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Director Todd Phillips' Joker (2019) plunged into the heart of the rot-infested Gotham, where Arthur Fleck became the Joker, a maniacal misfit whose life had turned into an agonized scream, sometimes disguised as hysterical laughter. The result was scary, haunting, and grim. To deliver a sequel, Phillips has made a bold choice. Joker: Folie a Deux adds musical numbers as part of the soundtrack and as performances. The story also …

You didn't think this day would ever come, did you? But here it is! Our quest to read a story from every issue of Weird Tales published in the 1930s has been accomplished! And below is the proof! A list of all the 1939 stories from Farnsworth Wright's magazine of strange and fascinating fiction that I have read along with links to my blog posts about these stories. And, preceding …

There has been some interesting changes made to the LEGO Ideas rules and guidelines that was recently announced on the LEGO Ideas platform. This could result in larger and more detailed sets getting approval to become official LEGO sets. Below are the details. LEGO Ideas is about to get bigger, more detailed, and better than […]

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Mandy Brown on personal sites. Particularly this part: A website is, among other things, a container. The shape of that container both constrains and makes possible what goes within it. This is, I think, one of the primary justifications for having your own website. Not just so you can own your stuff (for some meaning of “ownership,” in a culture in which any billionaire can scrape your work without permission …

Dorothy Day is a central character in Spiritual Criminals in terms of what some might call ‘spiritual formation’. The index entry for her looks brief (just 12 pages noted), but Read more The post Dorothy Day’s Spiritual Leadership: Against Capitalism, Imperialism, & War first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.

September has been wet and cold at Longmeadow but also extraordinarily busy with filming and writing commitments. Whilst these projects are enjoyable and exciting it has meant, for the first time in nearly 6 years of writing this blog, I have simply not had time to write this month’s entry. In the mean time I have attached the my job recommendations from last October. These apply to the garden every …

To send a letter to the editor, simply write in. You’ll get a reply and we’ll anonymise any blogged version. The sleeping coffins thing seems to have captured people’s imaginations. Reader X emails: I think the mobile coffin/tent idea is probably too unsafe, but I’ve long thought that cities need ‘nap hotels’ that you can rent with a card swipe. Japan obviously has capsule hotels that sort of check the …

The Canadian Climate Institute, in collaboration with TMX Group, surveyed a wide range of players in the critical minerals ecosystem on the barriers to investment across the critical minerals value chain The post What is holding back investment in Canadian critical minerals? appeared first on Canadian Climate Institute.

Today my book tour event is in Boulder, Colorado (6:30! At the First Congregational Church! Here are the details), which meant that I would be flying into Denver’s airport. And who else was flying into Denver’s airport today, connecting through to California to visit friends? Why, Krissy, as it happens! Our flights landed within ten minutes of each other, so I got to spend a whole 40 or so minutes …

Charles Baudelaire There are many translations of this, and the one I prefer is the one that has the closing line"It is the hour to be drunken! Lest you be the martyred slaves of Time, intoxicate yourselves, be drunken without cease! With wine, with poetry, with virtue, or with what you will."That's a much more interesting headswerve - the idea that you could get intoxicated with virtuePerhaps it's even possible …

We kicked October off in Tokyo, with a woman alternating between caring for her terminally-ill mother and painting the town red, but while today’s choice keeps us in the capital, there’s a distinct change of pace. We’re heading off to Jimbōchō, Tokyo’s famous book town, where a young woman has come to try to mend her broken heart. Little does she know that she’ll end up changing in more ways …

Written by Morpheus KitamiBy observations of what's noticeable in a scene it is the most visible...but then again, it is supposed to be...As nobody else really felt like looking up a walkthrough to give hints, it fell upon Ilmari to once again look up the walkthrough, giving me the clue that I should check the electrical box. On the left, with the obvious markings. The game says its suspicious, but …

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Unless their Planar Influence grants them interesting traits, Bariaur wanderers are merely elementary hit point–reducing engines. The post Bariaur Wanderer Tactics appeared first on The Monsters Know What They’re Doing.