Iain Clark But In The Fog

Okay, deep breath, I did another post about #gender. Specifically my gender, of the "coming out" kind.

And this morning the Shed is a signal box on an abandoned stretch of line…

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

The #DoctorWho Key to Time crew: authors James Goss and Rob Shearman with editor Steve Cole, accompanied by copies of their book and the Key to Time itself.

How Was Venice Drawn from Above in 1500? But look at this. Jacopo de' Barbari, View of Venice, 1500. Cleveland Museum of Art (CC0), photograph by Howard Agriesti. Click to explore a copy in zoomable detail. Nobody could fly in 1500, yet that year a woodcut appeared showing Venice as a bird would…

And this morning the Shed is a balcony overlooking a piazza of marble fountains, and orange trees, and pigeons walking the pavements…

I see the excellent Once Was Willem by MR Carey won the World Fantasy Award I strongly recomend it www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/3/...

A ghoulishly decorated metal plaque inlaid with copper, gold and the alloy shakudō. The engraved scene brings to life the Japanese fairy story in which a mean old woman cuts the tongue of a tiny sparrow who has eaten her rice starch.

I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive

I thought this only happened as a plot device.

Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok and know the hour? Today I’m currently reading Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle what are you reading at the moment?

I think they moved that hour too suddenly; it seems to have displaced a large amount of air.

Look at this sunlit heap of floof, blissfully unaware that she is about to have a stay in a cattery. #cats

And we finish with Professor Esther MacCallum Stewart, intent on constructing a Target out of Targets via the medium of Choose Your Own Adventure and also announcing her Black Archive on The Giggle. Even when running events, James Goss loves some format breaking. #TargetBookDay

Some kickass Gil Kane pencil pages from an unpublished Star Wars comic. The sense of dramatic scale that Kane could create was perfect for SW. #comics #GilKane

Steve Ditko #comics

UK readers! My publisher made The Dragon Has Some Complaints just 99p for Halloween! A curmudgeonly dragon pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon riding academy. But his new rider is... a lot.

If you see this, post TEETH

I got a pet stroller for the kittens. It's just day one, I need to get them comfortable and used to it before I start to venture out beyond the backyard. But they actually love it. Bastian especially, he just did not want to get out. #Cats

#TargetBookDay has just kicked off

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

South Terrace, Cork city centre: polypody, heart's tongue and maidenhair spleenwort ferns spring from a damp old brick wall. If your eyes are open to it, we're surrounded by the relics of our lost natural rainforest heritage.

We have CANCER VACCINES. Fucking CANCER VACCINES. We have AIDS TREATMENTS. AIDS IS NO LONGER A DEATH SENTENCE. IN MY LIIFETIME. FUCK.

The proportion of our energy that comes from renewables, awareness of the climate crisis, and conservation have made all great strides and had notable successes in the face of huge challenges and pushback. Even in moments when it feels like we're backsliding we've come a long way from the baseline.

Everything here speaks of insidious and wholly disproportionate attacks which have a clear racist component.

This is a composite of multiple telephoto images taken by Lucy Yunxi Hu in Mullion, New South Wales on the night of October 10th/11th, and shows Andromeda in the southern spring sky. It's the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for 23 October 2026. Read more: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The Andromeda Galaxy, low in the sky over New South Wales, Australia.

"It seems that she has… intercepted a transmission of unknown origin." RIP Tom Skerritt.

COVER REVEAL!!! "AND LOKI IN HIS PRISON" book 1 of "HANGED GOD'S GAME" With incredible artwork by Jon Sideriadis. I love the intricate storybook feel, perfect 4 a book aiming to give adult readers the sense of wonder we felt as kids opening a myth book Pre-orders open USA & UK: buff.ly/leGWuZA

My favourite Grimm's Fairy Tale.