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I’m teaching at a perfumery school for 10 years, and we look at what our elders have done, and what history has to teach. The first thing we learn is that our craft is something extremely recent. We are really the kids on the block of...
Music I’ve bought in July. Hey, I bought a lot of stuff in July, and the reason is that I decided to buy everything from 99 Records and Spy Records that I didn’t already have. These are two Downtown New York labels that only survived for...
The sets, the clothes, the makeup, the props - it’s all a little goofy and overdone. And I think this fits the film perfectly. Because it’s not taking itself too seriously. It’s a great Akschn Fuim and simply entertaining from start to...
I’ve been very slow at getting into Tarkovsky. I have several unwatched discs that’ve been unwatched for years. But then I have too many discs. I have liked what I’ve seen but seldom find myself in the so-called mood to see more. But...
The stamps on the envelope were still moist. I noticed they were foreign. As I got to the window I realized that I was, in fact, in another country, somewhere unfamiliar. I didn’t know where. To confirm or dispel my sense of foreboding,...
Unsure if this has been suggested before: watching a 1981 performance by Masayoshi Takanaka earlier, I was captivated by how the colours and placement of the volume/tone knobs on his custom Yamaha SG are mirrored by the Super Famicom...
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is...
When I first got my Commodore 64 in the early 1980s, I was given a succession of cheap, second hand TVs to attach it to, before being bought a more reasonable sized Hitachi TV… One of the earlier ones that doesn’t leave my memory is the...
It’s the first Saturday of the month which means it’s time for another Six Degrees of Separation, hosted by Kate of Books are my Favourite and Best. The idea is that Kate chooses a book to use as a starting point and then we have to link...
August is here! This week I wrote the Destined Heroes Play Style. Most popular posts on the blog this week were Dungeon, Inc., A First Review, Running Red Dragon’s Tale, Dolmenwood Resources for You, Playing the Social Game, and...
What’s going on, Internet? If you don’t folllow my Bookmarks through the feed, then here’s the bookmarks from July. Enjoy. Rant about blogs and the IndieWeb - Dom Corriveau Okay, this one had me in tears. Such a good read. Your...
Social Connectedness Index Map St. Louis, Missouri and Bosnia and Herzegovina are separated by more than 5,000 miles. Yet Facebook friendship data reveals that the two places share remarkably strong social ties. An unusually large number...
2016 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, tenth in the Logan McRae series. A missing-persons investigation has just turned up a body in the woods, killed and arranged in a very specific way associated with a particular out-of-town...
This is my first album review. Might be also the last. Cindy Blackman Santana’s new album, Coherence was released yesterday July 31st and here is my thorough review of this masterpiece. This album is SCORCHING HELLFIRE NAPALM HAWT! There...