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I’ve been looking at some of the past lawsuits over Peanuts. The various owners of Peanuts over the years have been aggressive — generally appropriately so — about protecting their rights to the characters and going after unlicensed use...
I attended a weekend May Day performance, complete with a maypole, in the “Morris dancing” sense of May Day, though not in the “pole dancing” sense of dancing around a pole. I think they should play the music backwards when they untangle...
I read a company-wide announcement yesterday congratulating us on delivering something hard we’ve been working on for months. As I was reading it, I started noticing words my boss would never use… and then a few em dashes. I stopped...
A few weeks ago, on the day I arrived in California, I was nominated for the Sunshine Blogger Award by Lynn over at So Many Dishes. A personal cooking blog that is definitely worth reading for the recipes, but also for the personal...
Images often arrive clothed in certainty. They glide across the eye with a quiet authority, suggesting that what is seen is whole and already understood. The world appears to organize itself within the frame, its contradictions softened,...
Now, there's a title I should have, could have, aught to've thought of years ago, having decided to stubbornly stick with the 'A is for . . . ' trope. Especially when I could have dropped it the first month, after we got to zed, or the...
I first wrote about West Virginia painter Lynn Boggess back in 2014. As an introduction, I will quote myself from that post: —In writing about painters who work with thick impasto (such as Antonio Mancini), I have sometimes used...
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ANALOG SF – January 1968, Editor: John W. Campbell. Cover art credited to NASA. Overall rating: ***½. R. C. FITZPATRICK & LEIGH RICHMOND. “There Is a Tide.” Novelette. The continuing story of Sr, Stephen Jansen and his experiments with...
PUR100 – Nobody Can Ice-cold and club-ready cut from Parisian producer PUR100 (Florian Jozefowicz). This is one of those tracks that could work just as well as a transition tool as it could as a peak time roller. Falling somewhere...
Modern fathers spend more time with their children than previous generations, but mothers still shoulder the majority of parenting responsibilities and mental…