fizzles

it’s not really baffling or embarrassing, but in about 2015 i was sitting next to an old guy on a PC, and he didn’t know how to use a mouse. He had in fact overestimated how it worked - he was picking it up and pointing it at the screen and gesturing. like a Wii.

cor f’ing hell iain sinclair is still so hard to read isn’t he (lrb essay on prynne, which i was enthusiastic to look at)

it’s such a shame in fact as the idea of getting to the poet and their life through the catalogue is v much up my street.

cor f’ing hell iain sinclair is still so hard to read isn’t he (lrb essay on prynne, which i was enthusiastic to look at)

this was inevitable, but with Nandy the pro forma phrase “minded to intervene” does conjour the image of her lying on a sofa opening her eyes sleepily and going “oh well, i suppose so, if i must” and wearily bestirring herself from her otherwise unruffled repose.

it can’t hurt to have a thing on which to hang a more public conversation about national cultural, information, editorial and creative indentity and strategy in an era of globally available addressable media. how is it maintained once the geographical logic of broadcast has gone?

as always holidaying in england is v hmhb coded.

people are - generally, mostly - really nice. this is always my takeaway from travelling in the UK.

great gig last night, hop on the sleeper down to cornwall and arrive at st ives to this

the first class lounge for the riviera sleeper does not have booze 😔

omg @thefence.bsky.social has a piece on pink slime journalism feat. “Coach” Weinhaus, as introduced by @helldude.bsky.social on a remarkable, approaching art, episode of the ALAB podcast (Ep 8: The Counterclerk) now advising and lawyering for f’ing Yaxley-Lennon/Tommy Robinson

not answering the question, which is a good one, but the best example of evil came from a story my grandmother told me. before hearing it i was slightly dismissive of the concept as requiring a religious framework that i didn’t subscribe to. i don’t think that any more.

to answer the question i feel kipling should have something to say about this, but can’t locate the right example. without benefit of clergy and the end of the passage are neither quite about evil.

not answering the question, which is a good one, but the best example of evil came from a story my grandmother told me. before hearing it i was slightly dismissive of the concept as requiring a religious framework that i didn’t subscribe to. i don’t think that any more.

- pylons filled me with *an awful dread* - dogs after i got attacked by one when little, thankfully there are lots of v good dogs around who have made up for it since - the witch’s house down by the stream - the sound of the toilet flush at night would send me into a panicked run back to my bedroom

why is my local pub playing the seeds. v rarely hear sky saxon’s weedy desperate tones out in public for obv reasons. i love it.