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It was not the plan to wind up back at the Polegrove so soon. Today’s diary was marked with a different London & Southeast Regional Division 1 South game, but there was too much dampness in Hastings, so to Bexhill I went. And, after a few delays that seemed to involved both traffic wardens and […]

This is our second edition of this new game. Please let us if you enjoy playing it. For each movie below, we have listed three performers that appeared in it (not necessarily as a star). Your task is to name the movie! As always, please answer no more than three questions per day so more people can play and have fun. Try not to research your answers as it'd be …

“We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us.” — Anne Carson, Antigonick The fourth wall is, very simply, a testament to fictionality; ergo, the characters cannot see the audience. It’s an opaque mirror on the side of the dramatis personae and a transparent window on the side of the audience. As a result, when the fourth wall breaks, the characters acknowledge the presence of a camera …

This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome a duo of brand new titles to our collection, the Alnwick Guardian and County Advertiser and the Newport Pagnell Citizen, as we explore the Northumberland tradition of the kern dinner, which is held to celebrate the harvest home. Meanwhile, we have added 146,333 brand new pages to our collection in total, whilst we have updated 21 of our existing titles. …

1. The Genius Behind the Quantum Navigation Breakthrough - This is the World's First Unhackable Quantum GPS. Using the coldest atoms in the Universe, it may revolutionise the way we navigate. This Youtuber to got to go behind the scenes and see their device up close to try and understand just how important this breakthrough is.My Take: This video goes into more details about how quantum navigation works as well …

all photos by Takuya Seki courtesy Maru Architects Founded in 1870, Hanaju is a florist that has served Tokyo’s Yanaka neighborhood for over 150 years. The flower shop is located near the entrance of Yanaka Cemetery and is surrounded by traditional homes and businesses, including a headstone supplier, that harken back to older times. Just […] Related posts: Miyanoyu: a 70-Year Old Tokyo Sento Renovated into an Art Gallery and …

“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs' Matt Sebastian, explores the darker side of classic '80s alternative, including vintage goth, post-punk and industrial.

Now that all electronic issues are resolved, it’s time to update the PCB for my expansion board that adds a W65C22S Versatile Interface Adapter (VIA) to my Commodore 64....

Hat tip to my friend Keith (aka The Song Sommelier) for turning me onto this 2024 record a week or so ago. Between this album and the latest from Hinds I haven't been listening to much else these days.* Beach Day has captivated me like no other record has in recent memory. For me, it's the type of record that has required multiple listenings just to be able to wrap …

Today I read “The Cartesian Theater” by Robert Charles Wilson for our discussion group. That Facebook group is reading one story every Sunday from Science Fiction: The Best of the Year: 2007 edited by Rich Horton. I got a big kick out of “The Cartesian Theater” and wanted to hear it on audio. But when I went looking for an audiobook that included it, I couldn’t find one. Bummer. My …

When you read a great blog post, the feeling you often get is: “I already knew this, I just hadn’t been able to express it!” In this sense, writing a great blog post is about listening. If you’re listening — to others, your coworkers, the people you follow, your own experiences, your users, etc. — there are undertones of something being said collectively. If you can hear it, write it …

We’re taking a dive into the bizarre world of sigma male affirmations and the disturbing but also very silly “sigma male industrial complex” on YouTube. From the origins of the dubious sigma male concept in the manosphere to its current online popularity, I examine an assortment of the often ludicrous sigma male affirmation videos on YouTube, their claims, and the psychology behind them. I argue that while affirmations can work, …

This week, the rain didn't last as long as the previous one. But that's ok, I guess.Officially, spring started today here at the Southern Hemisphere, even though the cold weather was long gone already. I gonna miss the winter, like I always do. Cold weather are so much better, for me.Anyways, this week I've been devouring a lot of information from the FZDSCHOOL YouTube channel.There are TONS of valuable material …

"The future fades away as unthinkable or unimaginable, while the past itself turns into dusty images and Hollywood-type pictures of actors in wigs and the like." - Fredric Jameson, 2015"The return to history everywhere remarked today… is not a return exactly, seeming rather to mean incorporating the 'raw material' of history and leaving its function out, a kind of flattening and appropriation"-- Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of …

A horror anthology with five tales of terror taken from German and English languages sources, featuring Conrad Veidt, Reinhold Schünzel and Anita Berber as the leads in chapters, plus a frame story. Home Media Availability: Released on DVD. Chills, Five Ways There’s nothing quite like a good anthology film. Combining several shorter stories into one […]