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Yes! The Book of Dust volume 3 is out in October!
The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three a book by Philip Pullman and Christopher Wormell.
Finally!
Ah, my Letterboxd post finally made it. Just a lag in the feed handling, I suppose.
My Latest Letterboxd post hasn’t synced to Micro.blog (and hence my blog), and I can’t get iCloud photos to sync to my Mac. Or not all of them yet, at least.
Everything’s not quite working. Maybe it’s the heat. 31°C here in London at the moment.
A fortnight in Canada, a long weekend camping in Somerset, and a couple of days back at work. Couple of film notes and now a Crucial Track. Off we go, then, with a Summer of Blogging.
(Or not, let’s wait and see.)
What is this archaic nonsense? Seems the only way we can vote for Eurovision in the UK is by making a phone call! What century is this?
Well, I’m not doing it. Iceland will have to do without my vote.
Kind of hard to believe, now, the one on the left would go on to lead Britain’s worst (or maybe best) spies. Still with fag in hand, mind you. I wonder if Gary Oldman smokes.
I still don’t understand why AI gives me such a visceral negative reaction.
The intellectual reasons for concern are well known.
But right now, I just wish apps would stop adding AI and trying to tell me it’s great. I’m looking at you Raycast, but you’re just the most recent culprit.
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I must say, I’d’ve been very disappointed if I hadn’t got this one, but I haven’t often got it in two.
I’ll allow I might have been overstating the case in last night’s slightly excited post about Doctor Who. After all, Russell’s current ‘incarnation’ includes ‘73 Yards’.
Still, ‘Lux’ was tons of fun.
I just watched the latest Doctor Who episode, ‘Lux’. It was gloriously meta. Who needs fourth walls? And with a love note to the fandom in the middle.
The best episode RTD has done, certainly in this incarnation. IMHO, obviously.
I should note it’s Petroc Trelawny’s last day on the BBC Radio 3 Breakfast show today. I’ll miss his dulcet tones, and especially his weird pronunciation of ‘Bach’.
Radio saying SpaceX’s latest launch will be the first to orbit over the north and south poles. That’s wrong, of course: there have been plenty of circumpolar satellites. I wonder if it’s the first human-occupied one to enter that orbit; or just the first commercial one to do so.
I tried the ‘Hey Siri, what month is it?’ question, since people have being saying it can’t answer that.
It gave me to today’s date. Which seems fine. It’s more than I asked for, and includes the information I wanted, so…
When did the 20th of March become the first day of spring? I saw lots of mentions of it yesterday, and they’re even saying it on Radio 3 this morning.
Currently reading: Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose 📚
And on page 40, this quote:
Finally—and there is no way to convey this unless you read the sentence aloud or at least, as your first grade teacher cautioned you not to do, say it silently, word by word, in your mind
What are they teaching kids in American first grade? What does she mean, you were taught not to say it word by word in your mind? How do you read without doing that? Or at least learn to read?
This isn’t a story so much as a floating mass of jellyfish tendrils with which the viewer intermittently comes into contact. And the show’s premise is a joke that neither a Hollywood millionaire or a Silicon Valley behemoth have any right to make. It’s a long, long exercise in seeing how long your customers will tolerate being laughed at.
I don’t agree with the early part of this New Statesman article, but there are some good points in it, not unrelated to my post the other day.