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Best Record of 2001: Day 43 Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at Janet Jackson’s ‘All For you’ as it takes on Jimmy eat World’s ‘Bleed American.’ In 2000, Janet Jackson found herself on the wrong side of a divorce filing from Rene...
Building the plane as I fly it.
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest...
Chandra Clarke Under Review:Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice. Eds. Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, David M. Higgins, and Jordan S. Carroll. The MIT Press, May 2026. When you hear the word...
This week I’m gonna go back to trying to link up with folks doing WWW Wednesday via Taking On a World of Words! I didn’t get a lot of return […]
Read the full post at - 6+ Favorite Books on Islamic History and Culture (So Far!) A Roundup of My Favorite Books on Islamic History and Culture...so far.
Missing what may have never been
Daily Drawing 871
I’ve always been a traveller. Not full time or all the time, but every ten years or so my feet start itching and I want to quit the job, flat and place I’m in and head off somewhere entirely new. This comes from Fergie, someone I used to...
Listening a couple of days ago to the radio program Exploring Music, I learned something about English morphology. The episode broadcast on 5/18/2026 has the title "What else ya got?", and host Bill McGlaughlin introduces it this way:...
Faig Ahmed. OPERATIONS: ALL THE THINGSSTATUS: inbox 175, rss 1000, everything is out of controlREADING: THE REVOLUTIONISTS, Jason Burke (UK) (US+) By Christmas 1975, the CIA’s…