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Edward G arranges for a desperate nazi to escape prison so he’ll lead them to the big man. Eddie (just after Scarlet Street) gets knocked out and loses the trail of his guy (K Shayne of a Boetticher noir), so he doesn’t see Orson Welles...
Most excited for two performances at BottleRock 2026. Sombr & The Backstreet Boys. I can't believe how much support for Sombr I've seen from artists I respect and the industry this past year. He deserves it, minus his social tactics...
that i’ve been asked recently
This is a recap-ish of the latest podcast episode. You can listen to the episode below before or after you read. That’s because I tend to expand on topics from the pod as well as straight-up write about things that we did not discuss....
I have admired the daily “assorted links” feature of Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution blog (see here) since I discovered Cowen’s blog in 2006, so if imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, below are some of my own assorted...
A number of posts on social media have suggested that Andes hantavirus, which most recently caused an outbreak on the MV Hondius, is sexually transmitted. These claims are based on a 2023 paper (Presence and Persistence of Andes Virus...
I finally ordered a Plotter. Because of various money related reasons over the years it has taken forever. But I’ll recieve a Narrow Pueblo Plotter in the mail fairly soon. Can’t wait.
Today’s recording starts with the end of The Twisted Whiskers Show. They’re doing fish now. There’s a trail for Saturday Morning programmes. Then it’sShaun the Sheep – Fleeced. The farmer brings the sheep into the barn, takes one of...
While researching, looking for the hippie roots of Ibiza’s “Balearic Beat” for a magical minute I got distracted by music being made on Mallorca, and, in particular, in the village of Deia … In the `60s Ibiza’s live music really only...
The title and premise sound exciting, but the movie is a sweaty bewigged newscaster (Roman Wilhelmi of Zulawski’s Chopin biopic The Blue Note, with Robert Picardo vibes) being tormented by everyone, including martians, who look like...
Sometime in the last few million years, our ancestors began to get better brains, use tools and weapons, speak language, and live in larger groups in a wider range of environments.
Automated reasoning is fun.