Coastalblog

I haven't seen Saltburn. And that's okay. I don't say this to seem in any sense superior, contrary to some impressions I may give, I don't set a great deal of store by the cultural cachet of what media people consume. I haven't seen The Traitors either, not because I sneer at that sort of thing, more because I just haven't. Judging from some of the discourse surrounding it, it seems I'm missing out. Ah well. In fact, of all the big things that everyone simply has to see of the last year I managed just the one ( Barbie , since you ask  It was okay). This blog isn't really about not seeing Saltburn, well, it is, in part, but only in that not seeing it is a necessary function of the wider observation, which is that discourse is now so pervasive that one simply doesn't need  to see these big cultural events. I've spent the first few weeks of the year on jury service, not really a barrel of laughs, and I am very much not allowed to talk about it, well