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On Notion...

This week, I found myself back in Notion. This was partly an accident (I was looking for something that I thought might be in there) and partly an example of guided serendipity - I knew my systems didn’t feel quite right and so I was vaguely thinking about making a

On Rewriting and Rewriting

On Rewriting and Rewriting

Formula One as an analogy for script rewrites.

On Ease

"The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard" by Ollivier Pourriol is a serious book with a silly title that I picked up at Messy Nessy's Cabinet in Paris last week. Pourriol is a philosopher with some interesting observations to make, chief of which is that

2025-07-21

Curating experience.

2025-07-14 - A Holding Pattern

2025-07-14 - A Holding Pattern

As weeks go, this has been a tricky one. Our daughter is off inter-railing, which brings with it a fair amount of anxiety from both sides. I sprained my back last Monday morning, which has meant I have spent the past week in incrementally decreasing amounts of pain. And

2025-07-08

Singing dolls, Frank Lloyd Wright, AI predictions.

Good Enough

When is a screenplay good enough?

2025-06-25

These are not coming out thick and fast at the moment, and there was no newsletter this week. This is partly because, thanks to A-levels ending, we have entered a kind of summer holidays grey area here where routines go out of the window. It's also partly

2025-06-20

This has been an incredibly sluggish week. I don't enjoy hot weather in the best of circumstances, and London at 30 degrees is far from the best of circumstances. We live in a very solidly built 1920s block and our flat is on the corner of the building,

2025-06-17

Obsidian, Dia, Disneyland.

2025-06-12

Aeris Swopper, LLM Study, Spaces, Esperanza Spalding.

Wick is Pain

I didn't even know this documentary existed until it was recommended to me yesterday. I watched it last night, and I'm now urging anyone who is interested in the behind-the-scenes, not just of how movies are made on the set but of how they

Why I Still Believe In Movies

Why I Still Believe In Movies

2025-06-05

Mess Nessy Chic, Salamanders, Sinkholes, Colours.

Getting Started with Notebooks

Getting Started with Notebooks

Everything All The Time

Everything All The Time

A new way to keep up to date.

On the advertising model

On the advertising model

I've spoken here before about podcast financing, specifically my preference for paid downloads/subscriptions vs advertising. Warren Ellis sent me the following yesterday, from James Cridland's Radioland newsletter: Adam Curry, the co-inventor of podcasting, spoke at a Christian radio conference about where he sees the

Introducing Cartoon Gravity Pro

Introducing Cartoon Gravity Pro

Let's hope this is the last admin post for a while.

2025-05-31

Crowley - 48 HOURS LEFT!

Crowley - 48 HOURS LEFT!

There are just 48 HOURS LEFT before the Lovecraft Investigations: Crowley Kickstarter closes. At 11.59am (BST) on Saturday 31 May, the Kickstarter will end. All offers close at that time; there will be no late pledges available. If we have to over-order T-shirts, CDs etc, then the

2025-05-23