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I’ve come to trust Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen—his good taste in movie roles is seasoned with a sense of daring, as we’ve seen in such outstanding imports as The Hunt and Another Round. I’m also an admirer of screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen, whose many credits include Brothers and After the Wedding, in which Mikkelsen appeared. (Jensen also won an Oscar for his short subject Election Night, which he wrote and …

The challenge of working a muggle job while trying to balance a career in theatre is at the heart of Nanny, an ‘enthusiastically silly play’ with music from Folio Theatre Company. Some pour their souls into making macchiatos while practicing the Clooney smile, some ask their clients for just one more push-up as they compare their biceps to Hemsworth. Here, seven-year-old charges are asked to provide line readings for self-tapes …

A pack of instant ramen…uh…wishes it was a spaghetti instead… Spoilers…and ramen is perfect just the way it is… …and yeah, meatballs *wish* they could be chashu! So take that! If you’d prefer an actual physical book to read to your kids, here ya go.The post you wanna be what now? first appeared on ramen! ramen! ramen!.

Wednesday, 31st January 202422:37 Wirral Line train from James Street to West KirbyLate train. Happy train. The arena's emptied, the football's ended, Liverpool won handsomely. People, voices, joy. Excited chatter all around me. I slide into the single seat, my favourite seat, crammed between a set of four and the doors. Across from me is a girl, 20s, leaning against the window and eating a sandwich slowly. Each bite is …

There’s an exercise where you ask yourself what you’d tell your younger self if you ever had the chance. My answer has been and continues to be that I wouldn’t tell my younger self anything. It would be nice to learn the hard lessons earlier but who’s to say I’d listen to my future self any better than I listened to my past self? Who’s to say there wouldn’t be …

Fallout's Place in 1990s Computer Game HistoryThis article is an overview of Fallout's place in 1990s computer game history as it pertains to technical prowess in harnessing machine-specs; that is, this article places Fallout in history as it pertains to Interplay's ability or willingness to harness available software and hardware technologies in 1997.I recommend that you read my 1990s computer game history: while not yet complete it already stands as …

The Newberry Library in Chicago is hosting a Digital Humanities workshop on Frederick Douglass during Black History Month. Undergraduate and graduate students in History at Northern Illinois University may be interested in participating in this event. Here is the announcement from the Newberry Library: Join us for Douglass Day 2024! The Newberry Library and the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities (CTSDH) at Loyola University invite you to a …

Hello everyone Its First Sunday, This Sunday and time to wander together again. I’m sorry to be late getting the details out this month but this has been a tumultuous week and I wasn’t sure what to do. The answer, of course, is to keep going and seek new directions…. Lets gather at one of The LRMs favourite spots, beneath the tiled map in Victoria Station 2pm on Sunday February …

This is a new series which is very much inspired by Dave Rupert's Vibe Checks. I've long wanted to do something like that myself, but I had the problem of not being able to remember the month that just happened. So I set the goal of daily journaling, and I am pleased to report that I stuck to it all month, and I now have things to share! Highlights I …

Imagine an epic of nine years having a happy ending.I’ve written so much about what is now called the Manuals Plus Collection. Let’s go find those: In Realtime: Saving 25,000 Manuals In Realtime: Prepping for the Transfer of 25,000 Manuals In Realtime: It Is Almost Halfway Done In Realtime: Day 2 Felt Like Week 4 In Realtime: It Is Done A Small Dark Detour In Realtime: Post-Mortem A Little Bit …

Thomas Hardy and circus are perhaps not two terms you’d usually hear in close proximity, but Ockham’s Razor defy all expectation with their adaptation of Hardy’s 1891 novel, Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Atmospheric, evocative and… More

I think about the first xkcd post every once in awhile. There is something about it that resonates with me. My wife tells me I tend to go with the flow, feels about right. I wonder how much it has helped or hurt. Am I happening to life, or is life happening to me? Sometimes I surprise myself with how much I love to code. If my life were a …

It worked and I wrote--and kept writing. In the decade beginning with my first calendar year of blogging (2012), I published between 100,000 and 200,000 words on A Pilgrim in Narnia. It has been wonderful. And then, after all of that, it just kind of ... broke. Continue reading → The post “The Hateful Feeling of Breathlessness I Have Had for Years”: A Personal Note on the One-Thing-After-Anotherness of Life …

This delightful, colourful piece of cartography, is the first map by illustrator, limerick-creator and Walthamstow resident Angry Dan. The piece is a 60cm x 60cm