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I found out about this when looking at my website’s analytics: this is cool! It’s an aggregator of cool links from the indie web, where nobody posts anything: every link comes from RSS feeds of various sites, and users upvote the best to...
Not every historical artefact is a masterpiece.Some survive because they changed theatre. Some because they reveal something vital about the people who created them. Others survive because scandal proves more durable than artistic merit....
It’s time for another Classics Club Spin! If you’re not sure what the Spins are, here’s a reminder: The rules for Spin #45: * List any twenty books you have left to read from your Classics Club list. * Number them from 1 to 20. * On...
My thoughts on why Bear Notes is still worth paying for every year.
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...