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SEGURA, Alain. Une saison avec Marianne: la dernière surréaliste. Bassac: Plein chant (coll. « La font secrète »), 2022 SEGURA, Alain. A Season with Marianne: The Last Surrealist. Trans. Bill Brown. Brooklyn: Common Notions, Dec. …

Hakobune‘s guitar is processed like one hundred Guthries, ringing with reverb abandon as chords stretch into warm, elongated vibrations. The 2019 album Rain Studies is a full-spectrum affair; it alternately plays and washes away intruding …

Over the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with painting in watercolours using my AxiDraw plotter. Watercolour is a medium I enjoy painting in (by hand) as a personal hobby, kind of separate from my …

I just had surgery to repair an incisional hernia near where my appendix used to be. By “just” I mean Thursday week ago. I am recovering well, thank you, though it did knock me for …

Professor Faber’s amazing “talking machine” arrived in Cincinnati to great fanfare in 1872 when that contraption shared a bill at Wood’s Theater with the famous Bandmanns, Daniel and Millicent. The celebrity thespians presented “The Merchant …

I recently took a trip to the Yukon (and two days in Alaska) with my partner Elaine. The trip was mostly hiking focused and generally enjoying the nature. We took almost two weeks which was …

Time for another rundown post. Here are a bunch of macOS apps I use. You’ll see some entries from my previous iOS apps post mentioned. Productivity DayOne - Where I journal. NotePlan - My knowledge …

Introduction I had recently remembered that while I store metadata for each page in my website as shell variables instead of XML, JSON, or something truly unholy like YAML, I need not keep them inside …

The Hastings Borough Bonfire Society’s Torchlit Procession, October 2024 (showing members of the South Heighton Bonfire Society). Photograph by the author. One thing I’m starting to learn about Hastings is that the people here know …

It’s been a minute, as they say. Here’s a sampling of what I’ve published on other platforms: Does Anyone Still Write Letters? (Other Than Me, That Is.) (Medium gift link) What I Like About American …

Arguably, one of the most beautiful villages at the foothills of the Picos de Europa National Park is Potes. This medieval hamlet is nestled beneath the eastern mountain range (Macizo Oriental) of the park and …

Chapter 5 of The Staff Engineer’s Path is going to be about leading big projects, the kind that involve a lot of teams, or where the stakes are high, or the path forward is ambiguous–or …

I've a written a new book. It's a children's book and it's called A Riddle for a King. It's suitable for those aged between about eight and twelve, although it has been rigorously tested on …

Submitted by Lachlan, who says: Brisbane dropped a new transit map and it is EXTREMELY pretty. I’m a big fan. Definitely the best-designed official transit map in Australia in my opinion. It even acknowledges the …

dealt with this baby — also look how elegant the shape of my witch hazel is now I cut off all the suckers! Win of the week: finally did a bit of writing! Looking forward …