Tom Lennon • Freelance Writer: comedy and pop culture

Freelance writer specializing in comedy and the geekier end of the pop culture spectrum.

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Tom Waits: Hell Broke Luce

I'm a massive Tom Waits fan. A video for Hell Broke Luce (a rather excellent track from his rather excellent latest album, Bad as Me) came out today. Needless to say, it's rather excellent.

I've had a song on heavy rotation in my head today. It's an up-tempo ditty called Lord Byron's Luggage by the criminally-underrated (and sadly no longer with us) American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon: As a lyricist, Zevon was up there with the best of them. Dylan, Waits, Costello and Cohen - that's the kind of league he played in. That being said, I never really gave much thought as to what Lord Byron's Luggage was all about until today. Here's the first verse: Lord Byron had a lot of luggage He took it when he travelled far and wide He didn't [...]

2012

From The Archaic Revival by Terence McKenna: 'What is happening to our world is ingression of novelty toward what Whitehead called "concrescence", a tightening gyre. Everything is flowing together. The "autopoetic lapsis", the alchemical stone at the end of time, coalesces when everything flows together. When the laws of physics are obviated, the universe disappears, and what is left is the tightly bound plenum, the monad, able to express itself for itself, rather than only able to cast a shadow into physis as its reflection. I come very close here to classic millenarian and apocalyptic thought in my view of [...]

“Boss” Tin

The second issue of Dirty Bristow magazine features a piece I wrote entitled Lennon’s Guide to the Mythical Fauna of the English Midlands. It’s my attempt at presenting an overview of those Birmingham-based mythological beasts that have so often been ignored by local historians, cryptozoologists and the presenters of Midlands Today.

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