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Suppose you wanted to find the distance between Earth and Mars over time. To first approximation, both planets orbit the sun in elliptic orbits in the same plane. If you wanted to be more accurate, you’d need to take into account the...
A terrific remix here from Todmorden’s Tom Sharkett, commissioned for the “Deluxe” repress of Maribou State’s 2025 album “Hallucinating Love”. The original “II Remember” is a sort of twisted folk, falsetto number. All funky syncopation,...
On the blog this week, I’m pondering the joys of travel, and the joys of homecoming. Lotsa joys! Add your comment here. And speaking of joys… An Heir of Possibilities, book six of the Bad Heir Day Tales, is now on sale in the web store...
Desert Brat 2026-08-22 ouch
By Gary Panter (178x128mm) The “Punk Comix” blog series ended half a decade ago, but I found a couple of items while rooting around in the attic today, so I though I might as well just post them. So this is one of those foldey-outey...
Power Cat 2026-08-22 fish mode
# At some point during the site tweaks, I managed to create a regression with /reader. I don't know how or when, but things just stopped working properly and only a few feeds would update. I'm not even sure that I made database specific...
Last time I offered you my initial thoughts on The Odyssey (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2026). This post is going to discuss the plot of the film. But to do that, we need to first survey the original poem. Homer’s Odyssey The Odyssey poem is...
We went on vacation at the end of June which led to crazy hours catching up at work, along with tackling various other tasks at work. Hopefully I will rediscover a better balance by around Labor Day. Until then, here is Lincoln’s...
Remember when we wrote about the surveillance cameras tracking pretty much every car? Remember when we wrote about the anti-surveillance fashion that makes ugly sweaters diverting cameras? Now imagine both at the same time....
Of all the world-dominating, endlessly milked corpo mega-franchises in the world…Spider-Man has always been one of my favorites. As a kid, I grew up on the Tobey Maguire movies. Loved Spider-Man 2 on Gamecube. Loved Marvel vs. Capcom 2....
Magnificent strudel kindly baked with the sweet new Rosette apples of the season by Head Chef, Farokh Talati of St John Bread & Wine, for this Sunday’s tour of Whitechapel. Click here to book your ticket for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF...
Host Mom messaged me the other day whether we would like beef or grapesI told her whatever she chose we would be grateful to receiveThen she messaged and asked thinly sliced or bite sized yakiniku meatI told her thinly slicedSo that is...
Once upon a recently, my family held our every three-yearly get together. The designated location this year was Denver, home of my oldest sister, and within hootin’ distance of a few other relatives. I used to travel a lot, especially to...