The taste of Brie... Seems to me, to be... Better by far than Camembert.

a piece of cheese on a cutting board with esquire written in red on the bottom

ALT: a piece of cheese on a cutting board with esquire written in red on the bottom

I read it. Boring...

I feel really down today. Heard this morning that a young man hanged himself from a tree just up the road yesterday evening.

Pfft. Compared to me, a dilettante.

The USA is plumbing new depths now.

I can only read nonfiction while I am writing.

#books I am so angry at this. I was looking for a new book on Amazon, The End Of The World and ... I forget, it's about deglobalisation. And the paperback was the same price, $38, as the hardback. And there were - get this - scores and scores of shitty 'low content' books hanging off it like leeches

The budgie is an incidental comic character. He torments the family dog and when two detectives visit the family, he perches on one of them and does a shit.

There's a budgie in the story, so I took a photo and reduced it to this 'essence of budgie' using filters.