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It may take you a while to fully comprehend what the title of this intriguing animated short means – for me, it had to be made explicit at the end… Yet there is something quite mesmerising about this animated short by Tatjana Theuer, who...
Unbeknownst to many, hidden beneath Clerkenwell, is an eerie historic survivor: the Clerkenwell ‘catacombs’. They are the only surviving fragment of a much larger Victorian prison complex that once dominated this area of the city. They...
From Hellhound On His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt In American History, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2010), Kindle pp. 395-397: BY SUNDAY MORNING, officials were fairly boiling with frustration. Although...
Chatting with John Warner about the state of literary magazines, freelancing, Substack, and vanishing writing careers.
100% organic GMO-free dog shit. – Beeple I loved this song from the first time I heard it in the mid-1980s, so there was no way I was not going to use it as Coe’s sendoff. The links above it were provided by Kevin Wilson (x2); Jesse...
My first film photography - Zenit TTL
Another Elite Panic track assembled from bits of TikTok
Robbie Whelan and Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (Apple News+): Apple and Intel have reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to manufacture some of the chips that power Apple devices, according to people familiar...
The tenth and final story in my new collection Thin Places in Hard Concrete is about what might happen if time froze around you for just a few seconds, leaving you out of sync with the world. Here’s a bit from the opening which takes...
A lovely warm sunny day. Did all the usual jobs and did some hoeing all the afternoon. No cars in to wash. Alf Watts paid a visit. Boilers off all day.