Bubbles
Latest Posts
It’s such an incredibly dull thing to have to comment on but holy fuck has it been hot. Our flat can handle a day or two of heat but by day three it’s a difficult-to-cool furnace. Our lads have been melting, I’m glad it’s a little...
Hot week. We never got above 29 so it was bad but not as bad as South of England and Europe…anyone saying climate change isn’t a thing needs to be muted and ignored forever. Idiots. Lots of frustration around work and life at the moment,...
I was fortunate enough to grow up through the attitude era of the WWE (WWF at the time) and that was likely the hottest wrestling is ever likely to be. Since then, I've checked in and out of wrestling throughout the years. AEW coming...
14-06-26 I knew the Small Pearl-Bordered Fritillaries were out and about thanks to a couple of sightings posted on the ESB fb group. I was reluctant to head to Tentsmuir too soon but only had a couple of opportunities before I flew off...
Earlier this week I read Kyle Chayka’s latest for The New Yorker, called “The A.I.-Design Aesthetic That’s Taking Over the Internet.” It’s about Anthropic’s Claude Design and some of the visual giveaways the tool spits out by default....
This is a good book about a subject I love but don't know enough about: the relationship between 20th-century classical music and pop music. I think of the book less as an exploration of connections and more more as Elizabeth Alker, long...
It is difficult to write about Martyn Cornell’s last book, Porter and Stout: A Complete History without being caught up by the sad fact of his passing a little over a year ago now. As many had written after the news of his passing...
You know what the internet needs? Another person having opinions on AI
I’ve been a huge fan of Gary Saul Morson for a long time (see my too-brief review of his Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time here) and I’ve been interested in Mikhail Bakhtin for even longer, but I’ve found him a hard nut to...
Hello and happy, um, Sunday! Last week, my week off from work, was a string of days blurred together by household chores: donate here, donate there, car repairs (which could be their own post), returns, a hair appointment, trips to the...
Writing this on a Beyoğlu day under siege again, sigh. The whole neighborhood is locked down just because some people want to celebrate who they are… We started packing today and I’ll be writing next week’s update in our new apartment....
Our evening in Sacramento continued with a visit to downtown to check out the mermaid show at Dive Bar. We had a little bit of time to kill and so had some turnovers and Dubai cheesecake at nearby Sana’a Cafe followed by a stroll over to...
cyberstheb ⇦ prismatic pink → berbardo’s webpage → 𝓇𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓃𝓎𝓂𝓅𝒽 → ୨୧ maplebear ♡₊ → write the dreams down! → 🛑yard
Instead of setting up yet another newsletter every now and then I do this instead: a blog post about what I’ve been reading, thinking and doing. In the past couple of months, that’s included thinking about liminal horror and folk horror,...