Great year to be a Tasmanian buying books as Christmas gifts.

David Bowie and Bing Crosby doing 'Little drummer boy/peace on earth' is one of the most AI things ever (that isn't). youtu.be/lCpXMy5GalI?si…

Finished À la recherche 2: À L'OMBRE DES JEUNES FILLES EN FLEURS. Seaside hotel closing up for winter. Time to go home. Third last page he says he's going to have to adjust to sleeping in his old room in Paris. Poor guy. THIS is the real poetic tragedy of the passing of time.

"The internet isn't written in pencil, Mark. It's written in ink." I've talked a lot about THE SOCIAL NETWORK over the years. This is the clearest expression of why I think it's important. open.spotify.com/episode/167sn3…

STRANGER THINGS finale: they did it! So thrilled and relieved that they pulled off the ending.

Second half of WATERBLACK has returned to Nathan Treeves... and I'm struggling. I preferred the origin story of Sharli much more to the methodical activities of demigods and the (meta)physics of the Weft universe.

Characteristic chilling irony from Jarvis Cocker on Pulp's glorious new album "And life's too short to drink bad wine and that's frightening."

"the sea itself had become a gaseous, voluminous, screamingly hot malformation of its proper self, out of which was ejected a writhing column of angels." WATERBLACK by Alex Pheby Galley Beggar Press

Many good descriptions here Patrick Freyne: Is U2’s new EP Easter Lily almost ... cool? – The Irish Times share.google/N1c59tNFYPBwPn…

My long-held conviction is that U2's Songs of Innocence is (apart from 'California') a really good and interesting album. My recent Wild Idea is that Songs is Experience might be, too. What if they knew what they were doing, but I wasn't on their wavelength?

Did you know in 2008 ScarJo recorded an album with multiple Tom Waits covers? open.spotify.com/album/2bBRv5VJ…

So... I've started, every so often, to use our home espert machine to make myself a mocha. And I'm not ashamed to admit it.