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Manuel Moreale: Sometimes I spot posts like Chris’ Media Diet in my RSS feed and I’m always amazed by the fact the people manage to keep up with movies and TV series and the rest of the media landscape. I can totally see how someone posting a post like mine makes it feel like I just bathe myself in popular media. But to me it feels like the opposite, like …

Yenisei releases a warm and beautiful album.

With Thanksgiving just a few days away, I wanted to embrace the russet colors, crunchy leaves, pumpkin spiced world of the autumn season for just a little longer before Santa and his red-and-green posse take over. I’ll be ready to embrace peppermint mochas and icicles and such in a few days but I’m just not ready to abandon fall quite yet. It’s my favorite season so I hope you enjoy …

Today’s London news round-up: Bridge of lies: Is this the most lawless place in London? London Centric Revealed: Row threatening to derail bids to launch new train services between London and Continent Standard When any area starts getting renamed as a ‘quarter’ that’s usually a sure-fire sign that things will start getting expensive, but even we’re surprised with the price that Lambeth has come up with to plant just five …

A very original book A few months ago I wrote a short comic, a four-page one-shot, not about Pepper&Carrot, but about Christmas for Le Lombard publishing. It was a great opportunity for me to work with a new team and set new standards. It was also a privilege to work for this publisher, famous in the Franco-Belgian comics world for such iconic titles as the Smurfs, Tintin, Blake and Mortimer, …

Luna - The Bowery Ballroom, New York City, October 20, 2019Some good news for a change. As per usual, I’ll be out in the Los Angeles area visiting family over the holidays. Less per usual, Luna will be there, too! The band is playing two west coast shows to close out 2024 — the Teragram Ballroom on Dec. 29 and the Fillmore up in SF on New Year’s Eve. If …

The past and the present visible at the same time.

In 1987, what is arguably the best Thanksgiving movie ever made, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles hit theaters. Like many people who saw it, I instantly fell in love with it and over the years I have watched maybe over a hundred times. Its a heartfelt comedy, that isn’t afraid to go over the top with humor (or its language). So I am very happy to be able cover it on …

Though Paulin is a small brand, they’re not immune to following the same paths that larger brands have carved. By that we mean introducing new variant versions of their existing models. Unlike those larger brands, though, Paulin gives the new dial designs/colors unique model numbers. That’s why they released the Paulin Modul D & E last month. Paulin Modul D & E: what’s new In many ways, the Paulin Modul …

Though I keep assuring concerned friends analog and digital that I'm nobody and am far more likely to be vaporized in a nuclear attack on DC than swept-up by the nazimusks for online treason the friends analog and digital strongly recommend I get the fuck off twatter asap, there are already melontrackers using sinister algorithms to silo future dissenters for flaying before filetingThree think I should abandon *here,* or at …

Since 2019, the partially completed skyscraper at 45 Park Place in TriBeCa, between West Broadway and Church Street, has been in a dormant state following a Stop Work Order from the DOB issued in December of that year. The unfinished and unsightly tower looms over its surrounding portion of Lower Manhattan like a giant, silent sentinel, with a spindly crane perched atop a thin metal exoskeleton affixed to the building’s …

“What we see from the air is so simple and beautiful,” Georgia O’Keeffe wrote after her first airplane flight, “I cannot help feeling that it would do something wonderful for the human race — rid it of much smallness and pettiness if more people flew.” I am writing this aboard an airplane. An earthbound ape in my airborne cage of metal and glass, I wonder who we would be, in …

Jeff Beer for Fast Company: This week, Apple dropped two new ads for its Apple Intelligence AI-powered assistant tools. On the surface they both seem like goofy, sitcom-style slices of life. In one, the office idiot turns zhuzhing into a perfectly professional email that impresses—and surprises—his boss. In the other, a woman forgets her husband’s birthday, but utilizes Apple’s AI magic to make him a heartwarming video full of memories …

Book Review – November 2024 Is nostalgia a harmless skip down memory lane? Can nostalgia be used like propaganda to mollify, entice, and seduce: encouraging us to turn off our critical thinking, stick our heads in the sand, and revel in a past that actually may have never been, a past gone mad? While conservative politicians have made nostalgia an intrinsic and explicit part of their political platform, the social …

Statista uses side-by-side stacked column charts to show the size of different religious groups in the world: It's hard to know where to look. It's so colorful and even the middle section is filled in whereas the typical such chart would only show guiding lines. What's more, the chart includes gridlines, as well as axis labels. The axis labels compete with the column section labels, the former being cumulative while …