Update Dec 2022: the newsletter service I use is shutting down, so I’m taking a break from sending. I’ve temporarily transferred everything to a Substack account so that it is still visible, and you can subscribe here.
I write Etcetera, a newsletter full of in-depth articles, videos and podcasts on a range of interesting topics.
Each issue contains a dozen or more links along with related reading from my bookmark archive to give extra depth or context. Current and perennial interests include:
- cities, planning & architecture
- environmentalism (recently rewilding)
- film, tv & music
- food and its production
- language & etymology
- nostalgia & generations
- representation & authenticity
- science & technology
- video games
Links are usually at the intersection of two or more of these. To see examples, you can read previous issues at the bottom of this page.
It’s free, you can unsubscribe at any time, and I won’t use your email address for anything else.
Previous Issues
2022
- Issue #50: Ellipses, Burning CDs, 90s Music
- Issue #49: Floppies, Curators, Puppets
- Issue #48: Mushrooms, Small Hours, Hoarding
- Issue #47: Opening Lines, Superbad, Huitlacoche
- Issue #46: Tomatoes, QR Codes, Hedges
- Issue #45: Vegetables, Flowers In The Dirt, Axolotls
- Issue #44: Screen Readers, Vikings, Peafowl
- Issue #43: Nominative Determinism, Florida, Satire
- Issue #42: Tunnels, Animals, Plants
- Issue #41: Logging, Squid, White House
- Issue #40: Licence Fees, Pandemic Drinking, Permalancers
- Issue #39: Horror, Berries, Jangle
- Issue #38: Goose, Genre, Hotdogs
- Issue #37: Phreakers, Hats, Scrabble
- Issue #36: Picross, Villain HQs, Instrument Architecture
- Issue #35: Towns, Nez, Zombie Science
- Issue #34: Quetzalcoatlus, Parentheses, Queerness
2021
- Issue #33: Bad Meals, Wild Things, Murderous Socialites
- Issue #32: Báhn Mì, Insignificance, R.E.M.
- Issue #31: Macaques, Records, Dad Thrillers
- Issue #30: Subtitles, Spotify, Gendered Language
- Issue #29: Aline, Invasions, Savile
- Issue #28: Rescoring, Street Views, Donnie Darko
- Issue #27: Kurt, Underground London, Teletext
- Issue #26: Commuting, Nazis, The Strokes
- Issue #25: Curious Birds, Robot Chefs, Viruses
- Issue #24: Roman Humour, Milk, Harps
- Issue #23: Birmingham Rollers, Steve Martin Short, Deadheads
- Issue #22: Rankings, Expertise, Crosswords
- Issue #21: Comments, Phrenology, Solutionism
- Issue #20: Belinda Carlisle, Blind Gaming, Lego
- Issue #19: Joni, Architecture, Coupland
- Issue #18: Tacos, PDFs, Replica Kits
- Issue #17: Content, Recommendations, Greebles
- Issue #16: Criticism, Asterisks, Brassicas
- Issue #15: Anthropocene, Bananas, Booze
- Issue #14: Blades, Blues, Blues
- Issue #13: Beef, Signs, Terminators
- Issue #12: Redemption, Mermaids, Pleasurable Sadness
- Issue #11: Empire, Taxonomy, Pocahontas
- Issue #10: Pizza, Muons, Stop-Motion
- Issue #9: The Keynes, Rewilding, Horological Craftmanship
- Issue #8: Trees, Pasta, Death
- Issue #7: Coinage, Dundee United, Prince
- Issue #6: NFTs, subscriptions, sign language
- Issue #5: Tattoos, heroin, Facebook
- Issue #4: Generalists, nostalgia, the IndieWeb
- Issue #3: Mental health & representation in video games
- Issue #2: [brackets] and _italics_
- Issue #1: Birdwatch, crosswords, counterculture