The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
Music was better back then.
There, I’ve said it.
I’ve officially passed the mark where I am old. Most of Radio 1 today is auto-tuned shit. I’ve been listening all day to music that was written and performed before I was born, and damn if it isn’t better than the dregs that are aired now.
I’ve been listening to the soundtrack to The Boat That Rocked
I’ve been in the UK for coming on 5 years now. Every year I’ve been here, it has snowed at some point. Every year, people lose their mofo’n mind and go totally batshit. People sleep in their cars and offices. Schools close down for weeks. People empty gas station tanks and Tesco shelves are barren.
Every damn year.
And you know what? People still don’t learn their lesson and prepare for it. Snow tires are unheard of, except in the far reaches of Scotland. Grit and salt are always in too short a supply, and there is no infrastructure to use it.