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The three-LP box set Guitar Music from ECM, released in 1981, was conceived by ECM’s French branch as more than a sampler. Coordinated by Hans Wendl and Gérard Desfoux, it gathers seven guitarists whose six- and twelve-string...
Flash games have been added, found under the Games tab! More to be added in the future!
Tuesday night, I was watching a YouTube video where someone mentioned that they've went for a run every day for the past ten years1. When the YouTuber said that, I thought, I wish I could be that kind of person. Then I thought, How do I...
Today has, somewhat surprisingly, been a day of progress. Surprisingly because I was dealing with the pains on and off today. I was fine when I went to bed, then got awakened by the pain in the wee hours of the night. I managed to...
A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Bill Pronzini JOSIAH E. GREENE – Madmen Die Alone. Morrow, hardcover, 1938. Joseph Parisi, a homicidal inmate at the Exeter Hospital insane asylum, turns up missing one night. Circumstances are such that it is...
NEYO is a cafe a little ways away from Koenji station, and next to a local park. I will say the coffee is not amazing (a little on the bitter side) but the vibe is nice and it turned out to be a very convenient place to get some...
Kane Kyne Enterprises runs a sensationalist newspaper/TV empire. As is often the case in crime reporting movies, it’s not enough for these guys to cover the big serial killer story, they have to solve it before the cops do, in order to...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “The last hereditary Welsh prince, Owain Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, built Powis castle as a craggy fort in the 13th century; the estate was his reward for abandoning Wales to the rule of the English monarchy. But...
other things said cowling Yesterday :: Wednesday, 12th of August 2026
Flowers in a Crystal Vase, Edouard Manet, oil on canvas, 13 x 19 in. (33 x 25 cm). In the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. Manet is best known for his figurative work, of course, but I particularly enjoy his still life...
According to one of my uncles, the terms “right” and “left” derive from the fact that conservatism is correct while liberalism is wrong. You know, because we say “that’s right” to mean “that’s correct” and “that’s left” when we’ve...
Put Jeff Daniels, Jared Harris, and J.K. Simmons in the same movie, and you’ve created interest - at least among those who value capable acting. In The Brink of War, Daniels plays Ronald Reagan; Harris appears as Mikhail Gorbachev, and...
I wondered about having a dinosaur (and a Victorian-dressed one, at that) narrate a volume on computers, but as soon as Science Comics: Computers: How Digital Hardware Works opened with her talking about this being her second choice (the...
From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 51-54: At least initially, few of the elite saw reason to confront the Japanese. A majority of senators joined...
The first recording today is a repeat of Pokemon: Battle Frontier – Queen of the Serpentine. It’s another case of two recordings, one from ITV4 and another from CITV. This time they’re the same length. Media Centre Description: Popular...