Clever and lazy—or inspired?

Credit: Amy Tran on Unsplash (cropped).

When you’re loafing around with your hands in your pockets, whistling, are you really working at optimum efficiency?

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Paul Fishman (Skelsmergh, January 2025)

Laura Palmer is dead, long live Laura Palmer

Laura Palmer - arms bending back

I watched the first series of Twin Peaks as a raw undergraduate at Manchester University, only a few months out of school. It was the only television I would actively stay in to watch, and it was the same for my Norwegian flatmate, who would sit fixedly for the 50 minutes in a state of quasi-religious ecstasy, reacting violently to any interruption. The what-happens-next excitement may no longer be there, but I love it no less nearly 25 years later, and I know I’m not alone. Continue reading