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Despite their fur coats, the cats have been perfectly happy during the various heatwaves this summer, presumably because they know they can count on fresh water (even if Hector prefers to drink from the pond or the bowl outside by the...
If there is a greatest contemporary play, it is probably Angels in America. Tony Kushner’s A Gay Fantasia on National Themes has occupied that position for more than three decades, a work so vast in its ambition and so startling in its...
The Hollywood dream has always contained a nightmare. When Nathanael West published The Day of the Locust in 1939, he looked beyond the glamour of the movie industry and focused instead on those marooned at its edges: aspiring actors,...
This is the weekly sniff. A roundup of links (linkdump) from the optimistically last week but more likely last month.Best in showhttps://overkill.wtf/notes/uses-updated-august - Overkills updated uses page. I know how much time these are...
I bought this at the Gwen John exhibition in Cardiff, intrigued that an artist was writing to a dead artist about their lives. I had not heard of Celia Paul before (I’m not a great follower of modern art), and I’d disliked Margaret...
I brought my big honking Pentax 645 to a car show recently. The only lens I own for it, the 75mm f/2.8 SMC Pentax-A 645, was mounted, and I had spooled some Ilford HP5 Plus inside. I shot two rolls, actually; here are the shots I liked...
My Dad, Harold D. Burk (1909-1978), passed away in the Bronx, New York, OTD in 1978. He was five weeks from his 70th birthday. I've added Dad to Find a Grave here with a bite-sized bio, noting his service in the US Army during World War...
Had what felt like a minor lightbulb moment in response to this observation from Warren: Imagine a story where the events in our lives that happen online are never depicted or mentioned. A day would seem twelve hours long and the...
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A new Jess Kidd book is always something to look forward to and this year we’ve had two of them: first, Murder at the Spirit Lounge, the second book in the Nora Breen Investigates series, and now Little Spark, a standalone novel set in...
Hmm... well since it was never born it can never die. 'It' was/is/will never 'be' - life doesn't noun although humans appear to! Words appear to be 'pockets of power'. We make them into things. MEANING: starts with 'me' and are the same...
Yes. The holiday season is finally over so now I can get back to doing more of nothing in particular. That's not strictly true. Everyday opens up like some swirling black hole of strange activities that I just fall into. Before long...
I received a digital proof of this from NetGalley, courtesy of the folks at Random House and Vintage, so thank you to them for that. Switzy is the twelfth book from this year's Booker longlist that I've read, and it might be the one...
Adding a Dark Mode toggle to your website is a nice touch that many users appreciate. When implementing one, the default instinct for many developers is to reach for a simple binary switch: Light on one side, Dark on the other. While a...
Back in March I wrote about my new retro motherboard rack using BILLY bookshelves, which someone submitted to the Orange Peanut Gallery. It was a bit of a silly post, but it did solve a real issue I had. The email responses I got were...