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In the fall, I’m teaching a new music history class at NYU on 20th century American popular music. This is not a history of rock. When the department says “20th century”, they mean the entire 20th century. We don’t get to Elvis until...
# No work today, and most likely tomorrow, due to a bad migraine. I've had a nagging headache all week. It started getting so much worse in the early hours of this morning, forcing me to get up and take some pills. I've been popping them...
July’s here, so it’s time for a look back at June! Which was a bit of a weird month, but I seem to have said that last month too… June in general: Mostly the thing that sticks out about June this year was how hot it was, in the UK. I’ve...
Click here to book for the Gentle Author’s Tours After he photographed the end of the trams in 1952 at the age of twelve, photographer Colin O’Brien became fascinated by recording the ‘last days’ of vanishing aspects of London life....
Evert Duykinck, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsAs of last year, I had a gaping hole in my reader knowledge. I had not read a single Jane Austen novel! I could probably blame not having taken BritLit in high school. They just weren't...
Gelatle's (apparently they combined the words gelato & turtle) blood orange shiroan gelato was more like a sherbet.This had blood orange juice, shiroan (sweetened white bean paste), and also used some kiyose honey....different but super...
[And yes, this will absolutely lead to arson.] Speaking of wildfires, don’t bet on them. Let’s all be better than that.Link: https://www.hcn.org/articles/people-are-betting-on-wildfires-should-they/
Poetic CSS Understand CSS as a system — so you can write, review, and maintain web styles with confidence on a timeline and under budget. My friend Miriam Suzanne has a new course on CSS. I've learned SO MUCH from Miriam over the years...
The remarkable voice system described for Mubi seems to interact with relativisation, but textual data is scarce. In textual examples of subject relativisation, the same suffix shows up that Jungraithmayr describes as forming attributive...
It is too hot. I sat and read some random assorted comics that I enjoyed today, but couldn't put words together in my head to describe much about them other than, "Matt Fraction's take on the original Batman deserves more love, along...
I haven't read much any Stephen King fiction books. It, Pet Sematary, Green Mile... None. I know, I'm a terrible, awful person who doesn't deserve the title of a 'reader'. That said, I thought it was about time I gave some King books a...
When Apple announced Siri A.I. would not be available on E.U. iPhones or iPads at launch, it said: Given the serious risks to users, Apple designed a solution called Trusted System Agent — an intermediary that would allow virtual...
Schon im Pilotprojekt von 1988 war die Veloroute 11 angelegt – inklusive Radkreuz. Aber dem Radkreuz wird gerade – noch bevor es fertig ist – ein Arm amputiert1. Und wo bleibt die Veloroute 11? Selbst im allerersten, rudimentären...
After being thoroughly disappointed with Ruler of the World, one of J. T. McIntosh’s later works, I decided to try one of his earliest novels. One from his prime. I chose The Fittest when I read that it was about animals with enhanced...
Two middle-aged doctors, two grade schoolers, a teenager, an infant and a very loud cat: say hello to the Miljković family flying circus, coming to Denver this very evening.