Velcro City Tourist Board

Author: PGR

  • det snöar i Malmö

  • [a] question of how forgetting is avoided

    Interesting aside here from Mark Carrigan, responding to (as he puts it) an “innocuous but in practice […] unsettling” observation in Nicholas Christakis’s Apollo’s Arrow, which is a (surely rather premature?) analysis of the impact of coronavirus(es) on the way we live. Christakis observes that Covid-19 has sparked an awareness of public health challenges in…

  • what will i do if i’m wrong

    OK, now sing it in demotic Scots… I’m finding it hard to explain / why I think that I’m right again… Damn, that album, though.

  • gastric culture / mundane noise horror

    There are lots of reminiscent reflections (and some predictable bafflement) in this MeFi FPP-thread responding to the recent un-deletion of the KLF’s back-catalogue, almost thirty years after the event… but this one was an interesting enough image that I wanted to clip it for posterity (if only my own): I sometimes wonder whether pop isn’t…

  • 02JAN21 / accessions

    Starting as I fully expect to carry on.