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Railway Architecture in the video game Fortnite
After many years of cars, motorbikes, biplanes, speedboats, helicopters, and hoverboards, Fortnite has finally incorporated a railway line. As a “Battle Royal” online fighting game, with an ever-shrinking playing arena and 99 other players trying to kill you, Fortnite doesn’t really lend itself to public transport. [1] The automobile and the gun reign supreme here.… Read more
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Brighton Marina
If you’re in the mood for some discombobulation, I can recommend Brighton Marina on a drizzly February morning. Built on land reclaimed from the sea, the marina was a 1970s project, turned into a Thatcher’s island kind of retail park in the mid 1980s. It is dominated by a giant Asda and car park, and… Read more
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Review: Julia Masli, Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, Soho Theatre
This article first appeared in the Morning Star newspaper. Can clowns save the world? This probably wasn’t what Julia Masli, an Estonian performer trained by the notorious Parisian pedagogue Philippe Gaulier, had set out to achieve with her latest. Still, you never know. Masli always aims high, with seemingly limitless reserves of care, poise, and… Read more
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Playing the board game “Fog of Love” for the first time
Ros was a male model called Andrew who believed in true love. His father, Marcus, was wealthy and owned lots of land. Andrew was talent spotted by the industry when he was quite young, working driving a tractor on one of his dad’s farms. He had a penchant for wearing nose rings, which he’d match… Read more
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This Machine Kills Wasps with MJ Hibbett, The Highchurches, Jo Burke, Shelf, Selena Mersey, and Mikey Bligh Smith
I arrive early, and the sound guy is already there. Conveniently, his name is Guy. Guy, the sound guy. Sound guy Guy. Guy Guy sound. He is friendly, and Australian. We have a nice chat, and as he sets up the stage, I learn his interest in experimental rock, music theory, and production. This is… Read more
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The Booklovers
Happy the man, and happy he alone who in all honesty can call today his own. He who has life and strength enough to say: “Yesterday’s dead and gone – I want to live today”… From visiting every Wimpy to writing a postcard every week for a year, I am a fan of doomed challenges.… Read more
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Letter to America
I’m trying to write more often, but of course, like everyone, I write all the time. Often into WhatsApp or other such places of scattershot, daily ephemera. Below are a series of messages I wrote to a friend in America. Do they deserve to be put on the very minor pedestal of a blog post,… Read more
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