I've been watching through the documentary series The World at War lately, and figured it was worth talking about here. For those who don't know, it was aired in the early 70s, and is generally…

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There were two big themes this week, by far the biggest being Canada vs US / Carney vs Trump. The week evolved from discussion of punitive tariffs to Trump forcing Carney to drink American liquor. As…

A closer look at specific metal tracks at the granular level, this week we look at Burzum&#8217;s &#8216;Key to the Gate&#8217;, and unpack why Burzum&#8217;s music is integral to understanding the…

I en tid när ljudrummet dränks i den kommersiella radions tyckmyckentrutade ordblaj och fullständigt intetsägande pubertalflamsande tjafs har många av oss mer eller mindre gett upp. Radion, som en…

Over the years on Bandcamp I’ve amassed a few hundred digital releases. I’ve purchased vinyl, tapes and merch from there too but they’re for another day. You know how it...

By George Eliot . It's absolutely wonderful; for me, somewhere between Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss . From what I can gather, Romola tends to be considered (when it's thought of at all) only…

DAREDEVIL #258 (September 1988) &#8220;I Heard The Jungle Breathe&#8221; Writer: Fabian Nicieza Penciller: Ron Lim Inker: Jim Sanders III Letterer: Diana Alberts Colourist: Bob Sharen Editor: Ralph…

I feel like I’m only beginning to understand the reasoning here. Nomi’s bag is in a car. That car is gone, so she attacks the next car available. Not a dance yet, but this is the first choreography.…

https://theconversation.com/five-fiction-books-that-will-help-you-understand-ukraine-290003 The City by Valerian Pidmohylnyi (1928). Translated and introduced by Maxim Tarnawsky in 2025. not in any…

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That Adrian Toomes just can't stop picking on teenagers! Let's hope that Dick Grayson has some tricks up his short sleeves to make up for his lack of wings!

A tangled web, indeed. Read more The post Tenmaku no Jaadugar (Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia) – 09 appeared first on Lost in Anime.

This topped the US singles chart in 1962. Gene Chandler, who sang it, later took to calling himself the Duke of Earl. I don't know when this suitably aristocratic live performance dates from, but…

This vessel has a questionable paintjob history, first as Moby Zaza, featured earlier on this site, now as World Legacy:

The Odyssey (2026; Christopher Nolan) and misleading marketing

Available in English as The War Within These Walls , translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson. A notably different title, the original title means 'the ghetto's colors'. Did they opt for that…

The ‘thrum thrum thrum’ overlaid on the ‘ggg the the thur ggg the the thur ggg the the thur’ is something you only notice after a few minutes of listening to HMLX 8032. It has been months since this…

Of all the podcasts in my subscriptions, there is one that I've unsubscribed and resubscribed so many times that I've lost count: BBC's Global News Podcast . There will be days when I think that I…

@painesplough_ blank is about blank who wants blank, but blank is stopping them&#x2026; A writing prompt, imparted to Roy Williams from the late great Stephen Jeffreys. &#x1F4FD;&#xFE0F; @DMLK Video…

Three weeks at number one from 23rd April 1988 Over the years, drivers on the A38 road from Willand to Taunton have reported the appearance of a bedraggled, curly haired gentleman with a torch.…

I was the ideal age (pardon the pun) to be attracted to Captain Action when he first dropped onto the scene. I never got the doll (I resist the convention to call him an "action figure") but I always…

I first read Absolutely On Music a few years ago: a book which Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa have a few conversations on music. I am not sure why I read it...

Then, in the early 1990s, he was back in court, suing the US hip-hop star Biz Markie over an unauthorised sample of Alone Again (Naturally). Again, he prevailed, setting the precedent that samples…

Fred Saberhagen’s 1979 An Old Friend of the Family is the third book in his Dracula&nbsp;Sequence. Twenty-year-old Kate Southerland accepts a&nbsp;party invitation from sketchy lothario Craig…

You can&#8217;t have a story without an antagonist. You could, it just would be really boring. My goal in this post is to radically expand your vision of what an antagonist can be. In my work as an…

I've got a bunch of different shows coming up. One is a variety show. I also have a Sunday DJ set that's public for once, and gotta get ready for a big Buckdancer show a week and a half after that.…

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We've seen these a few times now, in recent years, from at least three makers, here's another trio, from two additional brands! Courtesy of Peter Evans, these would seem to confirm a quiet trend in…

[1966] Classic supremely melodic moody and broody garage from one and done group The Wonders outa Omaha Nebraska. Soaring haunting harmonies in slightly disorientating arrangement. Top unknown garage.

Beauty by Robin McKinley read by Charlotte Parry Recorded Books, 2013. (Print book originally published in 1978.) 7 hours, 5 minutes. Review written July 29, 2025, from a library eaudiobook. Starred…

The Faraway Inn (2026) 369 pages by Sarah Beth Durst Calisa goes to stay with Auntie Zee for the summer before her senior year in high school. When she gets there Auntie Zee says you can stay the…

An Evolutionary Astrology analysis of the 1965 Uranus-Pluto conjunction and how four weeks at EMI Studios transformed Rubber Soul into a cultural detonator for modern rock.

Read this beside Thomas Pynchon&#8217;s Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow and you will see the two great American ambition-novels about the Second World War as the secret birthplace of the computer age.…

This is one of those iconic scenes from the original Blade Runner and one of my favorites. The sights and sounds of this video are outstanding. I need to make another run through the film and take a…

This is a fun album! It not only boasts that great album cover with the director's clapboard and all the titles listed, but the sound is fantastic - Rene Touzet mixes the musical style of Les Baxter…

I just finished my reading of Alone in the World - How to Find Courage & Clarity in Uncertain Times by Miriam Lancewood. It is the third book of hers I have read, and I loved every moment it. She…

Following my spring reading list, here&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;ve been reading this summer. The big news is I finally closed out a book that&rsquo;s been sitting on my bookshelf&rsquo;s in-progress…

I got this book after finishing Andrew's Psychedelic Neuroscience Master Course on his YouTube channel shortly after it was published, but only found time to read it now. It's super interesting both…

On the blog this week, I&#8217;m pondering the joys of travel, and the joys of homecoming. Lotsa joys! Add your comment here. And speaking of joys&#8230; An Heir of Possibilities, book six of the Bad…

Of all the world-dominating, endlessly milked corpo mega-franchises in the world…Spider-Man has always been one of my favorites. As a kid, I grew up on the Tobey Maguire movies. Loved Spider-Man 2 on…

In the most recent issue of the BBC Music Magazine, the “Building a Library” feature is devoted to Shostakovich’s much played, much recorded, 8th String Quartet. And the chosen top recommended…

(This is an ongoing work and will be updated as I finish each chapter.) Stofraktafrutrigid e roi ot ratmulti Mikro per E.T.A. Hoffman Germani, 1918 1 During the long, long day of the twenty-fourth of…

Lalo Rios may not be a familiar name to many these days, but he was a pioneering Mexican American actor. In the space of two years, he appeared in two movies dealing with the Chicano experience,…

This Week's Discussion: Over the years, we've seen DC Comics' Nth Metal give Hawkman and Hawkgirl various powers. Does the power of the Nth Metal vary with who is wearing it? How much of the…

Isao Tomita was a pioneer of electronic music and this synthesiser arrangement of Mussorgsky&#39;s Pictures at an Exhibition is my favourite.