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Suppose you want PHP to keep processing after it has sent back an HTTP response. Normally, this doesn't work:
Leigh Ann Beavers and I taught our hybrid studio-arts/creative-writing course this spring again. We met with twelve students for four hours four days a week for four weeks. The first two weeks were an intensive overview of comics...
25 May 2026 The Pitt peregrines live so close to Schenley Park that when they leave the nest the park is their backdrop. Next Sunday 31 May I’ll combine Schenley and peregrines in two back-to-back outings: Parking is FREE on Sundays....
The Barbican has set itself quite a high bar with is annual summer musical, a feature that began in the aftermath of the pandemic as a recovery project, luring Sutton Foster from Broadway to star alongside Robert Lindsay and Felicity...
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →
500 opened tabs on my phone are burning a hole in my pocket so here we go. I was delighted to hear Gener8tion (yes from that amazing video) studied art in Villa Arson which I visited last Christmas / Steven Ahlgren’s photographs of...
23 May 2026 in Melbourne, supported by Pollyman and Snake Thighs.We return to the Curtin, the site of many a good show. I've been intrigued by Don't Thank Me, Spank Me! (DTMSM) for a while now, not only for their unrelentingly silly band...
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Hi and Lois,...
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At any given moment, we can either spend time finding excuses to change or wait for the next convenient milestone to start the work. One of these increases our odds of success by at least 10x.
Googling the word “disregard” no longer works as expected. Google’s latest round of AI-ification has finally prompted me to switch […]