Words: Chris ArnsbyGary Davies: “Hello. Very good evening to you. Welcome to Top of the Pops. We are in stereo on Radio 1 97 to 99 FM and we have a terrific show for you tonight. In the studio we have Cola Boy and Kim Appleby, but we start off with this week’s highest climber. It’s called Always There, Incognito and Jocelyn Brown.” [9] INCOGNITO Featuring JOCELYN BROWN: ALWAYS THERE. I’ve just noticed another small tweak to the title sequence. The little sprite chased by the camera through the…
"Heaven," is the latest comic by the extremely talented Katie Skelly. I've discussed in previous posts how much I enjoyed her horror story, "Maids," and the extremely raunchy adult comic collection, "The Agency." An interesting thing about, "Heaven," is that it is both quite sexy and has a lot of eerie elements as well. The setup of the story is that four high school seniors learn about a mysterious strip club on the edge of town called, "Heaven," that sometimes seems to exist and other times…
This is my bike. This is my bike!! I have been riding bicycles regularly as an adult for the past 15 years or so. At one point, I was riding to and from work every single day, rain or shine, as my primary mode of transport, and it was sometimes literally my only source of joy many days. I have put my bike on planes, trains, and automobiles to be able to ride in various places. This is my bike!! I have been riding bicycles regularly as an adult for the past 15 years or so. At one point, I was…
Hank Green and Ze Frank talking about creativity (among other things). Some tidbits from the podcast: This question of where ideas come from, I think it’s central to my life and certainly a lot of other creative people. And I think that the importance often comes from some sort of an urgency that we have to not only have ideas, but to have ideas that feel like you. In addition to that, it’s like there’s one thing to have an idea, but then there’s another thing to decide to make it, you know,…
Spent some time at the coffee shop setting up our Tour De France Fantasy league players with Buffy. Just have to log in, or create your account on Official Letour Site Stage Profiles My league join info is here, if you happen to see this. Join me in the league now no.98930 : 2026-Zonileague Password : GWKYW Haha, you're going to lose. By clicking on this link : LeTour More links for picking riders each day: Another Fantasy league with insights Reddit peleton link with Other peoples winning pics…
My dumb-guy summary of Mosh is that it’s like SSH but feels almost like you’re typing locally and keeps your connection alive through internet blips, computers naps, etc. It’s fitting pretty nicely into my remote-dev rig.
It’s currently 93 degrees here (Fahrenheit), but thanks to the humidity the heat index means it feels like 106 (41 Celsius), or so the weather report in my phone tells me, the one that also tells me we have an extreme heat warning through eight PM. I went out in this stuff because I checked the mail, and, yup, it’s really damn hot, the sort of hot that makes you basically want to fall down into a lump. I took the dog out so she could do her business; she took three steps into the yard and went…
Polaroid, a perpetual disappointment, but maybe a couple of pleasant curiosities.
Following in the wake of their Kickstarters to put out special archival rereleases of old RuneQuest and Call of Cthulhu material, Chaosium have done the same for Elfquest. In some respects this is an odd call – Elfquest was always one of their less loved RPGs, in part because Steve Perrin ended up using it as a testbed for the 3rd edition RuneQuest mechanics, which were several orders of magnitude too crunchy than were called for when you’re doing a light RPG intended to appeal to fans of the…
Well what a weed cut that was. The June weed cut is historically the heaviest, but this was the heaviest I have experienced for a few years. In April we had weed, but because the weather and water were cold, I took the decision just to tickle a few bits up. You will remember that in May we had a late frost, the river was still quite cold and the weed was in soporific order. You may also remember, and this is on here somewhere, that after experiencing a late frost in May the following weekend…
Silver Lake woman, Los Angeles, Calif., 2026 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin Currently, I’m advising an iconic magazine on content strategy and branding, writing an essay for a film distributor’s new limited edition release of an iconic movie, designing an art installation for an art exhibition, writing a story for a trade magazine, and editing a popular Substack newsletter. Interested in working together? Let’s talk.About I My Book | Consulting I X I Instagram I LinkedIn I Email
WP Knowledge is a new API we seek to introduce to WordPress Core. While it’s immediate applications are central to WordPress AI strategy, it has a lot of use-cases beyond our AI needs. What is knowledge? Knowledge starts as a very simple API to store non-public data in a predictible place in your WordPress installation: The wp_knowledge custom post type and capabilities The built-in types guideline, memory, and note in wp_knowledge_type taxonomy /wp/v2/knowledge REST routes While we cover…
Happy Fourth of July divas!! 🇺🇸 I’m Canadian, but I love this country enough to have chosen a career that mostly consists of thinking and writing about it. To celebrate, I’m offering a Fourth of July discount on my newsletter. If you’ve been meaning to subscribe, I’d love your support. Independent writing isn’t always the easiest job, and every subscription helps me keep doing it.Get 50% off foreverEvery four years, the world transforms into a sports bar.Every normal bar is taken over. Every…
Hello, webcrafters! It is currently nearly two in the morning, but I really need to hash this out while it's still fresh in my head. One thing I notice about personal websites and the IndieWeb, especially platforms like Bear Blog, is the simplicity. Which I love! The second thing I notice is the plain boringness, which is not the same thing, and something I don't like! One thing I've noted previously in my musings on the IndieWeb is that there is a tricky balance between accessibility and joy.…
Knave 2e - Post Campaign System Review at Goblin Zone is an interesting, insightful read and as a complete aside mentions how 'a table of 100 good genderless names would be GMing gold dust' and as the proud bearer of a semi-genderless name myself I thought, "I don't know about good but I can certainly do a hundred." Obviously, really, any name is a genderless name. We bring the gender. Some of these names were gendered in their original source, or would have been historically, or whatever. But…
What is the main goal/purpose of the offsides rule in soccer? Does VAR help or hinder that purpose?
I feel that when people say “the only thing stopping you is you”, it doesn’t give you credit or blame for the fact you’ve been using your power to destroy your own dreams and aspirations. Good job me! I’m dealing with the stuff you haven’t dealt with. Somewhat joking. 🙃
The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope, 1958. When Peggy Grahame’s father dies, she goes to live with her Uncle Enos in upstate New York, at their ancestral home, which goes by the whimsical name Rest-and-Be-Thankful. The family has lived there since the family arrived in America, fleeing their old home in Scotland after their support for Bonnie Prince Charlie failed. Uncle Enos loves history and tends to live in the past of their old home. Peggy’s father has sarcasticallysaid that Uncle…
I recently (26th-28th June 2026) went on a three day climbing trip to Hampi. It wasn't enough for climbing, but definitely enough for healing my soul through and through. This is my day to day log of a small set of things that happened. On our first day, we arrived sleep deprived in Hospete and took an auto to Hanumanhalli. Our abode was Mani's homestay (theres no maps link for it 🫠). It is a minimal 1980s style house with owning family living in a small part of the house, leaving four rooms…
A detailed history of how a destructive pest was neutralized through sicence and geography.
Superpowers with Fable has been interesting. It appears to consistently be delegating implementation to Sonnet and Haiku, which is exactly what you would want to see.I may work on my SoloTerm version to do similar but across model providers.
It's been a while since I updated you on our cruise happenings on #TheBoatTripNorth Yesterday we went on a coach trip titled "Life and Culture in Isfjordur" which was something of a mixed bag First we went into a small, old local Lutheran church and listened to a local singer perform three of his songs. Then we went to a fishing museum (or I did, because there was no possibility of my wife getting down the steep uneven path!) which was interesting but a bit - as they say - random. Then .....…
The first time I opened up to a medical professional about some childhood trauma, it was like surgically excising a living thing from behind my breastbone. That experience — the galloping pulse, the ventricle-deep ache, the sensation that something alive and malicious was digging in its claws to stay rooted — made it easy to see how one might disavow ownership of those emotions and assign them to supernatural entities. Demons rather than one’s own untilled memories. That, it seems, is the…
It’s great that BACKROOMS all sprang from a badly colour-balanced photograph (above right) taken at a disused furniture showroom in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is the wellspring of all things weird in America, after all. I liked the film as much as Fiona did. Jeremy Cox’s cinematography is really beautiful — nobody’s talking about how rich and […]
Screenshot I thought it would be fun to look at old book reviews of the two books I just read and reviewed. I’ll start with The Fittest, which I liked, and then go to Ruler of the World, which I didn’t. Follow the links if you want to read my reviews. The Fittest Astounding Science Fiction (December 1955) by P. Schuyler Miller Miller made the same connections I did to The Day of the Triffids and Brain Wave. However, Miller tells too much of what happens. The scenes of when Don’s brother and…
They say, “Matt, how are you so smart?” I tell them, “Hard work and skill.” I’m very skilled. I have all the best skills. No one has more skills than me. #LyingLikeTrump #YourTurn
Derek Thompson wrote one of the most interesting things I've read lately. One hundred years ago, on September 26, 1929, President Herbert Hoover gathered a group of social scientists at the White House. He asked them to begin research on the most detailed report ever produced on the state of the nation. Four years later, running more than 1,500 pages long, Recent Social Trends was published, offering an unusually granular look at life in the mid-1920s. America, 1926: What a Forgotten…
Happy Fourth, if you're feeling it this year. If not, well, try not to overheat heading to the subway to get some air conditioning in the theaters! Minions & Monsters opened Wednesday and continues to play at Fresh Pond (including 3D), the Capitol, the Lexington Venue, Jordan's Furniture (Imax 2D Friday-Sunday), West Newton, CinemaSalem, Boston Common (including Imax Laser 2D & Dolby Cinema 2D
Believe it or not, one of the defining moments in my relationship with black metal came the first time I heard Nargaroth's Jahreszeiten, and specifically the repetitive riffing on the last track, "Winter". This was my introduction to this band, before I knew of their earlier, more notorious records, as well as before many of the genre's foundational names. This kind of monotonous melodic austerity captured what I found to be essential in black metal, and shaped how I continue to appreciate it…
