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"‘Loaded them up like convicts’: The wife of a man seized in a massive Penza enlistment raid on how he was sent to war against his will." “The cops, together with the enlistment office,” are driving around towns in minibuses, “stopping...
Episode 39 of the Ted Dabney Experience podcast is available now for your listening pleasure! If you enjoy reading ArcadeBlogger.com, you’ll love the other project I’m involved with: Rob Quinn joined Stern just as the company was...
My wife started a fish tank a few weeks ago. It has come along well. We have some nice pets you can’t pet. Started with a small tank before moving...
Next tickets available 18th July for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields In the grove of sacred hawthorn One Midsummer, Photographer Colin O’Brien & I joined the celebrants of the Loose Association of Druids on Primrose Hill for the...
I’ve been on a kick lately identifying several iconic set decorations from Mark Frost and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. I love finding these background art pieces after seeing them during multiple rewatches for more than three decades....
At one of the supermarkets I go to, I found these ice cream bars, what the Japanese, especially Kansai (west Japan) people call, "ice candy"These are made by Kubota Ice, a company in KochiWhat I like about these is that there aren't many...
Awkward, to be developing an affection for Alvin that is not romantic nor absolutely platonic, and as a result feels abjectly transgressive. But, by God, defer your judgment of me for just one moment. Let me plead my case. Remove the...
There is a reason John Scalzi is one of my favorite authors in the world. He is outspoken about issues that are close to his heart and like most authors he is not a fan of AI. In fact he has a clause in his contracts that all artwork,...
TED KOSMATKA “The Art of Alchemy.” First appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2008. Reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three, edited by Jonathan Strahan (Night Shade Books, 2009) and The Year’s...
The Guildhall Gallery doesn't have much of a global reputation and its local reputation is considerably less than stellar. Locally it is perceived as a moribund institution where dull portraits of local politicians - Lord Mayors of...
Probitas is a blended rum collaboration between Barbados’ Foursquare distillery and Hampden Estate from Jamaica, known as Veritas outside the United States. The expression launched a few years ago as a 47% “white” rum with bolder flavors...