Jorge R. Guiterrez: The Heart of Mexican Culture – Jorge R. Guiterrez captures the heart of Mexican culture. Whether you experience his work on a cinema screen or on a gallery wall, his artistic world showcasing life, death, mythology, and pop culture will leave an unforgettable impression on you. –> https://beautifulbizarre.net/jorge-r-gutierrez-interview/

Art on film: Pandora and the Flying Dutchman – a book review for The Spectator in which Michael Moorcock notes similarities between the film and the stories by JG Ballard which were collected as Vermilion Sands. –> https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/04/27/art-on-film-p...

The Forgotten Comics: Daral – Timothy Truman was a much newer guy. He was a recent graduate of the School of Cartoon & Graphic Art in Dover, New Jersey. He got his start doing artwork for role-playing game magazines, then some comics for the same, Ares, in particular. Later he would go on to write and draw the post-apocalyptic Grimjack in the 1980s, and later still, a few Conan comics. But before that, he asked Gardner F. Fox for a story… –> https://gwthomas.org/the-forgotten-comics-daral/

Dreams and Daydreams –> https://70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/dreams-and-daydreams/

Scientists Studied 906 Mafia Marriages and Found Something Surprising – Scientists analyzed over 900 marriages within the ’Ndrangheta, one of the most infamous mafia syndicates, to understand how “matrimonial ties relate to power and cohesion within the organization.” –> https://www.404media.co/scientists-studied-906-mafia-marriages-an...

3 Wyrd Things – Jocelyn Brooke - The Image of a Drawn Sword – The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes – The Company of Wolves –> https://wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2026/04/3-wyrd-things-alex-older.html

Does reading do us any good? – Stripped of easy moralising, literature makes us relish the search for truth in an age when many believe truth to be dead – Does reading turn us into better people? Does it make us more sensitive and empathetic? Does it improve our judgment? And if it is not edifying, then what good does it do? –> https://aeon.co/essays/the-role-of-literature-as-the-key-to-perso...

Researchers Invented a Fake Disease to Trick AI and the Funniest Possible Thing Happened – In 2024, a team led by University of Gothenburg medical researcher Almira Osmanovic Thunström invented a fake disease that called “bixonimania.” The fictional skin condition, they said, was caused by staring at screens for too long and rubbing one’s eyes too much. – Meanwhile, AI chatbots continue to dole out dangerous health advice to often unsuspecting users. A quick perusal of Osmanovic Thunström’s papers by virtually anybody, scientist or not, would’ve immediately clocked the ruse. The fake papers make peculiar references to “Star Trek,” “The Simpsons,” and “The Lord of the Rings” to raise obvious red flags. But despite all that, AI chatbots including Microsoft’s Bing Copilot, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity’s AI search engine became convinced that “bixonimania” was real. –> https://futurism.com/future-society/fake-disease-trick-ai

HP Lovecraft The Complete Fiction –> https://archive.org/details/hp-lovecraft-the-complete-fiction/mode/2up