🥂 Two years old today!
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Middle-Aged Fat Kids
“Brandon & Jimmy Strike Back.” By Brandon, Jimmy. 🇺🇸Updated
Mad About You Season Eight – The Forgotten Continuation Over the past ten years, we’ve seen a lot of reboots and continuations such as The Conners, Will and Grace, Night Court, and Murphy Brown. Some have been successful (The Conners), others have crashed and …
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🥳 10 years old today!
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Forgotten Television Drama
“Uncovering the lost history of British TV drama.” By John Hill, Lez Cooke, Billy Smart. 🇬🇧Updated
Northern Ireland’s Most Wanted: the Lost Television Dramas 2 Part 2 1963-1975 Television drama about or made in Northern Ireland is commonly traced back to the early 1980s when the BBC in Northern Ireland established its own drama department and achieved early success with …
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⏰ First post in over six months!
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Where am I? It’s been a while! There’s been nothing on this site, but I’ve been busy elsewhere. What writing I’ve done is mostly on my drafts blog. I’ve been largely devoted to tech-ish things lately, some of which I write up on a tech blog. My writing is now split among multiple sites, but you can follow all of it via unified RSS feeds, one that covers all blog posts, another that …
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Grace Kingsley's Hollywood
“One hundred year old news and gossip, compiled by Lisle Foote.” 🇺🇸Updated
Keep the Wrong Ones Out: October 1923 One hundred years ago this month, Grace Kingsley mentioned a new policy at the movie studios: Public is invited! Tourists and others who have been disappointed by the recent order closing studios to visitors will …
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Tower of the Archmage
“Mostly I write about role playing games, with a specific focus on Dungeons and Dragons.” By David. 🇺🇸Updated
Sept ‘23 In Review Where did this month go?!? I swear, I spent a week ‘recovering’ from ReaperCon, and then a week catching up, and then suddenly it was the 20th? And now it’s over? We also got a …
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Seeing.Thinking.Drawing
“Drawing thoughts and observations.” By Francis D.K. Ching. 🇺🇸Updated
Feelings of Great Sadness for the thousands of acres on Maui Island torched by wind-blown wildfires, and especially the devastation of Lahaina Town, these images recall what once was—Front Street in Lahaina Town, the Pioneer Inn built in 1901, …
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Blog - The Film Experience
“Awards, Actresses and Cinematic Musings.” By Nathaniel Rogers. 🇺🇸Updated
First & Last 034 Can you guess the movie from its first and last shot? Party music is blasting. No, it's not a Spider-Man movie despite the upside down cityscape. The next cut, once fireworks go off, turns the …
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Asaf Karagila | Blog Archive
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What is best in science? It was foretold of a legendary scientist, one who would master all of mathematics, all of physics, all of chemstiry, all of biology, some of engineering, bits of psychology, and none of economics. Truly, they …
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My Home Farm
“Slow country living, gardening and home sustainability.” By Kirsten, Mars. 🇬🇧Updated
Making an Autumn Fall Wreath from the Garden Every year, I make an autumn wreath with both fresh and dried cuttings from our garden. Last week, I took down our old hop bines from around the inglenook fireplace…
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Teacher's Notes
By Mrs C Spalding. 🇬🇧Updated
One year down as a Deputy Head: teaching is a people business In retrospect, I’m aware that I stopped blogging probably when I had the most important things to say. It was when I started working in an area of deeply entrenched disadvantage. I just couldn’t find …
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roadrunnertwice
By Nick Fagerlund.Updated
Why Git is hard Julia Evans’ StrangeLoop 2023 keynote was about digging into the different reasons a tool can be hard to learn, and it was a real good talk! At the end, as a tossed-off addendum to a …
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The British Newspaper Archive Blog
“Amazing finds and news from over 300 years of historical newspapers.” 🇬🇧Updated
Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week This week at The Archive we are delighted to present one fantastic brand new title – the Felixstowe Times – which we welcome alongside 141,165 brand new pages. Meanwhile, from Darlington to Derry, from Worcester …
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It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine
“An independent, music magazine covering a wide range of alternative, underground and mostly non-mainstream musics.” By Klemen Breznikar. 🇸🇮Updated
The Mystery Meat | Interview | ‘Profiles’ | “A Garage Rock Monster” 1960s Blackburn students that formed The Mystery Meat recorded one of the most sought after garage rock albums in 1968. The album was a complete labor of love with DIY ethic, this band consisted of …
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P.C. Maffey
“I write about ideas.”Updated
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Bonkers about Perfume
“Random Musings Of A Born-Again Perfume Anorak - An Aldehydic Blend Of Passion And Irreverence!” By Vanessa.Updated
My interview on Olfactoria's Travels revisited, ten years on... 2013 meAnother month has passed - I am taking the notion of slow blogging to the most leisurely extremes, I know, but I do feel I should only post when the muse moves me, and …
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Fifty Dresses
“Sewing classic fashions from mid-century patterns.” By Karen. 🇺🇸Updated
A Tale of Two Dresses, Part 2 Whenever I am working with vintage fabric, it seems I either have more yardage than I need or, more frequently, less than I need. I have learned over the years there is usually a way …
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American Age Fashion
“The Clothing of Older American Women, 1900-now.” By Lynn Mally. 🇺🇸Updated
Phyllis Diller, Happy Eccentric Phyllis Diller as the centerfold for Field and Stream magazine, 1973 There are many reasons to remember the comedian Phyllis Diller (1917-2012). She was the first well-known female standup comic in America; she had a …
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Pub History Project – Leicester
“History and Beer.” By Barry Lount, Stephen Bunker. 🇬🇧Updated
THE GARDENERS ARMS, BIRSTALL STREET Gardeners Arms Birstall Street, corner Curzan Street? Posted on Leicester Past and Present by Micheal Ancliff who told of his parents keeping the Gardeners, then an off licence, if it ever held a full licence …
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