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Sirk with the same great cast as Written on the Wind – inconsistent dubbing, but the greatest widescreen staging and overheated actors. Our doomed lovers are even more inevitably doomed than ever before, since they are daredevil pilots...
Ukiyo-e is the 2025 Japanese edition of an old game from Michael Schacht, called Crazy Chicken (2003). This is a simple, mostly abstract card game, so it is easy to retheme. I would never have imagined a game about crazy chicken getting...
A new article has been published: Yanderes and Why I Hate Most Depictions of Them.
I have enjoyed the Flickr photo community for years. Although I left a couple of times, I always came back. I value the high-resolution images and the ability to see all the photos from the people I follow without an algorithm deciding...
We recently visited GESHARY COFFEE, a specialty coffee shop and roaster near Tokyo station that specialises in selling coffee made with Geisha (also known as Gesha) beans. They offer pour-over, cold brew and espresso-based lattes. The...
At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my...
“Ask and you shall receive,” Jesus said. That’s what I did after reading Mark Thompson’s cold email challenge. I reached out to four writers I admire and shared how they had inspired me. I also sent them a digital copy of 10 Surprisingly...
Promotional samplers are made with an expiration date hidden inside them. They announce new releases, then yield to the next campaign. The four rare ECM/Polydor records gathered under the “New Music” banner have resisted that planned...
The first recording today is Kerwhizz – The Supershape Showdown. Media Centre Description: Kerwhizzkids Ninki, Twist and Kit need to be in good shape for this raceworld. They must answer kerwhizzical questions carefully to get the best...
The classical music coming from within this building drew me in.
Now, a piece of my life story you have heard about from my side of the event — the first meeting of Ann Walcutt Daingerfield and Arnold Melchior Zwicky (which happened in the bowels of the Firestone Library at Princeton University) —...
We last covered Fraser Peck in a post two months ago, noting that it was reported he’d been banned from hospitality events hosted by the City of London council including dinners at the Mansion House & Guildhall due to his involvement in...
No, really, this time I mean it! I know I've said it before! But this time I really, really, really reallyreally mean it! I won't even install one for review! I mean... okay. Probably. Like Garfield (and the Jedi), I loathe dealing in...
Starving artist Glenn Anders (Lady From Shanghai) loves Nancy Carroll (Broken Lullaby), but Nancy loves Parisian Fredric March (romantic lead(s) of I Married a Witch), but she is married to older Frank “The Wizard of Oz” Morgan. She’s...
Heaven Official's Blessingby STARemberGenres: Fantasy, Manga, Romance Pages: 244 Series: Heaven Official's Blessing (manhua) #1 Rating: Synopsis: A fallen god unravels supernatural mysteries and comes face-to-face with ghosts from his...