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"Written by Mark Twain" Said CreditsTrue or no? --- most films improve upon novels they adapt. Why buy books for adapt to movies? Many are useful as pre-sell. Lots have a concept surefire, can’t miss. How was Jaws anything other than...
I found myself looking forward to Mondays recently. Mainly because new House of the Dragon episodes are available for streaming after 9am. It might seem trivial, a television show about dragons. But it is not, as it seems to be the only...
An eventful week this week! Mum and Costa have been up in Canberra to visit from Melbourne this week. They spent both weekends hanging out with Sebby and Me, and then the rest of the week hanging out in my garden doing some tidying!...
6th July 2026 Why fundamental reform is more likely than before, but still unlikely * The United Kingdom is about to have a new Prime Minister. As this blog has pointed out many times, changing Prime Minister mid-term is the norm in...
At the City of London council Community and Children’s Services Committee meeting last week (30 June 2026) Helen Fentimen (chair) and Steve Goodman (deputy chair) changed course on their plans for for the refurbishment of the Golden Lane...
2018 Regency romance. Phyllida Satterthwaite has always been thought more odd than beautiful, but in her London season that oddity makes her a sensation—and one that attracts unwelcome attention. Captain Arthur Heywood came back crippled...
One of the best parts of reading is sharing your thoughts and ideas with likeminded folk, which is why I’ve been doing what I do for over eighteen years now. However, where my literary social club is wholly online, others meet up in...
It’s almost summer, and I’ve been thinking of what poet Billy Collins called those, “forlorn chairs/though at one time it must have seemed/a good place to stop and do nothing for a while.” Even situated, as they usually are, to take in...
A couple of years after my first exposure to Picasso at the Hakone Open-air Museum in Japan, I decided to learn more about Picasso and the history of painting in general. Thus, I signed up for an art appreciation class at university....
As a number of disappointed potential customers will attest, I do not do N scale commissions. That said, there are a small number of exceptions - because specifically what I mean is, British ‘modern image’ N. This then, is an adventure...
I’ve been enjoying Alicia’s continued curiosity and willingness to explore questions that many of us miss. Her recent post got me thinking. What does it mean to have a healthy mind? “But I don’t think a healthy mind is one that feels...
Some brief meta: On AI, dispositionally, I’m somewhere in between “all of this is crap” and “the singularity is upon us”. In 2026, to borrow a friend’s metaphor, we get to work with fun aliens. They have structurally poor epistemics,...
The university provides a structure for learning. Within it, learning situations arise, all of which are ambiguously related to structure. Indeed, the names we have for situations, like “class” or “task” or “exam,” are also names for the...
This week note covers the week of 29th June–5th July. Life# Last week I got back to work after a week’s break. And work I did! I switched my office cab time from 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM so that I could sleep a little longer. Now I have...
A lighter set of links as I was travelling - but for more, check out the huge set from the previous list found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch,...