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Week one of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School summer festival feels a bit like opening the door to a house party at 2am: exciting, messy, full of people trying to work out who they are in real time. It’s one of the pleasures of these...
In the just slightly alternative reality we are presented with in Yaxlont, monsters who live under the bed are real and anyone can see them (well, the kids at least – it isn’t made clear whether adults can). They befriend a child who...
Hopepunk narratives are a true antidote to real-world grimness, showing ordinary people fighting for a better word.
Last time, I was writing about the freedom to create something I am discovering lately. Well, I’m happy to say that things went even further this month. I don’t remember if I had seen a video or something else, but in January I had a...
A classic I discovered in my late 30s. Better late than never. Clever and funny! I have to read more by Calvino. Rating: 🥝Hey, thanks for reading my blog via the RSS feed! Feel welcome to get in touch!
I love time loops in media—from Groundhog Day to...hey, wait a minute. Does anybody else feel a weird sense of déjà vu? It can't just be me. Do you ever get up in the morning and feel as though you've already lived the same day?
Πολύ ωραίο. Set on a planet on the far end of the universe, the interactions between the human ambassadors engineered to be able to speak the double language of the curious but benign (and extremely strange) native aliens.
So, to the 'meat and two veg' of a toy soldier Blog (really I like to think we are a ' toy soldier, model figure and novelty' Blog!), with the chaps (and occasionally, chapesses) in Khaki, and it's always a mix of rack-toy rusk and...
I love using WebMention, but I find so few posts that I feel I can reply to. I am desperately hungry for WebMention content that asks open-ended questions I can reply to. I follow the Open Mentions WebMention topic closely (I follow them...
From In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2014), Kindle pp. 210-211: That same week, as De Long and his men rejoiced in their conquest of a … Continue reading →
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got gruit, jesters and speckled hens. First, some news. Spanish brewing company Damm has, for some mysterious reason, acquired the Speckled Hen...