a reverse-chronological list of things I’ve posted today to lloyddavis.micro.blog – replies aren’t included
19:16 – : Saw the Bob Dylan movie. This may already be obvious to you, but I’d still rather be Pete Seeger.
10:33 – : “Never mind, change the subject, are you watching Martin Clunes?”
This is an experiment in trying to pull together all the things that end up in all the places.
You might remember a little piece I shared a few weeks ago about the idea of Black Elephants. Well, part of my re-ignited interest was in watching how some folk had taken the idea and the name and made a thing out of it. And now I’m going to work for them! First off, I…
Yesterday at Tuttle (in the Barbican) David and I had a conversation, which I then carried on with Tony about the similarities between the growth dynamics in co-working spaces and gentrification in urban environments (first the penniless artists move in because it’s the only place they can afford, they make the area attractive and then…
Pinch, punch, first of the month (no returns!) I picked this up when I went to see the memorial to Nick at St Bride’s a couple of months ago. It has sat on my desk since then and this morning I thought I ought to at least try reading it properly. I’m not going to…
In the day or so since I posted about the “airbnb for brains” I’ve had lots of interesting reactions. A couple have been like the comment Patrick posted there which boils down to: “my initial reaction was yeah, there’s something in that, but I don’t want to be part of something exploitative” – and this reflects the…
I went down to Weymouth for a couple of days this week to see my mum. On Tuesday we drove over to Lulworth Cove for a coffee, picnic lunch on the beach and an ice cream. The first time (maybe) we went there was Easter 1973. It was quieter than Autumn half-term 2025, the parking…
It’s blogiversary time again. It’s now twelve years since I started writing here. Back in 2004 it seemed really important to have my own place to write. That was because the whole idea of writing on the internet or through the internet was still quite new to me. I’d been corporatized for quite a while…