Another great episode my friend. Of course, Maynard's whole schtick about flushing away LA is taken from a Bill Hicks routine. "Leaving nothing but a cool, beautiful serenity called... Arizona Bay."

I mean obviously Mary Shelley didn't say this.

I can talk for hours about Finnegans Wake and yet I still have no idea what Tron was about more than 40 years after I first saw it.

I always count it as a 70s album, just like Queen's The Game. My 2nd favourite Bowie album, after Station to Station.

*judgement

It's literally the last 5mins people disklike and that colours their jdgement. Voyager has very few truly terrible episodes, compared to TNG and DS9.

New Reading the World blogpost - Sweden, Strindberg, two authors called, Lindqvist, colonialism, vampires, James Joyce, Opeth, Bergman, and much more, it's got it all:

worldthereading.blogspot.com/2025/10/swed...

AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers - an excellent collection of short stories by the likes of Nnedi Okorafor. I just discovered there are two sequels that I need to read.

My decision to stop using Google six months ago seems more and more justified. Trying to research anything while I was writing became infuriating.

Japanese film based on a Haruki Murakami short story (actually elements of 3 stories). The central plot is about a director doing a production of Uncle Vanya with a multilingual cast. A long film, but brilliant. Won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2022. Chekhov and The Beatles. What's not to like?

It feels like YouTube is 10 years behind the curve of other socal media. I would like to be able to mute certain words and watch premieres from the beginning without having to start haflway through and rewind back to the beginning.

New Reading the World blogpost - Uzbekistan, Hamid Ismailov and the Soviet Era:
#readingtheworld

worldthereading.blogspot.com/2025/09/uzbe...

Deth