16. NICOSIA

Constantia Soteriou - Brandy Sour, 2022

15. MADRID

Javier Marias - The Infatuations (Los Enamoramientos), 2011

With a bit of mental effort you can keep alive the spirit of early filesharing, which is to say that you live concretely in your bookshop-record store milieu but you have an infinitely deep resource to follow up online if you want to. Bit weak to declare defeat to an optional Daily Mix playlist imo

...e come secondo il pollo per favore

Also to me but it is helpful to the brain to know the workings I feel. I just text my wife saying "going Kehoes"

Someone explained once that anyone below a certain age grew up sharing their location with their parents - essentially the reason they were given a phone at all - and that it's therefore not weird for them and they can even feel weird if nobody has access to their live location at a given time

If it has not originated in Indian courts, gone through centuries of refinement in Iran, disseminated through the Islamic world and arrived in Paris via al-Andalus, then it is not a legitimate Chess 2 and I will not be playing it.

As a terrace dweller I endorse it. Victorians had it right - live in the middle, bike to work, walk to the butcher, side passages for the super-rich.

Not to hand it to her, but it is fascinating to read someone set out an intellectual political question and then think it through. You got hints of it in Theresa May and her various concepts expressing a form of social thought but it feels a long way from that with the current crop.

Yeah she is Heightening The Contradiction intentionally I think. Depends whether by the time it comes to a decision it's Starmer/McSweeney, who will demonstrably be walked down a 'I expect the Met to uphold the law' path, or literally anyone else, who will just say no public interest in prosecution.

14. ATHENS

Christos Chomenidis - Niki (Νίκη), 2014

He also has a tail

Yeah I would have that view also - possibly common to all primary educated Irish. Maybe if a crustier more PIE language neighbour like Lithuanian or Greek won the global cultural victory these things would not even make sense, but we got the branch-hybrid obsessed with discrete words.

This is agam rather than orm but I have no doubt the many and complex uses of the orm form have also led to misty Facebook memes misrepresenting what it's up to

If a police officer pulls you over and says "An raibh tú ag ól a mhic" and you say "Ah bhí pionta nó dhó agam", you are not conveying the message "One or two pints were at me, in my vicinity, due to the transitory nature of property", you are conveying the message "I had one or two pints".