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Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 14th May 1996 Finnish death metallers Amorphis had begun their considerable career a few years before this, with the incredible ‘The Karelian Isthmus’ and of course their iconic ‘Tales from the...
Market Street This is one of those photos where I wish I could have been close enough to eavesdrop. This discussion was so intense, so perplexing, and completely captivating. I so wanted to be part of it.
Since losing interest in a lot of the things I used to be into, I've not really been posting to social media. The circles I moved in and the people I followed were nearly all tech people, and micro.blog tends to be very nerdy and skewed...
More monochrome cosmic horror. Quiet Apocalypse is a short black-and-white film by “Insolitum”, a combination CGI with stock footage that nods to Cloverfield, Ishirō Honda’s monstrous menagerie, and the last few minutes of The Mist, if...
Look, white puffy clouds and glimpses of sunshine and blue skies … the Swiss Chalet house We had to take a walk to the pharmacy to go collect the mad potion for my colonoscopy next Friday, Jul 3. We walked passed what I call the Swiss...
If you like Guy Ritchie TV shows and movies, you are probably going to enjoy this. Gravy Train tells the story of a twenty pound note – or rather the people through whose hands it passes on one day in North London. There’s a diverse cast...
I've spent a fair amount of time on this blog documenting what Bitwarden has been quietly doing to erode the trust that made them the default recommendation after LastPass started falling apart. That's a story about opacity and greed —...
Anyone who has worked in publishing for any time has hear the words. Lots know that the First Sale Doctrine has something to do with copyright, but many hear just words. Part of the trouble may be that it seems to me to be misnamed —...
Last week we spoke remotely at the Sonar Festival in Barcelona. This is the text and slides of our talk.My name is Yancey Strickler. Thank you for having me.Today I'm going to talk about how we and society are changing. In ways that are...
I may have spoiled myself a bit for this – I saw the 2002 remake from Steven Soderbergh, which starred George Clooney and focused a bit more on a love story hiding within Stanislaw Lem’s original novel. Andrei Tarkovsky’s original...
For pride month, straight critic Ben Miller takes a look back at a gay film he otherwise would have never seen Watching Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Querelle during pride month, I caught myself being drawn into the idea of what pride...
What pre-1985 science fiction adventures have you started this summer? Any great reads? Disappointing ones? Intriguing discoveries? Here’s the April installment of this column. In a conversation on Blueksy (my primary social media after...
A roundup of interesting links I have enjoyed recently. An 8-page, printable zine maker: dirtylittlezine.com A 3D tour of the Criterion Closet: the-criterion-closet.vercel.app Global freedom and democracy indices:...
After seeing this in an email from Meta today:"The setting to disconnect your off-Meta activity is going away."... I was reminded that I should finally delete my Facebook and Instagram accounts, so I guess that setting isn't the only...