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"In Spite of Ourselves (feat. Iris DeMent)" by John Prine Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that captures the feeling of being understood.- In Spite of Ourselves by John Prine and Iris...
August 17, 2026 Last weekend, Belovedest and I walked down to the Art Institute of Chicago to see a current exhibit: Beyond Form: Abstraction at Midcentury. As you almost certainly have figured out by now, I’m a big fan of abstract art…...
This builds on the ideas in my digital aura series, but I don’t think it’s necessary to have read it to follow along. I start by justifying why audiences want authentication of art and other cultural works, but AI detectors aren’t the...
Here are five free Mac applications you've most likely never come across. A project template/scaffolding automator, a local music player, resize batch images, a posture app that takes Advantage of the AirPods motion sensors, plus a...
Here are five free Mac applications you've most likely never come across. A project template/scaffolding automator, a local music player, resize batch images, a posture app that takes Advantage of the AirPods motion sensors, plus a...
It’s a world where nobody sleeps, except for your character, Mela, and Beri, the owner of the Hips N Noses cafe. Beri promised you a solution to get rid of sleep, but due to something called hollow disease, she forgot what it was. So,...
This FromSoftware UMD is an unusual thing. More of a facilitator than a game, Adventure Player‘s designed to be an open platform for genre fans and dedicated creators to revel in their shared love of adventure games. Three pre-made...
So at long last, here we are…at the end of the single vote-getters in the Final ’90s Countdown poll! To repeat myself yet again, a single vote is nothing to be ashamed of, given the relative number of votes I received and the number of...
Here's an oddball pair from Spring of 1973. A fine time to visit the park! My family had moved to Pennsylvania by then, so I was looking at my copies of "Disney News" and counting the days before Summer, when we'd probably return to...
It was inevitable that after finishing “Trafalgar”, with its echoes of Borges (amongst others), that I would be drawn towards a book by or about him; and I realised I had the perfect title on the TBR which chimed in with my current...
Editor’s Note: Matthew Chicoine interviewed Dr. Peter Howard, founder and president of the Fulton Sheen Institute and the Fulton Sheen Movement, via phone on July 28th, 2026. I rearranged, edited, and paraphrased some of the questions...
In the last few minutes before pick-up, I knock together a cereal box eclipse viewer. Hasty but effective. When I get to R’s nursery, her first words are ‘Daddy! I made an eclipse box!’ It is clear even before I even hold it that hers is...
“And now for something completely different” - I love my job. Sometimes projects come along that are completely unique. I was asked recently if I could convert a Fleischmann M62 in N scale to the North Korean K62…Almost without knowing...
As we get older our [not your] adult children are getting increasingly cross about The Clutter. There are three in that F.1 [1st Filial generation] and the most direct said "Hey, get your shit together, why should I have to process it at...