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by Joe Reid Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, also known as Doppelgänger in England, is a British science fiction film directed by Robert Parrish and produced by marionette/miniature wizards Gerry and Sylvia Anderson (Stingray, Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5, Supercar, etc.). Dig that 2001 type As a movie, it is both visually appealing and … Continue reading [November 22, 1969] Crash and Burn (the movie Journey to the Far …

Charlotte Bilekoff. Real Food, Real Facts: Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge. University of California Press, 2024. 267 pages. Food processing is a big issue these days (witness RFK Jr’s pledge to get ultra-processed foods out of school meals) and I was interested to see what food studies scholar Charlotte Biltekoff had to say about it. Her thesis: When people say they want to eat “real food” rather than …

Vanessa Kimbell is a sourdough baker and food activist based in Northamptonshire, UK. Here she talks about her very personal journey into sourdough, which led to her mission to change systems in the food industry. Drawing a connecting thread between transdisciplinary research and the role of microbes in human health, she has developed an education system to foster sustainable food practices through baking bread. Sophie Lovell: At The Common Table, …

This is a community submitted press release.Roll for Distraction has just started their new actual play season, Proxy Error, which will be a campaign of the sci-fi horror system Mothership! Mothership is a narrative-focused horror system about the dangers of capitalism in space, with inspiration from classic stories such as Alien, The Thing, and Event Horizon. The gang is playing as a hastily-assembled party of prisoners under the boot of …

A common shoe care advice is to brush off your shoes when one come home, to remove any surface dirt. Most think this is solely due to appearance, but that’s only one part of it. The more important thing is that doing this can significantly prolong the lifespan of your leather shoes. Here I explain why. The life of a shoe is tough. It’s down on the dirty ground, literally …

Books roleplaying games Five Fun, Extremely Distracting SFF Roleplaying Games Roll the dice and lose yourself in one of these expertly crafted adventures. By James Davis Nicoll | Published on November 22, 2024 Photo by Dark Elf Dice. (CC-BY-SA-4.0) Comment 8 Share New Share Photo by Dark Elf Dice. (CC-BY-SA-4.0) I suspect the vast majority of tabletop roleplaying games are labors of love. A few blockbusters aside, there’s just not …

JON ‘MOJO’ MILLS hosts our monthly two-hour Soho Radio show with the brilliant BIRDS FLYING BACKWARDS live in session for Qobuz Track list Alan Hawkshaw ‘Hells Angels’ Bananagun ‘Those Who Came Before’ Jonathan Wilson & Milton Nascimento ‘Lilia’ Neigb’rhood Childr’n ‘Feeling Zero’ The Poppy Family ‘There’s No Blood In Bone’ The United States Of America ‘Coming Down’ Country Joe & The Fish ‘Eastern Jam’ Birds Flying Backwards ‘Who Are We?’ …

The comparison of these two images is indicative of the types of image files I made to compare the full frame 45.44mp Nikon file to an upscaled (to same pixel dimension on the long side) Micro 4/3 20.11mp file from the OM-1 Mark II. The is the full image from the Nikon Z8. It is 45.44mp. (click to enlarge)This is the upscaled 20.11mp image from from the OM-1 Mark II. …

8018/20959I hope that when I die, I am principally remembered for twatting a bloke who chucked an egg at me.Hasn't happened yet, but if anyone feels like chucking an egg at me and doesn't mind being twatted in return then go for it. Make sure there's someone filming it though. Let the games commence.And being remembered for twatting a bloke who chucked an egg at you is better than not …

Muriel SparkGalley Beggar Press‘Perhaps you don’t know how repulsive and loathsome is the ghost of a living man. The ghosts of the dead may be all right, but the ghost of mad Johnnie gave me the creeps…’ So speaks the narrator of Muriel Spark’s haunting tale, ‘The Leaf-sweeper’, before going on to recount the disturbing and mercilessly witty story of a certain ‘madman’, Johnnie Geddes – a man hell-bent on …

Underground Heritage InformationMaida Vale StationListed as a building of national significanceArchitect: Stanley Heaps The Bakerloo line extension from Paddington to Queen's Park opened in February 1915, although Maida Vale was not fully completed until 6 June that year. Architecturally the station design closely follows the format of the tube stations designed by Leslie Green in 1906/7 and seen throughout London. It is a sad irony that although Green was born …

In an April 20, 1975 letter to Railroad Modeler editor Denis Dunning, E. L. Moore had this to say about his recent cataract surgery:Right now I'm trying to get used to wearing cataract glasses . . . had one eye castrated, (and at the price, $1250, the expression is apt), and now one to go.I recently had cataract surgery on one eye. I'm fine. And now one to go.And speaking …

Blue Lug is probably one of the only online shops (let’s face it, they’re shaping a lot of the bike culture in Tokyo too) that can make a handlebar with Nitto and immediately sell out of them. Not unlike a limited Nike drop or an ultra-limited vinyl pressing. The Nitto Jam Bar ($57) is a case in point. Super affordable, comfy, and strong… The initial run of hundreds of Jam …

This is a guest post by Hannah Ostroff, a public affairs specialist in the Library Collections and Services Group. It appears in slightly different form in the November-December issue of the Library of Congress Magazine. When you sit down for a traditional holiday meal, does your cranberry sauce resemble the fruit or retain the outlines of the can’s ridges? Does the stuffing — or is it called dressing? — go …

The Flood (2024), aka Le Déluge, is opening in late December in France. It tells the