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I'm pretty excited about today's review as it fills a neat space in my collection. I really was impressed with the recent set of Scare Mare and Scare Glow that Mondo put up for preorder this past summer. Impressed looking at it online, that is. The set of a new Scare Glow and the all new Scare Mare in Mondo's 1/6th scale Masters of the Universe line was available as …

Bluesky has the juice right now, and while it’s slowed down a bit this week, they were adding over 1 million users a day for a bit last week. One sentiment I’m hearing a lot recently is that Bluely “feels like early Twitter,” which to be fair, I feel as well.But you don’t have to look back too far to see this “it feels like early Twitter” sentiment thrown around …

I hate losing more than I even wanna win. This kind of feels like a continuation of the corporate history movies we’ve been watching, but the real reason we’re here is that after watching Aaron Sorkin’s great screenplay in The Social Network it also seemed right to finally watch this. But the question is, what the fuck do I know about baseball? Nothing at all is the answer, nothing at …

Among Mexico's most highly regarded and awarded writers, Enrique Krauze keynotes at the IPA Publishers Congress in Guadalajara. The post Mexico’s Enrique Krauze at the IPA Publishers Congress: ‘Age of Discord’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

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Plårp recounted how hiding in holes, eating crayons, and listening to gnomish alienists are bad for your health.

Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man must have been a success for DC and Marvel, as it was followed by a second crossover starring the pair, although almost everything other than the headliners would be different in the sequel: Different creators, different villains and a different way of assembling and publishing the book. Reading it in 2024, and immediately after reading its predecessor, I think it suffers somewhat in comparison with …

I support statutes that restrict businesses from contractually “gagging” their customers’ reviews. This pernicious business practice emerged around 15 years ago. Eventually, both state legislatures and Congress banned the practice. The flagship law in this area is the Consumer Review Fairness Act, enacted by Congress in 2016. My primer on that law. California enacted a similar law, Civil Code 1670.8, informally called the “Yelp Law” (as in, it protected consumers’ …

Online Album Club tonight. When the host announced it would be an Alanis Morissette record I braced myself for an ordeal, but Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie was an intriguing, surprising treat.

When you visit our exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, the first item you’ll find on display isn’t a manuscript, a document or a printed book. It’s a statue. A crowned female figure in formal robes, weathered to a ruddy brown, her body damaged in places and missing a...

One of the most enduringly popular articles on this website (at least in terms of clicks and re-posts) is a very early one, from 2013. It concerns the graphic identities created for Railtrack’s major stations by Citigate Lloyd Northover. These ones… Firstly – have I really been writing this website on and off for that […]

It’s the season of thanks, and here in Massachusetts public transit, there is much to be thankful for. As someone who watches their TrainTrakr with remorse at how few trains have been on the move recently, I was pleasantly surprised to see a fully-lit board this morning. No more slow zones After two multi-day closures during October, the Orange Line fully reopened on November 2nd, free of speed restrictions for …

“Hume’s Trojan Horse,” my review of Aaron Alexander Zubia’s new book The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination, appears in the Fall 2024 issue of the Claremont Review of Books.

Oof. Regardless of your personal takes on Aethy, this closure — specifically, the reason for it — is one hell of a canary . . .