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They followed John Henry through the barroom, past a crowded bar and towards the sounds of loud crashing music.Mr. Whitman took Milford's arm again and spoke into his ear."Hey, Mel, you got another five in that poke of yours?""What?" said Milford."Let me have a five-spot, will you? All's I got is twenties on me.""If you have twenties why do you need a five?""Come on, just let me have a fiver, …

Healees, a multinational band based in Paris with members hailing from the U.S., Sweden, Belgium, and France, are back with their debut full-length album Coin de l’oeil. Following their impressive 2022 self-titled EP, the band continues to show their mastery of dreamy, pedal-driven guitar pop, blending new wave and shoegaze influences. On Coin de l’oeil, […] The post <h2>New album: Healees || Coin de l’oeil</h2> <h3>An emotional, atmospheric guitar pop …

There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned holiday hissy fit in an elbow-to-elbow packed mall to help soothe your fraying nerves. Whether it’s the snotty-nosed toddler wailing on Santa’s lap, the sweaty snowsuit screamer on the floor of the toys section, or just your everyday baby bawler yelling to the food court heavens, it doesn’t matter. It’s just a migraine moment in the middle of mall mayhem. And whether you’re taking …

DURGE STAR WARS: CLONE WARS (HASBRO) Genndy Tartakovsky’s Star Wars: Clone Wars is something I don’t talk about with any real frequency, but that’s not for lack of love, I assure you. It’s easily the best thing from the prequel era released during the run of the three films, and even when you expand past that, it’s really only rivaled by the 3D Clone Wars, and that one needed a …

It was time to grab my camera and tripod and hit the road. The aurora was calling... and I had to answer.

School is back in session, sports are in full swing, we’re tossed and turned by the weekly routine. This past month has been a season of fixing and repair and I’m thankful everything went well and we’re (hopefully) through the hard parts. Fixing electrical problems Ramping up to Spooky Month, the lights in our house were acting up. We’ve always had the occasional power problem; lights dimming, oven clocks resetting, …

It was a dark and stormy night—or Tuesday as we call it here in Wivenhoe. We were meant to be catching the 6.57 bus that evening and for the previous 20 minutes it had been bucketing down, the rain accompanied by long rumbles of thunder. We were off to see Rhys Nicholson, Aussie comedian we know from various panel shows, The Week and the new Australian Taskmaster series. It looked …

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I left the characters of The Story of the Stone as they were buying drapes and tablecloths for a party. I will rejoin the party planning momentarily. The Story of the Stone is a massive domestic novel about an extended family. The main plot is the teenage love triangle, but that story takes place among an enormous, sometimes baffling number of aunts, cousins, siblings, and servants, just an unbelievable number …

What will affect the earth’s temperature the most in the next 10 years?Aerosols“Aerosols” is a fancy name for “tiny particles in the air”. Aerosols are the most potent climate lever in the world, because they act near instantly.Some aerosols warm the planet, for example, soot (‘black carbon’). Some aerosols cool the planet, for example, sulfur dioxide.CO2 and methane have to accumulate for decades to cause the warming impact shown above. …

Peter Bagge is on my shortlist of my favorite cartoonists, and Hate is perhaps my favorite comics series of all time. Since ending the series in 1998, he's periodically returned to these characters in roughly real time, as the series leads Buddy and Lisa had a kid. Bagge has said that Buddy Bradley is a version of him, approximately ten years in the past, so it's been interesting to see …

Tesla robovan fits 20 people in it. It will get the cost down to 5 to 10 cents per mile. The Teslabots will mingle with the crowd and serve drinks.

I’ve been tossing around the idea to write a post about the 1985 sitcom Charles in Charge—specifically, its theme song—for a few weeks now. It’s always struck me as sinister: New boy in the neighborhoodLives downstairs and its understoodHe’s there just to take good care of meLike he’s one of the familyCharles in Charge of our days and our nightsCharles in Charge of our wrongs and our rightsAnd I sing, …

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), …