Scott your videos brighten my day.

@Scottmbradfield

5 ай бұрын

Hearing from a happy bather brightens mine! Thanks, Freddy. s

A lady once told me that Moorcock is always better than lesscock. Just repeating what I've been told...

@larrycarr4562

5 ай бұрын

In the 🛁 under the bubbles -More or Less hardly matters… always remember it’s better in the 🛁!

I wholly endorse Alan Moore's less famous From Hell. An excellent book.

@Scottmbradfield

5 ай бұрын

OK! s

Reading the Oxford world classics Algernon Blackwood collection. Absolutely brilliant. My books going well.

@Scottmbradfield

5 ай бұрын

Yeah Blackwood is pretty fun especially in the long winter nights! The Mike Ashley bio is great! s

Anne Rice turned me onto Blackwood decades ago. I like him very much too and would love to collect some of his really early editions. Did you know that in his last couple of years (1950 ish) he had his own tv show on the BBC reading his stories? There’s a couple of them on KZread. Thanks, Scott!

@Scottmbradfield

4 ай бұрын

I did know about the TV shows, and I think a radio series he did as well. He's an interesting writer and supposedly many of his OP novels are very good as well. I love the Ashley bio, you might like it too. s

@1zangelique

4 ай бұрын

@@Scottmbradfield I read it years ago and liked it too. I even wrote the author a letter in care to his publisher, but I never heard back.

Read your essay on Flaubert recently. It was so good!

@Scottmbradfield

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, Prag! I was happy with that one. Hope you're well and survived the holidays... s

We might read pointlessly, and it might all be totally meaningless, but it is by no means any accident that you are the man known as MB. Just a heads up, the rumor mill has it that you stand at the top of the list to be our next Right Honourable MB. That's correct, HMRHMB. Try that one on for size, hunh. Hunh!

@AndalusianIrish

5 ай бұрын

And so say all of us!

@Scottmbradfield

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, Junga! Hunh! s

@GypsyRoSesx

5 ай бұрын

Hip hip..

Great minds Scott. I bought that Alan Moore Swamp Thing set last week when they were two bucks each. They are now ten bucks each. His Batman Killing Joke was pretty terrific if you have not read it yet.

@Scottmbradfield

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I know the Batman. I'm enjoying the Swamp Thing so far but occasionally he gets really pretentious and I lose the plot a bit... Great minds bathe alike! s

I have just finished reading The strange case of dr Jekyll and mr Hyde and other tales of terror for the first time . Thought it was great I do like a bit Poe and lovecraft when the mood takes me. Never read any blackwood though!

@Scottmbradfield

5 ай бұрын

That's good too. You should try Blackwood if you like HPL, who rated both Blackwood and Machen highly. (I like them both more and more.) s

Swamp Thing sounds interesting

@Scottmbradfield

5 ай бұрын

The Moore issues are fun, but I still prefer the early Len Wein/Wrightson stuff... s

@martinsFILMS13

5 ай бұрын

@@Scottmbradfield is anything else by Alan Moore worth checking out?

@Scottmbradfield

5 ай бұрын

He's best known for WATCHMEN, which I found sort of pretentious, and V FOR VENDETTA, and lots of stuff I don't know at all. s

Saki sounds kind of similar to Waugh and Wodehouse.

@Scottmbradfield

5 ай бұрын

Similar but with a bite almost as sharp as Waugh's... s

@AndalusianIrish

5 ай бұрын

I have a paperback collection from Wordsworth Editions. I must give it a go. Reading a collection called 'Captives' by a little known lady Irish writer called F.D. Sheridan. It's very good. A find from Belfast Central Library.

If you can hold out just a little bit longer MB, then I promise we can get you a sinecure; that'll buy you an extra haitch in front of your name.

@Scottmbradfield

5 ай бұрын

PhHD? s

@bluewordsme2

5 ай бұрын

yes, indeed....Scott Bradfield, CBE (Captain of the Bathing, Emeritus.)..we can nominate Scott for the order at: www.gov.uk/honours/types-of-honours-and-awards...im willing to write the nominating letter, afterall, Im a member of International Bathing Alliance.....it should do just nicely, right Scott?...you'll need to dress up for the award ceremony, however.....happy bathing, and prepare your sword and sash....bb

@GypsyRoSesx

5 ай бұрын

Ph-HighDefinition (post pixels edition)

@Scottmbradfield

5 ай бұрын

PPPhD!

@reaganwiles_art

5 ай бұрын

@@Scottmbradfield Shhh! We've gotta keep this on the DL or the conclave might start rattling their proverbial spears. The extra haitch is for holy, MB. HHMRHMB.

Blackwood's brand of the supernatural tale might be too gentle & boring for some, but I've always liked him. Saki & Collier......the situations they think up for their short stories are ridiculously funny - even their horror tales have that jittery wit bout them....

@Scottmbradfield

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, Kufu, Blackwood grows on me more and more... s