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The teenagers of 1950s America helped create a completely new youth culture, one shaped by economic prosperity, growing independence, and a rapidly changing postwar society. Captured in a memorable series of photographs by photographer...
Koffee Mameya, a specialty coffee bean store near Shibuya, had always been on my radar to visit but I had never quite gotten around to it. Its reputation precedes it - I had a coffee-loving work colleague in Australia recommend it to me...
It is becoming clear to me that I did a fair amount of cooking in March that I was expecting to blog about, but hadn’t yet started blogging again. Last year I made the Moqueca Vegetariana recipe from Authentic Brazilian Home Cooking and...
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American and British discourses on public transportation are too obsessed with getting regular funding. In the United States, it’s a commonplace among advocates that what the mode really needs is a regular source of funding protected...
THE BIG COMBO – Ignite Films Joseph H. Lewis was a prolific director of B movies and episodic television, but his latter-day claim to fame is a virtuosic film noir, Gun Crazy (1950). When I first saw that film it knocked me out and led...
Finished reading: Palaver by Bryan Washington 📚
“I dreamed last night I got on the boat to heaven.” So goes the encore to Encores! Songs from the Musicals, a lyric that proves entirely apt for the thrilling experience of […]
Unrelatedly, I'm starting to close in on a Maniac 1cc of Mushihimesama (using S-type shot) which is probably going to be my first clear of a Cave game. It's gonna be a bit, still; I'm missing some answers for the stage 4 boss, the stage...
I’ve seen Tuner more than once and while it’s a thriller with its fair share of surprises, it holds up awfully well. I would urge you to go out and see it at your first opportunity. If grownups don’t support an entertaining mainstream...
After 34 years together, Liz and I are getting divorced. This is an amicable split, everyone behaved completely honorably, and we remain friends. We are working together to make sure we both have a solid start in the next phase of our...
qntm — Fine Structure Feb 4 This novel covers some of the same ground as Ra, but I didn't like it as much — it didn't feel as coherent and directed, which drained some of the impact of the big gonzo ideas. Anyway, read Ra! I can't yet...