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The most messages I've ever had about a piece, by a distance. It's so beautiful how much people love cigarettes.
I wrote about the time I fucking blasted 100,000 cigarettes
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John Phipps
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John Phipps
@John__Phipps
Contributing writer at the Economist’s 1843 Magazine. "What I have written I have written." Words also @FT @NewYorker.
- In awe of how my wife will arrive in a new city and immediately seek out local ointments, textiles, a bolt of fine cloth etc. It's like travelling with a merchant from 16th century Antwerp
- He looks like a medieval panel of a saint holding the instrument of his martyrdom
- There’s nothing museums like more than having a BIG entrance that is CLEARLY THE ENTRANCE and which you absolutely cannot use to enter the museum any more
- Absolutely dead at the four dickheads in Brighton that had to stand inside a counterdemo for hours like the Nazi inbetweeners
- Strong olympics, strong nonsense trend, identifiable song of the summer... I'd argue this is the first coherent ‘year’ since Covid
- Interesting: a new and inexplicable folk belief appears to have emerged among Americans that being in Europe makes you somehow dehydrated
- This happened to a friend of mine called Fergus, whose flatmate spent months secretly photographing himself dressed up in Ferg’s clothes, sitting in his favoured positions, reading his favourite books etc. for a massive collage project called "Being Fergus"I’m glad I didn’t go to art school… I would hate to find out at the end of the year that someone’s thesis project was me
- It Happened To Me: I asked an old man for directions in the Irish countryside and he said 'well, I wouldn't start from here'
- You make the best of life in Britain. You go on a little weekend break, you sightsee in your own city, you even realise that hey, it’s got a lot going for it. And the hot second you get to Europe you realise you hail from a land God has abandoned
- Replying to @John__PhippsMe with all the stuff we bought on holiday
- Replying to @John__PhippsIt's genuinely impossible to tell what form of infrastructure or product—belief system perhaps?—is supposedly lacking in ‘Europe’ that means everyone is dehydrated here
- Replying to @John__Phipps‘Years’ are back. We’re having ‘years’ again.
