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lingthusiasm:Gesture: every language has them, but what do they have to do with the emoji on your phone?Lauren and Gretchen get enthusiastic about Lauren’s new book ‘Gesture: A Slim Guide’ from Oxford University Press in our episode 'A...
Oil derricks on display at the “World’s Richest Acre“ in Downtown Kilgore, Texas—where once stood the greatest concentration of oil wells in the world, producing more than 2.5 million barrels of oil. The post Drink Coke, Drill for Oil...
This is the fifth and last part of our series (I, II, III, IV, V) looking at how Carthaginian armies were raised and constituted. Over the last four parts, we’ve looked at the larger components of Carthaginian armies: the relatively...
This movie is so cool and legit funny. It’s so much more absurdist than most comedies, much less comedies from the fourties’
DC has posted their full complement of solicitations for August 2026, and here’s everything related to the Flash. It’s a fairly quiet month, as DC is focused on the Superman Family over the summer to accompany the Supergirl film, but the...
Power Cat 2026-05-22 date night Today's guest comic brought to you by Ellie.
I invoked a Betteridge headline here not because I’m not willing to commit to answer, but because I have no idea what’s going on. Yes, it’s time for another Shaggy Dog post where I think out loud about something without arriving at a...
Writter/Director Curry Barker’s OBSESSION remarkably transforms a rudimentary TALES FROM THE CRYPT/DARKSIDE “Be Careful what you wish for” premise into an absolutely fascinating, truly engaging, wildly unpredictable and surprisingly...
Another year, another week in Denmark with friends. It‘s a custom already after we spent time in Northern Denmark in 2025, 2024 and 2023 already. This year we went further north to Jutland and we liked the landscape the most until now....
March 2026 As well as walking the coast of mainland Britain I have also included many of the islands in my walk and that includes the Isle of Man. However when I walked the coast there were other things on … Continue reading →
This week, we have unconditional income, sacrifices for men, Harvard strike, gerrymandering, fake counterterrorism, AI-writing, employee benefits, tech takeover of Iran, and AAPI Heritage.