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In the latest newsletter I wrote: Feeling sorry for myself after a rough morning of writing, I put on the 2003 Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster and half-watched while making collages out of kids’ drawings. I felt what Amanda Petrusich wrote in her 9,000 word profile of the band: “When I first saw the movie, I was twenty-four and found the incongruity of it—some guy in a sweater asking …

In the not-at-all-expected announcement that he was throwing his hat in the ring for Islington North, Paul Mason said something that rings true about the state of British politics. He argued the incoming Labour government has one chance to restore popular support in British politics by delivering on its programme. A point that was also echoed by Andrew Marr and has become an occasion for fretting among Keir Starmer's base …

Bill and Darling are watching Jeopardy.DARLING: Bill, one of the categories is MATH TALK. You will kick butt!BILL: Not clear. I doubt they will have the least number n such that R(n) is not known. They will ask things easy enough so that my math knowledge won't help.DARLING: But you can answer faster.BILL: Not clear. --------------------------------------------Recall that in Jeopardy they give the answers and you come up with the question.Like …

But what are OCs if not blorbos from my brain?

My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring last week at DF. The September 2023 MGM hack is one of the most notorious ransomware attacks in recent years. Journalists and cybersecurity experts rushed to report on the broken slot machines, angry hotel guests, and the fateful phishing call to MGM’s help desk that started it all. But while it’s true that MGM’s help desk needed better ways of verifying employee identity, there’s …

thewindowofthesummerhouse: Anthony Galatis

Now, where were we? Ah yes – Rome was awash with purged blood and uncomfortable alliances. In this week’s opening flash-forward, Old Clavdivs is fiddling, with ink-stained fingers, the jade talisman that failed to keep Germanicus safe. Like Proust’s madeleine, it triggers a flood of memories, and now he’s not holding back – this is the real dank tea-spill, though the less said about the final years of Tiberius’s reign, …

I went to the Interesting conference on Wednesday evening. I saw a lot of old colleagues and other friends from the gentler earlier days of the internet. It lived up to its billing, although one thing had me saying “oh no it isn’t”. In his talk on matcha, Gianfranco Chicco said that the character for tea, cha, 茶, is made up of grass 艸, person 人, and tree 木. Which …

Artist: Corpse God Album: Onward to Oblivion Year: 2024 Genre: Death Metal Web: https://youtu.be/wCK5lEgIiPk / https://corpsegod.bandzoogle.com/ Country: United States Quality: 320 Kbps Tracklist: 1. Remnants of a Fallen God 2. Devoid of Light 3. Dead Yet I Breathe 4. Kingdom of Disease 5. Maelstrom of Malevolence 6. Through the Eyes of the Abyss 7. Evolution Through Extinction 8. Onward to Oblivion Witness: -[*]-It seems like there are just too many …

Mural from I-35.

★★★★☆ Hilarious reflections Traverse: Thu 16 – Sat 18 Apr 2024 Review by Allan Wilson Gilded Balloon’s presentation of Jack Docherty in David Bowie & Me: Parallel Lives takes a 1997 interview on Docherty’s TV chat show with his teenage hero, David Bowie as a starting point for some hilarious reflections on a childhood growing up in 1970s Edinburgh. The show proved to be very popular during the 2023 Fringe …

A project called Cat Royale explores the possibilities of enriching cats' lives by having a robot play with them. It is a collaboration between the art collective Blast Theory and scientists from the University of Nottingham. The original experiment was conducted in Australia last year and is now a traveling exhibit. Three cats, Ghostbuster, Clover, and Pumpkin, spent six hours a day for twelve days in a "cat utopia" built …

A couple of mice are separated by a big cat’s paw, and now it’s up to one to reach the other in this 2-D precision platformer. It features retro black and white graphics that remind me of the games I used to play on my old Apple ][+ computer when I was a kid. Ratyrinth […]

Here's a piece for an upcoming issue of Fight On! the magazine that refused to die. I'm very rusty, but it's been fun to draw again.

Now that the novel is done, I have more time to fiddle with questionable covers of beloved songs! This one is a cover of one of Radiohead’s earlier singles, from “The Bends,” which, if I’m being honest, is probably my favorite Radiohead album. Fight me. This song gives me an opportunity to work on my falsetto, which is not generally my strong suit, but I think I acquit myself reasonably …