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While they still haven’t moved into the “writing new music in the 21st century” phase of their career, Alison’s Halo have at least taken the intermediary step of recording and releasing new music written by someone else in the 21st...
one of the many gems of the Getty Center Museum Once again, we took advantage of all the ‘free’ culture that Los Angeles has to offer. The Getty Museum, located at two separate venues, is world-famous, and the estimated 1.8 million...
I’ve always loved the opening scene of the original Mission Impossible. It was set in Prague, and it was the perfect mix of action and intrigue.As luck would have it, I found myself in Prague a couple years ago, and I spent an entire day...
I picked up Red Storm Rising yesterday, and quickly got completely engrossed in it. I have read it, but I was in high school, close to 40 years ago. It was published in 1986.The first section of the book (I’m 150 pages in) is an absolute...
My wife and I run a small law firm in the UK. Originally, we called it decoded:Legal. It made sense at the time, even though quite a few places struggled with the idea that a company name might have a colon in it. We used...
I’ve headed into the big list of drafts in the back end of my website because I’m in the mood for writing blog posts and sharing photos at the moment. This one, in particular, has been over a year in the making, so it’s about time I...
From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 117-119: Srivijayan dominance of Nusantaria was for a long time bolstered by cooperation with fellow Buddhists in...
A bit past totality (well, 96%-ity, since it wasn’t quite a total lunar eclipse). Still an interesting thing to look up and see. Worldcon going well, I’ve had lunch with a Grand Master and am now off to go sign a bunch of books and then...
My mornings are the time of the day that has changed the most in retirement. I am not woken by an alarm and I spend it slowly drinking coffee while I catch up on the world. I am able to spend the entire morning outside on the patio if I...
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We’ve gotten to know William Shakespeare’s Richard III pretty well by now. But who was the real Richard when he was at home? That question has been raising eyebrows and hackles for at least 400 years. Just after his violent death in...
Another weird late-August week. The biggest release is Coyote vs. Acme, in which Wile E. Coyote finally takes legal action against the Acme Corporation for how everything he's used to catch the Road Runner has failed, which was...
by George Pritchard Amongst the Galactic Journey staff, the Quark series has proved to be a bit of a problem child. I am now the third person to cover it, which seems like a bad sign, but let's see what we get, shall we? Cover by Martin...
PLASTIC MAN JLA (HASBRO) Well, we’re here at the end of the week. I mean, I hope we’re all here. It’s been kind of a rough week for, you know, everyone getting through it. You know what we need? Levity! So, for today’s Flashback Friday...
Did the miticide treatment work?A simple enough question, but not one that's straightforward to answer.What is meant by work?Does it mean 'kill mites', or does it mean 'prevent the overwinter loss of the colony'?The latter involves the...