Music, comics, assorted grousing, he/him. CURRENT THINGS are Discourse 2000, a 2000AD blog and Popular, about the UK’s No 1 hits. I also waste my time (and maybe yours!) with @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.com
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Tom Ewing
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How can I take Festival advice from a man with an artwork made on Canva
Matt Goodwin claiming his book is the second best-selling book in the UK is like those articles stating someone’s had a #1 single when I actually only reached #1 in the 7” vinyl singles sub-chart. Either a knowingly dishonest use of a tiny subset of the data, or ignorance masquerading as knowledge.
good morning, friends: how about the collected edition of my four-essay series on Thomas Covenant? with a new introduction by me? does that sound like something you’d like?
it’ll go behind the paywall in a couple days but for the moment it’s free to all comers:
Nobody is likely to spontaneously recommend your product or service to a friend and asking about it is annoying
I lived through an entire 1980s and all I got was this shitty font
Tom Ewing
Matt Goodwin’s book doing well in the Flemish Ultratip Bubbling Under chart so I hear
Also sorry to Gene Wolfe post yet again but he is the king of this, so many people skipped the chapter long playscript in CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR where the plot is explained that he had to write an entire extra book going over it again
I think having these collected 60s demos in the tournament is a bit of a cheat but I find Cake so uniquely obnoxious that I don't care (sorry Cake lovers, it's probably just me)