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I’ve been trying to introduce friction into my life.I’ve spent the last maybe eighteen months in a totally frictionless zone and it’s led me down a totally frictionless slide of saying Yes to things and now I’ve got altogether way too...
Neil W. wrote to ask:I am seeing lots of advertisements for a new film called "The Invite". (Sounds quite promising with Seth Rogen playing his usual character). Here is a review from the notoriously picky Peter Bradshaw, who quite liked...
Olive Grove, Palermo, Francesco Lojacono, oil on canvas, 33 x 58 in. (84 x 147 cm). Link is to page with access to large image on Wikipedia. I don’t know the location of the original. Italian painter Francesco Lojacono, who was active...
(all about sex between men, described largely in street language, and utterly inappropriate for kids and the sexually modest) Two engaging images of faces, both conveying pleasure, during man-on-man sex. What is it that these guys are so...
I am blogging this week about work that never ends, about which, we all know too much. I nonetheless think doing that work has significant intangible benefits. Read more here. Winter is coming! In honor of that cheering notion, I’ve...
I was waiting for a meeting to start when the lady next to me asked how my summer was going. “It’s going… too quickly. I am busy, but I don’t seem to be getting much done. It’s August, and I still haven’t scrubbed, sanded, and repainted...
As I was mowing the lawn today at Chez Boca, cursing myself for letting it go a few weeks, I was reminded that it wasn't as bad as that one time at Casa New Jersey. I'm thankful for that.
MACAO (1952), just released on Blu-ray by the Warner Archive Collection, is, as the saying goes, "more fun than a barrel of monkeys."MACAO has always struck me as a bit in the shadow of HIS KIND OF WOMAN (1951), the first RKO film...
There are many challenges that come with being a renter in Australia, and one of them concerns the quality and condition of the included appliances. Most rentals I had here prior to buying included a dishwasher and a dryer. This sounds...
Being unsatisfied with the heading typeface used on my Vintage theme Vintage theme, I set out to find the perfect typeface encapsulating the ‘80s and ‘90s, especially computer (entertainment) systems, but there was always something that...
codex just saved my homelab At 0541 alerts started flying that several of my apps were going offline. When I noticed later and started investigating I saw that the vm’s on my proxmox were reporting io-error - the disk had either crashed...
Writing students once learned that putting the most important information first in an article was the preferred, humane way of reporting on a situation. This allowed readers to quickly decide if a story interested them without having to...
# Happy 808 Day Recorded especially for 808 Day, here's a new old school style #acid banger, This is the way (of acid): Recorded straight through in three passes — drums, vocals, acid — it features the RD-8 on 808 duties, a TD-3, and the...
Gregorio Cortez is a folk hero among Mexican Americans along the Rio Grande border in Texas. In 1901, he was questioned by Sheriff W. T. (Brack) Morris regarding a reported horse theft. When asked by Sheriff Morris's interpreter Boone...
Magnificent Apple Strudel kindly baked by Farokh Talati, Head Chef at St John Bread & Wine for the lucky guests on this Sunday’s tour of Whitechapel. Click here to book for Whitechapel tours on Sundays 23rd August, 6th and 23rd...