- Webcurios 28/10/22 - Reading Time: 31 minutes I AM RISEN! I appear to have survived covid (so far, at least – I am generally of the impression that that which does not kill you is merely operating in concert with that which eventually does, though, so am not getting ahead of myself), and have emerged, blinking, into a strange and terrifying new…
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- (Not quite) Web Curios 21/10/22 - Reading Time: 2 minutes HELLO! Finally, after 30 months of successful evasion, covid finally got me – whilst I don’t think it’s likely to prove fatal, it turns out that it really does fcuk with my ability to concentrate for 6 hours whilst writing several thousand words about stuff on the internet (also, I physically couldn’t get out of…
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- Webcurios 14/10/22 - Reading Time: 33 minutes Are you aware of the concept of the ‘ratking’? It’s one of those things that’s become popular in the post-web age despite there limited evidence that such a thing has ever existed, but it works so well as a metaphor for so many things that it’s destined to be a part of collective mythology for…
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- Webcurios 07/10/22 - Reading Time: 32 minutes October! Pumpkins! The increasingly-heated domestic arguments about when, exactly, you are allowed to start looking longingly at the thermostat! Yes, that’s right, WE’RE INTO THE HOME STRAIGHT OF 2022! Basically from hereon in it’s just waiting for Christmas party season and for mulled wine to become an acceptable breakfast drink (third week of this month,…
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- Webcurios 30/09/22 - Reading Time: 30 minutes I went to Soho House this week (a friend of mine with a Proper Job was paying), and met two of the worst people I have ever encountered – one man who proudly told me all about the Porsche he’d bought with his Covid loan (a loan he never intends to pay back, obvs), for…
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- Webcurios 23/09/22 - Reading Time: 37 minutes Well that was a fortnight. Have you gotten over it? Good, it looked weird tbh and I wasn’t a fan. Still, here we all are again, forelocks freshly-denuded and ready to take a long runup at THE AUTUMN! Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness and all that Keatsian jazz, where we all get to try…
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- Webcurios 09/09/22 - Reading Time: 35 minutes You’re probably a bit distracted by the news, aren’t you? It’s fair enough to be honest – it’s not every day a living embodiment of national identity shuffles off this mortal coil – and you’d be forgiven for not giving two skinny fcuks about ‘a bunch of stuff some bloke you don’t know thought worth…
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- Webcurios 26/08/22 - Reading Time: 33 minutes How are you all feeling about the upcoming Bank Holiday weekend? Anyone going swimming in England’s placid coastal waters lol? Insert your own gags here about ‘another sh1tty fortnight in what increasingly feels like some sort of Tory party remake of ‘Noel’s House Party’ in which everyone is Mr Blobby, all the time, and the…
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- Webcurios 12/08/22 - Reading Time: 34 minutes Does the UK feel…weird to you right now (sorry, international readers, for the anglosolipsism on display here – feel free to skip this and get right into the links which I promise are good ones)? Having been back a couple of weeks, I can’t shake the overriding impression that everything is heading for some sort…
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- Webcurios 05/08/22 - Reading Time: 31 minutes It’s fair to say that being back in England for the first time since December has provided its fair share of culture shocks – you’re all so pale! you show so much flesh! man, you eat a lot of potato products – but, generally, I can’t tell you how nice it is to be home.…
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