- Webcurios 06/12/24 - Reading Time: 31 minutes HELLO EVERYONE HELLO HAPPY FRIDAY! I, er, went out for LUNCH yesterday, which, it turned out, was quite long, and quite liquid, and which almost certainly didn’t require the additional afterbooze, and which possibly was the reason as to why I woke up at 4am this morning…which is by way of small explanation as to…
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- Webcurios 29/11/24 - Reading Time: 34 minutes I got to go to a GALLERY OPENING this week, like an IMPORTANT PERSON (I am not an important person, I simply still have friends who work in arts PR), and as such I would like to use the limited real estate available to me at the top of Curios to strongly recommend the Electric…
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- Webcurios 22/11/24 - Reading Time: 35 minutes I had something of a new professional nadir this week which I feel it might be cathartic to share. So I was booked to appear on some panel thing by a very corporate company, to talk about AI (I was asked as a result of one of my ‘actual jobs’ – rest assured I wasn’t…
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- Webcurios 15/11/24 - Reading Time: 36 minutes On Saturday night I went to the pub for my friend Nick’s birthday, and happened to meet a group of football fans who supported Swindon Town FC, the team of the town where I grew up (but, to be clear, I WAS NOT BORN THERE). When asked why they supported the team, despite not being…
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- Webcurios 08/11/24 - Reading Time: 34 minutes WELL. I know I say this after every big event, but you really don’t need or want my opinion on the US election and so I will spare you (see, don’t you wish other newsletters were this considerate?). Oh, ok, fine, apart from two specific, semi-related things. One, we really, really need to hope that…
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- Webcurios 01/11/24 - Reading Time: 35 minutes The world’s either going to get maybe, possibly, a tiny bit better next week, or it’s going to get LOADS worse – EXCITING, ISN’T IT? I don’t know about you, but part of me quite wants to be put into a medically-induced coma until America gets its sh1t together. I am still Matt, this is…
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- Webcurios 25/10/24 - Reading Time: 36 minutes It’s still, technically, Summer here in the UK, until Sunday morning at least – WHY AM I SO FCUKING COLD THEN? Yes, that’s right, we’ve reached that phase of the year when all I can seem to think about is how fcuking cold my fingers are when I am typing this fcuking thing, and whether…
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- Webcurios 18/10/24 - Reading Time: 34 minutes HELLO I AM BACK HELLO! What have YOU done with the past few weeks of your life? I have singularly failed to take a holiday of any sort (how does one take a holiday from oneself? No, not ‘acid’, tried that), or indeed to really stop looking at the internet, but I have caught up…
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- Webcurios 27/09/24 - Reading Time: 36 minutes It’s been astonishing this week to see exactly how badly a political party’s comms team can handle something – FOR FCUK’S SAKE, LABOUR PARTY COMMS PEOPLE, IT SHOULDN’T BE THIS DIFFICULT. Also, the past seven days’ succession of embarrassing revelations and gift-related gaffes have somehow managed to achieve the unthinkable and made me feel genuine…
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- Webcurios 20/09/24 - Reading Time: 33 minutes I ought to be in Slovenia right now, hanging out with nice internet people and thinking about nice internet things, but instead I am in my kitchen in London, in my pants, a bit tired and hungover and generally feeling quite resentful at the fact that things like ‘needing to earn money to eat’ have prevented…
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