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Previously, flipping a record whilst I'm trying to work was super tedious and irritating. Now it's an opportunity to get out of my chair for a few seconds. Is this optimism?146 words · 1 image
Silent as the Grave, publisher Centipede's latest edition of Cornell Woolrich short fiction, is available now. I wrote a substantial introduction for this volume and was able to get a few particular favorite stories in here, including...
Here’s the setlist for my Inhailer.com show yesterday. Channel Tres – Black Techno Guy Genesis Owusu – LIFE KEEPS GOING The Cure – A Forrest Dinosaur Jr. – Several Got Away Kim Gordon – DIRTY TECH Bush Tetras – Can’t...
“June gloom,” i.e. fog and clouds on Pacific Northwest coasts in late spring and early summer, is a well known pattern. But some Junes, we Inland Northwest denizens get a little taste as well. A friend and I got a very welcome taste of...
It’s crazy to think that I used to post on here every single day. Maybe I ran out of things to say? No matter. I am back to give this another go. I’m still watching Fear The Walking Dead (I’ve been watching an episode every evening since...
And the Canadian reading continues! I read The Book of Eve (1973) by Constance Beresford-Howe on the plane home from Canada having picked it up in Fair’s Fair in Calgary. It was one of the bookshops that very considerately had bookcases...
Twenty-five years ago today, on July 13th 2001, was the first event at DNA Lounge under current management. I am very old and I have been leaning on this bar for a very long time. Typically we treat Nov 22 as our "real" anniversary (the...
For the last 6 or so months I’ve been saying all over the internet (this blog, enworld, Blue Sky) that the Cosmere TTRPG’s use of the 3 action economy had piqued my curiosity in Paizo’s 2e *finder systems. This last Friday, I FINALLY got...
When I was younger, a teenager maybe, that time of life when angst and sullenness are most likely to define our personalities, I remember asking my cousin what she thought happened when we died. Heaven, Hell, Limbo, Nirvana,...
Humanity has mapped the earth, so you can’t discover any new continents, mountains, oceans, or rivers. We’ve mapped the stars, and though we haven’t named every single asteroid, the major planets and comets are already taken. We’ve...
Released in 2000 by Universal Music France in collaboration with ECM Records, Horizons was conceived as a promotional introduction to a catalogue that had long resisted easy classification. Rather than assembling familiar peaks, it...
“Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire provides commentary on the politics of the February Revolution in France (1848), leading onto an analysis of the to-ing and fro-ing of Louis Bonaparte (the nephew of Napoleon) in the aftermath of this...
🎯 Using OmniFocus and GTD has really helped me get more organized at work and at home. Things I would continually forget, remember, tell myself I'll do in 10 minutes, then subsequently forget about are actually getting done. It's been...
Hello, loves! Let’s see about removing those skulls from the path. Currently we just remove the sprites. This is more tricky than it might be. My concern is that when a content object gives itself to Dot, it si removed from the cell it...
A Below Deck Med cast member came on a fellow cast member's sheets—and then didn't wash them or tell the person. I talked to specialist in infectious disease and sexually transmitted infections to find out if that's dangerous or not.