I’ve pretty much done one of these round ups every year since the early 2010s. Last year I skipped it because the world was so awful. This year the world is even more awful but, fuck it, I’m going in. If someone had said back when I started these that this would be how things […]
For a number of years now I’ve been writing an end of the year round up of events – mainly as a way to get some frustration with the human race out of my system. Looking back at them they always start by expressing disbelief that the year was actually crazier than the year before.
For about the last 10 years I’ve been composing a short end of year piece on my reflections of the year. It’s a kind of way to deal with the absurdity of human existence. Each year I find myself thinking, “well that was a bit mad, surely next year can’t be THAT bonkers” and every
I’ve been ending every year recently with a satirical look back at the absurdities of modern life, but 2020 has presented me with something of a dilemma – where do I actually begin? There’s nothing humorous you can really say about the pandemic. Those people, like myself, who have lost friends or family know only
Every year fo the last few ears, I have written a little end of year review. Why? It’s not as if many people will read it. Perhaps it’s to try and make sense of the world for myself. This year however, no matter how hard I try, is the year in which (cue Trumpian all
Every year I scribble a few random thoughts on the events of the previous twelve months. I always try and dig deep into the pit of human absurdity in an effort to be amusing. Every year the dig becomes little easier. This year I feel like there’s no need to dig at all. Years from
If 2016 was the year in which it seemed like everyone half decent died then 2017 made it seem that they were simply getting out before the human race became too much of a disappointment. I keep expecting Terry Thomas to turn up as a kind of god-like figure, look down on us all and
As always, a few of my meandering, unsubstantiated, unresearched thoughts on the year. Nothing to take too seriously or get angry about, though given point four, someone probably will.2016 was the year the human race collectively threw its toys out of the pram. 1. ’Speaking your mind’ was a something that ranked high on the
“Just sayin’” became the new “I’m not racist but…” Isis merged with Boko Harem to become a kind of jihadist McBusted. ‘Gentrification’ became a big thing. If an area got a posh coffee shop people used to say it was ‘going up in the world’ and this was usually considered a good thing. Now it’s
Advertisers increasingly resorted to the gimmick of making the mundane epic with the use of an ‘ironic’ Hollywood voiceover. Bookings.Com. McDonald’s, Money Supermarket…. “Dave works in accounts, he’s just saved 15 pence on next month stationary order and he feels AWESOME.” Enough already. The European Space Agency landed a probe on a comet. Unfortunately news of what
