Simon Watkins
@simonywaking
Interested in finance, economics, politics, philosophy, literature and childish humour.
I would to hear Freudian, Lacanian and Guatarrian analyses of this news story.
My brain was momentarily thrown here and it took me a moment to work out why. An excellent example of how the eye unconsciously bounces around the page finding connections of its own.
Just finished this. Stunning. One review (can’t remember where, sorry) described it as a novel of ‘epistemological collapse’. An excellent encapsulation. The last novel I read that achieved that effect with such an intensity was Dhalgren.
Sorry. We definitely know it’s not Christmas. Computer screen at start of movie. See highlighted area, upper left hand of screen.
We’ve had one of these since the 1990s (when they were briefly fashionable). Our model only goes up to 27C.
Found it in seconds. And I am in stitches. I am going to try to read the whole thing.
One of my local kebab shops offers a sophisticatedly teasing option.
We keep telling the cat that if he doesn’t stop being so grumpy, we are going to get some kittens. But he would kill them. And we would probably forgive him.
You sent me off down a rabbit hole with this one. Google immediately offers some interesting lines of inquiry.
My phone has looked through my photos and decided this is one of my ‘Pet Friends’.
Last year I succeeded easily in the challenge of getting a Christmas cake to absorb an entire bottle of Armagnac. This year the task is a little harder as I have left myself barely four weeks for cake-feeding. I am off to a good start however, as the dried fruit are already soaking in a hefty slug.
‘So Civilisations… it’s like Gladiator meets History of the World in 100 Objects plus Newsnight… with a little bit of The One Show thrown in just in case.’
Share a TV series you’ve watched from beginning to end more than once. (Two for the price of one.)