Adrian Bell on newspaper experts:
I have been suspicious of them ever since, years ago, I met a gardening expert who wrote for a London paper. ‘And where is your garden?’ I asked innocently. ‘I haven’t got a garden. I live in a flat, he replied.
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So, I’m now on t2 (Twitter alternative from ex-Twitter folks). Anyone else on there?
Staurt Ian Burns on Marvel and its impact on the film industry:
Also, there’s no point blaming a studio which turns out two-four films a year for “ruining cinema” as though the audience is a sheep like mass. Hollywood has had its own hand in this by producing so many average films which strain for mass appeal to the extent they don’t appeal to anyone.
These two muppets are amongst the richest people on the planet, with a global impact on human relationships. And then they do this.
The phrase “deeply unserious” is becoming a thing, isn’t it?
One of those meme-like phrases that we’ll look back on in five years and think was “so 2023”.
Nice work of the day goes to the cyclist who literally rode into me while I was trying to shepherd children across the road on a green man at traffic lights - and then shouted at me.
I love cycling, but…
That’s it. Time to quit Outlook and call it a day.
I’m just not looking forward to a hot train ride home…
Every year, while I’m supervising journalism MA students’ final projects, I miss being a commissioning editor. I love the feeling of working with talented journalists to make their copy better.
Recreation is valuable in proportion to the intensity of its experiences, and to the degree to which it differs from and contrasts with workaday life.
— A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 📚