Timey-Wimey

 Judy just wrote a short play about 9/11. I was thinking about this and it hit me that in another nine months 9/11 will be distanced from us by 25 years- that is to say a whole quarter century. 

There was a conversation going on yesterday that I was hanging at the edge of. One guy was saying how the Millennium was ages ago but the 1970s were yesterday.

And then someone else, I think it was Ailz, said how people were increasingly using the phrase "the late nineteen hundreds" as if the days of our (comparative) youth were some remote historical era.

But then there are millions and millions of actual, fully responsible adults walking around for whom that's exactly what they are.

Finally Ailz capped things off by saying, "Do you realise that the baby who plays the sun in the Teletubbies is now a mother?" 

As The New Year Gets Underway

 I told myself I'd try and finish A La Recherche de Temps Perdus by the end of 2025. As it is I'm nearing the end of volume 2 with 5 more to go.....

I've thought of doing a retrospective of the past year, but I can never remember when things happened and can't be bothered to find out. I would have written that the most significant event of the year was the release of the podcast, The Telepathy Tapes- but I checked and found this actually happened in 2024.....

I have sometimes made New Year resolutions, but I never keep them so this year I shan't....

Two things I've had enough of and will do my best to avoid in future:

1. Political commentary/satire that is nothing but insults and name-calling. It's just so playground. 

2. Fictions that maintain the fallacy that problems can be solved by killing people