I've been really eager to listen to this album from the moment I saw this fantastic front cover: a step further than just encouraging your fans to play MTG during your live show is to adopt the…

The H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center at Shippensburg University is pleased to announce four newly added performances—Brit Floyd, Graham Nash, Sesame Street Live: Elmo’s Got the Moves and The Rock…

L et's begin the week at The Twilight Zone Vortex , where Jordan watches the comedy episode " From Agnes–With Love " so we don't have to. It's prime, and sad, evidence of the show's dramatic decline…

All’s Well That Ends Well, by William Shakespeare, published 1623, play, 89 pages. It’s based on a story from The Decameron and is one of Shakespeare’s comedies, so I probably don’t need to elaborate…

[1962] Before the British Invasion, there was an even more modern invasion from the British Isles, Telstar rocketed up the charts everywhere. I feel like Joe Meek must have gone "I really like the…

One of the fascinating threads in “The Last Dance” documentary is the set of changes that took the Chicago Bulls from being a top-two team in the Eastern Conference to arguably the…

We’ve made it to another Friday and it’s time to celebrate! In today’s post you’ll find out the top 3 sapphic books with the most clicks this week. Maude Winters is our 5…

TGIF! Here is this week's mix. Enjoy!Songs to check out:01. Antigravity by Metric02. Little Death by past self03. Dopamine by Robyn04. A Step Ahead by Misty Mountain05. Underground by 2DCat06. The…

Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips,…

Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 just wrapped with a finale that earned its ending and a run that never once asked you to care about the multiverse. In a franchise that turned every streaming show into…

The traditional BLCKDGRD Bigass Holy Day Pynchon's Birthday post, he is 80 today: I wouldn't be me without his novels, especially Gravity's Rainbow , Mason & Dixon , and double especially Against the…

Antony Szmierek Chalk Opening with a deadpan vocal and a low swagger of bass line, Chalk is the latest release from Antony Szmierek. Depicting a game of 8-ball, there is a startling, poetic vividness…

I Think That I Might Love You is my sister Carla's fifth solo album. When you add in the TeenCanteen and Poster Paints albums, she has built up quite a discography since the summer and fall of 2016…

On her début, Wellspring, DoYeon Kim takes her gayageum, the traditional Korean zither, to an uncharted territory. Her avant-garde collaborators—drummer Tyshawn Sorey, violist Mat Maneri, and bassist…

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Etcetera Days are when I feature interesting political cartoons that don’t spark a full-throated rant.Today’s headline is a catch-phrase Yul Brynner had in The King and I, and while he…

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Jack Kirby mastered the art of action in comics and his design sense was an inspiration to all. Murphy Anderson made everything look sleek and lavish, especially when he was on full art chores, but…

Genre : Symphonic Power/Heavy Metal Year : 2024 01. Tides Of Alibis 05:55 02. Rage Of Emotions 04:48 03. Samurai 03:36 04. Path Of The Assassin (03:49 05. Iga Land 04:53 06. Rise 04:57 07.…

Elizabeth spotted this at the London Transport Museum, I think it is rather neat

Ever wondered how difficult it would be to communicate with aliens? Probably a bit harder than Star Trek makes it appear - in fact a person might have to change her whole view of the space-time…

The Sheep Detectives (2026) • View trailer Four stars (out of five); rated PG, and needlessly, for mild dramatic intensity Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang • P ublished in The Davis…

It's been a week or so since veteran comics and screen writer Gerry Conway passed away, and here's 2 more examples of leftists exploiting his rejection of his own creation, Frank Castle, for the sake…

A Madness of Angels (2009) 613 pages by Kate Griffin Matthew Swift #1 First sixty pages are a slog. Those are the times I wish I was a speed reader. The narrator doesn’t introduce himself…

So the new hot book of the week is Dynamite’s Ben 10 #1, based on the cartoon from some years back and apparently in short supply in these here parts. Notably, this wasn’t an item that…

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It’s always a good day when Rural France release a new record, even if the rest of the world still hasn’t fully caught on. Maybe album number four finally changes that, because SLOTHS feels like the…

Thee Seizures are an “anti-fascist acid punk” duo from Lisbon, Portugal, who needed just two wild days to cut their debut album Introducing… (they already shared the eight tracks…

🏝️ Desert Island Disc: "Cursive's Domestica (2022 Remastered Version)" by CursiveDesert Island disc 4. Cursive’s Domestica is the perfect post hardcore…

★★★½☆ - Stephen Baxter: A sequel to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine that drastically expands the scope across multiple timelines, from the dawn of time to the far future seen in the original. Now with…

I have too many books, and I’ve grown to accept that I always will. When I first started reading, I always finished books that I bought or borrowed before buying another one. This used to be an…

Read More The Dumbing Of Age Book 15 Kickstarter continues! The good news is that we're finally better than computers at something! but the bad news is that it's math

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🏝️ Desert Island Disc: "The Power Of Failing" by MineralDesert Island disc 1. The power of failing by Mineral. View:https://www.crucialtracks.org/discs/mbjones/4

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Orson Welles, 1962, ★★★★ A surrealist nightmare of expressionist lighting and skewed compositions made from colossal pre- and postwar European architecture, oppressive even when it’s beautiful, its…

Higuera, Diego. 2026. Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up: Conrad Von Cottonmouth, Runaway to the Stars, Stomping Ground, and Two More Projects You Will Love!. The Beat (May 7):…

Maryland-Based RBmedia Lays Off 22 Workers Amid Union Contract Negotiations In the middle of collective bargaining, the parent company of Rockville-based immersive audiobook company Graphic Audio…

Boards of Canada – “Prophecy At 1420 MHz” Fever Ray – “I’m Not Done (Therapy Session)” ear – “Real Life” The post Visual Velcro 53 first…

NESYA – PUT THE FRIES IN THE BAG. The intention of an artist like NESYA is not to create pure pop music. The daughter of a Nebraskan preacher and subjected to religious and sexual trauma, her…

You know when I’m home on my own I don’t watch much TV like actual TV, but I do watch music videos on YouTube on the TV. Sometimes new music but often ones I know really well. Music videos are such a…

Last night, I finished reading The Wayfinder , a novel by Adam Johnson. I had started this book on Christmas Day (I give books to each of my family, and when I saw this on the table at Flyleaf Books,…

Marvel is in the process of wrapping up their reboot of the Ultimate Universe (I'm still shocked they are actually ending it) and just started hinting at something called the, " Midnight Universe, "…

Good Soil The Education of an Accidental Farmhand by Jeff Chu Convergent, 2025. 317 pages. Review written March 24, 2026, from my own copy, purchased via Amazon.com Good Soil is a memoir about Jeff…

RIP Magic “Screwdark” There are moments in “Screwdark” that sound like three DJ Shadows DJing at each other like the Spider-Man meme, or someone trying to Zaireeka the entire…

K recently joked that were I to appear on Mastermind, my specialist subject would be Iron Maiden. She may be right. They’re certainly the band I have paid the most attention to over the years.…

The National Cartoonists Society has announced that they will be presenting Bone creator Jeff Smith with their Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s 80th annual Reuben…