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Advanced publicity for The End of Oak Street blames a mysterious cosmic event for transporting a typical American suburban neighborhood to a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Anne Hathaway, who seems to be everywhere this summer, and...
Tom Peteet: Do You Speak Creatinine or Cystatin C? Some good advice for internists from an internist here. Peteet used to have a blog, but now of course there is a Substack page which is slowly transforming into a social media platform....
The latest contribution to The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer is an ostensibly non-fiction article, from the June 1929 issue of Ghost Stories. Henry Ward Beecher (L) and Isaac K. Funk (R) — the central characters of this “true...
23:23 - If you like electronic pop and understand kindergarten-level Mandarin I highly recommend listening to Chinese American Bear. They are so fun and sweet. Currently listening to "Home" and it might be my fav song on the album.
There are at least four different Heated Rivalry shows at the Fringe this year. Earlier this week we saw Edinburgh Fringe - Heated Rivalry: The Musical Parody!. This is different because it is the unauthorized musical parody. Oh, and it...
Like a lot of people, in 1990 I bought Queensryche’s fourth album, Empire, because the song “Silent Lucidity” was such an effective clone of that big, spacey Pink Floyd sound. I’ve said before that if you dropped the song onto either of...
I saw the total eclipse in 1999 down at Lake Balaton in Hungary. Today was the closest we had in the UK since then, and we had about 93% totality in Gloucestershire. Went up to Uley Bury to view it. I had a home made eclipse viewer, as...
Hey, so, it’s Wednesday, when I try to share a couple of Boston-centric lists: One with area (mostly indie-ish, rock-ish?) shows happening in the next seven days, and another with new show announcements. So I guess I’ll do that. But...
I've got to admit, I thought I'd be well past the point in posting my reviews from Fantasia where I talked about how I saw something else because this was already listed as a coming attraction at the Coolidge so I knew I'd be able to see...
Dropping in this 'mid-range' state of the blog update mostly to mark having down-shifted since the end of June from Shiny Links plus two posts a week to Shiny Links plus one. Empire of Crust sounded an appreciated warning - as per their...
my body is refusing to cooperate again it must know of the storm in my heart
It’s been a stressful couple of weeks, final legal questions on the sale of old house, causing stress disrupting sleep. Whilst we frantically get the house ready to receive all the furniture and stuff from old house AND fit out the cabin...
THEY’RE BACK. SO AM I. Well, you know by now how it is with me and Mischief Theatre. All the way from 2013’s first west end outing to the new Thespians (https://theatrecat.com/2026/05/14/thespians-mercury-colchester-and-touring/) . I am...
Another in Keychron’s seemingly endless line of keyboards with chassis made of exotic materials. North-facing LEDs work best with see-through top-legended caps. Features: Hall effect Generous travel 75% layout No knob The great Keychron...
Lee Mendelson Film Productions just issued its official press release concerning the debut release of Vince Guaraldi's soundtrack for the 11th animated Peanuts TV special, It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown.It can be viewed here.It includes...