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Slow Horses.
I decided to have a break from podcasts. A month or so. The accelerating shitshow in America has contaminated all of my current affairs feeds and started to leak into my fitness pods, too. There’s a weird right-wing tilt to most fitness content. Especially strength training. Maybe it’s all the rugged individualism - or an attachment to the mythology, at least.
A total Karen with zero chill.
This is both amusing and horrifying.
My comfort TV.
I’m currently watching Outer Range on Amazon Prime and kinda loving it. It’s a creepy as fuck cowboy time travel saga, and it is my jam.
Wait, what? Rock is dead?
Man, I sorta knew that my fave old musical genre had been doing it tough, but I didn’t realise that rock music had actually died and all that remained now was a shambling zombie husk shuffling through the dead end of the music charts.
Nicholas Cage did what now?
I was reading a review of the latest Quiet Place movie because I probably won’t watch it because I am definitely a ‘fraidy cat, and I stumbled across this par:
Still fighting with Bezos bots.
Ugh. Got an autoreply from the Amazon Mainframe that the publisher’s letter I supplied reverting the rights to Felafel back to me didn’t check their boxes because they’re just a bunch of vacuum tubes in the end, and they haven’t got a fucking clue.
I am now trying to get all my rights reverted from all my overseas publishers so I can get them to pull their versions of the book from Amazon everywhere.
We’ll see how that goes.