Occasional links - 30.01.2021
Hello friends,
Hope you've had a good/passable/ok week and apologies for the terrible formatting last week... That diving board link from last week does work, it just doesn’t look like a link (sorry Jim). Hope you’re doing ok. I felt surprisingly good this week and took a, brief but nice, break from crippling anxiety and overwhelming existential dread. Of course I now feel guilty for feeling good because so many of my pals are not feeling so great and I love them all dearly and wish they didn’t feel like this. I really wish I could get on a train and hug everyone and chat shit for hours in a pub or go for a bike ride together. But alas that is not to be for now for the greater good of our terrible island we call home. However, you should know that I love you and that I’m thinking of you. Yes, even you. Anyway, here’s your links.
Newsletters (and how the web is broken)
Kind of relevant as you're reading this through a newsletter - how very meta. Very clever web layout too and was beautiful flicking through this whilst waiting for my 'hot beef special' outside the greasy spoon cafe place at lunch. It is a really interesting piece of how we consume the written word and how certain things pop up to fill that void. It’s also beautifully illustrated. Thanks to Andy Waterman for the link.
Is my MP a prick?
Well, worth finding out. Obviously this assumes that you're a decent human being to enjoy this one. Sorry to those lucky enough to not live in the UK.
A man who invited the world over for dinner
A charming story of just getting to know people.
The Milk Bars of Poland
Via Present and Correct.
Hope you've had a good/passable/ok week and apologies for the terrible formatting last week... That diving board link from last week does work, it just doesn’t look like a link (sorry Jim). Hope you’re doing ok. I felt surprisingly good this week and took a, brief but nice, break from crippling anxiety and overwhelming existential dread. Of course I now feel guilty for feeling good because so many of my pals are not feeling so great and I love them all dearly and wish they didn’t feel like this. I really wish I could get on a train and hug everyone and chat shit for hours in a pub or go for a bike ride together. But alas that is not to be for now for the greater good of our terrible island we call home. However, you should know that I love you and that I’m thinking of you. Yes, even you. Anyway, here’s your links.
Newsletters (and how the web is broken)
Kind of relevant as you're reading this through a newsletter - how very meta. Very clever web layout too and was beautiful flicking through this whilst waiting for my 'hot beef special' outside the greasy spoon cafe place at lunch. It is a really interesting piece of how we consume the written word and how certain things pop up to fill that void. It’s also beautifully illustrated. Thanks to Andy Waterman for the link.
Is my MP a prick?
Well, worth finding out. Obviously this assumes that you're a decent human being to enjoy this one. Sorry to those lucky enough to not live in the UK.
A man who invited the world over for dinner
A charming story of just getting to know people.
The Milk Bars of Poland
Via Present and Correct.
The «milk bars» are a network of low cost restaurants, spread all over Poland. Created at the end of the 1950s, under socialist Poland, and belonging then to the State Cooperative Spolem, milk bars were largely privatised after 1989, but remain partly state financed today. In this way, milk bars continue to be places where people with little money (students, old age pensioners, but also homeless people) may eat well, at a low cost. Their name comes from the fact that no alcohol is sold at milk bars, and originally, no meat either. Since the beginning of the 2000s, milk bars have received heavy competition from western style fast-food restaurants, and consequently they have started to disappear, one after the other.
Best clothes on to get the vaccine
Absolutely adorable in every sense. My Grandmother got the vaccine last week but suspect she didn’t bother getting dressed up like this even though her sense of style is legendary.
Bosco and his big stick
Our dog link this week is sponsored by my good friend Chrissy. Thank you Chrissy.
The odd thing in the cutlery drawer
Most couples have at least one odd bit of cutlery in their cutlery drawer that they presume belongs to their partner, which is why it’s fun to sneak odd bits of cutlery into your friends’ cutlery drawer when you visit.
A brilliant thread on that there Twitter website.
ZZ Top’s Gimme All Your Lovin’ played on eight ukuleles
ZZ Top are a rock band for those of you too young to have had to listen to these tapes on motorway journeys with your father. A bit like the US version of Status Quo? Anyway, here’s the original, admittedly terrible, official music video in case you don’t recognise the track.
woof, woof, woof
No idea why this made me giggle so much but that’s where we’re at right now
It’s not you
This short article offers some insight as to why we’re all struggling in lockdown 3 (in the UK). Read it. Then give yourself a break. Bookmarked for later use.
Skateboarding with Werner Herzog
Absolutely the best link til last. I could watch this all day. Maybe I will.
That's all for now. Try and rest and give yourself a break. You’re important and I love you.
Love as always,
Andy x
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