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CORSAIR X-MEN (TOY BIZ) And here we are, at the end of the week. It’s been a hell of a week, but it’s over. Let’s just celebrate that simple fact. Last week, I didn’t have a post of the flashback variety, but it’s okay, because I’m...
DC has posted their full complement of solicitations for September 2026, and here’s everything relating to the Flash. It’s still a summer of the Super Family, so the Flashes are taking a bit of a breather, but there are two ongoing solo...
Although I’ve played way too many games for way too many hours over the way too many years I’ve been writing these histories, it’s safe to say that I haven’t spent more time with any one game than Heroes of Might and Magic II. Partly...
William Gore was the penname for Cora Josephine Gordon (1882-1944) and Godfrey Jervis Gordon (1879-1950), a husband and wife writing duo. They wrote two other mysteries, Death in the Wheelbarrow (1935) and Murder Most Artistic (1937)...
I recently finished reading The Orphan Master’s Son, a (Pulitzer-winning, apparently) novel set in 2000’s-era North Korea. In one plot point, Kim Jong Il has agents steal a Japanese telescope designed to measure the cosmic microwave...
For the last eight years or so, going back before the pandemic, Mexico’s economy has been growing at 1% per year or less, which is barely faster than the population of Mexico has been growing. It is a fact of arithmetic that an...
I was doing a deep dive into early Canadian history, because reasons, and found a couple of fun stories to share. Because hey — this Sunday is National Indigenous Peoples Day! The Bad Overwinter So a recurring thing in early Canadian...
Apps that refresh your place within the same session because engagement are a fucking blight on humanity. Good morning everyone.
A closer look at specific metal tracks at the granular level, this week we take a closer look at Metallica’s Master of Puppets.
A 2002 documentary on Mark "Gator" Rogowski isn't intended as true crime; does it do what successful genre docs do?
Penny Lover, You Should’ve Come Over UK artist...
The results of the Iranian war are now only preliminary.