A Magazine, Stickers and a Flute

Illness and work combined to break my blogging habit* for a month, so here’s a backlog of links.

The privileged are taking over the arts—pop culture is doomed.

Kurt Vonnegut on the shapes of stories.

Vanilla Bright Like Eminem.

Frankie Boyle on offence and free speech.

Rain-soaked photographs like impressionist paintings (source).

Wolf Hall was essential television, but how true to history was it? Count up the bodies.

Octopus gets crabby.

Why the Internet could be the next failed state.

The girl who gets gifts from birds.

Oscar-winning Snowden doc Citizenfour, online for free. (Hello, GCHQ. Good to know you’re reading. Why not leave a comment?)

Invading the vintage.

Tonga’s new island.

Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley on the “Blurred Lines” verdict. Every artist ever described as Beatlesque must now be desperately phoning their lawyer.

iPhone vs Peppa Pig phone head-to-head review.

The definitive list of the worst Doctor Who stories of all time. Superlative trolling.

Neil Gaiman, Charlie Stross and Christopher Priest on Terry Pratchett. Via Mefi.

*Although I managed to keep Cecil going, so it was probably just laziness.

13 March 2015 · Weblog