What a month. War. Migration. Nuclear threats. Global food crisis. The Conger ice shelf collapse. I dunno, it kind of reminds me of this novel I once read. All those people who said I take this stuff too seriously and shouldn’t be overly worried because technology will find a cure? Not hearing so much from them these days. The Change is here and it’s happening, yet just because we can still buy cinnamon buns from hipster bakeries and go to a Shein pop-up store to stock up on €3 T-shirts (seriously, fuck all of you people so hard), we think things are going to be okay. They’re not.
Reality Testing is currently at #2 for cyberpunk on Amazon in the UK. Not that I like having anything to do with Amazon, but that’s the game.
In news: I had a short story called “Gold Plates” published on the flash fiction blog On the Run. Reality Testing received a couple of lovely reviews from The Plain-Spoken Pen and the writer W. A. Stanley. Thank you to all.
Book of the month: No Country For Old Men. Yeah, what can I say? I like all the Cormac McCarthy I can get and even though this one fell short of All the Pretty Horses (and even felt a little juvenile at times), the dialogue wormed its way into my brain and made me speak in a southern US accent for a week.
Album of the month: Maybe Classic Objects by Jenny Hval? Or Crystal Nuns Cathedral by GBV. Neither are exactly lingering in the memory, to be honest.
Movie of the month: For this I will go for the 1955 musical satire It’s Always Fair Weather with Gene Kelly, if only for this scene, which is weird and wonderful and lightning fast. It makes La La Land look like Coma Town.
