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(click on the image to see the full issue) Cover: Wham! Centrespread: Madonna Back cover: Morrissey Interviews: Ian McCulloch; Alannah Currie; Wham!; Gary Glitter Lyrics: Julia - Eurythmics; Shout - Tears For Fears; Step Off (Part 1) - Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five; And That's No Lie - Heaven 17; Resurrection Joe - The Cult; Sharp-Dressed Man - ZZ Top; I Hear Talk - Bucks Fizz; Valotte - …

The Buck Rogers Movement, April 1968, from left: Karl Larson (Carl Larson), Beverly Rogers, Buck Rogers, Rod Trembley, Cynthia Trembley, and Bill Wanat From Holyoke, Massachusetts, the Buck Rogers Movement cut three singles on their own 21st Century Records label in 1967 and 1968, then continued for a couple more years until tragedy struck. The first mention of the band I can find comes from the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram on September …

I have a new book coming out on Tuesday 7th of January: it's A Conventional Boy, a short standalone novel in the Laundry Files. (It takes place at roughly the same time as The Rhesus Chart.) It's published in the USA (and Canada) by Tor.com and in the UK (and EU) by Orbit. Both publishers are dropping hardback and ebook editions at the same time: as is usual Tor.com is …

Hello. Over the coming year, I’ll be moving away from WordPress to jpreu.com using bearblog, a simpler and more intuitive blogging platform. Feel free to hop on over there and grab the RSS feed if you’re so inclined to watch the blog there. I’ve been with WP a looooong time so it will take a minute for this place to completely go away but you’ll start to see posts migrate …

I started working as a full-time artist when my kids were born. So for them, “Dad going to work” always meant me walking up the stairs to my home studio. I have learned to not underestimate the importance of that simple act — them seeing me work as a professional artist. Doing something creative as a career is a rare thing, and kids seem to understand that, and appreciate its …

Similarly to previous years, it’s time to share my musical habits throughout 2024. Around a month ago, I published my Spotify Wrapped 🎁, but, as usual, I don’t trust it completely. If they’re sharing it before the end of the year, how can it successfully show the statistics for the whole year? Here I am again, with my (almost) complete data from Last.fm. 📊 Statistics Just like in previous years, …

La semana pasada del año pasado que se nos fue, quedé para comer con unos amigos en Badalona. Lo que ocurrió después te sorprenderá (no ocurrió nada). Leer más. Badalona. Cámaras: Ricoh GR IIIx. Comentar este post · Me gusta

What’s going on, Internet? I came into 2024 with a taste for West Coast IPA’s (WCIPA) as a continuation of 2023. My love for the WCIPA stemmed from disillusionment of the Hazy craze that has captivated the beer industry for the past half decade. Ramping up at Beervana 2023 I actively sought out WCIPA’s and shunned Hazy’s [1]. This trend continued into 2024 where I continued to hunt down WCIPA’s …

It’s that time of summer holiday again: reading and reflecting on books read in the past year, having blogged reviews on and off since 2012. For this year, I’ve selected only two books, but I’ll spend a few more words on them: Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford (2021) FOCUS – The ASML way. Inside the power struggle over the most complex machine on earth by Marc Hijink (2024) (original …

The Ethiopian volcanic situation keeps escalating. A viral video is circulating of an eruption from the Dofen volcano: https://x.com/volcaholic1/status/1875137887160672670 To me, it’s an eruption because it’s throwing rocks and it’s on a volcano. It could be phreatic or magmatic. It’s phreatic if it’s driven by heated groundwater, or magmatic gasses from an intrusion, without fresh…

Hi. Happy New Year!I'm sure many blog posts today will start with a 'I haven't posted in a while' mea culpa, and mine is no different.But this is a post I've been thinking about, really, for months. Since I visited my family in Adelaide last March/April. Back then, my Dad was moving into a full-time care situation, and Mum was staying at home. Dad's vascular dementia and Alzheimer's had become

All caps, bold: MOVIE All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT* All caps: TV SERIES Italics: Book Quotation marks: “Play” Italics, quotation marks: “Short Story” 01/02 Blaming, Elizabeth Taylor 01/04 THE CONVERSATION 01/05 PREDATORS, AMERICAN GREED 01/06 THE CURSE 01/09 THE CURSE 01/10 BREAK POINT (3) 01/11 BREAK POINT (3), Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson 01/12 CURRY & CYANIDE: THE JOLLY JOSEPH CASE 01/14 WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA …

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Those we know about Lambrini Girls - Who Let The Dogs Out (10th January) Sophie Jamieson - I still want to share (17th January) Anna B Savage - You & i are Earth (24th January) Sharon Van Etten - Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (7th February) Panda Bear - Sinister Grift (28th February) The Tubs - Cotton Crown (7th March) The Horrors - Night Life (21st March) Those …

After having thought about this for a while, I finally decided to start sponsoring some of the open source projects I regularly use. I set aside a monthly budget and I evenly divided the amount across the projects. Who am I sponsoring? So far I’ve started sponsoring these projects / people (in no particular order): iTerm2 - a terminal for MacOS I’ve been using for years Sebastián Ramírez - author …