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Student houses are strange ecosystems. Leave a group of young adults unsupervised for long enough and the place begins to generate its own climate. Empty bottles multiply like weeds. Dirty washing forms geological layers. Conversations...
Writers are often accused of playing God. They create people, assign them destinies and, in Shakespeare’s case, have a worrying habit of killing them. MUSE: The Shakespeare Mayhem Musical asks an intriguing question: what if those...
Roden Readers — OK, so I need to retract something from the previous Roden sent just a couple weeks back. The weather in Japan, in AUGUST, has been … SOMEWHAT SANE? A series of typhoons — some glancing off Japan, others smacking it — has...
Greek tragedy usually arrives like a thunderstorm. The audience can see it gathering on the horizon long before the first bolt strikes. Fate approaches with terrifying certainty, and the drama comes from watching people continue walking...
Just before sunset? How could I not, really?
Whenever I start thinking about Women in Translation Month, I take myself off to the study and rummage through my shelves to see what’s lurking at the back, forgotten and waiting to be rediscovered (it can be rather eerie back there…). I...
After a bit of silence here, during which I spent some time relaxing, reading books, and taking a so-called vacation, I'm now picking up where I left off and working on my Kirby plugins. I have a mountain of tasks and ideas piling up.In...
BDX DROID Green Cresh Star Wars Droid Depot Item No.: ??? Manufacturer: Disney Number: n/a Includes: 3 other droids Action Feature: Hatless - I repeat, hatless Retail: $49.99 $59.99 Availability: May 2026 Appearances: The Mandalorian and...
Duncan Rawlinson created this image using artificial intelligence and digital art techniques. The work shows a fantastical garden where translucent, glass-like plants rise from textured ground in purple, green, coral, and magenta. Orbs...
Grief rarely arrives as a single emotion. More often it comes in fragments, flashes and recurring images that surface without warning. Like objects washed ashore after a storm, memories appear unexpectedly, demand attention and then...
In the last post in this series, I talked about the rapid expansion in the availability and use of mathematical and scientific instruments in England in the Early Modern Period. After describing the areas where these new instruments came...
ive been no contact with my ex (out of convenience / awkwardness, not some kind of agreement) for maybe six months now? they got in touch a couple of weeks ago because theyre planning to move to a bigger city to start a stable and well...
This post is from my old "Ask a Frenchman" series, which I'm reviving a little. Today, we're talking about the French and English languages, and diacritics. Today, we’re delving into one of the oddities of the French language: its...
Yet another wonderful day. Warm and sunny. Got a lovely black kitten off Joho Keys. Washed Dol’s car, making 94 to date. Did some more cleaning under rhodies. Still in dog house.
I was talking with Will Lloyd (Rye Sands) recently, and we both reflected how building a structure is a sort of promise or commitment to a project. Will reflected that perhaps it’s easier to let stock come and go, but a structure is...