Awake?
It’s a curious thing to begin to feel real after a year of really really not.
It’s a curious thing to begin to feel real after a year of really really not.
It doesn’t matter if it was a Nazi salute, it matters if the kids believe Trump saved TikTok. It’s all smoke and mirrors, what matters are the actions. It matters what’s being hidden and it matters that the rich idiots are being used as a smokescreen. I’m more worried about Ukraine and Israel.
What I liked about Twin Peaks was… to be honest a lot. After Cornish Bloke and The Jellicle pestering me for literal years to watch it and hearing my parents basically dismiss it as just another investigation show I wasn’t sure what to expect. Particularly because I had watched Dune and Eraserhead and they were … Read More
At some point as a teenager at school we saw Polanski’s Macbeth and I thought it was fucking brilliant. I was vaguely aware of Roman Polanski due to Radio Four, I knew he was banned from America and had fled to Europe, obviously my automatic thought was that he was clearly fine and America was … Read More
(Content Warning: Suicide, recent real world suicides my own thoughts on my own mental health, don’t read if you’re not in the right place) Today I heard a man I barely knew but had had some intense online conversations with over the pandemic had killed himself. He was a LARP photographer so he had touched … Read More
It’s easy enough when it’s a dead author to distance yourself from them whilst still enjoying their works. But what do you do when they’re still alive and creating? In J K Rowling’s case it’s been pretty easy not to engage with her continuing content, the Robert Galbraith stuff is just crap and the whole … Read More
Right now I’m doing that thing of having a reaction that I feel guilty about. I believe the healthy thing is admit it, move on. Instead I’m going to write a blog post and if any of my friends read it possibly make them feel like I’m a self righteous little bitch. But then when … Read More
I keep hearing about people who thought they were Native American doing 23&Me type tests and discovering they’re Asian or European but not native – some of these people have been involved in all kinds of native culture. On the face of it it’s blatantly white people in the seventies (and in every era really … Read More
It has been years since I have been in love with Blue Eyes, I forget if it was thirteen or seventeen years that I worked out was how long I fell in love for, but it was one of the two. Isn’t it strange though that for over twenty years I’ve been writing in this … Read More
Trains did not come and go when expected to, so given the wait I decided to head to the Jack the Ripper Museum and take the walking tour included. The Museum was more or less what I expected (the Sherlock Holmes museum is better…) but it was fun especially given where I’ve been staying – … Read More