Fishwick Papers: The "Run Quite Slowly, Making Siren Sounds" edition

Godo evening!I was going to change the godo to good, but then something about it spoke to me. It's pretty.Over here we've been out of lockdown now for a few weeks, and that happened to coincide with me picking up quite a lot of freelance work, which was both very pleasing, but also suddenly quite overwhelming – I wasn't used to having one thing due in a week, let alone many!They're mostly over, now, and I've been able to work on a few more of my own projects. As such! You can expect to see the second season of my podcast I Get That A Lot in a week and a bit, and also my annual Wordplay Quiz (see previous years' quizzes compendiated here).BUT I also have a healthy reservoir of things I want to share with you, and without further delay, here they ARE:

Scams

• Billionaires are using sports teams as a tax dodge

• Figuring out the 'post a pet, plant a tree' scheme on Instagram

• How the creator of 'Inspector Gadget' ended up at the hart of crypto-finance

Career Changes

• Meet David Correos: the Taskmaster contestant Who Snapped

• How come so many museum director jobs are empty?

• The Detective Agency - Jonny and The Baptists

Histories

• Twitter thread of the most popular song of each decade

• The true cost of The Lord of the Rings: 1 billion dollars and counting

• A personal essay about a misguided junior high production of Company

The New Thing Is The Old Thing Is The New Thing

• The connection between Marvel's Loki series and Tarkovsky's Stalker

• An essay from 2014 predicting the next decade of culture wars

• Gen Z are acting like boomers when it comes to chain mail

Cake Video Analysis of the Week

• Horrific Storytime Cake Decorating videos are being aimed at kids

So there we are, fifteen new things for you to go have a looky-loo at. I've got to go cook dinner now, but please do tell me which of these are your favourites and please get in touch if you have any suggestions for things I should include next time!As always, this newsletter is supported by my delightful Patreon backers, please consider joining them! Or if that's not your thing, then maybe go tell a friend to sign up.Have a grand ol' week,jim xoxoxo