Reorganisation
Books: The Giggle
Films: Fallen Leaves, Fargo, Bottoms, The Silence of the Lambs
Plays: God of Carnage
Month: January 2024
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 04: (Re)Organisation
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 03: Chronic
Chronic pain
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Books: Wild Blue Yonder, The Writer’s Tale: The Final Chapter
TV: Doctor Who Series 1 -
Timewyrm: Revelation
The shadow of Alan Moore stretches long over this one. The specific antecedent is “The Anatomy Lesson” – we’ve got a gloomy atmosphere, an inactive hero, and revelations on his nature, structured as an inward journey. We also have epigraphs for each chapter, which, in this case, smack of Watchmen over Stephen King.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 02: Along We Rumble
I toyed with not writing this one at all – the back pain has returned, and I have to push through it and work, so spending time writing doesn’t feel like the best idea. But I decided I’d go back to writing on the phone in bed to give my back a rest, and honestly, this makes for a good distraction.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 01: Part 2 – Reviews for the Week
(This one’s coming to you late because someone – probably accidentally – reported my newsletter as malicious content or something, so I was locked out of sending new ones. Buttondown had to audit and then clear it. We’re back in business!)
As mentioned in Part 1, here’s my reviews for the week. If you prefer my personal rambles to these, you can just skip this one.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 01: Part 1 – Best of 2023
First newsletter of 2024! I’m back home in Pune, settling in. We got back home early on the 5th, which turned out to be Friday, so I don’t have to officially start the year till Monday.
Since I have that breathing space, I wanted to reflect on the coming year before it properly begins.
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Shower Thoughts: The Doctor Who Specials
So Russell T. Davies wrote three specials to essentially close out the 2005 Doctor Who series before moving on to the Disney+ co-production with a new Season 1, and it struck me that each of the three 60th anniversary specials, consciously or unconsciously, mirror the three eras of modern Doctor Who.
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