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One of the photos I entered in the competition. I recently entered a few photos into a local juried competition. It was my first time doing so. At first, I didn’t think much about my participation, but I’d be lying if I said I didn't...
Offline day: finishing up in the office and then out for lunch, shopping and then a gig. We’ve learned to crave feeds that impose a steady stream of unconscious, dreamlike images we struggle to forget, but also to fully remember. In the...
⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 Stars - Exploring love in a dystopic police state, in a very PKD way. The post Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick appeared first on The Wallflower Digest.
Torture, brutality, and abuse [are] endemic to New York’s prisons. – Jerome Wright Vulture Watching (#1451) I doubt this will do very much good until the current SCOTUS is neutralized: …a U.S. district court judge in Idaho ruled that...
My favorite books in July were A Wartime Marriage - also published as Escape from Bucharest, a better title because the book is more of an adventure than a historical romance, and The Wednesday Wars by Gary S. Schmidt, a book set during...
Q: So CAMRA have changed their beer scoring system… A: That’s not a question, but yes. (I talked about the old system in the previous post.) The National Beer Scoring System (NBSS), to give it its slightly grandiose official title, until...
Tracing my way around a failed email redirection.How hard can emails be? Or so I thought. Boy, was I wrong. This post is basically me fucking around with email infrastructure and finding out the hard way. #The Problem As a person with...
Lords save me from this nonsense. Many don't know this, but I never went to art school. Much to my misery, I actually ended up in business school (long story). Though not a very good one. One of things I was looking forward to the most...
The poet Anthony Etherin is noted for his interest in wordplay, devising pieces that use limitations in the letters used, or particular structures, to provoke high ingenuity while retaining meaning. He has recently launched a new...
Happy weekend! I’ve been off work for two days already, so I’m starting to get into my stride with this relaxation thing… nah, kidding, I’m really bad at it! Even on my birthday on Thursday I was doing chores like a normal day… Books...
Sharp and unsentimental, the prose of Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen crackles across the page, exposing the painful insecurities of ordinary people as they navigate the often messy experiences of life—housewives who question their...
What caught my eye this week. Weekend Reading – featuring the week’s best money and investing articles from around the web – can be read by any logged-in Monevator member. Alternatively please subscribe to our free email newsletter to...
Look out! An archer is hiding in ambush in the bottom of this kylix (wine-cup). If you look closely you can see that his shield has a rim sketched in with pale paint. Around 510-500 BCE, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, object 01.8074 When we...
I've updated this site to be more minimal. A home page, a blog, an About page, no social links, no Now, no baggage. I've also deleted a couple of recent posts and a bunch on social media, to try and heed my own advice. Webmentions are...
Cryptome was always an odd thing. It was (is?) an online archive and document repository which published things that it hinted should not have been published.I remember Cryptome from back in the 1990s, when I was first getting on the...