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This week’s theme: The four albums (plus) recorded for Prestige on May 11 and Oct. 26, 1956. Artists are Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones. For Jazz Collector Live, part of the centennial...
I am a very linky blogger: if I can hyperlink a noun in something I’m writing, I generally will. As evidence: there are 32,250 links in the 11,096 posts here. I consider this not only a service to the reading public, but also a part of...
Adrian Tahourdin’s TLS review of Rebecca Lee’s Rogues, Widows and Orphans: Mischief and misadventures in the world of books just keeps getting better: The title Rogues, Widows and Orphans is slightly misleading. Although rogues abound...
%%yellow%%i was reflecting on my time in veracruz recently%%. four years spent among the sugarcane and coffee fields. four years learning to play the jarana and sing old songs. four years making new friends, building community, making...
Great thanks to Claudio Capriolo’s excellent la regina gioiosa site https://clamarcap.net here is a whirlwind performance of Robert Palmer’s (1915 - 2010) Toccata Ostinato, and performed with great brio by Feona Lee Jones (someone to...
Andreas writes, The Amiga turns 40 this week. I had an Amiga 500 as a kid, some time in the early 90s. And I remember being made fun of for having an Amiga, because PCs were supposedly so much cooler and better and whatnot. But the first...
The mean temperature for July so far in Wanstead stands at 22.2°C, that’s 4.6°C above the 1961-90 average. Far too hot for many it would seem. And, with many regions in England now officially under drought conditions, far too dry. So...
Richard Egan in The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) Vitals Richard Egan as Jim Blair, writer At sea from San Francisco to Hawaii, Summer to December 1941 Film: The Revolt of Mamie Stover Release Date: May 11, 1956 Director: Raoul Walsh...
BLAG 09 is now landing with members around the world, so it’s time to take a look inside the latest instalment of our adventures in sign painting.Before we dive in, I want to say thank you to the entire BLAG membership who, via the...
Every now and then I start thinking maybe I should diet. This is because, according to every piece of media everywhere, I am not a man until I have abs. And while I've never seen my abs, I assume they're around here somewhere - possibly...
(Sarah Read is an author, editor, yarn artist, and pen/paper/ink addict. You can find more about her at her website and on Bluesky. And her latest book, The Atropine Tree, is now available!)Esterbrook is officially the source of all desk...
Session 323 part 3 was played on 3/15/26Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob)Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh)Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse)Nick, Fighter 8 (Me)Koltic, Cleric 9 (Cindy)Aroon, Fighter 8 (NPC)Jameth, Fighter 8 (NPC)Lor’Koth, Dwarf 8...
Filip R. Zahariev Under Review:Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction. Erik Larson. Bucknell University Press, May 2026. RNoir is defined by cynicism, insecurity, vulnerability, and what Vivian Gornick once described...
You never forget and of course, how can anyone ever forget the times of their lives? And of course, I agree, the times of our life have changed and altered from their original state. But this is a normal thing. This is a thing that comes...