Recently updated blogs

First record we have is circa 1815, William Haddon was the victular. John Briggs, circa 1827 – 1846. The Bulls Head was up for auction in 1842, whilst John Briggs was in occupation. Thomas Sarson, circa 1846 – 1867, Susanna Sarson, Thomas’ wife would die there aged 63 in 1863. Thomas Wade circa, 1867 – 1869. Amos Wall circa 1869 -1874. George Lawrence, 1874 -1877. Anne Bent in 1977. The …

I wrote a few years ago about Sword of Sodan, a western-developed barbarian game that's infamous as being one of the worst on the Mega Drive. Blades of Vengeance is also a western-developed Barbarian game, but it's thankfully a lot better, and in pretty much every way! Though to be fair, it was also made specifically for the Mega Drive, and also came out a few years after Sword of …

The post Sunday Secrets appeared first on PostSecret.

A fascinating Derek Jarman talk and film at London's Farsight Gallery last month, featuring a 1984 LWT (London Weekend TV) documentary from the series 'South of Watford' about Jarman's life in London. It includes lots of great footage including Jarman on a boat going down the Thames pointing out the site of the warehouses he lived and worked in during the 1970s, including on the South Bank at Upper Ground, …

There must be households that possess automobiles over many decades without encountering collisions and requiring auto-body repairs. We are not one. Over about 35 years as a household, we have had four trips to a body shop for repairs.It was after the most recent visit, to Imperial Auto Body in northwest Washington, DC, that it occurred to me that our work has been parceled out between that establishment and Royal …

A Stephen King town is always damned long before the vampires, werewolves, ghosts or cursed cars reveal themselves. King — a survivor of small town life — always understood the beating heart of little villages to be cruelty, racism and generational abuse. In his stories these problems exist alongside the few poor souls trying to be righteous in the land of the wicked. However, King had pages and pages and …

…is a celebrity chef in South Korea. He also owns multiple restaurant franchises with thousands of branches mainly in korea with some splattered all over the world. I first knew of him not through tv but through his restaurants which opened in Singapore a few years ago, and I got slightly annoyed that his face was being plastered everywhere (I know, I am easily annoyed). He’s now probably getting more …

The next Austin Philips story is up on Dark Tales Sleuth. This one is a quiet little crime story with a twist, from The Strand Magazine, July 1909. In “The Telegram,” Florence Earle is a naive young telegraph operator, who may just be making a big mistake. Since I don’t know any British Post Office history, I had to check: when telegraph services came to the UK, they were originally …

To the eye the zodiacal light looks like an enormous, wedge-shaped pillar of diffuse light slanting upward from the eastern horizon and extending halfway up the sky.

After years of having Campari in cocktails I’m finally getting accustomed this this bitter Italian liqueur, so much so that I actually like the taste of a classic Negroni cocktail and am really digging the riff that replaces gin with Jamaican rum. New York bartender Joaquín Simó first made this cocktail in 2010, using the potent overproof Smith & Cross Jamaica rum as the featured spirit. I sure do love …

A review of A Winter in Zürau and Partita by Gabriel Josipovici Gabriel Josipovici has said that as a critic he is conservative but as a novelist he is radical. The second claim may not be controversial but the first will come as a surprise to those who remember what he said about the big-name contemporary novelists in What Ever Happened to Modernism?. This novel and non-fiction combination offers an …

I was not a happy Bunny last Friday. I was all geared up to go to the Rapido Railex with Allan, but the weather was so wet and cold I didn’t fancy it, as I still can’t get a coat on over my shoulder. It was a top-quality show by all accounts. I think I’d seen all the layouts there but they were all ones worth a second look. Still …

Artist: Infern Album: Turn of the Tide Year: 2024 Genre: Death Metal Web: https://youtu.be/_X5S_oQX5yg / https://infern.bandcamp.com Country: France Quality: 192 Kbps Tracklist: 1. Undertow 2. Phineas Case 3. Tormented Paranoid 4. Burning Fields 5. Archetype of Brutal Aggressor 6. Gaining Ground 7. State Puppet Theater 8. March of the Grotesque 9. To the Extreme 10. Buried Alive Witness: -[*]- Here is yet another killer release for 2024! I have been …

With everything going on in Lebanon, it’s super hard for me to get excited about everyday things that I would typically get excited about. Life’s mini milestones. They all seem super trivial now as I continue (like millions around the world) to watch disaster unfold and not a single powerful country out there to step in and do what’s right. The world feels like it is completely morally bankrupt and …