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Obviously, I bought some tat from the Isle of Man. This was limited because I already have so much Manx tat from previous visits, I always buy a couple of Groudle dayglo pencils for example, that I have to work harder to search out the...
Adieu, camarade. Tu auras vecu, véritablement, et peut-être mieux que personne. Farewell, comrade. You truly lived— and lived perhaps better than anyone else.
$253.11, to be exact, but the total stock up shop was more. I just didn’t get a picture of the rest. After my doctor’s appointment was done, I needed to have lunch somewhere. I decided to go to a Subway near the Walmart, which decided...
I started taking orders for THE SHRINKER on Friday, but that meant posting the page on the Bear Alley Books blog last thing on Thursday night and the first order came in at 1:13 in the morning. That's quick off the blocks for any of my...
My Blueberry Nights is a 2007 romantic drama film directed by Wong Kar-Wai, his first feature in English. The screenplay by Wong and Lawrence Block is based on a Chinese-language short film written and directed by Wong. My Blueberry...
They’re short and there’s nothing they can do about it except learn to live with their crazy shortness. For this reason, we respect them and think they’re cool. If you’re really, really short, you feel it, because this is your life: •...
Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, August 3 through Sunday, August 9! This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list...
I played the physical version of Rumble Nation. This is a minimalistic area majority game. I normally dislike area majority games, but this one is just so clever. It's a game from Japan, and the setting is Japan too. You roll three dice...
I was a Knicks fan growing up. I loved Ewing, hated Jordan, and thought (correctly, btw) that most of the Bulls fans I grew up around were bandwagoners or otherwise folks who liked the Bulls because they liked Jordan, by which I mean...
Sequels: The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really…, Bleach Thousand-Year Blood War The Calamity, Cleavtess S2, Daemons of the Shadow Realm, The Drops of God, The Elusive Samurai S2, From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman 2, Grand...
I didn’t like The Odyssey (2026) very much, and any objections to that take are going to fall on deaf ears. Literally, since I saw it yesterday and my ears are still ringing. I honestly don’t understand why people are so eager to give...
How presumptuous of you, and what a dickish tone you either deliberately took or else have as a default. If you read my latest three posts, it culminates with calling Herman out for still applying censor via modifying the post buoyancy....
This is it. EVERY single way to cook ribs. Whether you're doing them on your regular old propane BBQ, a smoker or a Sous Vide machine, this post will explain step-by-step how to get gorgeous barkey ribs no matter what. I began my quest...
Welcome back! Hopefully you have all sobered up from your senshuraku parties by now. Jungyo will kick off this upcoming weekend in Gifu city, an hour drive north of the venue in Nagoya. But before we focus on the tour this weekend, let’s...
The Traits, 1967, from left: Bob Creaturo, Bobby Williams (on drums), Mike Carroll, Phil Daddona, Jim Klieforth (on keyboard, obscured) and Artie Williams. Photo from Mike Carroll, courtesy of his family. I corresponded with Jim...