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At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my...
“Ask and you shall receive,” Jesus said. That’s what I did after reading Mark Thompson’s cold email challenge. I reached out to four writers I admire and shared how they had inspired me. I also sent them a digital copy of 10 Surprisingly...
Promotional samplers are made with an expiration date hidden inside them. They announce new releases, then yield to the next campaign. The four rare ECM/Polydor records gathered under the “New Music” banner have resisted that planned...
The first recording today is Kerwhizz – The Supershape Showdown. Media Centre Description: Kerwhizzkids Ninki, Twist and Kit need to be in good shape for this raceworld. They must answer kerwhizzical questions carefully to get the best...
The classical music coming from within this building drew me in.
Now, a piece of my life story you have heard about from my side of the event — the first meeting of Ann Walcutt Daingerfield and Arnold Melchior Zwicky (which happened in the bowels of the Firestone Library at Princeton University) —...
We last covered Fraser Peck in a post two months ago, noting that it was reported he’d been banned from hospitality events hosted by the City of London council including dinners at the Mansion House & Guildhall due to his involvement in...
No, really, this time I mean it! I know I've said it before! But this time I really, really, really reallyreally mean it! I won't even install one for review! I mean... okay. Probably. Like Garfield (and the Jedi), I loathe dealing in...
Starving artist Glenn Anders (Lady From Shanghai) loves Nancy Carroll (Broken Lullaby), but Nancy loves Parisian Fredric March (romantic lead(s) of I Married a Witch), but she is married to older Frank “The Wizard of Oz” Morgan. She’s...
Heaven Official's Blessingby STARemberGenres: Fantasy, Manga, Romance Pages: 244 Series: Heaven Official's Blessing (manhua) #1 Rating: Synopsis: A fallen god unravels supernatural mysteries and comes face-to-face with ghosts from his...
Despite the repeated warnings about the invader/conqueror from the north, the book of Jeremiah doesn’t actually mention Babylon by name until chapter 20. He spends nineteen chapters talking about this impending disaster “from the north”...
We ended up at a gem and mineral show today and look at this agate sphere I found! A naturally occurring yin yang when you hold it just right 🤩
Throwing rocks and sea shells. About the right thing to do in such situations.
In 1980, Commodore got their first factory in Germany (in Braunschweig). The CEO Jack Tramiel came to give a speech and was warned “don’t tell them you’re Jewish”. He handled it in typical Tramiel fashion: So what did I do? I made a...
The anthropological project, tired and exhausted after years searching for ‘methodological absolution’, remains mired in a spiral of self-doubt and self-indulgent ‘crisis’. Anthropological teaching continues the very complicities that a...