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I personally love glycolic acid and I frequently recommend it my patients and to people who’s looking for a chemical exfoliant to. As someone who deals with textured skin, discoloration, comedones and the occasional hormonal acne, glycolic acid is one of my favorite skincare ingredients. Speaking of glycolic acid, the first product that comes to […]

Do you live in a town? Was it Bill or was it Ben? Who is The Phantom Phlan Plinger? Can you guess what is in it today? Why don’t you just switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead? They’re questions that will be familiar to anyone who grew up during the golden age of children’s television...

I don't know why pumpkin pie is relegated to only shine at Thanksgiving. I could eat it every day of the year. Especially when it's pumpkin pie from fresh pumpkin. This is a recipe that's *truly* made from scratch. I feel compelled to tell you I'm usually more hilarious than what follows. But homemade pumpkin...Read More

Elite Hoops has hit the one year mark! I had a few buddies ask me some questions around getting those first paying customers, the kinds of marketing I’ve tried and other similar things. In short, indies talkin’ shop. So, here is a point-by-point brain dump of what I think the twelve most helpful things I’ve learned or tried are. I’ll try to keep each one around a few sentences to …

Subscribe WordPress Facebook Twitter Instagram If you enjoy reading please consider “buying me a pint”, this will help to cover my hosting and image hosting and help to ensure further trips can go ahead!BUY ME A PINT Exploring the Best Breweries and Pubs on the Fylde Coast Check out the Fylde Coast Ale Trail The three-day exploration of the Fylde Coast included visits to various breweries, micropubs, and pubs in …

Hey there ULGers, I have this perfume in my collection, Stash Unspoken. It’s not niche leaning, pushes zero boundaries and does not make me swoon with rapture every time I spritz it. So you’d think I would ignore it and wear other more interesting things, right? Nope. It gets the spritz way more often than […]

When it comes to our pups, there are many things we’ve been conditioned to assume they love. We have all seen the classic cartoons with a dog drooling over a steak and burying the remaining bone in the backyard for later enjoyment. Every canine should beg for belly scritches, bark at the mailman, and chase a thrown tennis ball. We have the token set of toys and treats that “all …

Narcotico Narcotico follows a pattern I’ve begun to notice in the work of Giuseppe Imprezzabile, the perfumer behind Meo Fusciuni, in that the perfumes are all either monstrously complex facades hiding simple ideas, or deceptively simple perfumes masking an astonishing richness of detail. Narcotico falls in the former category. The perfumer places an odd ‘upturned sod’ patchouli material, with nuances of sour soil, dry air, creeping rot, blood, metal, and …

There have always been unbelievably bad ads. They are now just unbelievable in a new way. I was at the cinema at the weekend with friends. It is probably one of the few opportunities nowadays where I see adverts brought together in one place. And yes, it was as underwhelming as one might fear, though I’m not necessarily convinced that has changed in the last decade or two. What I …

After some frustrating delays in distribution, my book Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature is now in stock and available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Here are the back cover copy, endorsements, and table of contents: Immortal Souls provides as ambitious and complete a defense of Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophical anthropology as is currently in print. Among the many topics covered are the reality and unity of the self, the …

Jonathan Bate’s worries about undergraduates’ declining ability to cope with long, complex books is taken up by the Daily Mail, which confidently pins the blame on social media. By which, inevitably, it means TikTok rather than inane globules of micro-celeb gossip emanating from certain tabloid... ah, right, that would be it...PS: The Mail, obviously, has previous.

We had a great time at Dr. Funk which is totally themed to the movie Beetlejuice for Halloween. There’s a ton of great looking themed decor but a spooky leaning soundtrack that plays whenever there isn’t a DJ. There’s a special cocktail menu too. I tried two and thought they were good but not mind-blowing. I had a better experience with Dr. Funk’s still-awesome Mai Tai which remains on $8 …

The other day I needed to call a JavaScript function only when a certain condition is not true. Oh, and this was in a script tag in an HTML file within the ui.apps section of Adobe Experience Manager. I ended up with something like the following: <script> // some code ${condition ? "" : "console.log('this is false!')" @context='scriptString'} // even more code </script> In my case, the condition was a …