Friday Music: Digging ASMR
A week ago today on Lorde Listening Day, the singer and producer Chelsea Jade (who has a good new tune out, see below) tweeted that she was "getting ASMR shivers cascading down my skull from ella's voice all through this…
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The Family Carers case – here we go again!
Oh, yes indeedy, I would much rather be "out on the harbour" than sitting here in my bus with Peter snoring away behind me, writing yet again about this sorry issue. ¶ Forever the multi- tasker, I have managed to combine…
Seeking out the Spomeniks
Dotted about the former Yugoslavia are Spomeniks – largely forgotten monuments, often erected in silent, empty landscapes, like sentinels from another world. Even their collective label sounds alien. (It's Serbo-Croatian for "monuments." ) ¶ "They're truly hideous," wrote one design critic. But…
Barclay and arrogance
It's not especially unusual for someone to to compare the governing political party to a criminal gang – that's every day somewhere on Twitter, right? – but when the person making the comparison is a respected legal commentator and he's quoting the…
Being Inconvenient
The thing about Twitter is that is forces you to choose your 140 characters carefully. ¶ To say what you really think as artfully and briefly as possible. ¶ To be pithy. ¶ Understood. ¶ So when Nicky Wagner gazed out of her inner…
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