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Update6 November 2026

Impeccable bad taste

Ben James on his balcony reading The Comfort Book, with a half-eaten pastry

Hey, reviews are coming soon. Music, film, books, restaurants and anything else I’ve heard, seen or eaten. Restaurants only get in if they’re good: what I enjoyed in my mouth, why the service was great and why you should go.

— B

Update5 November 2026

Reddit went mental for the Sky F1 rant

Reddit post in r/F1Discussions: 132 upvotes, 242 comments, 179K views

I stuck my Sky F1 rant on r/F1Discussions on race day. 179,000 views, 132 upvotes and 242 comments later, it’s my most-read thing ever. Over a quarter of them were American, which I didn’t see coming and impressive as they cannot read or write English, but at least they’re learning how to vote. Anyway, turns out I’m not the only one shouting at the telly.

The mods have even said I can post links to the blog now, so I can annoy even more people.

— B

Update3 November 2026

Not another fucking podcast?!

Podcast microphone

Photo by dlxmedia.hu on Unsplash

A new reader of the blog, or don’t wanna be reader, asked if there was an audio version for the blog that they could just play [Talk about lazy, I try to keep the reads to 5mins] There isn’t, yet. It got me thinking I could, alongside, record some of these blog musings that I then embed exactly for that purpose. Fuck it, why not. It got me thinking of other things I could record, just for shits and giggles. Hopefully giggles.

It’ll be a simple thing format-wise, just need to go figure out how Apple and the antichrist Spotify go about it. Then I’ll embed them at the bottom of each article so that at least the lazy must scroll to the bottom.

— B

Update1 November 2026

Welcome to the News Feed

Fake News

Some of the things I want to share aren’t necessarily blogworthy, or rather, bother worthy. I want to stick to just notifying you once a week of the blog. So, I am going to silently post reviews and news and just include it in the Sunday email. If you’re new here, poke your nose about, and if you’re old here, keep sniffing.

Welcome to the News feed, I hope you enjoy it and thanks for reading.

— B

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