A simple entertaining riff on the sci-fi movies of the 50s. It hits a lot of the same themes and characters, and taken for what it is - an homage to another time and to a forgotten way of making and…

Initial casting has been announced for the upcoming revival and Scottish premiere of Once – the opening production in Alan Cumming’s inaugural season as artistic director of the Pitlochry Festival…

Donald Trump’s Pantomime United Nations The Board of Peace might be destined to fail, but it still threatens to undermine an international system in which the U.S. was once the linchpin. - Ishaan…

Tickets for 2027’s strictly limited West End season of the acclaimed new UK and Ireland tour of Boublil and Schönberg’s haunting musical Miss Saigon went on sale on 20 March.

Last time, I posted a lengthy missive by ChatGPT appraising my new book ailien minds, prompted by Richard Bliss, with some of my own commentary and demurals laced-in. All-told, the effect was that of…

The Daily Dead interviewed Jude Ellison Doyle and Caitlin Yarsky, the writer and artist of a new horror comic titlted Dead Teenagers, and in discussing the premise: The unfortunate friends in the new…

There is a German TV-show, “Biene Maja”, from the 70’s that I loved as a child and re-watched with my daughter. Maja is a curious bee living on a beautiful meadow, experiencing all kinds of…

Today, March 21, is World Puppetry Day . While this blog has not posted specifically about puppetry before, we've covered stop-motion animated films many times. The January 27, 2024 post Stop-Motion…

(This blog post is part of the 12th Annual Favourite TV Show Episode Blogathon , hosted by A Shroud of Thoughts) There can be no doubt that the biggest fad in American television in the Sixties was…

I wrote about some of the CD-Roms that came with the cereal back in the 2000s. A true trip down memory lane that brought me back to my childhood days.

Reading List 2026 Finished Super communicators - Charles Duhigg Hidden Potential - Adam Grant The Voices of Marrakesh - Elias Canneti A woman in the polar night - Christiane Ritter Silence - Erling…

Mawukana na-Vdnaze is an unusual man. Born in the Shine, an autocratic multi-planetary government noted for its brutal repression of dissent, he escapes in the most astonishing manner possible, via…

I was a student at the University of Toronto and was writing poetry and got a call from a place called Coach House Press, who asked if I had perhaps a book of poetry they could publish. They had,…

This is a summary of what I read recently. 1.) Anthony Bourdain - A Cook's Tour   : This is a biased review: Make no mistake about it. I'm a fan of Anthony Bourdain and have watched all of his…

profreshinol-respawner:gideon the ninth: “ah, I understand,” said palamades, “what’s happening here is-” at this point, Gideon decided to think about how hot dulcinia…

This page was last updated 1 day, 20 hours ago Title: Pit Fighter - Victor of Tuscon Book One Author(s): Plum Parrot Thoughts: This is another book I saw under my recommendations for Kindle Unlimited…

Stephen King lives with his wife in Maine. Bangor? Well, they do have three kids together.

Six intriguing articles related to toys, games, and nostalgia that have hit the news this week. Source

So, The Amazing Digital Circus! To those who haven’t heard of it, it’s an ongoing show about six unlucky protagonists being trapped in the titular circus, and they don’t know why. They wake up in…

Following two successful British tours earlier in 1966, the first with The Krew as backing band and the second with The League of Gentlemen, promoter Roy Tempest brought Lee Dorsey back for a final…

Book Review: 'High Sorcery' by Andre Norton 3 / 5 Stars 'High Sorcery' (156 pp.) was published by Ace Books in March 1970, with cover art by Jack Gaughan. Two of the five stories and novelettes in…

A decade ago, a genius computer programmer named Harold Finch (Michael Emerson) created the Machine, a powerful AI capable of detecting crimes before they happen. The US government wanted to use the…

Not sure which is harder to believe. That Paul would buy this truck, or that he found someone to sell it to. (Watch on YouTube)

Imagery from the first few issues of Yarrowstalks out of Philadelphia, 1967. Today it’s mostly mentioned as the first publication to publish comix by R. Crumb, but it was a striking paper in its own…

After a very long time I started doing another global event map for January 3rd, 2026. This has been so much fun that I would love to do another and even bigger edition... The post…

I had high expectations for this, Kenneth Pieroway's fifth book about trains on Newfoundland. I was not disappointed.

Long ago and far away I installed my first Linux distribution. Thirty-two years ago was a long time, we were living in Cincinnati then so it wasn’t really so far away. But it was another century,…

Time for me to once again bemoan Big Audio Dynamite never getting the respect they deserve for their innovative blend of 80s indie rock, electropop, and hip-hop. 1989's Megatop Phoenix , the fourth…

The thing about Harry Styles is that he does have fanbase sales. So while he still has three tracks in the top 20 – at numbers 3, 5 and 15 – he doesn’t get a second week at number 1…

For its fifth year at Word of South, the Salvation South Stage turns a big tent in Tallahassee into an experiment in Southern identity, rubbing poems up against protest anthems, old‑time dance tunes…

Ways to arrange, compose and sequence sound. Some can stray into the sound design territory but generally these are the things I can open to try and layer some sounds together to find something new…

A s you'll learn at the end of this week's piece, one of the most popular series on television is the legal drama Perry Mason *, and this week, we're going to take a look at some of the inside keys…

The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, published 1596, play, 82 pages. I first read this twenty-five years ago but apparently retained almost none of it. Aside from the antisemitism, I…

House 2004–2012, David Shore My rating: Loved it! One of my favorite series, I loved rewatching it. From the case-of-the-week episodes in the first seasons to the bigger arches in the later seasons,…

Genre : Epic Black Metal Year : 2024 1. Bringer of the Eternal Light 02:58 2. Prometheus 03:47 3. Pain and Hate 02:48 4. Dark Dimensions 02:43 5. Night's Creation 04:24 6. Saturnus Chaos Giant 03:42…

Mitchell Leisen showing Ray Milland how to kiss Jean Arthur. Publicity set photo from Easy Living (1937) Songs of Surrender: Mitchell Leisen Revisited In a light, sophisticated no-man’s-land (yes,…

My first experience of Tim Benzie's Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote was in the Prince Charles cinema in London. The PCC is easily my favourite cinema around and there has not been a trip to London…

Learn about why character names matter, how to approach the ‘hard-to-pronounce’ issue, and practical strategies for making your characters memorable, readable and believable.In this articleWhy…

Supersonic Saturday…Okay, not quite, especially given the state of the track in The Forest. Propelled by Hubert the conversational Latin speaking horse, who as we know is very very strong (he’s out…

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Proc Fiskal – “Imagemage” (bc) Micofcourse – “Hi, Bye” (Tre Mission Remix) (bc) Versalife – “Culprit” (bc) The post New Hots Hots 14 first…

I am no expert on the work of Lucy Sante, but one of my favourite pieces of music-related writing comes in her Maybe The People Would Be The Times essay collection, which I chanced upon. The piece I…

Some of the best episodes of Voyager happen in seasons 4 and 5. Also some some of the worst.

A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of Jerk Music. I know that is a little tongue in cheek, but we can definitely view the new rise in Jerk music as something similar in the growth in…

New blog post! Needy Girl Overdose came out four years ago, and it had quite a big impact! This game had a lot to say about otaku culture, so I wrote about it.

Atthe end of last year I picked up three Ignition 12"s , and three months later I'm still playing them regularly. Last week I picked up an almost mint condition copy of their first 7" (and debut…

Boyd has a federal lawsuit going that says more than she’s been offerred thus far. And I don’t have time to write a short answer so I’m gonna write a long one. If I had more time?…

Why Is Crowd Work So Popular in Stand-Up Comedy? Blog Series Written jokes prove you can be funny with material. And make no mistake, I have nothing but respect for comedians who can walk onstage…