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The tick-tock of time trips on and here we are again, old friends. Said the Gramophone. Best songs. By now I hope you know the drill. This world needs some kindnesses--it wants more peace, liberation, and music shared between strangers. So here's a pistachio, a ripe pear. Here are my 100 favourite songs of the year 2023; songs I love much more than doomed submarines (or basketball). Earlier this year, …

I haven't actually played it yet, but I've seen the videos, read the rules, and it looks fun. Not only that, but I already have a sizeable collection of painted samurai to use!The only problem is that Senjutsu is in 30mm and I have 40mm. No worries, I'll build my own terrain!The battle board was mapped out using isometric graph paper to set the grid, then it was cut out …

Here, from the Lyttelton Times, a New Zealand newspaper of 1911, is yet another proof of the strange side-effects of Rudyard Kipling’s immense celebrity:

Mick Cummins, the Melbourne based former social worker and screenwriter, who won the unpublished manuscript award in the 2023 Victorian Premiers Literary Awards, has had his debut work, So Close to Home, published by Affirm Press. The manuscript was originally titled One Divine Night. Cummins said a number of publishers contacted him after winning the unpublished manuscript prize earlier this year.

My interview with actress Beverly Washburn! and… From Glamour to Trauma: Deconstructing the Myth of Hag Cinema! This is your EverLovin Joey sayin’ See ya at the Snack Bar! The post Coming up at The Last Drive In! appeared first on The Last Drive In.

The iphone view of the pool. The two conical shapes on the horizon are the Bass Rock island on the left and North Berwick Law on the southern shore of the estuary. Both are volcanic plugs. The rounded one in the centre is, I think, Traprain Law in East Lothian.Yes, straight from the "Don't do as I do, do as I say" department of the Online Darkroom comes a tale …

The trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, maybe the most-anticipated video game in history, leaked on social media last night. It looks pretty goddamn rad. The game returns to Vice City, a fictional town based heavily on Miami, and the trailer is set firmly in the nutso world of South Florida. Plus, there are a TON of birds.Watched GTA VI trailer 10 times now.World looks beautiful and just cant wait …

Tense, emotional climate science-fiction that doesn’t quite come together by Kevin Fox, Jr. This piece was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist. Foe is a psychological thriller that relies on one of speculative fiction’s most familiar anxieties: humanity being replaced. The film is climate fiction, taking place in a world that’s finally experiencing the …

The examples used here are from the weekly challenge problem statement and demonstrate the working solution. Part 1 You are given two array of languages and its popularity. Write a script to sort the language based on popularity. Solution make_pairs(K, V, K-V). sort_language(Languages, Popularity, SortedLanguages):- maplist(make_pairs, Popularity, Languages, PopularityLanguages), keysort(PopularityLanguages, SortedPopularityLanguages), findall(Language, member(_-Language, SortedPopularityLanguages), SortedLanguages). Sample Run % gprolog --consult-file prolog/ch-1.p | ?- sort_language([2, 1, 3], [perl, c, python], SortedLanguages). …

The law of conservation of energy says that, within a closed system, energy cannot be created or destroyed: only converted from one form of energy to another. In 2023 - a year filled with personal loss - I’ve come to find some comfort in this fact. If a relationship between 2 people is a closed system, then the law of conservation says that the energy that existed between them endures, …

The St. Pieter catholic church in Vught, the Netherlands, was built between 1881 and 1884 to replace a straw-roofed 14th century chapel. Carl Weber, a prolific Dutch architect with German origins, departed from the Neo-Gothic churches he had designed so far to give St. Pieter a combination of Neo-Romanesque and Rheinland Gothic elements. DePetrus combines the public library, local museum, community centre (complete with pool tables), a café and a …

A (hopefully) fun festive idea – an Advent Calendar Dungeon (‘Advent(ure) Calendar’). Open a door each day to see what’s behind the door. See if you survive to Christmas. Simply scan the QR code on each door to see what lies behind … I originally wrote this in 2022, doing one day each day – like a precursor to #Dungeon23, but only for 24 days >> PDF << Idea inspired …

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Berlin is cold and dark, there’s snow on the ground and the supermarkets are full of Lebkuchen and testy shoppers, so … it must be time for Secret Satan! Here we go with our annual serving of books with boho/queer/decadent/surreal/occult themes, and hopefully some surprises. I’ve been doing this since 2017 and while I enjoy selecting the titles, it’s an idea that has grown out of all proportion; something once …

No 4 Denmark Street could be the most important single address on Tin Pan Alley. It’s housed Regent Sound, the studio where the Rolling Stones recorded their debut album, the Helter Skelter bookshop that specialised in books about music, and is now home to Regent Sounds, London’s best guitar shop. Other residents include Johnny Dankworth and Essex Music, publishers of the Rolling Stones among others. There might even be a …