And so ends 2023. My week of Monday 25 to Sunday 31 December 2023 was quiet enough. I produced a podcast and pondered the future, but that’s about it. I’ll reflect more upon 2023 during the coming week. Promise.
That said, on New Year’s Eve Snarky Platypus and I brainstormed a bingo card for 2024, which will have been posted on Monday.
Podcasts
- The 9pm Henry Kissinger Hamageddon with Snarky Platypus, recorded on Tuesday and posted on Saturday.
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As an aside, The 9pm Edict came in at number 95 in the Great Australian Pods podcast directory’s 100 most popular podcasts for 2023. This is a measure of how many people clicked on the link to read the directory entry, not how many people listened to the podcast, nor how many people then listened again. Still, it’s something.
Videos
- In case you missed it, you can watch the replay of The 8pm Quiz of the Year 2023 Part 2. It won’t be the same without the live interaction with other players, but it will probably still be fun.
Articles, Media Appearances, Photos, Corporate Largesse
None of these. You can subscribe to my YouTube channel to be notified when new videos appear and when livestreams are scheduled. I plan to catch up on posting photos and videos over summer.
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Recommendations
This may or may not be the last time I feature Elon Musk in this section. I’ve been doing a weekly update for my own interest, so it’s almost no extra work to copy-paste a few lines. But it does kinda make me look obsessed. Anyway, here’s a few links to wrap the year.
- Elon Musk robot attacks worker in Tesla factory, allegedly. “A Tesla engineer was ambushed by a robot at the company’s Texas factory as revelations mount up about the company’s record.”
- The 7 most expensive things Elon Musk owns is mind-blowing.
- From the Guardian, ‘Drama magnet’: Elon Musk’s biggest headlines of 2023.
- From The Atlantic, X Is Elon Musk’s Lonely Party Now.
- And from Axios, The Elon Musk industrial complex.
In other news:
- I have only just discovered Joe Lycett’s brief UK Channel 4 TV series Late Night Lycett from earlier this year. Fortunately there’s a YouTube playlist.
- Someone has also posted a really good dub of the Pink Floyd concert film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972). I saw this back in the day, at the very end of the 1970s, but hadn’t noticed, as the Wikipedia article explains, that it was shot over four days. Maybe it was all the hashish we were smoking.
- This video was the inspiration for Beastie Boys’ Gratitude.
- Finally, if you don’t like Jimmy Carr or British TV quiz shows, don’t watch The Big Fat Quiz of the year 2023.
The Week Ahead
Monday is New Year’s Day. And then it all starts happening again. The only thing locked in is a day trip to Blacktown in Sydney for social things, although I do intend to clock up some billable hours for one of my clients.
Further Ahead
I’m toying with organising a couple of episodes of The 8pm Quiz but we’ll see. Other than that…
- Lunar Comedy Gala 2024, Chatswood NSW, 17 February 2024.
- Aaron Chen’s Funny Garden, Sydney, 27 April 2024. He’s so mainstream now he’s doing four nights at the State Theatre. Good for him.
- He Huang Tiger Daughter versus the World, Chatswood NSW, 5 May 2024.
- Nina Oyama is Coming, Marrickville NSW, 12 May 2024.
[Photo: Two juvenile Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen) sitting on a tree stump at Bunjaree Cottages, photographed on 20 September 2023.]