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“the obscene shape of the atom-bomber, laying a trail like a filthy slug upon Constable’s and Gainsborough’s sky. England of the Nissen hut, the ‘pre-fab’, and the electric fence, of the high barbed wire around …

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Joan Myers, as she prepared to embark on writing her own revisionist history of the Arbuckle trials, saw that the primary sources, as of 2013, would be newspaper accounts.* At the time, searchable databases provided …

Without me noticing we seemed to have quietly passed the 15 year mark of the blog. I ask myself if it is still relevant to me or anyone reading it; though the numbers have dropped …

The lovely Swan Public House in Clewer won a huge award last month. This 18th Century pub close to Windsor was awarded the nation’s best community pub in the Great British Pub Awards. The Swan …

La semaine prochaine, nous fêtons les 35 ans de la sortie de Prince of Persia, en 1989. Les fans de PoP ont beaucoup à fêter, cette année : deux tout nouveaux jeux (The Lost Crown …

I look forward to this race every year—a chill fall half marathon at the base of the Tetons is usually a great way to close out my season before winter sets in, but at this …

Back in September, the Nacelle Company announced that they’d obtained a license to produce Star Trek action figures — and today at New York Comic Con, they showcased the first eight characters set to launch …

Ailish Tynan, Eleanor Dennis, Victoria Nekhaenko, Jerry Louth, ENO’s The Turn of the Screw 2024 © Manuel Harlan The English National Opera’s The Turn of the Screw, is an atmospheric and chilling rendition of Benjamin …

I thought that everything would change when I got the surgery. For years, I’d been utterly miserable. Everything and everyone seemed to communicate that I was unworthy, unlovable, and inhuman. Growing up, I figured maybe …

We’re in another round of concern about the “death of the book”, and, in particular, the claimed inability or unwillingness of young people to read full-length books. I’m not going to push too far on …

Outlook and Dimensions, a pair of UK-run festivals which used to temporarily takeover Pula in Croatia each summer, are famous for putting on a boat party series across each festival. Each party sees a hundred-ish …

Where time allows this year, I have been doing PC build projects for Compaq LTE Elite laptop (486), IBM Aptiva (AMD-K6 500), Compaq DeskPro (P3-1Ghz), Core i7 PC I built back in 2011, and Pentium …

A week from this coming Monday I'm driving to Michigan to spend a week with my daughter and son-in-law and stay in a town near the border between Blue Michigan and Red Michigan. I have …

There is a useful expression for searching old toys on the Internet, New Old Stock, indeed, on eBay the abbreviated NOS is good enough to find all sorts of nice things, it means old-stock which …