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Some 60 years ago this week, over the skies of the Republic of Vietnam. An LTV F-8E Crusader of the “Hunters” of Fighter Squadron 162 (VF-162), fires 2.75-inch Zuni rockets in support of ground forces in South Vietnam during USS Oriskany...
Twenty years of songs, field recordings, and one very awkward job interview. I hadn't opened SoundCloud in years, but earlier this week I fell down one of those late-night internet rabbit holes, the type where you go looking for one...
Growing up, I wanted an impressive life. I was ambitious, smart, and capable. Yet, what I wanted to be - was just impressive. Wise people will already to start to see a problem. It’s a lack of clarity. I was lucky enough to be interested...
Wt Cult TV Blog, John revisits the BBC 1980s-90s series Forty Minutes (not to be confused with 60 Minutes), and the episode "Separate Tables," which takes us back stage at a residential hotel, and how they work.David's moved to Tuesday...
There’s a breed of human you meet when you’re out in the midst of an awe-inspiring vista -> The annoying photo taker. This person refuses to take in anything with their own eyes. Every view has to be seen through the phone. Every...
This is a live audio recording plus transcript of me and Iain Sinclair answering an audience question of What Is Psychogeography at the Wanstead Tap, May 2024. Could you both please try and define psychogeography? Iain Sinclair: Now,...
The Humble Bundle Deal we have going with 22 of my works has been running for three weeks now, and in that time we have raised almost $35,000 for World Central Kitchen — but all good things must come to an end, and the end of this one is...
I have been to and seen many protests. But this one (#cjpprotests) is very different from the rest. I see them not only facing so much harshness but also having so much fun and so much camaraderie. It makes me jealous. All power to the...
Something strange is happening at the boarding house run by Miss Lemon’s sister, Poirot decides to find the answers. Unsatisfying mystery with unnecessary twists, almost no Poirot, and can probably win the award for most tenuously titled...
Some time ago I wrote a small script for myself because I wanted an answer to one very simple question: Did I accidentally do something stupid on this VPS? Which, to be fair, is a question worth asking from time to time. I run different...
Welcome to this week's Link Dump!Featuring music from the Strange Company Orchestra!The forgotten Fifth Crusade.The gangs of 1970s Brooklyn.A visit to Waltham Abbey.A memorial to a murdered postmaster.How ancient humans regarded...
The instant a business guy uses a sports metaphor to make his most important strategic point, I am lost. If you want me to understand your business idea, try wrapping it in Wendy Carlos’s secrets of synthesis or quotations by Orson...
I didn't care for this book. It attempts to interweave botanical and cultural history with an autobiography and ends up doing neither particularly well. For every dose of poetry about the far-flung and exotic journey of the fruit,...
Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.[image or embed]— Rav (@rvbdrm.com) July 21, 2026 at 8:38 PM Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S....
I draw the conclusion that, assuming no important wars and no important increase in population, the economic problem may be solved, or be at least within sight of solution, within a hundred years. This means that the economic problem is...