#explanationsforabsence

Yes: I made a couple of posts here last year, 2023, didn´t I? One on the interminably boring celebrity sex scandals in the UK, and one on the much more savoury topic of a fish curry, recipe given in a book by Greg Palast! Which I still very much recommend.. 🙂

Yeah. The trouble with blogging for me, is that for the past decade or so, my access to the internet (including local 4G mobile services, which I was for quite a while reliant on) was decidedly patchy. 😏

I wanted to do a lot more blogging during the pandemic years, when I would definitely have had the time: only found out that the mobile internet service deteriorated even more during that time! 🙄

I only got a home broadband service, really by the start of last year. But by then I had got out of the blogging habit... I even got out of the Twitter habit, once my mobile failed, just before last Xmas, and I couldn´t get another one until past New Year.

And I am afraid that the political situation this year in the UK certainly did not encourage me to start on Twitter or ¨X" again. I make a few occasional posts or likes there. Even though my negect probably lost me a few online relationships. For what they´re worth. 😏 The only thing I´ve really been keeping up with for the whole year has been Youtube.

I may join Bluesky in the New Year of 2025, now that Elon has gone off the deep end, and a couple of his competing sites have ¨blown up¨. We´ll see.

But I´ve realised that I´ve built up a whole selection of ¨web essays" and other thoughts, really since Covid started in 2020. They´re all on my Keep notes, and haven´t found a home yet! So I think I will find them one on here...

Plus I´ve been catching up on things I hadn´t had a chance to watch before, on streaming services. For instance, I have very recently been watching the 2023 superhero satire, The Boys, on Amazon Prime. (I must say, it´s a lot better than Alan Moore´s Watchmen!) I should like to write a public review of it, once I reach the end of the seasons.

And I´ve also written a couple of, more musings than reviews, on the latest Joker movie, Folie à Deux. I didn´t go to see that at the cinema, as I didn´t think it was worth it. But I definitely kept up with all the reviews of it, particularly those in the UK broadsheet newspapers...

When I have seen it, I will finally write a review specifically of the movie. But before then, I will put up my musings thereon, which I think are rather more interesting, certainly to me (And other Neopagans like me, I hope): because not only do they cover the reasons I think that the latest Todd Phillips offering was a flop; they cover much deeper themes that I find far more compelling: such as those of archetypes, of myths and of fairytales. And of Tricksters.. 🙂