Every now and then the tumblers all click into place. Walking home on Friday, the knot of the day’s horrific debate slowly unwinding, I took this photo as music I’d never heard before flooded my headphones. Then I checked the title of the track and was reminded that serendipity has a very odd, very good …
There’s a panel early on in Bad Luck Chuck which is about as close to perfect comics as you can get. It’s this: As character sketches go you don’t get any better. Chuck is a bad luck magnet. Chuck is a broken mirror with an hourly rate. Hire Chuck and the fix isn’t just in, …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 8th February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Karyn Kusama’s Destroyer is a film that haunts you from …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 22nd February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. The cloud is now the Moon. Project Moonframe turned …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 15th February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4cAsmQS610] When I was 15 or so I …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 22nd February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Let’s start with a little thematically appropriate music. [youtube …
The Expanse begins in the final minutes of its third season. Which is a hyperbolic exaggeration on one hand and a salute to the sheer audacity of the first three seasons on the other. In the space of under 40 episodes the show has shifted from ‘traumatized survivors busk their way through a political scandal’ to …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 8th February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Oh boy. Okay, business pants on. This week, Spotify, …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 8th February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. At some point in the next couple of years, …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 1st February 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Robin Sloan is responsible for two of my all-time favorite …