Highlights

Below is a collection of some favoured blog posts, written over the last decade-plus.

Art

Michael Cina 2015-04-04
Missed Connection 2014-11-08
syn_ @ Southbank 2013-12-19
Liminal Squared @ White Cube 2013-06-23
Minimalism is Simple 2013-01-21
Exposed @ Tate Modern 2010-08-08

Books

Speed Reading Isn’t Reading 2023-06-20
Tim Maughan — Infinite Detail (2019) 2023-01-16
The 2021 Booker Prize 2021-11-03
Jenny Offill – Weather (2020) 2020-05-10
‘A Feminist Critique of Murakami’ 2020-04-12
Doctor(s) Sleep 2020-03-31
Isola 2018-09-02
A Simple Sentence 2016-04-01
Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me (2016) 2016-01-18
Dorthe Nors – Minna Needs Rehearsal Space (2013) 2015-03-30
In Praise of the Running Novelist 2015-01-17
Donna Tartt – The Goldfinch (2013) 2014-07-31
Samuel Beckett – Echo’s Bones (1934) 2014-04-13
Happy Birthday DFW 2014-04-21
Literary Monogamy 2013-12-23
Donkey Wayside Mortuary – An Interview with Ofelia Hunt 2011-08-16
Tao Lin – Richard Yates (2010) 2010-09-05
Bret Easton Ellis – Less Than Zero (1985) 2010-06-15

→ An index for the annual summer read-along can be found here

Games

Idea for a Video Game Puzzle 2022-04-21
Difficulty in Games 2022-03-17
Twelve Minutes 2021-08-22
The Last of Us Pt II 2020-06-23
Everybody Runs 2014-09-14
In Response to Nicholson Baker on Video Games 2010-08-15

Misc.

Black Lives Matter 2020-06-04
68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice 2020-05-29
Quiz Time 2020-05-07
Who Goes Nazi? 2017-06-06
What Does Mindful Mean? 2012-03-08

Movies

Titane dir. Julia Ducournau (2021) 2022-03-18
20 Favourite Films 2020-06-20
Birdman & Enemy 2015-01-08
Episode VII Trailer Analysis 2014-11-30
Boyhood dir. Richard Linklater (2014) 2014-08-10
Marvel Fragmentation 2014-05-31
Everybody Street dir. Cheryl Dunn (2013) 2014-04-12
Berberian Sound Studio dir. Peter Strickland (2012) 2013-11-03
Böikzmöind dir. Gavin Strange (2011) 2013-07-10
Before Midnight dir. Richard Linklater (2013) 2013-06-30
Jiro Dreams of Sushi dir. David Gelb (2011) 2013-04-01
Skyfall dir. Sam Mendes (2012) 2012-11-11
David Lynch In Dreams 2012-02-12
Black Swan dir. Darren Aronofsky (2010) 2011-01-22
Tron: Legacy dir. Joseph Kosinski (2010) 2010-12-19
The Bechdel Test 2010-11-02
Happy Birthday Gus Van Sant 2010-07-24
Antichrist dir. Lars von Trier (2009) 2010-04-10
The Road dir. John Hillcoat (2009) 2010-01-19

Music

Jockstrap @ The Bullingdon 2023-02-13
Ambiences 2020-08-16
Teenage Mixtape 2020-06-22
…Will Understand 2015-01-18
Aphex Interview 2014-09-27
Adam Yauch 1964-2012 2012-05-06
Happy Birthday Nevermind 2011-09-24
The White Stripes (1997-2011) 2011-02-02
Two Bands, Both Alike in Dignity 2010-07-31
The Necks @ The Barbican 2010-06-27

→ An index for the end-of-year album lists can be found here

Personal

My Academic Career in 6 Documents 2023-02-06
Momento Mori 2022-03-23
Pembrokeshire 2021-09-29
Float 2018-09-26
Caffeine Withdrawal 2014-03-08
New York, New York 2013-12-13
Mastered 2012-10-22

Sport

Rizzo v Freeman 2021-04-29
Marathon Cycle 2020-04-26
Marathon 2015-04-27
T-minus 4 Weeks 2015-03-28
Going (Half) The Distance 2015-03-15
200 Days and Counting 2014-10-13
The Push to 300 2012-12-01

Tech

Two-way Mirrors at the Mall 2023-07-07
On c. 20 Years of Writing on the Web 2021-04-16
Mac Maintenance 2020-04-01
Public Metrics on Social Networks 2018-10-07
Apple Data 2018-06-02
Moderation 2017-06-06
As Apple Enters Streaming 2015-06-06
Instapaper v Pocket 2014-06-30
The FuelBand is Dead; Long Live the FuelBand 2014-04-19
A Lament for Unreleased Apps 2014-01-19
RSS Readers 2013-06-30
The Social Web Got Weird 2012-12-27
Macless 2012-10-18
The Ebbs and Flows of PlayStation Design 2010-09-21
The Breaking Down of the Desktop Analogy 2010-07-31

Theatre

On Performance 2014-09-29
Incognito (2014) 2014-05-16
The Drowned Man (2013) 2014-02-02