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The End of the Tyranny of Choice I have previously written about the difficulty presented in making a choice from the vast sea of options we find in front of us these days. I have exhorted you to embrace the chaos and lean into the confusion, to learn and rejoice in learning and perform yourContinue reading “Death to Tyrants”

A Tract (self published, in E-form) By Chudley Smythington-Smith-Smythe-Smith The very worst crime imaginable happened tonight. Come with me on wings of fancy and picture this, dear reader: It’s Tuesday Night, and you’ve been out for a lovely evening somewhere, a trivia night or several cleansing ales with choice friends, perhaps a pub night orContinue reading “On a Relatable Problem for a Man of the People: How to Alienate Everyone You Know – Particularly Those of a Parental Disposition: A Tract (self published, in E-form) By Chudley Smythington-Smith-Smythe-Smith, Baronet”

In conversation with my partner the other day, she asked me the simple question ‘what is your favourite chocolate bar?” I think I surprised both of us by not really having an answer. Well, not having a satisfying answer – my response was “I usually just get whatever’s on special.” It was true when IContinue reading “Opportunism vs Selectivism”

                The first time I truly saw the difference that glassware can make to the flavour of a beer was a little over ten years ago. I was living with a friend of mine and, at the end of a long bottling day, I had come home with a couple of staffies* of a pepperberryContinue reading “Glass Class”

Babu Ji Lager Cavalier Brewing A unique opportunity to experiment with beer tasting presented itself the other week: tasting it while robbed of that particular sense by Covid. There’s a great deal of complexity around what actually constitutes the sense of taste – it’s not just a catalogue of mentally registered flavours, a cerebral RolodexContinue reading “Flying Blind”

or: Self-Reflexive Hollywood Bullshit Here’s a question for you: why do you do the things that you do? And I’m not going to try to delve into the evolutionary biological roots of that. In one sense, there are answers to that question that are stultifyingly complex and yet also, ultimately useless. But when we haveContinue reading “Why We Do What We Do”

I woke up this morning with a sore throat. I thought nothing of it. Perhaps it was too cold last night and the soft membranes of my sinuses dried out and became infected. It’s happened before.                 I rolled over and willed myself back to sleep. But it hurt more than it should have. ItContinue reading “Covid Diaries”

This blog is written in front of a live studio audience I have been thinking recently about places, both primary and liminal, and their importance in our lives. This sort of thing is old hat to some – from what I understand, it’s all that architects talk about when they get together for a fewContinue reading “Where Everybody Knows Your name”

On Ignorance, or Apathy There is a bit of sophistry that goes something like this – humans typically have two arms. However, given such things as birth anomalies, amputations, accidents etc a lot of people have only one, or even no arms at all. Therefore, the average number of arms on any human you meetContinue reading “I don’t know and I don’t care”

Script Submitted to the Twilight Zone Radio Dramas, written by Rod Serling, adapted from an original blog post titled… Primal Stream Wild Ale Blended NEIPA Garage Project Ext. An outdoor table on a balcony, day Introduction plays. NARRATOR You open this can with a ring-pull of imagination. Inside it is another dimension – a dimensionContinue reading ““Forbidden Fruit… Juice””