looked over at the phone of a guy beside me waiting at a crossing because im nosey and he was scrolling pinterest the grind never stops

ironically there is a PhD thesis that could be written about the reaction to that olfactory ethics PhD thesis, both of which I would like to read

it’s spotify wrapped day! our most listened to episode this year was David Hering and jess white’s brilliant episode on Eric Rohmer and French New Wave! thank you to all our listeners this year, there’s more to come in 2025!

im entering into a period of brinkmanship with someone trying to buy a pair of shoes from me on vinted they are testing my resolve and my pride

keeping perfume samples in a vintage laxative tin

i really relate to carrie bradshaw not because im fashionable or because men love me but because i also just cannot help but wonder

i just saw a thread of ‘the biggest fumblers’ snd Orpheus was on there

Nigella just said that when she has a meringue cooling in the oven overnight she can “sleep the sleep of the innocent”

Gromit should be allowed to beat Wallace

that’s interview with the vampire

had a dream where i was served something called the ‘motley breakfast’ which was just a full english but the sausages were knitted and the hash browns were purple

last night i had a sip of guinness and immediately felt it in my shoulder blades what is in that stuff was it the iron going where it’s most needed

where are the coat and hooks in toilet cubicles all disappearing to? im starting to get annoyed

was thinking about what 2025’s big manufactured insecurity will be and i think it will be hand ageing, there will be many creams available and some weird procedures, maybe hand filler, and if you don’t get it you’ll have mitts like the crypt keeper

working on a theory that A Little Life is a literary Jackass, ama

it’s been over a year but i still regularly think about those nasty wet splatty fireworks on the Harkonnen planet in Dune 2

the urge to make an insufferable podcast that nobody wants is something that unites men across all classes it seems

read Genesis

I’m fascinated by the secondhand trophy economy on eBay. Who is selling old trophies? More to the point, who is buying a trophy someone else won in their under-12s football tournament? Who is the person with a shelf of other peoples trophies? Need to chat.

i guess keir starmer’s dad really was a tool maker and his son was his biggest project