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Still stalling on doing the Lunar lookup - although seems easy enough to find out where our Moon was in 1989. But we can review where we are stuck in the game. In the olden …

Source: Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1962 [orig. 1947]), pp. 30-32 Text: He stood, out of breath, under the shelter of the theatre entrance which was, however, more like the entrance to …

There is a YouTube channel called All Powers Explained. The video listing all of Hawkman's powers, abilities, and weapons from Black Adam was posted about a year ago. Pretty good collection! Too bad we won't …

With the end of World War II, the United States became the undisputed world power as well as the leading economy, producing the largest share of the world’s goods. Many changes took place in American …

I have a new piece out for Sublation on the left’s attempt to reconstitute itself around the war in Gaza. You can read it here: https://sublationmedia.com/the-left-cannot-make-use-of-the-gaza-war/

Toublan, Bordeaux, and Merlot walk into a BarnThe pig surprised everyone. Often, pigs will do that when they either start talking and become the most lovable friend you could ever had, or, when they suddenly …

I recently upgraded from a Ryzen 3700X to a 5950X. Double the cores, and nearly double the potential heat output. I didn’t upgrade my cooling solution, a 240mm Kraken X53 AIO liquid cooler.

Editing and publishing one anthology is hard. Doing multiple issues is a thankless task that requires equal parts vision and determination. It's clear that Andrew Alexander has both, because CRAM #2 once again is on …

Reading: Richard Powers’s The Overstory Audio: The Beatles’ early years, for work (but still a pleasure). Video: I just watched the first episode of Ripley (the latest adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley) …

Once it became clear that Bev's medical situation was top priority, in our little world, my angling projects became nothing more than trivia in the grand scheme of things. To her credit, Bev has been …

Whilst Macbeth is the play’s title character, it is the witches who appear on stage first, casting an impression of their malevolent control over the action which follows. In the first scene, Shakespeare presents the …

I Come in Peace (aka: Dark Angel) (1990) Detective Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) is a cop who plays by his own rules (Sound familiar?). When his old partner is killed in a drug bust gone …

In a Tablet Magazine article titled “How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers” posted on March 6, 2024, Professor of Statistics and Data Science Abraham Wyner from the Wharton School at the University …

I’ve just drunk – in fact, I’ve just made a small detour in order to drink – a pint of Burning Sky Plateau. Burning Sky is a brewery I’ve got a lot of time for. …