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As I mentioned a few posts ago, I'll be moving at the end of the month, which means I've been going through the dark, dusty, forgotten corners of my apartment, looking for things that I'll …

Bad Books for Bad People, Episode 80: HoodtownChrista Faust’s 2004 novel Hoodtown takes the reader to an alternate universe Los Angeles, where crime drama is brewing in an underground culture populated by masked wrestlers. Skulls …

I write this review in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Milton's devastation of parts of Florida. Milton followed Helene, just a week or so earlier. Both hurricanes cut a swathe through parts of North America, …

For a few years now I've been using leger stems for my eel fishing. I know full well that when the line is tightened they don't stand upright, but once the line is out of …

Bing Crosby, the greatest entertainer of the 1900s, died on this day 47 years ago...

We'll start this week with something I think one or two of you might find interesting: the evolution of on-screen television graphics systems. It includes some pictures of how the graphics were used to show …

From the International Mathematical Union newsletter: Paper mills and predatory journals have strongly professionalised their activities in the past 10 years and are now creating a substantial revenue. There is a growing parallel universe of …

We make plans to meet: N: “Welcome! It’s raining, do you have anything to do with that?”S: “Also, it’s drizzling here…”D: “Haha it’s raining here as well!” We meet for lunch in a restaurant with …

Taper, an online literary magazine published twice yearly, is now in its 12th issue. An independent editorial collective (Kyle Booten, Angela Chang, Kavi Duvvoori, Leonardo Flores, Helen Shewolfe Tseng, and Andy Wallace, for this issue) …

Exclusive Interview: TOMB RAIDER: THE LEGEND OF LARA CROFT actor Earl Baylon on being Jonah Christian Angeles 10/17/2024 https://www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-interview-tomb-raider-the-legend-of-lara-croft-actor-earl-baylon-on-being-jonah/ Yukihiro Shibutani, Natsume Yuujinchou and To Your Eternity Art Director, Dies at 63 By Christy Gibbs …

Why are automata so interesting? Automata are so simple that they fit in many places and situations.

1. The more science fiction and fantasy you read the easier it is to guess where any given premise will go. When a book upends your predictions you feel like you’ve got something special. Doris …

If you were familiar with Dingoonity, you might have noticed by now that I’ve made the decision to shut down the website.

It’s so easy, watching on the news, to scream at people who don’t evacuate ahead of oncoming storms. I get it. I scream at them, too. It’s often a fitting reaction.And yet.Evacuation is a process. …