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My "big" Manx purchase came from the antique centre in Peel, a pair of railway cartoons. They appear to be originals; even studying them under a loupe, this seems to be the case. Mind you, I'd not have been ripped off if they were prints...
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s. It has already received near-universal acclaim from film critics and earned more at the box office in its opening weekend than any of Nolan’s...
The pre-Code Warner Bros. film THE KEYHOLE (1933), a melodrama with comedic overtones, will be released on Blu-ray next week by the Warner Archive Collection.I don't believe I'd seen this film since my first viewing in 2008, during a...
You lot, after reading the clickbaity title. You are correct to do so.Pull the trigger, Piglet. Howdy, Farmhands! In 2024, I made a post titled "The Realms I Never Knew," in which I had a bit of an epiphany wrt setting design after...
OK, folks. Fire up your Paypal accounts, clutch your credit cards and get ready for THE SHRINKER!!!The second proof arrived during the week and it looks great. A couple of tweaks I made after seeing the first proof have printed correctly...
With a dropped jaw, buggy eyes, and sweaty palms your hot, salty head pops up from your warm pillow in a heart-pounding state of emergency. After a second of massively intense panic where you zoom into brain-rushing, adrenaline-gushing...
Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, July 27 through Sunday, August 2! This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list...
Bean to Bar is not your typical Japanese game. When I hear Japanese game, by default I imagine a short, minimalistic and clever card game with few components. Bean to Bar is a complex and heavy Euro style game with many more stuff than...
On the request of Sky Hulk reader Emma, I am here to recount my household's spurtled way with porridge.Most spurtles are about 30 cm long but the spurtle I chose for us last week is a wee cutty-spurtle, at 20 cm. While longer spurtles...
Yesterday's post took a lot out of me and I've been feeling the emotional hangover all day. It's weird that this kind of thing (the emotional hangover, I mean) exists, but I'm still grateful for it; if you're going to live the fuck out...
Now here's a thing that puzzled me for a while...The Soft Boys recorded a song titled "The Lonesome Death of Ian Penman" (which I've only just realised is an extension of the Dylan fandom - "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll") (and...
Vibed on the couch for a bit, enjoyed some videos and some ice cream after dinner. After a while of watching the Dev Livestream I jumped in for some games (I was debating if I was too tired to play, but I played a bit!) and how can I not...
Leica at Leica – New York, New York We left Chelsea Market and headed to the Meatpacking District, a mere 5 minutes away on foot. There wasn’t much to see in this area until fairly recently, when the old warehouses were transformed into...
suffering, eons, and a gas station i have been suffering most righteously. for eons now, it feels like. it has been so very long. is anyone still reading these? am i a character in anybody's inner world? do you remember me? do you read...
So I'm driving out of my community garden the other afternoon, my shocks straining with the weight of zucchini when I pass a cop sitting in his car. I knew what I had to do … It was hot in the garden. Even on days when people aren't...