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Out of the thickly falling midnight snow and into Ma's Diner came Gerry "the Brain" Goldsmith, the gentleman philosopher. The usual assortment of stumblebums and bindlestiffs sat at the booths and the counter, and down there in the middle perched on a stool was Smiling Jack.Gerry brushed some snow off his old camel's hair chesterfield, took off his twenty-eight-year-old fedora and flapped it against his side, loosened his frayed and …

Por favor todos guarden silencio. Por favor, por favor, por favor! Silencio!!!!!! This is 157, featuring: Chrystabell, David Lynch, Buffalo Daughter, Paul de Jong, Yoshio Ojima, Tape, Sneaker Pimps Yuji Takahashi, Keiichiro Shibuya, Maria, Tarter, daily rituals, come le onde, Hania Rani

and mellow fruitfulness. Keats was right about many things but particularly the joys of autumn – read all about it here Autumn has indeed descended with the mist and the mellow fruitfulness in my garden. I’ve had a veritable plum glut, timed for a weekend when I was on my own in the house and quite unable to get through them all myself. So that led to a flurry of …

On August 27th, I posted a mid-to-late 1940s photo of two Black sailors browsing books in a library section marked “Negro Books." In response, a couple people on my socials expressed outrage or sadness over the segregation they thought they were seeing. That makes sense if one doesn’t consider the book titles I mentioned or the link to a related post here titled Reading about Black Librarians and Knowledge Formation. …

Mrs Tim Flies Home by D.E. Stevenson This is the final book in the Mrs. Tim series – a run of books which details through her fictional diaries the life of a wife whose husband is an army officer. Hester Christie is resourceful, articulate and capable, which she must be owing to her husband’s frequent long absences when she is left to cope with her children, her maid companion, and …

Andrew Cranston, "The Invisible man," 2024. From Terry R. Myers' review of "One day this will be a long time ago," Cranston's show at Karma: The 'time' of painting has always moved in multiple directions, and all of that movement (not to mention what we call memory) is incapable of being anywhere except the present.*Bee-shaped woven palm bag.*Cody Hoyt, "Square Chair."*Walter de Maria, "Boxes for Meaningless Work," 1960.*Gena Rowlands, in …

On August 25th I found myself sleeping under a tent at Black Rock City (BRC), the temporary city where Burning Man takes place. It was my first time going. A month before that I had no plans to get there though earlier in the year I had thought of going but made no definite plans. I thought well, perhaps next year, which is what I had also thought the year …

Genre: DeathCountry: HollandYear: 20241. The Death Of Everything2. Marked By Blood And Darkness3. Hogtied In Rope4. Torn From The Jaws Of Death5. Christ Immersion6. Putrid Remains7. The Pinnacle Of Suffering8. Through Pain And Emptiness9. Those Who Wished Me Dead10. Tear All The Flesh Off The Earth6th album by Severe Torture, 14 years after their last one. Brutal death metal rarely sounds as enjoyably engaging as this, and it’s purely down …

I'll be at RustConf 2024, speaking about KCL, the 3D manufacturing language we're building at Zoo.dev! I'm really excited to present, and to meet a lot of other Rustaceans. If you're going to be in Montreal, send me a message or email (contact details here) and let's make sure we say hi.

After reviewing some recent posts about Jung and his anagram on Jungian fanboy sites, I do now think a solution has been found to the Seven Sermons to the Dead topic. In German, you can put date descriptions together in different ways, much like we can describe "1916" in English as "one thousand nine hundred and sixteen" or "nineteen hundred sixteen". And using "I" for "J" follows medieval German usage …

Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That hiatus has now come. It’ll run for at least September and then I’ll take stock …

A farewell to XOXO, a festival that has forever changed me for the better.

Ritual, a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects. When you hear this word, where does your mind take you? For me, I find myself asking, what's the difference between a ritual and routine? Turns out that, in essence, routines are practical, while rituals are meaningful. I have both. Some casual and spontaneous, and others strict and frequent. I do enjoy structure and rhythm, and it's really …

My new book, Intervals of Darkness, with 14 weird stories, is now out. You can buy it as a paperback or eBook more-or-less anywhere in the world, including UK eBook | paperback US eBook | paperback From the ghosts of marching soldiers haunting marshland to delivery drivers lost in nightmarish tower blocks, and from reanimated skulls to psychogeographers encountering ancient spirits on council recreation grounds, it’s a wide-ranging collection direct …

Charli XCX and Lorde's 'The Girl, So Confusing Version with Lorde' is the winner of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize. Charli's first Twenty Quid nomination was in 2014… The post Congratulations to Charli XCX and Lorde: winners of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize appeared first on Popjustice.