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Sent from my iPad ZELDIN AGAIN I sometimes feel real sympathy (possibly unwanted) for actors who, trained and motivated to channel and express extreme and painful emotions, do their absolute and skilful best but find themselves having to do it in a mediocre play. Even if it is preceded by long rehearsal analysis of their character, and garlanded with learned programme notes about Sophocles and essays about how we don’t …

Genre: Heavy/PowerCountry: U.S.A.Year: 20241. Hail To The Warriors2. Feel The Fire3. Love Beyond The Grave4. High Noon5. Before This Time6. Higher7. Mean Streets8. Open Road9. Mortal Eyes10. Lost Dreams11. Lean Into It12. No More17th album by Riot V, 6 years after their last one. Their riffs sound fresh and classic at the same time, the playing is sharp and energetic, and it is remarkable how much current vocalist Todd Micheal …

This week I read an article in the Atlantic this week about the growing perception that today’s elite university students lack of ability to read books to the end1. Here’s an excellent follow-up / rebuttal by Carrie Santo-Thomas, a teacher interviewed for the piece. I was not surprised by Horowitch’s hypothesis. She attributes undergrads’ lack of reading stamina to lowered expectations in high school literature curricula, specifically arguing that limiting …

Hot--well, somewhat cold--pursuit of the Ushers' missing masks is underway, which means the characters are headed into a little dungeon for some exploration and violence. Oh yeah, Beebo the monkey talks now.CharactersAria, a paladin struggling with her true natureHeck, an affable revenant looking for answersPanthalassa, a necromancer with a missing armDaytona, a dhampir gunslinger fresh from HellGarazi, up and coming witch with a bird familiarWillard Corn and King Beebo, a …

There are two main reasons people use mohair for tailoring today. One is for eveningwear, when they want something with a little more sharpness and lustre; the other, less common, is as an alternative to high-twist wools in the summer. And... > Read more

One of the hallmarks of American motor racing is the flying start or some refer to it as a rolling start. If you’ve ever heard old broadcasts of the Indianapolis 500, you’ve heard chief announcer Sid Collins refer to the start of the 500 as “the world’s fastest flying start”. Flying starts are the norm […]

Well, after getting only the slightest taste of what’s to come with DC’s new Absolute Comics imprint in last week’s DC All-In, we are getting the first official title this week with Absolute Batman. Which is smart, of course, since of The Big Three at DC (Batman, Superman, and Swamp Thing Wonder Woman), Batman is the easiest sell. Much like the Black Label imprint, kicked off by a Batman mini …

So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every developer does: turn to console.log() and troubleshoot by logging values. I have a named color (e.g. blue) and a corresponding HSL color string for that named color (e.g. 100 50% 0%). I log those in the click handler function where I expect the color to change. onClick={() => { // …

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Last night I did something crazy... I bought tweet.new. Yep, I know we're not supposed to call it "tweeting", it's now "posting", but let's be honest, we all do it. What is .new? .new is a domain extension exclusively for performing new actions online: any act that leads to creation can have a quick and memorable .new shortcut associated with it. Help your customers take action faster. Less time clicking …

A month has passed since we finally moved in, my wife, my youngest son, and I, joined on weekdays by my nephew who’s at sixth form in Leeds. Oh, and also the cat of whom more later. I might have hinted in my weeknotes, but only now do I dare to write about the entire, long-drawn-out process. 14 frustrating months elapsed between us making an offer and actually moving in, …

We’re getting into the period when “75th Anniversary” books should be being announced. I don’t know if either of these will be branded that way. Coming in May, 2025 is Happiness is Peanuts, which seems to be an attempt to capture the magic of the Happiness is a Warm Puppy-style books of the 1960s, but with fresh art provided by Robert Pope. Coming in August, 2025 is Snoopy, the Story …

Why do the mass killers of the fossil fuel industry walk free while the heroes trying to stop them are imprisoned? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st October 2024 The sentences were handed down just as Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina. As homes were smashed, trucks swept down roads that had turned into rivers and residents were killed, in the placid setting of Southwark crown court two young …

Waiting For Godot is a play I love; I studied it for A-level, so I'd buy tickets regardless of the casting, but the combo of Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati was definitely an added draw. It is a play that tends to attract starry casts - I've seen productions with...