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The End Is Nigh! Quick, grab the essentials! (That's peanut butter cake, right?)(EXCELLENT.) Misspelled?Check.Sperm balloons?Checkity check.Unintentionally suggestive inscription? CHECK, PLEASE. They tell me this is supposed to be a...
Image: A Citizen Eco-Drive Zenshin (AW0130-85L), and Citizen Classic Eco-Drive (AW0082-01A), Photo by Unattributed, License: Copyright Unattributed. Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. Up until now I've only owned one Citizen...
Apocalyptic SteelOut 26th June on Season of Mist Underground Activists Say what you like about Nargaroth, but the guy dances to the beat of his own drum. In his earliest period Ash was simply content to write Nordic black metal fanfic,...
Cool and humid at dawn. I open my laptop to draw the mosquitoes away from my head with a glowing screen. The cardinal begins to sing.
Hell is a city much like London – A populous and a smoky city. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
Things are slowly getting back into gear after my trip and the last week being mostly for other life matters. Let’s share some code! I’ve got half of the material for our sponsorship drive ready to go. On Friday I plan to write the...
I am a TA, watching a teacher come into primary school and have to be taught by the kids what a "fronted adverbial for time" is. Why? Because we used to teach people how to write instead. The Average Lesson.Children today you will write...
<If you too want to change the frustrating misconception of people at large calling our Moon’s farside as its “dark side”, send them this rebuttal article by Ethan Siegel while also blaming Pink Floyd and the Transformers. The Moon does...
Note finger partially over lens because I had already drunk all these, and also a Cornish whisky called Pocketful Of Stones. Out in November: a new edition of OCEAN by myself and Chris Sprouse. New newsletter went out Sunday. I saw...
Haven of Trinkets, Wielder of Arms and Delver of Gems as dragons took flight from the ledge where sat the main door that led into the temple. Glory and Ruin’s People also left from the same door but on foot. By air and by land eastward...
You open a new productivity app and you start getting organized with a hierarchy. Projects. Sub-projects. Tasks. Sub-tasks. This feels serious. This feels professional. You feel in control. Yet when you open my to-do app, Nozbe, you...
[A jail term for this might be excessive, though.] Today in ridiculous “What are you in for?” prison stories, the owner of a Michelin-starred restaurant in South Korea could face a year in jail for using ants as a garnish. Barvd. In its...
You open a new productivity app and you start getting organized with a hierarchy. Projects. Sub-projects. Tasks. Sub-tasks. This feels serious. This feels professional. You feel in control. Yet when you open my to-do app, Nozbe, you...
Q: I have noticed the absence of the subjunctive in lines from recent shows and movies. Have you? A: The English subjunctive has been gradually disappearing since Anglo-Saxon days, with ups and downs along the way, but it hasn’t...