Fishwick Papers: The "five-pound ham-hock tossed from a speeding truck" edition

Seasons’ greetings, paperinos, and a very merry boxing day to you all!

I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some combination of food, drink, family, friends, rest and nonsense in the last few days. I’ve been having a lovely time in Aotearoa, and am about to head back home to spend a few days at my mum and dad’s place. (I’ll be back in Aotearoa before too long — there’s a tour in the works for April/May, watch this space!)

As promised, the 2024 Wordplay Quiz is now live here! You can get the answers by supporting me on Patreon here, buying the compendium here, or visiting my facebook, instagram or bluesky on 30 December.

That’s about the size of it! I don’t have much else to tell you, save that I hope you have a lovely end of the year and I look forward to seeing you in 2025!

Mwah,

jim xoxo

PS. This is the first Fishwick Papers sent through beehiiv. Did I do it right? Does anything look weird? Let me know!

End-of-the-year Lists

• Paul Fairie’s headline of the year nominees

• The British Film Institute’s best video essays of the year

• The Bulwer-Lytton award for worst hypothetical opening line to a novel

Playing together

• Brendon Bennetts on developing Dungeons and Comedians

• The player-comedians of Untitled Goose Game

• Resolutions to conflict in improv teams

• Party in a shared Google Doc

The Business of Art

• The Disney channel has a youtube problem

• The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify’s mysterious artists

• Sing Sing director Greg Kwadar’s plans for pay equity

• Report: artists are subsidising audiences’ access to the arts

Online/Offline

• The Pentium as a Navajo weaving

• Facebook auto-generates extremist militia groups

• Random survey responses of most important life events

• Which influencer influenced which? A fascinating lawsuit

Many Noises Of The Week

• The BBC has open-sourced their library of sound effects

Way To Help Of The Week

• Help people trapped at the US-Mexico border

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I live and work on the lands of the Gadigal people. I pay my respects to their Elders, past and present, and through them to all First Nations people around the country currently called Australia. Sovereignty was never ceded.