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Shocking when it was first staged at the Royal Court in 1956 where outrage was focused on the ferocity and candor of central character Jimmy Porter’s working class disillusionment and violent inner life, John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is now just as problematic, not least because of its deeply misogynistic tone and Jimmy’s overtly […]

Each year I like to run Castle Ravenloft, either through the original I6 Ravenloft adventure from 1983 or the updated Castle Ravenloft from Curse of Strahd. While I've typically run Ravenloft using 5e, in 2023 I ran it with the excellent "old school feel, modern sensibilities" Shadowdark RPG. It was a perfect fit. Shadowdark captures the feeling of dread and horror in Castle Ravenloft better than I've ever seen it. …

We had our first rainy day in several weeks today. As such, our kids were a little on the bored side and needed some help from me on what they could do. Some of my ideas were: Get out the paint sets Read a book Read a book to your younger sister/brother Do a puzzle Play with legos Sit outside and listen to the rain. Sit outside and listen to …

I have wanted to read Red Dwarf since I learned that there was a novelisation of one of my favourite series. In this case, since about 1995 when my cousin showed me their Red Dwarf books, then told me I couldn’t breathe near them. How I coveted them! Fast forward many, many years and I’d… Continue reading Finally Reading Red Dwarf

Another functional model of a file system, with code examples in C#. This article is part of a series about Zippers. In this one, I port the FSZipper data structure from the Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! article Zippers. A word of warning: I'm assuming that you're familiar with the contents of that article, so I'll skip the pedagogical explanations; I can hardly do it better that it's …

Saturday saw the loss of a monster perch - biggest one I've seen - a few (a lot of) casts later I was looking at a double-figure pike consolation prize - but that pinged off the hook as well. Not my day! I was all set for a rematch yesterday, but the river was rising & red, plus it was set to piss down all day - only a madman …

Gossipers, nappers, confidantes, playmates—Morris Shulman’s 1938 painting “Tompkins Square Park” is a stylized portrait of dozens of neighborhood characters congregating at this East Village park on a lush night in Depression-era Manhattan. The vibrant palette and expressive faces are captivating. Mothers chat while tending to an unseen baby in a bassinet. A little girl in a yellow dress holds an ice cream pop. A fellow in forgotten-man garb sits with …

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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.