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Autumn is a great time to get outside and enjoy nature with your family. The leaves are turning beautiful colors, the air is crisp, and there are so many seasonal treasures to find. A fall scavenger hunt is a fun way to keep kids entertained while making the most of the season. Fall has always been one of our favorite times of the year—we have so many wonderful memories of …

Council elections are happening this month. In a lot of areas there’s been a change. Here in Glen Eira we used to have 3 wards with 3 councillors each. Now we’ll have 9 wards with 1 councillor each. I’m not so sure this is a good idea. Unfortunately some elected councillors aren’t great. In the past if you had an issue and needed to contact one, there’d be at least …

LP – Dischi Fantom An unusual union was created from the meeting of essayist, editor and translator Ginevra Bompiani with sound artists Caterina Barbieri and Tomoko Sauvage. The result is an original narrative with an allegorical-classical slant, where the relationships between sound, words, voice, media, and technology are explored through orality and poetry, with texts that belong to the world of fable and myth. The techniques implemented – as opposed …

Even in the coldest months we keep our house at a moderate 66 degrees, both to save energy and money, though I've been known to sneak it up a degree (to 67!) if the chill begins to seep too far into my bones even under several layers of clothing. In the past couple of days our furnace kicked on for the first time this fall, which inevitably signals the beginning …

Days, it turns out, are rather easily made. The time required varies, but trends closer to making the bed, or making a cup of tea, than to making Ravioli. (If you are crazy good-looking and smile at people who aren’t when you pass them on the street, it can be much quicker.) The effort required is approximately equivalent to taking out the trash. And as with taking out the trash, …

My paternal Chazan cousins in Manchester, England are DNA matches with me, and we also have evidence of close family relationships via photos and letters exchanged by our ancestors in the 1930s/40s/50s. But we don't know how, exactly, their matriarch Hinda Mitav Chazan (1864-1940) is related to my paternal matriarch Necke Gelle (Mitav?) Shuham Burk (no dates). These names are at the top of the "most wanted" list of ancestors …

I went off to see Megalopolis excitedly knowing that a lot of people think it sucked, because even if it sucked I figured it would have some interesting thing to say about “the Future” and would also be something of a spectacle, part “neo Rome” and part art deco. But mostly, I am one of those people who often think about the Roman Empire! Danny, Mikayla and I escaped from …

On August 2nd, 2022, just three days before its release, Konami dropped an announcement for Amazing Bomberman out of nowhere. Released exclusively for the subscription-based Apple Arcade service for iOS devices, Amazing Bomberman embraces music as its central conceit, combining rhythm game-isms and music genres like chiptune, dubstep, rock, and pop with classic Bomberman gameplay. Due to the combination of its sudden release and platform exclusivity, the game feels like …

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I’ve been consistently critical of the Labor party since Anthony Albanese became leader after Labor’s narrow but unexpected loss in 2019. It’s always easy to fall prey to confirmation bias in this kind of thing, making much of the bad and ignoring the good. To check my beliefs, I’m taking a widely circulated list of Labor’s claimed achievements, and giving my own responses. This is by no means a complete …

The plan to build a city on artificial islands in the Gulf of Thailand to form a seawall for Greater Bangkok. The Bang Khun Thian land reclamation project is a proposed megaproject to build artificial islands in the Gulf of Thailand as part of a flood defence system for Greater Bangkok. The reclaimed land would be developed into new urban areas, creating a new city in the sea (Greater Bangkok …

There is an email that I get every day of the week. It is automated, but its content is personal, just for me. There are no images, engaging graphics or links to fun videos or clever memes. It is just text. None of it is really new either – I have read it all before, perhaps more than once. Of course, it may have been a while, so I may …

Rudolph Valentino has a problem: women find him attractive and he can’t resist them either. This leads to payoffs and blackmail in abundance, so he jumps at the opportunity to leave Italy for America. Problem solved! Home Media Availability: Released on DVD. He’s just a boy who can’t say no Cobra was made near the […]

I’ve been collecting the kids odd socks for their entire lives. This wasn’t intentional. The socks pass through the usual sock lifecycle: acquisition, either through purchase or they just come home from nursery wearing them, partial retention, passed through both kids as their feet grow into and out of the appropriate size window, and finally death, at the end of their lives they end up with all the other clothes …

Kurt Vonnegut once said in an interview that he invented Kilgore Trout so that he could provide pithy, entertaining summaries of books without having to write them. The method works; people like reading these sorts of posts, and I like writing them, so they shall continue.Previous posts:20 Anomalous Media5 Forgotten Fictional Fantasy NovelsStar Wars Movies that Don't Exist and Never Will The Unseen (Dressel, Oscar. ~1936)An unfinished and unpublished novel …