Status:
Hey, guess what? My cold is marginally less worse than yesterday! Although my sinuses might tell you otherwise. Once this is posted I'll back over the steam bowl with a towel over my head.
Accidentally re-opened the rift between myself and Jez over whether Roy Lichtenstein was a genius artist (me) or an elitist copyist (Jez) before mutually realising we were too tire for this right now. Amusingly it came from a slag of Damien Hirst who, per Jez, "isn't even bothering to paint his own Ben Day dots".
If there's one thing everyone can agree on it's that Damien Hirst is shite, right?
Insomniac Listening:
Reading:
- Garbage Day: Cancel culture for thee, not me
- ‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war
- Brief Encounter at 80: why we’re still falling for David Lean’s 1945 romance
- Mycelium Newsletter - October 2025 - for spores, seekers, pilgrims, 400-ers, psychonauts, RAWheads, august members of the Illuminati and Cosmic Coincidence Command Control Centre.
- ‘How did we get here?’: documentary explores how Republicans changed course on the climate
- Words we love: Pebbling – a new love language - the new term for when people share memes and gifs to those they are thinking of.
Watching:
- ️Who wants to see what’s inside this giant tree wart?
- Practical Engineering - Concrete’s Greatest Weakness
- Yoshinao Satoh - Papers
Telly:
- I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
- Tuca & Bertie
- Letter to Brezhnev - bonus Ken Campbell as a creepy reporter
- The Lowdown