The Garden

I saw this Welsh-language quartet live at a teeny-tiny venue on the Ouseburn the other week.

David Byrne is the only figure in popular culture who treats the massive machinery that powers modern life with the respect it deserves.

(With apologies to Interconnected for the title format.)

AreWeDoomedYet?.

Britain is, as everyone around the globe agrees (source: Nigel Farage, who surely would never lie about anything), the greatest 3½ countries in a trenchcoat on Earth.

Not pictured: the Robbie Williams monkey movie.

I don’t really have a justification for this, but i intuitively respect the Brit Awards far more than the Grammys.

sit down, son A hypertext edition of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne Why does Santa play the saxophone in China?

Film The Laurel Wreath Award for Annual Achievement in Film There’s been a terrible glitch in the system.

The Celtic languages are all so beautiful.

ClosedAI.com.

Welp.

Look.

GoodFellas (1990) The first time i’ve actually enjoyed a Scorsese flick.1 I love how it uses music to illustrate the main character’s psychological decline. (8/10) 1 Mes dieux!

Whoever invented the Qwerty keyboard was right.

Hearing rumours that the Americans have invented a holiday that is like Christmas, but exclusively the part where you get into arguments with your extended family.

I just realised that “sweatpants” are just what Americans call jogging bottoms.

I overheard this fleetingly on Radio 6 (Gods bless ’em, as always) and immediately smashed that like button.

It’s that time of year again, isn’t it?

Alex Garland’s Annihilation is nominally a horror film.1 Team of scientists goes into an evil forest, gets picked off one by one with cool body horror effects, blonde final girl makes it out and is irreversibly traumatised, movie ends, many such cases.2 B…

I have gotten slightly addicted to Sonic Robo Blast 2, an open-source Sonic fan game that’s been in development for twenty-six years and has dozens of mods to show for it.

How British-Nigerians quietly made their way to the top PS5 Has No Games: The Musical (Brought To You By Talking Heads) On the naming of America — i’m still an Amerrisque truther myself.

Ik moet aannemen dat dit al mínstens sinds vorig jaar hier ligt.

I have to assume this has been here since at least last Christmas.

Big Fish (2003) Tim Burton, you bastard, you’ve done it again.

ALS stole his voice.

A video popped up in my Youtube recommendations recently that gave me pause.

Oh fuck i idly put on Kid A and accidentally let it get all the way to “Motion Picture Soundtrack”. 😭️😭️😭️ REEEED WIIIINE 😭️😭️😭️ AND SLEEEEEPIIIING PILLS 😭️😭️😭️😭️ HELP ME GET BACK T

The Almighty Algorithm™ recommended me this song yesterday and i can’t turn it off.

Boring post but last night’s BBC Two quiz night had possibly the greatest game of Only Connect ever played by man.

I feel a little bad for posting so many link roundups effectively in a row, so here’s a preview of things to come… The wonderful miniatures of The Hudsucker Proxy 又双叒叕 In which the maintainers of the universal time-zone database find out a Norwegian town…

Author’s note: I first wrote up this wee bit of allohistorical silliness in March of this year, posting it a few places online, but never actually bothered on my own website until now.

“Australian” is an anagram of “Saturnalia”.

Mandarin Chinese implies the existence of Fed English and Apparatchik Russian.

The Poozeum of Williams, Arizona, self-described as “#1 for fossilized #2”.

Super props to the trailer people, honestly — if it wasn’t for seeing that chilling first trailer in cinemas, i’d never have even considered watching the seventh film in a franchise i didn’t particularly care for.

First up is Enemy (2013), a movie somebody peed on.

© Zhaoxu Sui Britain should build a new town where the East Coast Main Line and East–West Rail meet Highway 1 is falling into the ocean How thick cold water could (could) have jump-started multicellular life Surfing (in) the American Dream (shopping centr…

Feeling really quite glum over the news of far-right riots near here yesterday.

A very minor thing, but i’ve refreshed my blogroll.

Just bought a month of Discovery+ to be able to watch the Olympic surfing and i’m not happy about it.

The saola, a large mammal which was discovered in the Vietnamese forest in… wait for it… 1992!

Ἄρα νομίζῃ μὲν σὲ πεσεῖν ἐκ κοκοφοίνικος; Εἶ δὲ κατὰ τὰ πράγματα παντὸς οὗ ζῇς χἄ σοι ἥγηται. (— Κάμαλα Ἁρρίδου, ψʹ.βʹ)

Well, i care about what my favourite dinosaur is, and it’s Diplodocus, that lumbering old fool.

Alright, why not?

Man, i bet they’re living it up in the Al Gore universe right now.

Dawn of the Dead (1978) Hyped up to me as one of the best horror films in history, i’m convinced it’s actually an incredible comedy.

Ushaw Hall’s website plays coy about itself.

I drew with the right side of my brain too hard and now the whole world just looks like crooked skewed angles and lines please help oh god oh fuck

A short website status update, since my ongoing writer’s block on a relatively simple interesting-place-visit post wasn’t enough for the universe: Ithaca12, the beat-up old laptop on which this fine website is hosted, is poorly, and has a noticeable bulge…