Fishwick Papers: The "Anything for You Beyoncé" Edition

Good evening paperites!Welcome to February. This week marks three months since I moved to Melbourne, and I'm really settling in. We've got the bones of an exhibition, I've learned so much about film and story, I've found improv friends, and Kirsty and I have a nice home to live in. It's really nice here.This edition is a little late, sorry - we had an important excursion to drop our coffee machine off at the coffee machine hospital. Nonetheless, enjoy these links, this week has some real good ones:

Weird Men

• The guy who played Barney the Dinosaur now runs a tantric sex business

• Rushad Eggleston plays cello, sings, really loves tofu

• Do David Walliams' books pass the smell test?

What Does it Feel Like to Game?

• The user experience of opening loot boxes

• Playing Tony Hawk without a save pack taught me existentialism

• One level of Super Mario Bros can teach you a lot about speedrunning

How We Communicate

• Puns: the hidden weapon of Bojack Horseman and The Good Place

• How CSIRO invented a new word for the smell of rain

• Why do cartoon villains talk in foreign accents?

• Expressing your mood through GIFs

Let's talk about the whole of the internet

• My internet Mea Culpa

• The Follower Factory: fake fame and Twitter fans

• Technology and capital meet for the Last Days of Reality

• AOL's Tween Zine Scene and the creation of Digital Selves 

R.I.P. Vine of the Week

• Bring It In

OKEY DOKE! That's it for now. You can find an archive of all the previous editions of the Fishwick Papers here, and you can also send your friends there to sign up. Thanks for reading, thanks for your suggestions and feedback. Have a lovely weekend, and see you next week.I LOVE YOU BYEjim x