Terry Jones has dementia. More specifically, he has primary progressive aphasia, a condition which intrudes onto the brain’s semantics, fraying the connecting thread between language and its meaning.

n 1990 Jane’s Addiction were a huge alternative rock band recently signed to a major label, a combination which invariably leads to two things: epic drug use and unfettered artistic indulgence. Both are rife in Gift.

Yesterday was the 241st birthday of William Henry Ireland.

I wrote a reappraisal of Rob Zombie's 2007 remake of Halloween for The Quietus.

I've a new essay up at The Learned Pig.

It's titled 'Before the Beginning' and is about insomnia, volcanoes and the origins of Frankenstein.