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somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyondE. E. Cummings Released with the December 2021 issue of Musica Jazz, this compilation traces Carla Bley’s compositions and arrangements across the ECM and WATT universes. Some performances...
Before meeting up with Jenny and Chan, Jenny asked me what was on my “to try” listSo we tried Le’s Saigon Special and Ry’s PokeThe Saigon Special is delicious. (Pickled daikon and carrot, pate, mayo, steamed pork roll, charsiu,...
This was my third year at GenCon, but my first time running games. I was super anxious about it to the point of neglecting my prep until the last minute, though I think/hope my players didn't notice! I got a lot of compliments on the set...
It's a day late but I've answered the Blaugust group project prompt: 'Tell us all about your very first blog!'
Summary from Goodreads...Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated...
Marisa Mercurio Under Review:The Turn. Rachel Feder. Triquarterly Books, July 2026. Title, in this particular sequence of words, borrowed from “Screwed” by Janelle Monáe (2018) I missed my train. I was going to York. Copy of Rachel...
git log has an --author option to limit the output to commits from matching authors: $ git log --author=<pattern> But there’s no option to invert the filter and show commits from all authors except those matching a pattern. Instead, you...
Eli Roth has directed notable horror movies, among them Cabin Fever (2002) and Hostel (2005). He's also produced such helpings of horror as Clown (2014) and Haunt (2019). Now, Roth arrives with Ice Cream Man, a horror movie that tries to...
Sopwith is a 1984 videogame made by David L. Clark for the original, seminal IBM PC model 5150. It sports the distinctive 4-color CGA palette and an equally distinctive PC speaker soundtrack. It’s also one of the oldest videogames still...
So… I didn’t make it to the city again. I didn’t even make it to the garden to harvest until the late afternoon. I will cover why in my next post. When I did make it out, my daughter was there to help me with the walker and to harvest...
It's already been almost a month (how??) since I deleted all my corporate social media accounts. Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Discord, among others. And as a result I've found myself looking at other social platforms and communities to...
A Palace Near the Windby Ai JiangGenres: Fantasy Pages: 185 Series: Natural Engines #1 Rating: Synopsis: Sometimes called Wind Walkers for their ability to command the wind, unlike their human rulers, the Feng people have bark faces,...
Don't panic, not a long post. I visit my university city every couple of months because I like the scene (whimsy) and I visited again today to catch up with a friend who's moving away for a Masters in a couple months. I won't air out our...
The piece that follows comes from a talk I gave back in the spring at the Marx is’ Muss conference in Berlin. I was together in a panel with a member of the RAR organising committee, the artist and designer Ruth Gregory. This afternoon,...
There are a number of Fujifilm and Fujifilm-related events that are coming up soon, especially in September and October. I’ll be at a few of them, so I wanted to give you a heads up, in case you want to stop by and say hi or sign up for...