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New Orleans-based R&B singer and guitarist Alvin Robinson first toured Britain in spring 1966 after he was brought over by promoter Roy Tempest for a nationwide tour with fellow New Orleans stars, female vocal trio, The Dixie Cups. It...
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is a freebie about book covers! I decided to highlight some fun/pretty/cute danmei and baihe covers (from my collection), because I often get comments about them. For those who don’t already know,...
It’s getting hard to avoid LLMs these days. Even if you avoid social media (or at least curate a follow list that avoids the bulk of the slop factory) and shrug off grandiose marketing statements that end up taken at face value in the...
Tyler emailed me a long while back. For certain reasons, I haven't been able to answer him until now. While writing my reply, I noticed that I wanted to share something about this topic here as well. It’s about clouds. Delighted to have...
Life and Transience. "Life is all the things of mortals and all things pass us by; but if not, then we ourselves will pass them by."or"Everything passes. If it doesn't, we do."I saw a book advertised on Amazon all about the "analogue...
Above: Not a fictional character, not from TV or film, but a real live person. Cédric Villani (actual last name), French mathematician and politician, spotted in Standart's Enki Bilal documentary. Love me an eccentric. Also of note:...
Almost two years ago, I wrote about saving tabs in a text-file. Yesterday, Flamed tooted about open tabs that he has read, bookmarked, and closed. I have an issue with open tabs. Often, my browser has over a thousand of tabs opened that...
2025 fantasy mystery, second in the series. On the border of the Empire, a new member of the mission negotiating with a petty kingdom has disappeared from his room and later turned up, well, some of him has turned up, floating in the...
A little mouse, foraging for food, comes across and injured bird. It has been trapped by the wing and the mouse makes the decision, on the spot, to help the bird, release it and share its home with it until it is fully recovered and can...
Rodney Forest Ludlow was among the richest young men in Springfield, Ohio, in 1888. His father owned an iron foundry and arranged lucrative positions for each of his sons. Rodney, or “R.F.” as he preferred, was 35, married with four...
Rodney Forest Ludlow was among the richest young men in Springfield, Ohio, in 1888. His father owned an iron foundry and arranged lucrative positions for each of his sons. Rodney, or “R.F.” as he preferred, was 35, married with four...
Duncan Rawlinson created this image using artificial intelligence to explore hybrid digital forms. The composition presents oversized fungal and coral-like structures in saturated blue and red against a dark field. Radiating filaments...
VENDOR DROID Silver Star Tours Droid Factory Customizable Figure Item No.: ??? Manufacturer: Disney? Number: n/a Includes: n/a Action Feature: Removable limbs Retail: $12.95 Availability: April 2017 Appearances: The Clone WarsBio: A...
How listening to and collecting vinyl records helped me reconnect with music. At the start of July, I decided I wanted to collect records again.* This happened after we visited our neighborhood comic book store and realized there was a...