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Pay me in exposure. No, you pay me for exposure.
I used to be a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, which sounds a lot cooler than it was. Basically, if you hung around long enough y…
John Birmingham
11 hr ago
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That poem. Holy shit.
As you know, I don’t much hold with poetry, but damn this was some some kickarse word-poeming. The New York Times has a nice write up of it here.
John Birmingham
Jan 21
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Destroyed by Umberto Eco's crazy Escher print book warehouse.
Lobes sent me this mind blowing vid on the Twitz this morning. Umberto Eco looking for a book in his personal library. Doesn't sounds like much,…
John Birmingham
Jan 20
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Broken day.
I knew I was going to have a tough one today. We were getting new solar panels installed. The inverter on the original array finally packed it i…
John Birmingham
Jan 19
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What I did on my holidays.
Not much, actually. I didn’t go near the keyboard between Christmas and the end of the first week of January. I’ve been back since then trying t…
John Birmingham
Jan 18
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Have the best Christmas you can.
We saw off another old mate this week. Gulliver. One of two brothers we rescued from a wild litter shortly after Thomas was born. That would mak…
John Birmingham
Dec 24, 2020
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Rowing! Now with pixels.
I tried an Apple Fitness + workout this morning. The fruit company’s exercise streaming service launched this week and I got it as part of my bu…
John Birmingham
Dec 16, 2020
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Smiley is dead.
John Le Carré passed away overnight. I listened to his last novel Agent Running in the Field on Audible a couple of months ago and made a note to write…
John Birmingham
Dec 14, 2020
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The absence.
Our old Lab, Sophie, reached the end of her long walk this week. It’s been pretty hard concentrating on work ever since. I’m kind of hoping this eulogy…
John Birmingham
Dec 11, 2020
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A horse walks into a bar and gets edited.
There is so much truth here. My thanks to Gregg Goriss for the tip.
John Birmingham
Dec 10, 2020
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Finally! Twenty plus years of jujitsu training pays off.
Getting a migraine at my desk, I had an exciting moment when I stood up to go get some nurofen. Both legs were asleep and collapsed eccentricall…
John Birmingham
Dec 2, 2020
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The rise of the machines
Jonathon Last’s newsletter for The Bulwark is always a bracing read, and never more so than this morning when he pointed to a piece about the wa…
John Birmingham
Nov 23, 2020
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