Week 296: perk

Robert Popper’s promotion of his new book led me to have a nice listen to The Timewaster Diaries (since the earlier Letters wasn’t in the catalogue of my chosen audiobook provider). The diaries are sweet and Paul Whitehouse does a good job of reading them aloud. It’s an unrelated coincidence that, this week more than ever, the only things I can think of to write about here feel particularly boring and pointless.

Started paying for a bank account, because of the “free” “perks” – a monthly cinema ticket, a Railcard, an interest rate, and go on then a weekly Greggs item from a limited selection. The other thing is they send you a subtly fancier-looking new debit card with a new number, a mild inconvenience I’d’ve preferred not to endure, but I could have simply not activated the new card and kept using the old one.

Perhaps I will walk to a different Greggs each week, yes, that would be a nice little project to add some meaning to my humdrum life.

Previously:

Had tofu two nights on the trot. Not quite explicably this led me to seek out the Brass Eye–esque title sequence of the Piers Morgan programme, as I recall phrases like “woke insanity” appear in large geometric sans serif lit up by lasers, but pfft/I couldn’t find it.

Reader, I found the title sequence, with its giant brain spinning around a globe among laser beams, and can recommend Gifski as a most excellent app for making animated short GIFs from longer videos. Yes I know that GIF is an imperfect format. Here are “the world’s gone nuts”, “woke insanity” (perhaps that could do with being shorter), etc., to use as one sees fit. But it’s hard to be unserious/ironic on the internet without being mistaken for being serious/unironic.