Last week, on this bat-channel...

Last week, during 'We Have Concerns', I wrote about the reports we had been getting of planned changes to our little village library, which we run as volunteers and as a community project under the country library service. A lot of the report was exaggerated, but we are going to be refurbished, and our stock of paper books essentially reduced without our agreement, which seems somehow wrong. You wouldn't expect local government to be so tyrannical but it is, despite new book budgets being stated to be higher than they have been for ages. The problem is that they seem committed only to buying in new books, slashing the stocks they already have, and centralising all policy, all of which seems strange. You would hope that there is some contingency in there for the classics, but hoping things when bureaucracy and politics is involved is rarely wise. We will have to wait and see...

Look, up in the sky, is it a backwards upside down flying pig called Horatio? Is it the world of wonder turning and turning as the fate of Film Bin flutters in and out of phase with reality? Is the Quirky Muffin flitting further into the realms of fantasy with every passing day, or will the beneficial powers of the recent haircut push everything back into equilibrium? And what does it mean to be deeply buried under chores so much that being unemployed becomes meaningless?

Oh, Film Bin, the podcast of uncertain fate... It's very difficult to bring so many disparate people together and produce fan commentaries for so long. With all the good will in the world, if your collaborators don't like 'Ball of Fire', then maybe they should be shown the podcast door to the cyber-Underworld, whether they're family or not. Ditto for 'Explorers'. Be gone, dislikers of Howard Hawks, there can be no refuge for you here! Oh, maybe it's not that bad, but good grief it is getting hard to find things we can all watch without ending up violently disagreeing or bashing someone else's choice. It was never supposed to be about bashing, but the reverse! We'll have to see how it goes, amidst the tortures of article editing, mathematics and fruitless searches of work.

Mathematics? Did you see the word 'mathematics'? It might be a harbinger of things to come, so be afraid. Very, very afraid. Mwahahahahahaha. Ha.

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