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Categorizing some of the BL/ danmei novels that I’ve read. Read on RepeatThese are the stories I love. The ones I go back to again and again. I think they’re well written and would highly recommend them. The Founder of Diabolism by Mò...
[Continuing with this week’s series on Maurice Lucas. Up next is a profile of Lucas that ran in the Pittsburgh Press Sunday Magazine on February 23, 1986. The date corresponds with Lucas nearing the end of his pro career while throwing...
Lookout Phoenix metro area, a severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 11:00pm, they say. I'm very much ready for summer in the desert to be over. I mean for one, I can never figure out if I'm over watering or under watering the flora...
If you've been on the Internet, you've seen someone venting. The act of sharing anger, sadness, grief—usually with vulnerable, personal details. Almost universally, these get a bad rap. People are often drained, or annoyed, or resentful...
Director Agnieszka Holland subverts traditional biopic structure in Franz, a fragmented look at the life of Franz Kafka, the Czech author who died in 1924. Holland (Green Border) blends Kafka’s personal and aesthetic sensibilities with...
The idea of over-optimized everyday life and business, in all facets, has been banging around in my head for years. Fortunately, Daniel Frank put it into words with fifteen theses on what’s going on. Just about every point is quotable.
20 Aug 2026 emacs it Table of Contents Preamble Mastodon.el overview Mastodon.el common configuration Hacking the Mastodon.el TL icons Use Nerd Icons for toots stats Use Nerd Icons to show successful completion of actions Increasing the...
# New EP dropping on Friday. That's right, my next release is just a couple of days away. It is called "is, was, and always will be" including 6 acid tracks across different styles. It will initially be available from Subvert.fm for a...
Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. AppleInsider had a piece yesterday framing Apple's Services business as being in real trouble. A 10-Q filing warns that alternative distribution and external payment links "may earn a...
In the last few days, I’ve returned to two movies from long ago that gave me great pleasure then and have just brought me fresh joy. From 1953 (when I was in high school, in Pennsylvania), Roman Holiday, starring Audrey Hepburn and...
Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours In advance of Peta Bridle’s forthcoming exhibition London Day by Day at Southwark Cathedral from September 3rd to 14th October, here are a selection of drawings from her City of London...
Changed our curtains since it has been so blazingThese curtains were from when we were living in Osaka because Satoshi had complained that even with the curtains we had back then, it was too bright.Well, we got these the other day and...
A few days ago, after getting annoyed that Apple Mail doesn’t have a normal Zoom-in function (Magnifier isn’t what I consider normal), I downloaded Thunderbird for my personal/blog emails. I’m impressed. I remember it being a mess. It’s...
Jazz & Τζαζ, the prominent Greek monthly founded by Giorgos Charonitis in 1993, chronicled the Greek and international jazz scenes for 245 issues before ending in July 2013. Each issue carried a compilation CD, turning the magazine into...
THE MAD WORLD OF HARVEY KURTZMAN, screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival, celebrates the creator of Mad Magazine and shows there was much more to the man than just one paradigm-changing publication which permanently altered...