That was 2018, eh? Doesn’t feel like we’re in the future, but we sure ain’t in Kansas…
So, in addition to watching a shitload of telly in 2018 – I figured since there’s no way I’m ever gonna get round to blogging about things I’d done individually, the next best thing would be to make a list… because in spite of some surface rhetoric about it having been a pretty shit year,…
Following on from the #androgynousfireblanketgate controversy, I took this shot to show equal-opportunity in fire blanket diagrams, but now I'm not sure if it's meant to be a gendered diagram. Also, it looks like they're doing a magic trick and that pan is going to disappear. Also, we only have a microwave in our work kitchen, so it's all a bit moot, surely?
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JBS’s Media Roll-call of 2018 (reinstated, with fanciness!)
Rekindling a tradition I guess I’ve started for myself, I’ve figured out a way to put together a list of all the films, TV and books that I’ve pointed my eye-stalks at this year – and the fanciness is that for 2019 and beyond I can write the summaries as the year goes by rather…
I’m a Joke and So Are You: A Comedian’s Take on What Makes Us Human
Managed to *just* sneak this one in under the 2018 radar – Robin Ince has for a long time been one of my favourite comedians, and one whom I’ve watched reinvent himself and develop since first seeing him in 2006, and seeing his general demeanour grow to be much more tempestuous – alongside a keen…
