Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper, Sunday TimesUK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with severe chronic illness, dealing with NHS on a weekly basis
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July 9, 1937 – June 11, 2026
Goodnight
The Hockney has hit me hard.
For me he was the greatest living Englishman
and now I can agree with all my friends that Sir David A is without any question The Greatest Living Englishman.
Unless you insist it to be Mannerist, I propose a new subdivision for the genre. Couch-Gothic.
Goodnight
I'm cursed with this parental wedding anniversary automation, this little 1970s voice from boarding school on the South Coast. "You ALWAYS remember" she said, every ninth of June. Too bad she didn't remember me.
As some might have guessed from my sign-off yesterday I saw Backrooms. It's good. German Expressionism in an American barn.