THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE HAS NO INTENTION OF BONGING
Well, the quiet start to the year didn’t last long, did it? I’m not even down the Christmas chocolates yet, let alone the Oloroso lake I’ve given the basement over to. So we’d better get to it this week, whimsy will have to take a back seat. What’s that, whimsy? You don’t want to sit […]
WELCOME TO THE NO FUN DECADE WITH THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE
So here we are, and here it is, and I hope you managed to mark the passing of midwinter in the way that makes most spiritual and cultural sense to you. I personally learned some interesting lessons about what happens the next day when you let an 8-year old stay up till 4.15am on Hogmanay. […]
THE LANG CAT’S ALBUMS OF 2019
Bit late posting this one this year, but I’ve done one of these posts every year since we started, and it would be a crime not to do one for 2019. So here we go, with the usual caveats that a) I don’t care if you think this is a stupid post because it’s my […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE DOESN’T WANT ANY FIGGY PUDDING, THANKS
And so it ends, folks, as indeed all things must. 2019 is a year that’s been, not a year to come, and in what is your last Update of the year, it behoves any self-respecting Updater to take stock and look to the year to come. I’ll let you into a wee secret – you […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE ISN’T WINDING DOWN
So here we are, siblings. Crunch time. In 48 hours we will know what our immediate futures hold. Will it be shame, and regret for what we’ve just done and the dishonour we have brought on ourselves and our forebears? Or will we hold our heads high and forge proudly towards the sunset on Friday […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE DOES A SPOT OF UNBOXING
Friends, when they write the history of this time and this planet, there will be but two words seared into whatever the equivalent of The Hitchhiker’s Guide is then. Those words won’t be ‘Mostly Harmless’. They’ll be this: Unboxing. Videos. And that will tell the aliens all they need to know. This remarkable phenomenon, where […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS ALL ABOUT WELLNESS, PROBABLY
So it turns out that the kind of industry Update you like best is one which isn’t about the industry at all. After last week’s effort I got more reactions and messages than at any time since the very early days of the Update. Thanks to everyone that took the time to write. Maybe I […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE NEVER CHECKS ITS FACTS
**STOP PRESS – EMBARK TAKES ZURICH – more in the links section below** “Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS GETTING NERVOUS ABOUT DEADx
Hello everyone. Well, the week is finally here when I stop punting our annual DeadX conference, because this is the week when we do the conference and then go for a lie down. In fact it’s tomorrow. So my mind is all full of what we’re going to be talking about at The DeadX Talks, […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE SAYS ‘NO DECORATIONS TILL DECEMBER’
We live in bifurcated times, siblings. Families fight over Brexit. Friends feud over Russian interference in our elections. And colleagues carp over whether Mike really should still be in Strictly Come Dancing. Apparently. What we need is something to heal us. A cause we can all get behind. That which unites us is greater than […]
