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First off, a few notes about the site. Yes, I tinkered with the appearance a bit, bringing it a little more in line with What Had Come Before. The post titles are now all caps again, we’ve got serif fonts back, and most importantly, I’ve...
We seem to often arrive at Lik Be during Rack Toy Month, and while I tried to resist poking the Northern cow-pat of competitiveness this year, reader Keith Harrison mentioned he had all the missing clear-plastic 'Vitrine' LB robots, of...
I finished The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams yesterday, and it's the seventh book from this year's Booker longlist that I've read. *(As I mentioned in my review of May We Feed The King I'm transcribing these over from tiktok, so...
After observing a large weather balloon (launched from the top of Mt. Everest), I have determined that this would be a good day to share some RANDOS. First up is this nice photo, date-stamped "August, 1967", featuring the entrance to...
Really need to get my mind off the usual lunacy we are forced to live with on a daily basis, so how 'bout a nice lighthearted musical melody to soothe the nerves and bring in the weekend... So all you younger readers, aspiring musicians,...
…aaaand inevitably, my plans go out of the window… As I mentioned at the end of July, I had made a modest pile of books for August’s Women in Translation Month, and for two titles I’ve stuck to my plans. However, I saw mention online (I...
What’s the best score a game can get? The enthusiastic critical acclaim of a 9/10? The once-a-generation perfection of a 10/10? No. The best score a game can ever get is a 6/10. I’ll freely admit that number—with or without the hundreds...
Crossing point The Palladian Bridge in the park at Stowe was built in 1739 by the first Viscount Cobham, around the time that many of the numerous other garden structures – temples, pavilions, statues and monuments – were erected there....
I still haven’t seen The Odyssey but one of the writers who first made me want to write is insisting I should and that’s harder to resist than it is to find the time to see it. Nonetheless, if this film is more interesting in the...
Halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, on a remote desert hillside somebody bolted a giant iron megaphone to the rocks. No trail, no sign, nothing pointing you to it. It’s about eight feet of riveted metal, wedged between two...
I just found this blog post from Adam Le Doux, the creator of bitsy, a very tiny pixel art gamemaking tool that anyone can learn to use in almost no time at all. It hit me like a truck because: holy fuck, bitsy is ten years old??? I...
My kids, 6 and not-quite-4, are learning chess — and they are kicking my ass. Well, okay…I’ll admit that it’s a bit click-baity, because they have yet to beat me. And I’m actually not all that good at chess myself. But I’m seriously...
Doris Troy, 1969 Soul and R&B singer/songwriter and pianist Doris Troy is perhaps best known for her hit “Just One Look” and as a session singer after she relocated to Britain in 1969. Her popularity in Britain prompted her first tour in...
This summer is really coning on for The End Of Days. No rain at all for July, then a good bit of persistent drizzle on 3rd August but we're back to desertification for the 10 days since then. There is a hose-pipe ban for those who on the...
This week was intense, more intense than expected, but as I sit and write this blog, birds chirping, trains running by on the tracks outside the apartment of my friend's place where I am staying; I feel a sense of calm that comes from...