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Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys On Sunday, Beatrix will walk out of the arena at Circus Juventas for the last time, and that thought has me up early this morning. It’s not like I did not know it before, but it’s hitting especially hard. Same.
I’m writing this to hold myself accountable as much as anything. To stop me taking the path of least resistance and to be more intentional about what I do next. I have a little breathing space so I don’t need to jump into something to...
As with previous issues, here are scores of photos and links that were left on the cutting room floor during the BLAG 09 edit. The post follows the page order of the magazine, serving as a digital companion to the print publication.Read...
I’m working on a big project around the Oscars, and it's revealing just how sparse the research landscape is on Oscar voters. For example, there is only one reliable source for the average age of Oscar voters. In 2012, the Los Angeles...
I came across a snippet of an old Kobe Bryant interview and I felt like I had to share it: Interviewer: There's players who love to win and players who hate to lose. Which one are you? Bryant: Neither. I play to figure things out. I play...
Believe it or not, doll cakes can be tricky! Observe:Stick the doll in too low, and she looks like she's being swallowed: Too high, and she's being abducted by aliens: Not to mention there's all that pesky "understanding how a doll cake...
(Sarah Read is an author, editor, yarn artist, and pen/paper/ink addict. You can find more about her at her website and on Bluesky. And her latest book, The Atropine Tree, is now available!)When I think of BENU, I think of bright colors,...
Starting the month with 100 degree days certainly is a miserable way to kick things off. On the upside, the Dungeon Dwellers RPG kickstarter arrived. Nice big box of new minis to paint and rules to read! Did I actually do any of that? A...
July was a VERY busy month. This month I ricocheted from the city of Prague to the lavender fields of Provence to the green cliffs of Ireland to a concert swelling with thousands of people in bald caps to my favorite island in Italy....
Introduction There’s one piece of audio gear I miss, it is my Technics SL-J33 turntable. I guess technically now it is considered vintage audio gear since it was produced in the 1980s. And, I would hazard a guess, that if you are used to...
A FOR ANYTHING Damon Knight © 1959 Zenith Books, Inc © 1965 Damon Knight
Another city on a rock – that‘s common thing in this region. The rock had a lot of tunnels underneath, most of them were dug by the Etruscan some 2.500 years ago. People later expanded these tunnels to be comfortable from the cold in...
Although Alison Green wasn't writing about conspiracism, a recent post of hers at Ask a Manager indirectly reminded me of that phenomenon, and the seemingly creative ways that conspiracists purport to explain what's "really going...
In 1773, Ann Lee and other Shakers were arrested for causing a disturbance during a service at Christ Church in Manchester. Afterwards she was questioned by ministers. Richard Francis, Ann the Word: > Once when recounting the tale of...
Back in 2008, I was kicking around Manchester and my best mate Emily introduced me to MaxNormal.TV – the precursor to what would later be known as South Africa’s international superstars and rap rave outfit Die Antwoord, fronted by Waddy...