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WEEKNOTE #401Phantom Rhythm
I realised on Thursday this week that I was experiencing ‘Phantom Podcast Syndrome’ a little nagging feeling I needed to write a script.
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WEEKNOTE #40040th Birthday!
Some of my favourite writers have published absolute bangers about turning 40 but I realise that I don’t have much to say
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WEEKNOTE #398Storms and Sunlight
I feel like I’ve done my 40 years in the desert, and whilst I still don’t know what I want to do, In the…
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WEEKNOTE #397Into July
Every once in a while, I feel compelled to write a post that goes something like, “OMG; it’s X month already?!” This is one…
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WEEKNOTE #396The Weather Turned
Pre-production work (making notes lol) has started on what I might do once 301 comes to the end of it’s run at the end…
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WEEKNOTE #395Playability
One of things happening in culture that I think we can all feel intuitively is that increasingly media mediums are playable.
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WEEKNOTE #393A Little More Distinct
What I’m gravitating towards is work that feels more distinct. People who are off doing their own thing, on blogs or standalone websites.
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WEEKNOTE #392Wait, what?
Some estimates put the total number of words of fan fiction written a year at 100 billion words.
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WEEKNOTE #391Eating From the Trough
For the next week, at least, I’ve decided to eat as much slop from the trough as possible. To find out what it’s like.
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WEEKNOTE #390Back for a Speech
I went down to The Chalk because my dad was stepping down as president of a club he is a member of and he…
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WEEKNOTE #389Public Thoughts, Private Room
A blog is not—and never will be—the full contents of a mind. And proper diary remains a private room. And I’m okay with that.
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WEEKNOTE #388Happy With My E-reader
A paperback on the Tube, meanwhile, is porous. It leaks a little cultural texture into the space around it.
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WEEKNOTE #387I Watch Bright Things Unfold Themselves
All I really have to report this week is that I like a single sentence that I wrote. Sometimes just the one is enough!
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WEEKNOTE #386Easter ’25
I went back down to the chalk on Wednesday last week and was really blessed by the weather.
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WEEKNOTE #385Nearly Finished Business
Since the start of the year I’ve been on a bit of a mission. One aspect of which has been to finish all the…
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WEEKNOTE #384Heavy Things
Anu’s essay Make Something Heavy over on the Working Theorys newsletter has been making waves in my media sphere this week.
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WEEKNOTE #383Without Ceremony
I don’t think I’ve ever shared a full poem I’ve written on my blog? I would like to take steps to change that. It…
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WEEKNOTE #382Week Away
I went away last week. 5 nights in Gran Canaria. We went to a huge hotel, ate loads of buffet food and sat by…
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WEEKNOTE #381Flowers at Saatchi
I went to see Flowers at the Saatchi Gallery. Rebecca Louise Law’s la fLEUR MORTE is a sculpture that uses flowers and time as…
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WEEKNOTE #380A Future Funded Elsewhere
The UK’s creative tech funding is stuck in sticky bureaucracy. Meanwhile, Europe backed Flow—and it won an Oscar.
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WEEKNOTE #379Green Lung
I went to see Green Lung at the Kentish Town Forum last night, there’s something deeply comforting about being in a room full of…
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