Paid-members only The horrors Do you hear the people shitpost Look, look, here is the thing. Here is one of the things. I am a rabid socialist for ethical reasons, yes, but also for practical ones. The uneven distribution of wealth is simply unsustainable. It leads to collapse, it has done this over and over again. The rich use every
Paid-members only Complaints It's time to cancel money One of the things from the film Anora that has stuck in my mind is the tragedy of Ivan. It's a small part of the story, it doesn't matter as much as anything Anora says and does, but still, I keep thinking about it. He is
Paid-members only Art I'm really sick of talking about AI, and yet So a new 'publisher' is planning on 'disrupting' the industry with AI. They are essentially a vanity publisher – they ask authors to pay them thousands of dollars and, in exchange, they will give the authors AI generated covers, proofreading services, and distribution. It's an
Paid-members only Art Paying for Failure Look, we all know times is hard all around. We've all seen the graphs of rising costs of living compared to the rising but much more slowly average wages. We've heard the term once in a generation recession so often that it plays on a loop
Featured How do we keep getting out of bed in the morning Fascism is ascendant and we have run out of butter. It seemed for a while that things were maybe going to start getting a little bit better, maybe, just a little, not enough and with a great pile of caveats, but it seemed, for a bit, that we were going
Paid-members only Advice What You Can Expect From My Benevolent Dictatorship It's not that I want to be a dictator, so much as it is that I am deeply tired of living living in a society where everything is arranged incorrectly! * If you find a Lime bike or similar left in an obnoxious place, you will be legally entitled
Paid-members only Art Let me tell you why I hate The Blair Witch Project A few days ago, as part of our spooky season viewing, we watched Ghostwatch. You heard about this? You heard about what those crazy kids at the BBC did to national treasure Michael Parkinson? If you've not heard of it before, Ghostwatch was a 1992 Halloween TV special.
Paid-members only Complaints So what happened with that boat, huh? I was not on the promised boat when my last newsletter went out. They would not let us have it because the sea was too rough for us to be trusted with a boat. In fairness, the sea was also too rough for the ferries to be running, so I
Paid-members only Personal All going well I am on a boat right now But maybe everything hasn't gone well. If the weather forecast has been proved right it will have rained all week, all week of my holiday, my rare, precious holiday, only the second proper fuck you, I'm on holiday I've had in, like, thirteen years.
Paid-members only Art What is the point of life and why have we fallen so far from god's light A few years ago, thanks to Jamie getting a nice Christmas bonus from the doomed start up he was working for at the time, we got a PlayStation 5. It came pre-loaded with a cute little game* intended to demonstrate all the fun things the PS5 can do. Things like
Paid-members only Art Cabbages In Robert Altman’s perfect film, The Long Goodbye, there’s a security guard who does impressions. When the lead characters drive in and out of the gated community he works at, he stops them for a moment to ask if they want to see his new impression. He’s
Paid-members only AI Why the fuck even make art; also, the Olympics I guess we haven't shut up about fucking generative AI yet. It continues to baffle me that people who have been granted the responsibility of decision making power at major creative corporations are so taken in by this obvious scam. There are a dozen reasons why replacing artists
Paid-members only Art Cher's West Side Story and Following Your Weirdest Thoughts In her 1978 television special, Cher introduced the classic Broadway musical, West Side Story. She looked out at her audience smiling and said, 'I will be playing all the parts.' And then she played all the parts in a twelve minute version of the show. She announced in
Paid-members only Art We're Here Because We Forgot About Unions We need good union PR. We need a parade.
