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Many people can guess the current time to the minute whenever they pop awake in the middle of the night. It feels like a superpower, but it's not. Whenever a cashier adds you up, flash a total. Don't calculate. Don't try to be right....
mssv - See You ThroughSome bands go on tour. Other bands really go on tour. mssv falls in the latter category. In 2025, their 69-date trip was crammed into about that many days, as the trio traveled tirelessly from state to state, from...
mssv - See You ThroughSome bands go on tour. Other bands really go on tour. mssv falls in the latter category. In 2025, their 69-date trip was crammed into about that many days, as the trio traveled tirelessly from state to state, from...
The Venice Art biennale, like many contemporary art affairs, has never been big on tech. This year, the omission is more conspicuous than ever. At a moment when anxieties around the evils of technology are intensifying, the art event...
Nuclear reactors taken offline in France, as extreme heat pushes river temperatures into danger zone
Over the weekend, some branches fell on a neighbor’s power service line. They still had power, but the branches had to be removed. That removal occurred this morning. I saw the trucks at about 6:45 AM as I walked past. I suspected I...
Since we’re currently lost somewhere in the middle of wars that seemingly have no end-point, and arguably no point, I wonder just what film director Christopher Nolan will make of The Odyssey, his blockbuster movie of which comes out...
After reading a story, then singing our final song together, the children came forward to hug me, not one at a time, but all together, and there we were, a massive scrum of bodies, wrapping one another up in our arms.Since my first year...
Dr. Skull is a serialized thriller from Lewis Clay that ran in 10 issues of Detective Fiction Weekly from Sept. 17, 1938, through Nov. 11, 1938. It was cover-featured with the first installment, and this cover is used by Steeger Books...
I started this post out intending to do a Multilink Monday, but within a few seconds of starting this video I came to realize, nah, this one deserves the spotlight all to itself. It’s well made, seems to be constructed with a stable eye...
The Witch Queen and the Girl in Homeroom: What I Learned from Forty Years of One Character I created Larina in July, 1986. That sentence feels simple enough, but it carries a lot of weight. It means she has been with me through six...
Read the full post at - Electra by Sophocles I’ve been slowly working my way through Greek tragedies, specifically Sophocles, because there’s an excellent collection available on Standard Ebooks — free, beautifully formatted, and easy to...
about like fitting into a box and having a label you can describe yourself withim reminded of some advice ive seen elsewhereabout how you shouldnt base your identity on hobbiessince it leads to either doing it out of obligationor having...
There's something about mystery novels. I grew up reading them constantly. Hell, I could argue that the only books I was reading for a very long period of time were mystery novels. The Boxcar Children, Encyclopedia Brown, Nancy Drew, The...
The following is excerpted from “Smalls: 18 Well-designed, Easy Projects for an Afternoon in the Workshop.” In addition to the projects, you’ll find chapters on the techniques you need to build them (which will, of course, come in handy...