May you and your loved ones have a wonderful Christmas. If today is something you look forward to and enjoy, then I hope you enjoy it. If today is something you dread and endure, then I hope you get through it OK. Read the rest of this entry »
Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you have had, or are having, a lovely day. I saw these snowmen today who seemed to be having fun in a landlocked boat. Which seems as good an activity as any to try on Christmas Day.
Cheers everyone.
Nostalgia is a form of propaganda, an exercise in laughter and forgetting, in which the right visual iconography and perceived authenticity can create a longing for an existence which is no longer possible and was in fact never possible.
The Baffler have opened up their archives, so you can now access articles from their 25 issues from 1988 to the present day. The piece quoted above, The Nostalgia Gap, was published in 1993, yet still reads as something valid and true today. It is well worth your time, as are the complete archives that I’m slowly working my way through now. Oddly, reading the old issues creates a similar misplaced longing as outlined in the quote above, which makes my head hurt a little.
Winning is one thing. How you go about it is quite another. Read the rest of this entry »
There are three gentlemen, suited. Read the rest of this entry »
Wait until next year 