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Heading up the Ouse
Greetings from York, where I am cat sitting Maisie and Poppy, old friends both, near what once was York City’s football ground, Bootham Crescent. (Very cheap looking houses are currently being built on what was once the pitch; I give them twenty years.) I’m not able to do much in the way of exercise at… Read more
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Review: The Algorithm: How AI Can Hijack Your Career And Steal Your Future, by Hilke Schellmann
This review first appeared in the Morning Star A friend of mine once wrote a sketch about a management training guru, who claimed to have invented a tool that can tell “whether you’re a blue, a green, a red or… a dickhead.” Compared to the products and procedures documented in Hilke Schellmann’s The Algorithm: How… Read more
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AndAlso Easter Showcase (aka James’ Armando debut)
Improv! I have been doing a 12 week “level 3” improv course with AndAlso, the corporate offshoot of The Maydays and premiere Brighton-based improv nexus, and Wednesday was our debut performance. I’ve only done improv live on stage once before: as a made-up film director at a live recording of the Improvised Movie Director Podcast.… Read more
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Extra Topping with Rosalie Minnitt, Al Nash, The Magic Lady, and a Viking of some description
To the Extra Topping Comedy Showcase, then, which has MOVED from a rugby-obsessed pub in residential Hove to upstairs at the Yellow Book in Brighton’s fashionable York Place. Dog tarot cards on the table: I really liked the old venue. It was a comfy upstairs room, and an audience of locals being confused by some… Read more
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Sartorial Matters
A youth near the coach stop asked me “what’s it like being posh?” as I walked past. I wasn’t even wearing my beret. There was a plaintive undertone to the miscreant’s pointed question, beyond the simple diss. I was wearing a hand-me-down tweed jacket, a monochrome shirt with ferns on it, black jeans, and adidas… Read more
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Streaming on Nintendo Pee
I am enjoying my Friday Twitch Streams with sketch pal Lauren, who is currently marooned in a land that people insist on calling America. I told my sister (apropos of nothing) “I’m a streamer now” on Sunday, and she laughed for what felt like several minutes. This is fair enough. I’m 44 years old. Read more
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A playlist for Martha
It’s fun making playlists. I made one for Martha, she made one for me, and now our new songs are going to sound like Bruce Springsteen and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci. I wrote some notes about my playlist because I’m that guy. They’re quite personal but I’m sharing them here for completist sake. Ana Ng, They… Read more
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Downpour is a pocket Geocities
I made my first Choose Your Own Adventure style website on Geocities sometime in the late nineties. It’s probably still there on Wayback Machine somewhere: a Bluetones themed game where they live in a big blue house (in hammocks) and go on trial for war crimes. Then at the Guardian, I had a play around… Read more
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Maybe the true conspiracy was the friends we didn’t make along the way
I had a conversation with a conspiracy theorist last week. He sat down at my table in the cafe where I was working, with a young friend, and proceeded to tell her lots of stuff that was complete nonsense. 5G, Covid vaccinations, world government… the usual stuff, rejigged and rejiggled to fit his own particular… Read more
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