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“Pile of chairs”Closeup of Men Shoveling Chairs (Scupstoel), Circle of Rogier van der Weyden, possibly Vranke van der Stockt (Netherlandish, ca. 1420–1495) While working on Don Weber’s profile for The Stick Chair Journal No. 4, Don told...
The Golden Age of Detective Fiction is generally narrowed to the interwar period, roughly covering the 1920s and '30s, because the World Wars make convenient bookends for the detective story's post-WWI boom period and post-WWII decline –...
I’m not really a religious person. Having said that, I enjoyed and appreciated this episode of For Heaven’s Sake from the Shalom Hartman Institute about being a mensch from a Jewish perspective:
Man Sings the Same Song Over and Over Again for an HourThe thing about being recommended this show (I was recommended this show) is that you go into it with two questions. The first is "what's the song?". And the second of which is: "how...
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC says: The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a huge treasure trove for fans of the natural world (not my words, the Guardian told...
This entry is sponsored by fme AG company – and this article aspires to share about interesting HA setup on node01a and node01b VMs. The interesting case here is that the 10.0.0.x/24 is limited in one of the clients – most IP(s) are...
First thing I noticed was the missing pattern on old man Kovsky's headdress in a couple panels. Then there was the panel where mechanical claw attached to the alien's forearm wasn't a claw at all; it was just a normal hand. And Mickie...
My social media account have been sitting dead in the water for a while. And to be honest I love it. But then my life did a backflip (yes, it's a breakup. no, I will not write details about it) and I ended up on a downwards spiral of...
Some shows are difficult to review because the performance in the room is not quite the performance that was intended. Unfortunately, audience disruption significantly affected the opening of TITCLOWN: daddy’s little girl, breaking the...
For the last two decades, contemporary theatre has become increasingly fascinated by intimacy. Companies such as Complicité helped pioneer forms that blurred the boundaries between audience and performer, while works like The Encounter...
OTD in 1867, Train Caldwell McClure (1843-1934) married Gulia Swain (1847-1920). Train was my husband's great-grand uncle.Train was 23 at the time of his marriage, 159 years ago today. He was a veteran of the US Civil War, having fought...
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" by Bob Dylan Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What's your favorite song about letting go? - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright by Bob Dylan It's the archetypal...
When I was immersed in the Irish language for a week in Donegal last month, I made plenty of mistakes. But there’s one mistake that I’m actually quite pleased I made. The emphasis at Oideas Gael is on conversational Irish, so our teacher...
Well, that was not too bad. The songs were decent. But, yeah, it’s a kids movie. With bright kitschy images.