SIX ACCIDENTAL MOMENTS ON GREAT RECORDS / OH COMELY 10/08/201707/01/2022Jason Ward The crucial difference between songs and records is that a song is an idea and a record is a thing. The clue’s in
SIX PETS WITH CONSTITUTIONAL POWER / OH COMELY 21/06/201725/09/2017Jason Ward The relentless electioneering of recent years has been exhausting and demoralising, but politics isn’t wholly bleak: it will always be funny, at least,
THE END OF ENDINGS / OH COMELY 21/06/201722/09/2017Jason Ward I was 27 when I first learned that The Beatles is a pun. Even though I’ve known how to spell “beetle” for some
HOW TO GET KICKED OUT OF A MUSEUM / OH COMELY 21/06/201722/09/2017Jason Ward My lack of a criminal past owes more to cowardice than an abundance of virtue. I’ve always been uncomfortable with the prospect of
SIX UNLIKELY UPRISINGS / OH COMELY 13/04/201722/09/2017Jason Ward It’s possible to wake up one day and completely change the world. Yes! We have it within us to see something amiss in
INFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS #5: PINING FOR THE FJORDS / OH COMELY 12/04/201719/09/2019Jason Ward You die on a Tuesday, which surprises you for several reasons. Over the years before that fateful weekday you had generally avoided contemplating
SURPRISINGLY STRONG THINGS / OH COMELY 06/04/201722/09/2017Jason Ward The reed bends with the wind, so says the parable, while the oak tree breaks in the storm. This is a lesson about
SIX RETURNS FROM THE DEAD / OH COMELY 08/12/201619/09/2019Jason Ward The end of the line. The final stop. This bus terminates here. There is a place where each of us is heading, a
A PHONE RINGS IN THE UNIVERSE / OH COMELY 13/10/201619/09/2019Jason Ward I was sitting in a Pizza Hut in the past, waiting to be disappointed. The conversation turned – as conversation inevitably does when
AUTOMATON AND ON / OH COMELY 13/10/201619/09/2019Jason Ward Our generation has been robbed. Technology trends towards the bland, as the curved electronic rectangles in our homes will attest. Before the height
