Etcetera

By Matthew Culnane

Interesting & in-depth articles on lots of topics. Sent weekly with added context & further reading from my archives.

Previous issues

Etcetera #27: Kurt, Underground London, Teletext

#27 Oct 1, 2021

Etcetera #26: Commuting, Nazis, The Strokes

#26 Sep 17, 2021

Etcetera #25: Curious Birds, Robot Chefs, Viruses

#25 Sep 10, 2021

#24

Sep 3, 2021

Etcetera #24: Roman Humour, Milk, Harps – Hello. Here are this week's links. Enjoy Bandcamp Friday, and I'll see you next time.
#23

Aug 27, 2021

Etcetera #23: Birmingham Rollers, Steve Martin Short, Deadheads – Hello. Illness has prevented me from sending this recently, so the links here cover the past two week
#22

Aug 6, 2021

Etcetera #22: Rankings, Expertise, Crosswords – Hello. Here are the things that caught my attention this week. Let's jump right in, and I'll see you
#21

Jul 30, 2021

Etcetera #21: Comments, Phrenology, Solutionism – Etcetera is back from its brief hiatus and is still referring to itself in the third person! I hope y
#20

Jul 2, 2021

Etcetera #20: Belinda Carlisle, Blind Gaming, Lego – Hello. Extremely early on in the pandemic I (almost certainly) had COVID. My partner certainly did, a
#19

Jun 25, 2021

Etcetera #19: Joni, Architecture, Coupland – Hello once again. Here are this week's picks, in which we discuss a classic album, a classic building
#18

Jun 18, 2021

Etcetera #18: Tacos, PDFs, Replica Kits – Hello. Here are this week's picks. And last week’s, I suppose. Sorry about that. We start with a disc
#17

Jun 4, 2021

Etcetera #17: Content, Recommendations, Greebles – Hello. Nice to be back after a week at the seaside with mediocre weather followed by a week stuck ins
#16

May 21, 2021

Etcetera #16: Criticism, Asterisks, Brassicas – Hello. Here are this week's picks. A minor change in format this week as I had a lot to include—let m
#15

May 14, 2021

Etcetera #15: Anthropocene, Bananas, Booze – Hello. A bumper crop for you this week. Truly, there's something for all the family, particularly if
#14

May 7, 2021

Etcetera #14: Blades, Blums, Blues – Hello. Here are this week's picks. Lots more good replies and comments last week—do feel free to repl
#13

Apr 30, 2021

Etcetera #13: Beef, Signs, Terminators – Hello. A couple of longer items about food to start off this issue, then a series of smaller things.I
#12

Apr 23, 2021

Etcetera #12: Redemption, Mermaids, Pleasurable Sadness – Here are this week's recommendations.A few new readers signed up this week so I will repeat my boring
#11

Apr 16, 2021

Etcetera #11: Empire, Taxonomy, Pocahontas – Hello! Here are this week's recommendations. Reply to this email (it'll only go to me) with any of yo
#10

Apr 9, 2021

Etcetera #10: Pizza, Muons, Stop-Motion – Welcome to another Plague Friday! Here are this week's picks. I particularly like the first article a
#9

Apr 2, 2021

Etcetera #9: The Keynes, rewilding, horological craftsmanship – I am compiling this a couple of days in advance so allow me some slack if any of the links get milksh
#8

Mar 26, 2021

Etcetera #8: Trees, Pasta, Death – Hello. How are you? I felt supremely shit all last week after my Bill Gates injection so there was no

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