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John Gregory Dunne was married with Joan Didion. In 1973, he'd had enough of life, of his marriage, of more things; he left his wife and their child and moved to Las Vegas. As he left, he didn't know he was going to stay there for a...
My wife and I went to see the band Foreigner yesterday. If you’re not familiar with the band…like…have you been living under a rock!?!?! I promise you that you could have gone to the concert and you would have recognized 90% of the...
I put out a game yesterday. You can check it out here: The game is called The Revisionist (or you can stylize the title as THE REVISIONIST as I have in the itch page). It's a relatively small project, with something like a 30 minute...
False, that I walk through a gray Tokyo evening, arms out like a windswept umbrella, crying to Jeff Buckley. False, that I have fallen in love. False, that my abs won’t show, no matter how long I plank on the ribbed mat. False, that I...
I called late 1990 "Silly Season" in pinball, but late 1991 manages to outdo it. Bally/Williams brings us Party Zone, bringing together the Party Animals, Party Monsters, and Party Dudes from Dennis Nordman's previous tables into one...
Enjoy the little things in life, like the unsubscribe button in an email taking you to a form requiring you to type in your full name and email address and reason for leaving, so you feed the email to SpamSieve instead, and then a few...
During Homebrew Website Club tonight, Joe reminded us of this quote as an attempt to end on a positive note: “What do we got on the spacecraft that’s good?” — Apollo 13 My motivation to write has been in a slump but there have been some...
weather: ☀️ yeah it's summer critters: swallows is blocking even a function on bearblog? idk. but i don't want you reading my shit if you can't accurately identify techbro hyper-zoltar for what it really is (moloch). never speak to me,...
Read: Solace House by Will Maclean ★★★★ 📚 After sudden scalding exposure to the late twentieth century, and the garish monomania of the supermarket, it was joyous to return to the hospital, to the house. I found that I wanted to immerse...
If you are very lucky you may see a fire rainbow once or twice in your life. It sounds almost as if it could be the title of one of a series of children’s books – Harry Potter and the Fire Rainbow has a certain ring to it: but this...
How the New York Times changed its coverage of trans people from The Dissident. Spoiler alert: it's not great. I mean - the article/research is excellent. The outcome isn't.
This almost certainly has nothing to do with the surgery, but for some reason I am really up in the hizzy with the phlegm. Is it related to seasonal allergies? The weather? Male menopause? Some other mysterious condition that will...
Perfume PosseParfums de Marly Les Extraits Heya Posse! Last year I dropped into Sydney’s Parfums de Marly flagship store in our historic and beautiful Strand Arcade. Michael is the manager there and I’ve known him for decades. He’s a...
Thursday 25th June 2026 I enjoyed another Awayday in the fabulous North York Moors last Saturday and once again came away hugely impressed with the dedication of the volunteer team who put together and oversee the Moorsbus network...
I heard someone today describe today’s young entrepreneurs as the Christopher Columbus generation, meaning that they’re just declaring old things new. Amazing. The example used was dirty soda, which is really the oldest form of soda. Go...