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Trying to build a function a_or_an(word) proves hilariously challenging for English, surprising no one. The author catches one dialectal land mine: herb begins with a vowel sound in American English and an /h/ sound in British English. But I see at least two more ways English can ruin your afternoon: The name of the...
Twelve Caesarsby Mary BeardGenres: History, Non-fiction Pages: 384 Rating: Synopsis: What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of today’s “sculpture wars”—Mary Beard tells the story of how...
nighttime is sneaking in,eager to beat thestreetlights. children gang up inthe hallways of my building. the belly of the firstfloor swells to a size t h r e e t i m e swhat it was before.soon, the neighborhood will give birth to autumn,and everyone willfall into comfort, sweater-weatheringtheir lives away fora season.
Zach Cregger, the director of such respected horror films as Weapons and Barbarians, has grabbed the Resident Evil reins. Cregger's fans may wonder why a director known for giving horror a comic twist would take on a franchise that has its supporters but hasn't garnered much critical favor. Working from a screenplay...
Finished reading: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy 📚 I really liked this one. It’s a wild, dramatic story well told. I relate in very broad strokes, especially towards the end. Eveyone who wanted to read this probably already has but I recommend it.
# On this day last year, I announced "Acid Sucka" 1 in which I recreated the beat from Sucker MCs by Run DMC. At the time, I stated: 'This could be the start of something...' I've never followed up on that. I've thought about it from time to time, wondering what other classic hip hop // electro beats I could give an...
This is a lightning talk I did at PyCon US 2026: Silence is Golden. The overall message is to leave some quiet time so that reluctant speakers have a chance to participate. I start with a jokey disclaimer because I followed Simon Willison who gave an energetic, entertaining, and loud(!) speed-run through a year of...
It was my pleasure to cycle down to the Cinema Museum in Lambeth recently and meet one of the founders, Martin Humphries, to write a feature for The World of Interiors about the campaign to buy the former workhouse where Charlie Chaplin was confined as a child. Click here to read my feature about the Cinema Museum...
I'm a Jeanne Crain fan, so one of the movies I was most delighted to see at Cinecon on Labor Day was THE SECOND GREATEST SEX (1956).THE SECOND GREATEST SEX is, to my knowledge, not available in any authorized home viewing format. Seeing this Technicolor CinemaScope film in a good print on a large screen was thus a...
Reconnected with my secret weaponWas happy to come across shimadofu, a type of tofu that is made in Okinawa.It is firmer than the firm (momen) tofu that we have on Honshu I made a shoyu poke and a tofu poke using one of the NOH poke packetsSatoshi enjoyed this and said it was like he was in Hawaii
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