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a widely circulated fanfiction-cum-copypasta entitled “Purple Eyes and Other Interesting Anomalies”, written in 1998
The Royal Navy has spent the past 14 weeks gearing up a mine countermeasures response to send to the Persian Gulf region. That mission will be the 16,000-ton civilian-manned Bay-class auxiliary RFA Lyme Bay (L3007), loaded up with lots...
Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s “Tell It To the Marines,” an interbellum silent film featuring the great Lon Chaney, began filming in the summer of 1926, specifically running from 7 June to 3 August, for a Christmas weekend release. The first film...
On the eve of a large international tactical expo, FN Herstal raised the curtain on a new rifle for its 2026 catalog, the ARKA. Blending elements of the famed FN SCAR series with familiar AR ergonomics in a short-stroke piston system...
Ooops. I didn’t mean to let this much of a gap go between newsletters. The first week was an accident. We were busy and I forgot to write one. Then we were busy and I just didn’t write another one. … Continue reading → The post As Of...
Matthew Eatough Under Review:Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun. Mónica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker. Coffee House Press, May 2026. It’s fascinating to consider why cutting-edge developments within a genre often seem to...
2026 is another year of short stories. In this weekly series, I track my short story writing, from idea and draft to submission. This is for the weeks of May 25 – Jun 7. Stats Submissions and Responses Two weeks, and one form rejection...
Walk into any 100-year-old house and you’ll notice something modern builders forgot. The doorknobs, hinges, switch plates, escutcheons, drawer pulls, and bath fixtures are almost universally brass. Not stainless steel. Not chrome. Not...
Road trip to ETSU I took a road trip in the middle of the week with my wife and youngest. We traveled to Johnson City, Tennessee where my youngest will attend school in the fall. I had traveled through eastern Tennessee on my way to...
8th June 2026 A lucky arbitration win for the UK brings the programme to its conclusion * There was recently an international arbitration award: a lucky arbitration award. The lucky winner was the United Kingdom, the unlucky loser was...
Link No. 1. The paragraph: The first Latina-owned brewery in Colorado stormed onto the Colorado Springs scene in 2018 after home-brewer Jess Fierro took home the top prize in the six-episode docuseries “Beerland.” Following her win,...