Turns out going to the pub to watch jazz and get drunk with your partner is a very nice way to spend Sunday afternoon

Finished reading: Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore 📚 The chapters on his death and the subsequent manoeuvring, with some of the players and their relatives hanging on into the Gorbachev era are actually the best bits. Makes me want to rewatch Ianucci’s Death of Stalin.

The Paramount version of Le Bureau (The Agency) doesnt have the panache and elan and sheer … Frenchness …of the original.

Currently reading: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 📚 Wish me luck. It’s a long climb.

A lot of Canada so far has been white snowy parking lots at night hard cut with near-empty zombie mall stores.

Currently reading: Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore 📚 There’s a lot of juicy gossip in here, but you have to wade through a lot of tedium too.