Thomas Rigby
Thomas Rigby
Thomas Rigby
A Gen-X/Millennial cusp (Xennial), I'm old enough to remember life before the internet but not (quite) old enough to have seen Nirvana live. Or, as my wife puts it, I adapt to technology like a Millennial but get angry about it like a Boomer.
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Welsh metalheads Dream State dropped a new single of sparkling synths cut through with dirty guitar and Jessie's voice builds from naive cut glass to the shrieking of avenging angels — "Forever in View". From the warping bass opening...
31st August - 6th September There's a cardboard box full of apples by the side of the road with a crudely hand-lettered sign that makes a Mickey of design. It reads "Free Apples" — a gift from a neighbour to the neighbourhood. I briefly...
Happy September! Here are a few photos from my phone from the last month with neither rhyme nor reason to the theme. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.
24th August - 30th August The combination of a giant honey-coloured moon and distant light pollution reflecting off the sparse cloud cover means, even without streetlights, it's just about light enough to walk at night without a torch....
Air France Flight 006 lands in America in March. The exact same plane lands again in June — same pilot, same crew, same passengers. The military calls in a bunch of scientists to try and figure out what is going on. Given the time...
17th August - 23rd August Back home visiting family and stopped in for a pub lunch at a random pub that turned out to be the one I'd go drinking in at college about 30 years ago. Which was a bit odd! Spent the rest of the time eating...
Thanks to Ruben for surfacing this lovely post, and for his own thoughtful addition. Sylvia's journey from church upbringing to "nature as spirituality" mirrors my own path somewhat. Church I think I've always been an atheist; I never...
10th August - 16th August Along with basically everyone, I watched the eclipse using the traditional "colander and a sheet of paper" method. I took a few horrific snaps with one of my cameras but, without a solar filter, they were...
Usually, historically, The Five is never ranked: it's just five things in the order I think of them. But this one definitely is ranked. Maybe I need a new posty type… Here are my top 5 Irish teas and I will not be taking questions....
Luring me in with a kooky redhead in a bookshop is, once again, a sneaky lawyer's trick that I'm ashamed to say worked again! Shame on me, etc. Magic is real, there are objects imbued with magic that allow the holder to conjure the...
3rd August - 9th August #SilentSunday Car boot sales are so full of broken dreams; musical instruments, skateboards, home fitness equipment. They are also a monument to maturity; books read, films and games completed, toys and clothes...
I have a small bugbear: the trope that old people aren't tech savvy. A guy at work brought it up this week — a joke about how if you want to do some exploratory testing, just give the app to his mum and she'll find a way to break it....
Andreas tells a story of seeing an image of cats on social media with several many comments decrying it for being "AI generated". Do we now have the obligation to check each and every picture, video, quote, text, post, etc. that we come...
27th July - 2nd August The morning is crisp and clear enough to hear the plaintive bleating of sheep from over the fields. Sheep always sound alarmed like everything is distressing them. Same, sheep. Same. I am trialling folding my...
Happy August! Here are a few photos from my phone from the last month with neither rhyme nor reason to the theme. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.