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The second of the two recent released from Old Street Publishing, in their ‘Great Events’ series, is the intriguingly titled “Art-Quake 1910” by David Boyd Hancock. Subtitled “The Manet and the Post-Impressionists Exhibition’, it takes a...
There’s no doubt that Shin Megami Tensei is a great game. It has an engaging, high stakes, story that dares …
I love time loops in media—from Groundhog Day to Haruhi's Endless Eight. What do they reveal about mortality, memory, and the human desire to escape consequence through Nietzsche's eternal recurrence?
I was woken today at 6.20AM, so you get to hear my thoughts on a 2 week trip to China before breakfast. First, where did I go? It was a 2 week trip starting in Hong Kong, then flying to Beijing, then a train to Xian, then a flight to...
““Writing is the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about. Importantly, writing is also the process by which you figure it out.”...
I can’t claim to have known actor Michael Keating, who died this week, but I did interview him once and … Continue reading →
I didn’t listen to the Lemonheads much in the 90s. I thought they were lightweight because I first learned of them through their cover of Mrs Robinson. But Evan Dando was always in the background, appearing in magazines and TV, as well...
Well another week is in the books and the weather is starting to heat up, at least where I am. So let’s see if we can find some hot new...
Examination of pigeon bones from Late Bronze Age Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus indicates they were already semi-domesticated as early as c. 1400 BCE, pushing back direct evidence for pigeon domestication almost 1,000 years and challenging...
Feeling, today, the mediocrities of my life press down hard on me, crushed flakes of butterfly between pages of leatherbound. Feeling, today, like I am boring and predictable, that is, the fate expected for everyone, except for me. See...
What is mb-cli? mb-cli is a read-only command-line interface for the Metabase API, written in Go. It lets you explore databases, inspect schemas and run ad-hoc queries straight from the terminal, without opening the Metabase UI. It was...