Martyn

@martynpedler

Writer, academic, brain in a jar. Creative Writing PhD in superhero stories. You can see my stuff at

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Martyn@martynpedler· 24d

I love this photo of Ace because it looks like he's considering writing a best-selling memoir.

A little dog in a dog bed, lifting up his head in the sun. He looks very noble.

Martyn@martynpedler· 24d

We crossed to the produce department. Food is one of the top things that are stolen, Smith informed me. I already knew this, but he explained that this is in part because it is difficult to tag. Also, in recent years, food prices have skyrocketed. After recent cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 10 percent of families have reported missing meals for lack of food, and nearly 16 percent rely on food donations. We did not discuss this last part.

Martyn@martynpedler· 25d

Ace, you shameless flirt.

Close up of the face of a little black and white dog, winking at the camera.

Martyn@martynpedler· 27d

Who wants to see the inside of my brain from back in 1991?

A black and white brain scan taken from above. You can see the eyes at the front of the skull. It's pretty creepy.

Martyn@martynpedler· 27d

Me, after reading DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.

Headline: Should we be worried about our desk salads?

Martyn@martynpedler· 28d

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Ace knows.

A little black and white dog squinting at the camera, enormous ears jutting out of his head.

Martyn@martynpedler· Jul 8

Australian politics: where words have no meaning. (The "woke right"?)

"You've got the woke right pushing for monoculturalism. You've got the woke left pushing for multiculturalism. I sit with most sensible mainstream Australians somewhere in the centre. I think there is a third way," he said.

Martyn@martynpedler· Jul 8

"What we love will ruin us."

"What [George] Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What [Aldous] Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism ... In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us."

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

Martyn@martynpedler· Jul 7

Let's get into some culture wars history, baby!

Cover of Isaac Butler's book THE PERFECT MOMENT.

Martyn@martynpedler· Jul 6

Ace says smile.

A blurry photo of a dog's face, upside down, with him smiling at the camera. Lots of teeth.

Martyn@martynpedler· Jul 5

Happy anniversary to my beloved. Thirteen years and still each other's favourites. (This photo is at least ten years old but I love it.)

A blurry, black and white photo of a man and a woman putting their heads together and smiling before a kiss.

Martyn@martynpedler· Jul 4

Pet hate: when the names don't match the positions of actors on the poster. Come on, Hollywood. Be better.

Poster for THE DRAMA. Robert Pattinson and Zendaya are in wedding attire – but it says Pattinson over Zendaya and Zendaya over Pattinson!

Martyn@martynpedler· Jul 2

No longer online, but years ago I interviewed legendary comic artist Joe Kubert, mostly about his approach to war comics. But this response always stuck with me...

Does this debate about the respectability of comic books mean anything to you?

No, I'm not going to take that burden on my back! All I try to do – and have tried to do since I started - is to not be ashamed of what I've done. It started when I was a kid. I was 12 or 13 when I sold my first work, and even at that point I knew my parents would see it. I wasn't about to show them something I was ashamed of, or something I could've drawn on a toilet wall. As I grew older and had children of my own, I couldn't bring myself to do things that would embarrass me or them. I don't describe myself as a puritan - but I've been very lucky in this business, and I just haven't had to do anything I didn't want to do.

Martyn@martynpedler· Jul 2

Apparently from 1976!

Martyn@martynpedler· Jun 30

A fun thing about seeing TOTALLY FUCKED UP last night was all the static. Remember static? I miss it.

The text "another homo movie by gregg araki" in a staticky font.

Martyn@martynpedler· Jun 28

Love this spooky paragraph from Graham Greene's 'A Day Saved'.

Who was he? I never knew his name. He was short and ordinary in appearance and he carried an umbrella, his hat was a bowler; and he wore brown gloves. But this was his importance to me: he carried something I dearly, despairingly wanted. It was beneath his clothes, perhaps in a pouch, a purse, perhaps dangling next to his skin. Who knows how cunning the most ordinary man can be? Surgeons can make clever insertions. He may have carried it even closer to his heart than the outer skin.

Martyn@martynpedler· Jun 26

Celebrating a new Phoebe Bridgers song with these old lyrics that always make me a little teary.

I've been playing dead
My whole life
And I get this feeling whenever I feel good
It'll be the last time

[Refrain]
But | feel something when I see you now
I feel something when I see you

Martyn@martynpedler· Jun 25

"I'm on the fence about joining your centrist party" is a perfect joke, no notes.

Zoe Daniel ‘on the fence’ over joining new centrist party

Former teal independent Zoe Daniel says she is “on the fence” about joining a new political party aimed at the political centre.

Martyn@martynpedler· Jun 24

The best thing about calling your party "Community Strong" is that you can't help but hear it in the Hulk's voice.

Independent MPs launch new centrist political party called Community Strong Australia

By Joshua Boscaini

Independents Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender have announced the creation of a new centrist political party called Community Strong Australia.

Martyn@martynpedler· Jun 22

"I think it is we permit him to be" is a line that'll stay with me.

In 1965, the year of the Voting Rights Act's passage, Coretta Scott King stood before an anti-war rally in Madison Square Garden and rejected survivalist democracy:

Have you often wondered as I have, why it is that the same president Johnson who speaks so eloquently for civil rights, and who has been so moved by the struggle for the right to vote and the anguish of the poor, can be so callous about the Vietnamese and so apparently thoughtless on foreign policy. I think it is because we permit him to be.

Martyn@martynpedler· Jun 18

This was the first microaggression.

The cover of a MICRONAUTS comic, with sci-fi heroes surrouned by robot-like troops. One of the heroes is saying "uh-oh!"

Martyn@martynpedler· Jun 18

This headline predicted the future!

Thieves with bulldozer carry out ATM heist in 4 minutes

Martyn@martynpedler· Jun 18

A quick reminder from a piece I wrote a while back about how long the Australian media has been propping up Hanson's career. overland.org.au/2025/10/kill...