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Reflections on two years of working at Elicit and why it's time to leave

By all accounts, the recent Jane’s Addiction tour has been canceled after Perry Farrell attacked Dave Navarro in the middle of a song, and had to be dragged off the stage. Reading some first-hand accounts …

For every promoter you will have several detractors so you must be ready to deal with them. Compliment your enemies to disarm or confuse them.

Strapped with a powerful wall of shoegaze-y guitars, bouncy percussion and irresistible vocal harmonies, trio Our Girl break the emotional dam with new single ‘What You Told Me’. The latest taken from the band’s much-anticipated …

From The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan by Catherine Clément:Lacan was […] a skillful rhetorician capable of translating the terminology of psychoanalysis into a language, other than “Freud.” (p. 44)This statement is a good …

People don't respect sleep. They think of it as "wasted time," repeating stupid phrases like "you can sleep when you're dead." People drown themselves in caffeine and make themselves work through the night with some …

CASEY JONES — ONE-MAN WEAPONS RACK TURTLES OF GRAYSKULL (MATTEL) Toy crossovers are becoming a pretty common thing, and, honestly, when it comes to that sort of thing, TMNT has pretty much always been the …

I like riding bicycles. The Tanglefoot Moonshiner is a very, very weird bike. It's also an excellent bike. It might just be the perfect bicycle for Northern New England in 2024. moonSHINin' When we lived …

The world’s birds gathered for their conference And said: ‘Our constitution makes no sense. All nations in the world require a king; How is it we alone have no such thing? Only a kingdom can …

Hot Chips isn’t just a conference where companies give in-depth presentations on the architectures behind high performance chips. It’s also a place to talk to the engineers who worked on those products on the sidelines, …

"Get or create" is a very common operation for syncing data in the database, but implementing it correctly may be trickier than you may expect. If you ever had to implement it in a real …

Lower Inver morning view upstream from the Scrambles Over the years I have been privileged to fish in many beautiful places, but nowhere else moved me as much as these two small Highland rivers. As …

Thanks again to my brother Paul for the scans, cheers Paul! Aphex Twin: The soldering iron becomes an instrument Who is Richard James, or what is he? Jimi Hendrix of Techno? The Beach Boys of …

This post comes from London where two roundabouts have been redesigned to add protected cycling space.The first is the Old Street junction which is right on the border of the boroughs of Hackney and Islington, …