Julian Writes: a sweeping broom gathers no moss.

It began innocently enough.. I wanted to automate the newsletter process by making the ‘Mischief List’ send itself, like a self-pouring jug of marketing magic.

I installed a plugin called “MailEnchant Pro.” It asked for permissions. I said yes to everything. Everything.

An hour later, emails began multiplying on their own. Drafts spawning drafts. Subjects writing themselves. “Join the Mischief,” “Stay in the Chaos,” “You Cannot Escape the List.”

By lunchtime, 327 emails had gone out. To whom, I don’t know. Possibly the entire alumni of York St John University. Possibly a plumber in Ripon.

Nick walked past my desk and said, “Julian, good engagement spike today.”
I nodded, smiling weakly, as another email whooshed out of the outbox like a bewitched broom carrying buckets of spam.

Racing Trains: a Travelogue

“Racing Trains” is the first in a series of travelogues which celebrate the foolishness of travel in all its outrageous forms and revels in travel’s unlikely catalytic effects.

The foolish traveler is when…

… You leave your passport at home because you’d left your laptop bag in the back of a van in Del…

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