Passion - Matt Elton writes words.

"Passion. As you can see, I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a long time, which is the same thing. And you know what? In the whole silly business, the only thing that really matters is passion. It comes and goes. At first it comes to you free of charge, and you waste it. And then it becomes a thing to nurture."

— Tove Jansson, Travelling Light

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Clone of Al Capone

The week between Christmas and New Year—the floaty, formless week—has to be one of my favourite times of year. Nothing happens. I just walked, sunlit, from my parents' house around the tiny river that flows from there to the school I used to attend. People walked...

Simplicity

"It's too exciting and distracting online... There's always some button that wants you to click to cat porn. You try to read something, and it's flashing, it's telling you to go somewhere else." — Dave Eggers, in praise of print...

Boy Meets World

During the many, many hours that I spend on public transport, one of the ways that I pass the time (apart from wondering what the boy who never doesn't wear a hat's hair might be like) is over at the AV Club, the brilliant culture spin-off...

Supercollider

I didn't write about Radiohead's King of Limbs at the time of its release a couple of months ago, mainly because I didn't have much to add beyond what seemed to be the critical consensus of 'Nice, but nothing amazing'. I can't say that the album...

Colophon.

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