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TARZAN OF MARS TARZAN: EPIC ADVENTURES (TRENDMASTERS) Way back in February, I took a look at Edgar Rice Burroughs’ first enduring pulp hero, John Carter. But John’s not really his most famous creation. That would be Tarzan, occasional...
The album cycle for DIIV’s fourth album, 2024’s Frog In Boiling Water, kicked off with the viral soul-net.co infinite website/single in Fall 2023, while they were touring with Depeche Mode and carried on through 2025 before wrapping with...
I am very much appreciative of the simplicity of the front cover design for Theo of Golden. “Yes, I have thought about it. In fact, I’ve thought about it a great deal. And I’ve asked others about it. But I don’t know if I have an answer...
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Algebraic effects are a style / mathematical framework for modelling mutation, search, and some other things. They are another attempt to bridge the gap between mathy looking stuff and our crass world of mud and time.
22nd July. Another uneventful and slightly overcast jaunt to Warriston. But pleasant enough to archive some pics and video rather than bin it. Of note: this wren - I suspect a youngster - was particularly active around the In Loving...
I’m very pleased to present a guest blog by one of my students at the University of Sussex. The author, Elize Holyoake, recently completed our English in the United States module and will be entering her third year in the BA English...
Sad news from Ireland via the Irish Independent:Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has died overnight in a motorcycle crash in Dublin’s Lucan. The renowned musician was killed in the single-vehicle crash near Strawberry...
I’m still not back to doing indie game roundups just yet but I did want to give a shout out to all the adventure games coming out lately since there’s been so many lately but you wouldn’t know it from being in the adventure game...
I wasn’t sure whether this piece in The Economist of May 23rd rated a comment until towards the end when they assured me that one of the writers of LitRPG (literary role-playing games) “with the cryptic pen name Zogarth, makes nearly...
Hello? It’s for you. Pressed cardboard Walkie Talkie from a game. Circa 1950s. Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb
The most important open letter in years dropped yesterday. This letter noticeably increases my hope that we will manage to not die, and that we will otherwise be able to secure for ourselves a positive future, both by its impact and by...
As an artist, Leonor Fini has never received as much attention as her contemporary and near namesake Leonora Carrington but this didn’t stop film-makers calling at Fini’s door in later life. The best of the ones I’ve seen to date (and...
I installed the macOS 27 beta on a spare 2020 M1 Mac Mini and ran Geekbench before and after. Most scores improved, one dropped slightly.
I don’t want to write the same book twice. I challenge myself to make every book different. So far, I’ve experimented with formats: a choose-your-own-adventure, a 10-point list, and a one-idea-per-chapter book. For my latest books, 10...