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As someone who spent more than two years tracking down the greatest lost Jasper Johns painting, you’d think I would have already identified all the other lost Johnses. But I had not. Though the list of destroyed Johns works is certainly longer and more mysterious—the artist is famous for destroying things he made before 1954, and the fire in his Edisto Island, SC home in 1966 wiped out many works …

Sliding Messages by Hitsuono Historical strategy meets puzzle game in this 2048-like sliding game. Determine which messages get delivered when and where and see the consequences play out. Play game on itch.io The post Sliding Messages appeared first on Weird Fucking Games.

Ok, small venn diagram of people who:read thishave been to Violas Roomhave seen the John Lewis adBut if that’s you – strong Viola’s Room vibes in the ad, no? I mean, Matt, I think it’s just you. But still.

Because I wanted to try out different historical whitework and lace making techniques, I made an Edwardian hand-embroidered blouse. So my hand-embroidered mixed lace blouse is basically a wearable lace sampler! It was a lot of work to embroider the Edwardian blouse by hand – especially because I filmed the whole process – but it was also fun! I used a variety of embroidery techniques from the Edwardian era: such …

The GameBoy Advance Games Ecks vs. Sever and Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, with Dean Buckley. At time of recording, the film was not ranked on the list of worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database. Show notes, including links: https://them0vieblog.com/2022/07/09/290-network-219/ Follow us on twitter at @thetwofifty.

12th November and a good forecast. Mary was up for a canter over the Pentlands so we caught a number 4 bus to Oxgangs Road, ran down Swanston Road (across the bypass) past the golf club and headed for Allermuir. Light packs and no big cameras. Running mode. We bumped into Kathy just after the thatched cottages. She has been going really well lately and we swapped stories of getting …

A Snap user connected with another Snap user, bought drugs offline from the other Snap user, and overdosed. Her estate sued Snap in Nevada for its alleged complicity in the death. Snap successfully invoked its TOS venue selection clause, sending the case from Nevada to California. With respect to the plaintiff’s unconscionability challenge, the court says Snap’s TOS formaton process is fine: Snap’s Terms of Service are hyperlinked in blue …

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Tip Top Proper Cocktails are one of my favorite ready to drink cocktail brands, and their Mai Tai is the best I’ve tried. The Bee’s Knees is pretty good, though I felt that the honey was too forward and had a honey flavor that reminds me of processed honey candy that I’m not a fan of. My preparation involved refrigeration and direct pour into the coupe. I’d strongly recommend a …

You could take encouragement in the fact Aronofsky is making movies with hopeful messages like PFE instead of films that end with newborn babies being eaten, but you might just[...] The post Larger Than Life: <em>Postcard from Earth</em> Offers a Happy Vision of the Future as Long as Humans Leave the Planet appeared first on Bright Lights Film Journal.

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Uniquely Designed Sit down. Be yourself. Be prepared. Be attentive. Defy the voices. Be the thing you want to be. Write. Be playful. Be reckless. Remember that you are uniquely designed for the idea that is moving toward you. You are good enough. The idea is about to arrive. Nick Cave

The various appointments that Donald Trump has announced, led by those of Matt Gaetz and Pam Bondi, Kristin Noem, Tulsi Gabard, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., suggest that he intends a real transformation of the federal bureaucracy and even of the function of the US government. Given that I studied the structure of the Nazi government in graduate school and that it figured in my first book, Economic Diplomacy and …

This limited edition A5 booklet of poetry is a curated collection of the work of the Yorkshire New Wave poet, Clifford Nicholas.Nicholas (1928-2021) was born in the North East of England, and his family moved to Leeds (West Yorkshire) when he was a small child. The University of Leeds is the site of the most complete hard copy collection of his previous work and is held in Special Collections.Nicholas’s poetry …

I had no idea the database was originally written to be used as a TCL extension. Explains a lot of good things.