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Perry Anderson brings a peculiar gift to the work of criticism: he can step into a book and inspect it closely, even sympathetically, scrutinising its structures, immersing himself in its style and atmosphere; then he can step out of it again and size it up coldly from a distance. It’s surprising how rare this is. Historians rarely attempt it.

hello twp blog, long time no see. i don’t know where i’ve been so i won’t bore you with filling in the gaps. etc. here’s a lil round up of the book related press that has come out so far – interviews, features, reviews. bc we will forget, the internet is enormous, the white pube is FOREVA and it’s nice to have everything in one place. 8 best new books …

This is a video from runner and filmmaker Duncan McCabe, who ran precise patterns around Toronto and tracked his routes with the Strava fitness app to create a flipbook style animation from the 121 runs, totaling 1,105km (687 miles) of drawing. That’s impressive. Strava must be pretty accurate to be able to identify the nuances of where exactly he ran. My GPS is always super inaccurate, especially when my girlfriend …

(Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland) Lots of fun and interesting holiday-themed rides the next few days. Check out a few I’ve heard about below… Thursday, November 28th Un-Thanksgiving Ride – 9:30 am at Irving Park (NE)Join veteran ride leaders Max and Tom for a recognition of National Day of Mourning and an “Un-Thanksgiving.” They’ll bike to Whitaker Ponds and then venture to the nearby Native American Youth Association headquarters to hear native …

There’s a post on htmx.org about why htmx wasn’t the right fit for a particular project (which is dope, we need more websites that admit their thing might not be the right thing all the time). The bit on AI being unfamiliar with their tool choice piqued my interest: It’s worth noting that AI tools are intimately familiar with Next.js and not so much with htmx, due to the lack …

The GPD G1 is a small, portable and self-contained external GPU. Comprised of an AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT mobile graphic card together with an inbuilt 240 watt power supply, the GPD G1 offers both OCuLink or USB4 ports for connection to a host computer, allowing you to bring discrete graphics to a handheld, laptop, […] The post GPD G1 Review: Compact AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT GPU gives your …

ULTRA PROUD DAD MOMENT: Ella made her first website! Melissa and I woke up on Saturday morning to our goofy 6-year-old daughter entering our bedroom making this obnoxious sound. It was impressively annoying, especially considering she hasn’t seen Dumb and Dumber yet. She truly is her father’s daughter. After we were done laughing, we recorded her and cracked ourselves up listening to the playback. We joked that it would make …

I've just finished watching this eight-part series streaming on Apple TV, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The storyline is quite straightforward: a young woman goes missing and her family are convinced that she was kidnapped by someone nearby, so they start investigating everyone in the neighborhood, in the process uncovering all sorts of odd and illegal behavior. I think the series is properly categorized as "black comedy," combining true comedy …

What a "Onekie"? It is a Twinkies with only one Twink!Onekie is "wonky"These are not be as rare as one imagines. This is the second one this year, and I am not even actively looking for them. The interweb is littered with exemplars of "Onekies".p.s. "Onekie" rhymes with "wonky", and, it is wonky. Maybe even a bit "fonky"?

This is the time of year when I tend to look back and reflect on the past with a mix of nostalgia and regret. But mostly gratitude that I'm no longer young ;)Thanks for reading and wishing you all the fun and games you can stand. - Connie--After some time offline, I've started sharing updates again, on my blog and Ko-fi page. I'll be back on Instagram selectively. You can …

Shobo and Shof Coker (New Master) will team with artist Alexandre Tefenkgi (Once Upon a Time at the End of the World) for Bronze Faces, a heist story set at the British Museum with the real-life Benin Bronzes at its center. BOOM! Studios will publish the miniseries beginning in February, which is about three Nigerian friends who reunite in London when the artwork by one of their fathers is debuting …

I've been thinking recently about partly unified conscious subjects (e.g., this paper in draft with Sophie R. Nelson). I've also been thinking a bit about how chains of logical reasoning depend on the unity of the reasoning subject. If I'm going to derive "P & Q" from premises "P" and "Q" I must be unified as reasoner, at least to some degree. (After all, if Person 1 holds "P" and …

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (1958); Charles Munch, Boston Symphony Orchestra. Continuing an occasional series about artists or designers whose work has appeared on record sleeves. Richard M. Powers is one of those illustrators whose work is remembered today for his many covers for SF books and magazines even though his commissions often took him away from the genre. Powers’ early paintings for record companies use the wiry illustration style that was …

It’s almost Black Friday, and Matt Corey gathered indie developers to organize an app sale that runs from November 29 to December 3rd, 2023. Corey, the maker of Bills to Budget, Signals for HomeKit, and other apps that are part of the sale, has put together a collection of over 400 apps that will be offered at a discount tomorrow and Wednesday. The list is too long to publish here …

One year ago today, I finally got my new (to me) car delivered. The farce that surrounded that whole purchase was a nightmare – and it gave me great joy to see that Cazoo collapsed fairly soon afterwards (although I wasn’t responsible for that) Thankfully though, the car itself has turned out to be a bit of a gem. I got it with 16,000 miles on the clock, and it’s …