- Webcurios 03/11/23 - Reading Time: 36 minutes NO MORE JOBS! WE WILL NEVER WORK AGAIN! Except, sadly, that’s in the future and noone has quite worked out what happens between the here and now and the ‘magical, tech-greased future’. Still, let’s not worry about that too hard – let’s focus on the Terminator sh1t instead! (as an aside, it’s been interesting to…
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- Webcurios 27/10/23 - Reading Time: 36 minutes HELLO EVERYONE HELLO! In a departure from recent weeks I am not going to open by talking about how everything is terrible (HAPPY NOW ADAM?!) – instead, I am going to recommend a play to you, should you be in a position to be able to get to a theatre in London in the next month,…
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- Webcurios 20/10/23 - Reading Time: 39 minutes It does rather feel, doesn’t it, looking at the world over the past few weeks and indeed for much of the past couple of decades, that much of recent history has been, well, a mistake. Can we do it all again, please, but different? HELLO HOW ARE WE ALL DOING? Is everything colossal and jagged…
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- Webcurios 13/10/23 - Reading Time: 35 minutes Well, fcuk. I obviously have no idea who reads Web Curios, but it seems reasonable to assume that some of you are Jewish – I hope your families and friends and loved ones are ok. It’s less likely that any of you are Palestinians, I think, but in case any of you are then I…
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- Webcurios 29/09/23 - Reading Time: 34 minutes Trains! Misogyny! Hateful rhetoric about immigration! The risible lolfest that is Liberal Democrat Party Conference! Unauthorised tree surgery! WHAT A WEEK! There, that’s you all caught up with the stuff in the ‘real’ world! Now it’s time to focus on the weird internet ephemera, of which there is a BUMPER CROP – which is fortunate…
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- Webcurios 22/09/23 - Reading Time: 34 minutes I was going to try and write the intro in the style of Russell Brand this week as a sort of ‘topical’ riff, but then I realised that a) that wouldn’t actually be funny in the slightest given the horrible stuff he’s alleged to have done; and b) that the rest of Curios is already…
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- Webcurios 15/09/23 - Reading Time: 38 minutes HI EVERYONE HI HAPPY FRIDAY! The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and I am trying to stay positive before I have to spend a portion of the weekend reading Elon Fcuking Musk’s fcuking biography (there are strong professional reasons why this is necessary; I am not *that* sort of masochist) – how are…
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- Webcurios 08/09/23 - Reading Time: 32 minutes On the one hand, he is a terrorist and as such probably *ought* to be incarcerated; on the other, it’s hard not to cheer a little bit for a prison break so perfectly-filmic in its execution; I’m putting a quiet tenner on Ezra Miller to play Daniel Khalife in the inevitable 2024 Apple TV adaptation.…
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- Webcurios 01/09/23 - Reading Time: 37 minutes It’s odd how, despite the fact that my life (and I presume yours – I doubt any school-age kids are reading this and, if you are, STOP IT IT IS NOT FOR YOU) has long-since decoupled itself from the rhythms of the scholastic calendar, I can’t help but feel a vague sense of loss at…
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- Webcurios 25/08/23 - Reading Time: 33 minutes On the one hand, the mugshot is objectively very funny; on the other, he won’t go to jail and he might end up being President again, which is…less funny. Still, LOL AT THE FUNNY ORANGE MAN PHOTO! Once again it is Friday and once again I have spent the past six hours typing feverishly with…
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