- Webcurios 02/06/17 - Reading Time: 32 minutes A hand, pale, slim and with appallingly-bitten fingernails, gingerly slips between the curtains, fingers curling to pull back the material just enough to afford a glimpse onto the stage and to the empty seats beyond. The vaudvillian slinks disconsolately onstage and addresses the silent, deserted house. HI THERE! I’M BACK! DID YOU MISS ME?? No,…
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- Webcurios 21/04/17 - Reading Time: 30 minutes So much excitement! Whether it’s the looming potential threat of international thermonuclear conflict, mental sci-fi technologies or the fact that we lucky, lucky people of Britain once again get to DO A DEMOCRACY, it seems that the future never stops happening at us. It never stops. It is never going to stop, until we do,…
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- Webcurios 07/04/17 - Reading Time: 26 minutes The problem with writing this on a Friday is that, sadly, by the time I get round to doing the opener the commentariat have had a whole WEEK crafting their INCANDESCENTLY HOT TAKES on the pressing issues of the week and they’ve consumed all the oxygen around the news, leaving me a gasping, suffocating wreck…
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- Webcurios 31/3/17 - Reading Time: 15 minutes So that’s it – WE ARE TAKING BACK CONTROL! Do you feel in control? Do you feel like you know exactly what’s happening, where we’re going and how we’re going to get there? Do you feel that The Triggering is going to somehow resolve the creeping feeling that everything now happening is so far beyond…
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- Webcurios 24/03/17 - Reading Time: 20 minutes Not a good week really. Let’s not talk about it and instead stuff as much internet as possible into our ever-ravening maws in an increasingly futile attempt to make sense of anything at all Given it’s pretty clear in 2017 that we really *are* what we consume, what mind-bending effects will be imparted by you…
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- Webcurios 17/03/17 - Reading Time: 25 minutes Is it OK that a sitting MP can be editor of one of the most influential papers in the country? It’s not, really, is it? AND YET HERE WE ARE! Another week, then, and another succession of events which just make you want to throw your hands in the air and crack on with that…
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- Webcurios 10/03/17 - Reading Time: 31 minutes OH MY GOD THAT FEELS BETTER. Not that you care, but this bit is always the last thing I write in Curios; as I’m typing this it’s almost impossible to prevent a slow smile of relief from plastering itself across my hideous countenance as I luxuriate in the feeling of having purged myself of internet…
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- Webcurios 17/10/16 - Reading Time: 29 minutes So I always start this off with some slightly laboured whine about how shit everything is, and how the world is going to hell in a handcart, and how this has been the worst week ever. I really don’t have the heart today. It’s not like the world needs any more words about how fucked…
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- Webcurios 19/08/16 - Reading Time: 30 minutes Ordinarily I’d kick this off with some sort of tedious screed about how terrible everything is – I’d be right to do so, everything is terrible – but seeing as we’ve only got three more days of TEAM GB OLYMPIAN SOMA left in the can, let’s just crack right on with the GOOD INTERNET STUFF…
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- Webcurios 22/07/16 - Reading Time: 28 minutes It’s probably not going to happen. It’s probably not going to happen. It’s probably not going to happen. If we all repeat this, mantra-like, whilst thinking only of the good things, then surely by collective will we can stop the Trump horrorshow, can’t we? NO OF COURSE WE CAN’T. What we want has at best…
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