Velcro City Tourist Board

Category: Politics

  • generational hangover

    There are also moments when a widely-shared world ends not with a neat denouement, but rather with a slurry of lazy tropes and cliches.

  • and they burn so bright, while you can only wonder why

    Like the faerie folk, once you’ve learned to see them, you always will—and also like the faerie folk, they can see that you can see them, and that marks you out for whatever blessings or curses they may choose to bestow upon you.

  • vibeshifty: on Adam Curtis

    It’s as if he has elected to haunt his own work, which—for someone who is very much a part of the extended Fisherverse—is a curious choice, almost a voluntary diminishment.

  • directions for the limo driver

    From a longer-term perspective, that even the unhinged instinctive autocrat currently at the helm of the world’s largest economic egregore can be persuaded to blink when confronted with the full stare of the basilisk deity that we have dubbed “the markets” cannot be read as anything other than bad news.

  • two verbs in one

    The verb in question is “to speculate”