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Fuck The Tories
Caught a bit of Starmer on BBC Breakfast talking about asylum seekers, illegal vs legal and it seemed to me that this is like austerity in 2010: everyone accepts that “illegals” should be sent back just as everyone seemed to accept back then that we needed austerity to bring down national debt. I remember the BBC doing vox pops, asking people what ( Read more... ) -
22 Songs For 2023
1. Today (Can't Help But Cry) - Greta Hanlyn. Sounds like Lush and The Heart-Throbs and all those early '90s dreampop bands that got eaten up by Britpop ( Read more... ) -
2023
I tried to do this last year but it was all about cancer, so I stopped. This year it's still mostly about cancer, but anyway:
What did you do in 2023 that you'd never done before?
Had chemotherapy
Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Yes, it was not to have any more overnight stays in hospital.
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2002 in books
Some books Ive enjoyed this year, or at least given 4 stars to on Goodreads.- The Girls by Emma Kline. Suburban boredom, adolescent yearning, a murderous cult.
- The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton. We got stars directing our fate....Walter Moody and The Mysterious Case of the Missing Aurora Gold.
- The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre. Death in Kenya.
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2022 in vision
Some TV I have enjoyed in 2022.
Station 11Station 11 is set during and twenty years after a deadly flu virus. Just what we need in these pandemic-y times, right? Strangely enough, it was. The storyline jumped around and so we saw that Kirsten, a child extra in a production of Macbeth survived into adulthood, becoming the leader of a ragtag bunch ( Read more... ) -
2002 in sound
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Thoughts on being ill
I've always thought that if i had a serious illness, I'd do malicious and vindictive things that I wouldn't dare do in normal times, like acquiring a cattle prod and using it to get through crowds, emailing one specific person to tell her she's a self-righteous hypocrite and my life was made immeasurably better when she moved away, or dropping ( Read more... ) -
Coastal Fever
Last time we went to Porto, it rained for a week. On touching down, it's drizzling and it seems like history is repeating itself as we wander round the streets of Matosinhos admiring the art and eating veggie food at Ginger. Last time I was here there was one vegetarian cafe, which was more of an anarchist drop-in centre that also did food, now ( Read more... ) -
En Lille
When we're through security at St Pancras, I realise that our train is going to Disneyland Paris. That explains the hyped-up kids and the hen party in Micky and Minnie mouse ears. However, the kids in our carriage are well behaved and I wonder if it's not kids that I dislike but parents, specifically London parents who live in flats and small ( Read more... )
