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The ingredients used to make this novel promise something delectable. There is a deceased and disreputable writer, Cyril Heldman, who wrote weird and occultish tales and who died under very strange circumstances. His literary executor, Catherine Richards, whose house is crammed full of books, papers, newspapers, herself dies bizarrely in the first chapter: by falling from the sky onto the nearby roof of her longtime friend Tanya Sewell, who is …

Jonny Woo: Suburbia is a reflective and raucous act of cabaret at the Soho Theatre “I left,... The post Review: Jonny Woo – Suburbia, Soho Theatre appeared first on There Ought To Be Clowns.

I'm in my 50s and want to quit-- but I don't know if I have "enough". The post I’m 50 And Ready To Quit; A Case Study Update 3 Years Later first appeared on Financial Mechanic.

lingthusiasm:Lingthusiasm Episode 100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguisticsThis is our hundredth episode that’s enthusiastic about linguistics! To celebrate, we’ve put together 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics, featuring contributions from previous guests and Lingthusiasm team members, fan favourites that resonated with you from the previous 99 episodes, and new facts that haven’t been on the show before but might star in one of the next …

Over the last few years we have seen many new characters enter the public domain including Winnie-the-Pooh in 2022, Mickey Mouse in 2024, and now, Popeye in 2025! The character emerged from a comic strip called Thimble Theater, which was started in 1919 and originally centered around the characters Ham Gravy and Olive Oyl. Popeye made his first appearance in the series as a minor player in early 1929, and …

Galerie der Abseitigen Künste/Mille Plateaux, book+USB card, ISBN 978-3948478193, English, 64 pages, 2023, Germany The electric guitar has been playing a structural role for music especially in the second half of the 20th century, and still retains its importance. To acknowledge this, Ciciliani has created a fictional history of the electronic guitar as a performance. The work documents and expands a series of three works: ‘a multimedia performance, a performance …

I've never before seen it be sufficiently cold long enough in the UK that I've see the sea start to freeze. Clearly a sentiment shared by the others out for their early morning walk.

Two airplanes have just collided on the runway at Tenerife Airport. While no one on the Amsterdam-bound KLM plane survives the resulting fireball, 71 Pan-Am passengers and crew make it off their plane. But could it have been more? Why did so many Pan-Am passengers die, even though they weren’t injured by the initial collision and their plane was still on the ground? This episode was previously released on Pushkin+ …

In my post Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support I demonstrate how, when encountering a figure with a screen reader, you won’t hear everything announced at once: No screen reader combo treats the caption as the accessible name nor accessible description, not even for an image that lacks one. Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support All Is Well This is a good thing. Users don’t want to hear …

What connects a rear-engine sports car and a manual rangefinder camera? A bold approach to design that turned limitations into legends.

Unstoppable is a mashup of an underdog sports movie and a domestic drama about a family terrorized by an abusive father. The worst thing I can say about it is that it is conventional, but since when is that a crime? A true-life story told in linear fashion with a superior cast still resonates in 2025, especially with this one’s provenance and cast. Jharrel Jerome plays high school wrestler Anthony …

Mornings at camp can be chaotic, and breakfast often takes a backseat to the excitement of the day ahead. But skipping a good breakfast? That’s a recipe for low energy and a cranky start. On a recent camping trip, we found ourselves in this exact situation. With limited options and no time to cook, we gave cold-soaked muesli a try (we found it on Pinterest)—and it was awesome. Easy to …

While I was in Brazil, it occurred to me to ask, what if we all lived like Brazil? Above: View of Florianópolis, from my niece’s balcony. Fifty years ago, the trendy worry was about overpopulation: those poor countries were too damn teeming. This now looks both naïve and racist. Growth rates are stabilizing or declining. The problem is too much carbon and oil use, too much waste, too much beef, …

Katherine Rundell’s five audio essays on the power and politics of children’s fiction. So far I’ve listened to the first two and have loved them. Worth your time. Erin Kissane says the big platforms like Facebook are dead on their feet. “The evidence of the past decade and a half argues strongly that platform corporations are structurally incapable of good governance, primarily because most of their central aims (continuous growth, …