500 years of utopia (egypt)

an entirely written in the morning blogpost 

(so let's see of it's any good)

first off sais (egypt) by mtume from lonnie liston smith's band. (nice echo).

for substack horsemouth was hunting around for old material from the blogspot. first  the musicians of bremen version of keith hudson's turn your heater on (2020). then some memories of visiting the utopia projects pavillion in the basement of the courtauld gallery (way back in 2016). 

the exhibition was in honour of the publication 500 years before of thomas more's utopia but our modern utopia is a debased thing - dystopias, on the other hand, are huge (despite the term being coined much later). 

horsemouth's problem with the substack is not to fall for panacea of fine writing (and its concomitant fandom going 'oh my isn't your writing fine' - that's not going to happen). but, busy bower bird that he is. horsemouth can doubtless find some appealing arrangement of his kipple. 

horsemouth has material (even if he's not, particularly, writing it at the minute). 

he's thinking about getting back to the wen and raiding some book-boxes (and sitting drinking in darkened pubs and being photographed in black and white). 

the retrofit designs for the decarbonisation are here (there are a few minor typos but nothing fatal) indeed they've been sent out (which means the annoying typos will be left in - sigh).