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The Edinburgh Fringe has always operated on a simple principle: absolutely anything can become art. A dictator can become a tap dance. A kitchen sink can become a metaphor for late capitalism. Somewhere, right now, somebody is probably...
Welcome to another Wednesday, we start all at sea with marcus and some more terrain scatter pieces for the bottom of the ocean. I think some of these will also double up as objective markers. Moving on and Phil gives us a glimpse of his...
On the first day of my 60th year, I’m thinking about how we report our age as the last year of life we completed, rather than the one we’re now living. US 40, the old National Road, in Brazil, Indiana I’m also thinking about the year I...
Once again, I got a bit out of hand. It's Geoffrey's fault.
Tom Stoppard famously begins Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead with a coin spinning through probability, each toss raising questions about fate, free will and authorship. Emma Howlett’s The Plot opens with a different game: keeping a...
It’s been awhile. The advantage is that we can concentrate on a few things rahter than the day-to-day sewage. The big story is Trump’s failed war with Iran. To explain that we have to look back at his intervention in Venezuela in...
can't wait for English to redevelop the tu/vous distinction and then lose it again so the only second person pronoun is "y'all"
Stephen Sondheim’s songs are less musical theatre numbers than intricate clockwork mechanisms. Every lyric, every rhythm and every note serves a precise dramatic purpose. Remove one tiny cog and the whole machine begins to judder. That...
When Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination for Michigan Senate in a nail-biter, there was some talk about this actually being a disappointing outcome for the insurgent left given late polling that suggested El-Sayed running away...
{ paraphrased: } Me: “Hey, Claude, given that ePub is just a zip file, can you unpack one for me and tell me what’s in it?” Claude: “Sure thing, just upload it here” Me: “Here you go” Claude: “Oh, looks like that is a commercial book...
There are artists whose work gradually becomes a body of theatre, and there are artists whose work gradually become a body of autobiography. Bryony Kimmings belongs firmly in the latter camp. Across a career spanning more than two...
A quiet week in web performance is a useful chance to investigate the evidence and problems teams already have.
When the Church of the Invincible Sun needs dirty deeds done Sister Svangerd heeds the call. This time all she needs to do is help her pet priest steal a book. Easy, right? Second in the Loyal Opposition series, wherein Svangerd and her...
Every nation seems determined to claim Shakespeare as its own. The English insist he belongs to them by birthright. Europe continually reinvents him through radical reinterpretation. Based on Carnegie Mellon University’s astonishing...
I have been a Lobsters member since June 2018. In the eight years since, I have submitted 220 stories to the site. I downloaded my entire submission history via the Lobsters API, and here’s what I found when I analyzed it. ContentsGrowth...