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I’m in a bit of a shock discovering that @bengolliver.bsky.social has left the Greatest of All Talk. I haven’t listened to the final episode where Ben discusses things; don’t think I’m ready yet.
Thoughts about Disney's stab at patriotism for the USA's 250th, and whether it makes any sense to be celebrating the current version of America
And one more: Nehemiah is now complete in my Chapter By Chapter series. It continues to weird me out that Ezra just pops in to Nehemiah’s book, just as Haggai and Zechariah to do Ezra. Esther is next. I’ve written a lot about Esther...
on The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
I occasionally look at my router's list of known devices and it always shows a long list. I know most devices but not all and the unknown devices make me a bit uncomfortable because I never know what is spying on me nowadays. If a new...
Adventures in adult braces
So I decided to go with the narrow size, because it is close to what my large Travelers Notebook is, and it is the largest size that is more easily portable than the A5 version. I compared if I should get the Brown Pueblo or the Orange...
The first recording today is Pokemon: Battle Frontier – All That Glitters. On their way to the next big battle the group decide to stop off on the way. At a lake, May and Ash spot a strange Sudowoodo who appears to be golden, rather than...
Music I’ve bought in May. Hey, I bought a lot of stuff this month. Let’s see… I’ve seen lots of people dismiss the new Kim Gordon album like “well, the previous album was amusing and stuff, but now there’s a new one with the same thing?!...
Tales of Unease (1970) is an anthology drama series that was broadcast by ITV for just one series of seven episodes, each of which was directed and written by a different writer. It was based on and adapted some of the stories from the...
Din Daa Daa is the alias of Berlin-based artist, Denise Ross. I’m not sure how long Ross has been making music, but her DJ career began in the early 1990s. Heavily involved in the world of art and design, Ross recently began working on...
This collection of TV music videos with a loose framing story seems more like first-take/b-roll mess. Is it for kids? Was it influenced by The Monkees? They probably explained briefly in Anthology how this turned out so badly, and I...
You thought that I could not get any sexier. I was sure of it myself. Sorry, Polymarket, it happened. “Impossible,” I see in your thought bubble. “You already have Tom Jones’s presence, John Coltrane’s embodied artfulness, and Brad...
❚ All you need to know about the New Romantics revolution of the 1980s is covered in each of these books which is definitive in its own way. . . * 78-87 LONDON YOUTH, by Derek Ridgers (Damiani, 2013) – … Continue reading →