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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ARTISTIC FANCIES #2 As #literaryfiction accelerates towards obsolescence, its beleaguered elite gather in a secret chamber beneath New York. Like heretic templars consulting the demon Baphomet, they look to the reanimated head of #YukioMishima for battle tips... #BookerPrize #Booker

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Film this book: Ice by #AnnaKavan. Not that #ICE. Dreamlike odyssey through a world in a state of mysterious, inescapable environmental and consequently social collapse. Interior and exterior landscapes commingle. Feels very now. Would like to see #ShiaLeBoeuf trying super hard in the main role.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Film this book: #EngineSummer by #JohnCrowley. Spiritual cousin of #RiddleyWalker and #ACanticleForLeibowitz with a dreamy balance of fantastical and more prosaic elements. Ending feels like a punch to the chest. Could be glorious in the right directorial hands, but who do those hands belong to?

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Film this book: The Book of Dave by #WillSelf. His top novel. Britain is at its best when transformed in an imagined future. The lead role of the cabbie whose paranoid ravings form the scripture of a religion is the part #LawrenceFox was born to play. #BritainsFuture #apocalypticliterature #scifi

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

MULTIVERSE DISPATCHES #2. In a parallel universe, I met an alternate #KemiBadenoch. A revered physician-priestess, she was devoted to helping the victims of a petrifying space disease. Her eyes shone with a love that I cannot describe with the feeble tools of our reality. I wept. #Conservatives

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

ARTISTIC FANCIES #1. Giant hyperreal #RonMueck style sculpture of #TonyBlair installed at the #TateModern. The figure is naked before a mirror, its face grimacing with orgasmic self-belief. Tiny Gazans crowd its feet. Brian Sewell manifests approvingly. #TraceyEmin faints in shock.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What if Britain's favourite Mesolithic denizen were to have travelled forward in time to meet his more culturally advanced descendent? This short video-poem asks that very question: youtu.be/eJXfTaAQLNY #cheddarman #prehistoricBritain #ancientBritain #GoughsCave

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A Video Poem for Cheddar Man

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

COSMIC PENITENTS #1. Trapped in deep space, a thousand years adrift from a broken Earth, a former UK Prime Minister wrestles with his conscience. A four-minute microfiction: youtu.be/S_qCrwGmSEg #satire #UKpolitics #BritishPolitics #confession #penitence #KeirStarmer #LabourParty

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The Final Confession of Keir Starmer? A Microfiction.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

ONEIRIC PUZZLES #1. Last night, I dreamt that #GianniInfantino was desperately trying to get me to shake hands with my dead father. He was very insistent. He then transformed into a reptile-skin guitar. What can this mean? #FIFA #UEFA #WorldCup #psychoanalysis

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

MULTIVERSE DISPATCHES #1. In a parallel universe, Cromwellian puritanism endures. All but men over 50 are excluded from all forms of media. But counterculture heroes #NigelFarage & The Reformers are shaking things up with their hot new cut: 'Five Million Reasons Why I Love You'.

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Lee Anderson image credited to David Woolfall. Adapted through adding of other images of clothing. Distributed under same license as the original: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Film this book: Alice the Sausage by Sophie Jabes. Grotesque fable of sex, food and body image. Exceedingly now. Forget prosthetics or CGI, #SydneySweeney to go full method in the lead role. @coraliefargeat.bsky.social directs, or possibly #EmeraldFennell looking to breach her comfort zone.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Film this book: Terminal Boredom by #IzumiSuzuki, specifically the title story although you could do three or four. Strange, melancholic sci-fi. #BlackMirror before the fact. Suzuki was old skool: unrefined, tortured, doomed. Anathema to the processed dullards of contemporary literary fiction.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The fragmented woodlands of #SoutheastLondon contain strange terrors. Met this tree on this morning's walk. Like a horned, arboreal cyclops with a beak. Could've been quite spooky if glimpsed at night. Possessed of a local spirit, it spoke to me of #counciltax hikes and dogshit non-clearer-uppers.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Film this book: The Atrocity Exhibition by #JGBallard. My go-to comfort read. Its terrible truth will set you awfully free. Updating will be necessary, so #LizTaylor and #RonaldReagan to be replaced by #TaylorSwift and #GavinNewsom. #MichaelBay to direct.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Found this on my walk today. Thought it might be an interdimensional portal. Desperately banged on it hoping to be let in. No fucking luck. Universe fatigue is real. #anxiety #depression

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This morning I was drifting in a sea of #ferns. Ferns always make me feel a bit #prehistoric. For a second the age and nation dissolve. I squint and I am somewhen and somewhere else. Then that man with the cocker spaniel appears. Sleeveless vest today, the showy bastard. We say hello, as always.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Film this book: The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin. Sweaty, queasy, mind-warping #orientalist tale set in medieval Cairo. A framing device gone mad. Very meta. #TimothyChalemet to star as visiting English spy Balian of Norwich. Last directorial hurrah for #TerryGilliam.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Note on #depression. For me, #antidepressants unite the world. They make it appear profoundly homogenous. Experiences can no longer be notched on any kind of continuum of pleasure and / or disgust. Reality becomes undifferentiated, pure. Is this heaven? Masturbation now seems off the menu, so maybe.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Watching the #England game. Wanker in the flat above is screaming, ranting and raving with every incident. Serious wife-beater vibes. Watching with him must be a miserable experience.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Off work so giving #ThisMorning a try for the first time in years. Back in the Richard and Judy gilded age I recall there was one episode which featured pieces on kosher sex, dirty bombs and how Hitler mastered his #PTSD with a form of primitive #CBT. Although that could be a compound memory.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Film this book: The Torture Garden by #OctaveMirbeau. A dactylic missive aimed at the human race. Exquisite, oddly cleansing vileness. Decadence and spiritual yearning always circled the same sun. Fin de siecle but feels very now, so plus ça change. Possible #emeraldfennell rehabilitation project.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

As I take a post-work walk, nature tastes bittersweet. The living loom over corpses. I feel like I am straying onto an eternal crime scene. I see the cosmos as both the supreme perp and ultimate victim. Will a deeper modus operandi ever be revealed? A grand justice achieved? #MorganRogers to start.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Peak Fall, and I would say that the adjacent "The Wonderful and Frightening World Of..." is the Lhotse to its Everest.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I do like the visuals, particularly the shots of hell from above. An endless maze of staircases, walkways and corridors, with the strange, massive bulk of Leviathan looming over it, rotating and projecting its beam of anti-light.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It's a beautiful film. The final "what's there to smile about?" scene feels very now.

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Will the sequel pick up where the first one left off? (Please respond if you are coolly literary enough to get this joke)

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Jonny Kerux @jonnykerux.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Contemporary Spielberg looks like JJ Abrams ersatz Spielberg. The frame is over busy yet depthless. Everybody talks with Shyamalan's sledgehammer portentousness. Elliot's tears do not flow through this barren place. Let these things die.

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