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Tomorrow I’m heading to the Loreley! 🤘🎸 The open-air stage sits high above the Rhine and was built as a Nazi “Thingplatz” in the 1930s. And what makes it awesome now? These days, it’s hosting anti-fascist concerts. Hot Water Music and...
Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs, Frederic William Burton, watercolor and gouache, 37 x 24 in. (95 x 61 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland. Link is to a Wikipedia page with access to a...
My relationship with my father has always been unstable. As I was growing up, I have always been the "good boy". Every aspect of my life was his design. He even tried to influence my children. I never dare to say no to him, but the...
A look at the CSS line height unit and how it works.
Since deciding to try and hunt down all of the butterfly species of the UK, I've visited the north of England a couple of times and also spent an afternoon wandering around Grafton Wood on my way back from fishing with Ben down in...
Two years and change have passed since I last addressed the topic of other jazz artists doing covers of Guaraldi compositions, back in this original post.To recap, the goal is to compile an ever-expanding list of jazz artists who've...
A quick one to take you into the weekend. Tokyo Shoegazer have released a second video clip from Remains, and like the video for『Missing』, it’s a pretty straight performance clip of a banger of a song given a distinct visual aesthetic by...
Jake Casella Brookins Hello, fellow readers! Lots of exciting things happening at ARB: we just sent out our first round of contributor honoraria, which is a huge milestone for us—thanks again to everyone who made that possible. Misha & I...
This article tells part of the story of Maxis Software. I don’t think people realize how much tactical and strategic forethought goes into their daily lives. There’s a whole subconscious time-efficiency layer in our lives. In essence,...
Pasteis de Nata.
One of the surest ways to infuse my existence with misery is to sit me in front of a computer screen for multiple hours on end. Unfortunately for me, this past week has been mostly that, and the next week will likely entail more of the...
SPIDER-MAN — SPIDER-SENSE SPIDER-MAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES (TOY BIZ) Hey, whoah, it’s Friday! Welcome to Friday, here at the Figure in Question, where we like to celebrate the week with a little bit of flashing back, with some addendums...
Like anglers, beekeepers often obsess about the weather.They both need something to blame when things go less well than they had hoped. How many times have you heard “too little rain, no nectar” or “too hot, they weren't biting” ?Or, to...
It’s a meme at this point. When Deep Blue beat Kasparov, Go players could say that their game, unlike Chess, was too complex to fall to a computer program. Then AlphaGo showed they were wrong. It just took a better approach. When...
My compulsive response to the deadest Blog Days of Summer ever, exponentially deader than the deadest ever before (I'd like to take credit for here's decline but it's deader and getting deader everywhere), is of course to post an...