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Got my True-Crime Freak-on for 2019

9/1/2019

 
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The trains from Cardiff to Manchester are crude utilitarian cattle-boxes. There’s two toilets, both generously awash with commuter-wazz. There are still those little cards atop each seat to indicate reservation – the kind last seen inside seventies library books. There are no charge-points, so my carriage is full of dudes in latte-coloured chinos swearing as their laptop batteries expire. We’re moving so slowly that when we briefly travel alongside a motorway, heavy goods vehicles overtake us.

I reckon the UK’s much-discussed productivity conundrum is largely down to the fact that for a quarter of a working day the entire country is trapped in airless work-free zones, phone-calls abandoned, emails and uploads deffed off. I’m writing this with a slim fraction of laptop energy left and listening to music on a phone in low power mode. Plus it’s night so the carriage windows are cruelly illuminated matt-sheen obsidian mirrors. I’m forced to regularly consider my reflection; unpleasant since I look like a homeless alcoholic.

Anyway, happy new year!
  • I’m watching Simon Donald’s Fortitude Season One and having a fine time with it.
  • I’ve been reading Stephen King's Desperation and Matt Wesolowski’s Six Stories. The latter not to be confused with that event space in Soho; instead think clever thriller of perception, memory and recorded voices.
  • I’ve been re-reading Rupert Thomson’s The Insult and listening to drum and bass.
  • Pods: Bear Brook – wonderful dark and frightening stuff – and Monster, The Zodiac Killer. Got my true-crime freak-on for 2019.
  • Out of step as ever, I’ve just motored through a Game of Thrones graphic novel. Heads-up – it’s pretty good.

As I type the train is pulling into a town that looks like a Brexit-nest of Range Rovers and racists. The chaps in chinos and preparing to alight; no doubt fleeing for the warmth and liberally-available electricity of their suburban homes.

Three hours without a plug. It’s enough to drive a guy to drink. 

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