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Four-Gone Conclusion It’s just before 5pm on a Saturday afternoon and the Fourpure Brewing Co taproom is quiet. Very quiet. A space that could easily accommodate 400 customers contains about 25 mostly middle-aged men. Much of the noise - beside a generic rock soundtrack - is coming from a group sitting on the mezzanine level, whose banter (they’re wearing identical straw hats) occasionally rises to near raucous levels.

Yours Truly and Gill from Realweegiemidget Reviews proudly present the John Saxon Blogathon! In the world of character actors, there are a select few who stand out. Mr. Saxon (born Carmine Orrico in 1936) left an indelible mark on cinema and television, commanding attention whenever he was onscreen. The Italian-American actor often played his roles with intensity and conviction. Often typecast in authority figure roles (frequently as a police detective), …

And this same tyme that I sawe this bodyly syght, oure Lorde schewyd me a gastelye sight of his hamly lovynge. I sawe that he es to us alle thynge that is goode and comfortabylle to oure helpe. He es oure clethynge, for loove wappes us and wyndes us, halses us and alle beteches, hynges aboute us for tendyr loove, that he maye nevere leve us. And so in this …

I guess I'm going to have to change my mystery game tagline. I'm playing more of these and getting better at them. Or maybe more designers are picking up the Obra-Dinn-ish static deduction model, which is the format I'm most simpatico with. (Speaking of that model, the next Golden Idol game will be November 12th. And the revamped Roottrees is coming on January 15th! With new material and new puzzles. …

"Draw up to the fire and gaze into the embers as I tell you a hearty tale that will boil your blood..." Old Nancy the witch knew how to tell a good ghost yarn. At over 107 years old ( and aging fast ) she certainly had plenty of years to practice her art of story-telling. Each week, for seven years, she gathered her listeners close to her via radio …

So I was filling out this week goals today and I realized I’m about 50% into a refill, and thinking: already?! Then I started to look into it and realized it probably will last me like a month or 4 weeks. I think it is a good length. But it also highlights why I want to replace this with a binder soon ish. Now I’d have to re-write my yearly …

After having sat through three football (all kinds!) weekends of election commercials now, it's pretty clear to me which of the two major parties is the lesser evil. This time, anyway. The underlying meme of Jackass-sponsored (or coordinated-but-not-really-no-that-would-violate-election-finance-law PAC-sponsored) commercials is either about how Joe Voter can/will directly benefit, or about

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Keith Rosson’s The Devil by Name, is a riveting sequel to his novel Fever House. Library Journal wrote of the book: “The stunning …

Learn to make my easy Soba Noodle Salad tossed in a honey sesame dressing. Try it chilled or at room temperature for a quick and light meal. READ: Soba Noodle Salad (Video) 蕎麦サラダ

As designers, our imaginations are the most powerful tools in our toolkit. They help us bring static mocks to life by thinking about how a user might interact with our ideas. Imagination can also hold us back sometimes, as it can be very challenging to communicate these interactions to others. It can also only get you so far when working with data because data visualizations can surprise us. It’s generally …

[Julian Fell at Australian ABC News]"Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and voice recordings – taken inside customers' houses – to train the company's AI models."So in effect these robot vacuums are tiny spies inside your home, sending details about your living space and potentially your family to some centralized data store. This must be some terrible breach, right? …

Here is an 18- year old Montgomery Clift (1920-1966) and Alla Nazimova (1879-1945) in the Broadway play, The Mother. Left with few options, she gave up on the film industry....

Having repeated the first two series of Red Dwarf last year -- the first full-on repeat run the show has enjoyed on its channel of origin since 2007, and the first in peak viewing hours since the Remastered episodes were screened in 1998 and 1999 -- BBC Two have picked things up in the last week with a repeat of Series III, which has required me to try and edit …

Inwards and Onwards! The new entrance to the National Portrait Gallery, one of my favourite buildings in London, yesterday. Quote of the Day ”Within every lean, hungry, tech start-up founder, a bloated monopolist was struggling to get out.” Henry Farrell on Silicon Valley startups.* Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news We Banjo 3 performing live on BBC Radio Ulster’s Blas programme in 2013. Link Long Read of the Day …

One of the mysteries about pop is its repeatability. The way that repetition of a song doesn't dim its power, or only at extreme degrees of repetition (absolute blanket radio coverage causing you to get temporarily get sick of a song). A great song is that seemingly contradictory thing: the repeatable surprise. The classic pop single as a radio drama that never wears out.This degree of repeatability is not unheard …