What I can’t afford to do — and I deeply hope you guys also won’t even attempt to do — is to live in a world of unlimited access (in- or outbound) that requires you to pretend anyone who happens to trip over your doormat should get precisely the same attention, respect, interest, and focus as Real People You Know. They come first. Scarcity. It’s a real thing.

Because that way lies utter madness and, frankly, it makes a charade of your actual life.

Interrupting your focus on your own work, family, and friends in order to harvest anonymous compliments or deflect anonymous dumbassery does a disservice to everyone involved and is, in my opinion, an utterly depressing and unscalable way to slouch through life.

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Cormac McCarthy is auctioning the Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter he has used for the past 50 years (and 5 million words).

Cormac McCarthy has written more than a dozen novels, several screenplays, two plays, two short stories, countless drafts, letters and more — and nearly every one of them was tapped out on a portable Olivetti manual typewriter he bought in a Knoxville, Tenn., pawnshop around 1963 for $50.

The way you do things always affects how the things themselves turnout.

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All roads lead to Vauxhall tonight for the Citinite X LuckyMe party at the Lightbox,

Time Out has described it as the one of the parties of the year, and with a line-up like this, they may well be on to something.

LIVE:
Dâm-Funk
Rustie
Jimmy Edgar
Gosub

DJ:
Hudson Mohawke
Kode9
Ikonika
Greena
Spencer
Citinite & LuckyMe DJs

I can’t freakin wait !!-we will be there in full fx-witnessing the futureshock firsthand.

See you there.

Elizabeth Kolbert’s amazing takedown of Superfreakonomics, for the New Yorker.

Truly career ending.

The first reviews are sounding really positive.

I can’t wait.

We’ve spruced up Firemusic a little to give it a bit more flexibity.

There are a whole load of exclusive mixes and tracks from Disco Jesus, Quaid, Ulysses82 and the rest of the firemusic family already on the site and some amazing original music and remixes in the pipeline.

Get involved.

Radiohead-still way ahead of the curve and finding ways to make it all seem new (again).

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“It was a strange night,” Trammell said. “It was crazy. What a night. Thirty years later, and we’re still laughing.”

NYT on the 30th anniversary of the Night Disco Went Up in Smoke.

Gotta love the 70’s-imagine trying to get health and safety approval to blow up a bin full of disco records in a stadium full of people these days.

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Terrifying and beautiful.

As anyone who knows me can testify, I’m not a mad follower of fashion, prefering in my advancing years the safe comforts of classic brands like Filson and Barbour, rich in heritage and function, and never fashionable enough to go too out of style (hopefully). That said, a recent Sunday afternoon visit to Folk’s shop on Lambs Conduit Street revealed a deeply latent shoe lust that took me completely by surprise.

Thankfully that lust has now been (mostly) sated, by my brand new grey colorway armstrongs, which apart from causing me to gaze lovingly downward with an accident-waiting-to-happen frequency, have brought me far too much joy for any man to be sensibly admitting in public.

You can check out the rest of the Folk SS09 preview here and thrifty lovers of beautiful footwear should probably avoid either of these links (Shofolk Men’s SS09 /Shofolk Women’s SS09).

My pair came as these amazing handmade minature replicas (to save on packing), which I love almost as much as the real ones, I’ll keep them within reach till Artie is old enough to be into Action Man-he’ll have the jazziest off duty action hero in the playgroup.