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For The Shift Workers At Christmas

The Example Of The Christmas Market

Some Observations On Fasting

On Being Broke

Work And Non Work

‘Disruption’

On Netflix Bingeing

Regarding The Metaverse

A Walk Through The Cemetery

Regarding WGMI

On Transhumanism

Books As Signifiers

On The English Attitude To (Talking About) Money

On Charging Points and ‘Friday Afternoon Work’

On Finally Getting Around To Reading The Sovereign Individual

Tickbox

CyberTulipMania vs Trojan Horse

Critics vs Haters, Or, Why The World Needs More Real Criticism

Street Bench Zen

On Feeling Discouraged

The Ballad of St. Coltrane

‘Show, Don’t Tell’: A Note To Myself

The Old Men On The Bowling Green

The Consolation Of Craft

Dear Diary

On Writing (As Opposed To Typing) At The Library

On Refusing To Look Things Up

Audiences, Artists and Reversing the Vicious Cycle

Avoid The Middle

On Going To A Matinee

On Pretentiousness

On Being An Autodidact

The Wall In The Head

On Insomnia

Cynicism With a Capital ‘C’

Beauty In A World Of Brutalism

On Going To The Beach

Bill Watterson and The Perfect Artistic Career

Transcendent Art- On Abundant Means And Sparse Means

La Bella Figura

On Photography And Soul Theft

Art As Gift

Content Versus Art

On Smoking

A Short Treatise On Rest

The Death Of The Cool

Litter and Nihilism

The Wisdom Of Cats

This Nations Saving Grace

On Commuting

How To Be Less Stupid

The Art of Convalescence

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