buy some bourbon for the coffee-bourbon BBQ sauce I'm making to go with the brisket I'm smoking tomorrow. Took me a moment of staring at the shelves to remember we're boycotting U.S. booze.
Coffee-screech BBQ sauce it is! (he says, patriotically.)
Coffee-screech BBQ sauce it is! (he says, patriotically.)
The latest of my Discworld rereads is up! This time around: quantum pyramids, genius camels, a stranger in a familiar land, and a Sphinx that gets out-lawyered by an assassin.
magichumanism.substack.com/p/discworld-...
magichumanism.substack.com/p/discworld-...
Discworld Reread #6: Pyramids
Or, in the kingdom of stopped time
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July 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The latest of my Discworld rereads is up! This time around: quantum pyramids, genius camels, a stranger in a familiar land, and a Sphinx that gets out-lawyered by an assassin.
magichumanism.substack.com/p/discworld-...
magichumanism.substack.com/p/discworld-...
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Drove by an establishment in France called ‘Pain and Snacking’, which also happens to be my writing process.
July 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Drove by an establishment in France called ‘Pain and Snacking’, which also happens to be my writing process.
A little bit of a detour from my usual fare, but as it happens I know a thing or two about conspiracy theory …
magichumanism.substack.com/p/a-conspira...
magichumanism.substack.com/p/a-conspira...
A Conspiracy Betrayed
Why Epstein’s ghost might be Trump’s undoing
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July 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
A little bit of a detour from my usual fare, but as it happens I know a thing or two about conspiracy theory …
magichumanism.substack.com/p/a-conspira...
magichumanism.substack.com/p/a-conspira...
Went to see Superman last night.
It had me at “Golly.”
It had me at “Golly.”
July 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Went to see Superman last night.
It had me at “Golly.”
It had me at “Golly.”
