Some Van Morrison music for your Thursday RS
youtu.be/J-aSguQ1DBo?...
Some Van Morrison music for your Thursday RS
youtu.be/J-aSguQ1DBo?...
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
i too would like to find that very special place on planet earth that is not exposed to geopolitics
Here's a deep cut cover for fans of 2000s melodic pop. Fountains of Wayne peeps, I see you:
youtu.be/HifAglX2iS4
I no longer care what damage the popping of the bubble will cause to the world economy provided utter fuckwits like this get their comeuppance.
“Ah Caramel” cakes by Vachon — available only in Canada I think, I’ve never seen them in the US
Delicious, nauseating, they feel like they belong to some Linnean taxonomy that distantly includes the Cadbury creme egg
Buried away at the bottom of this article, what could possibly go wrong with setting the immune system on permanent “amber alert”?
They're trying to *import* religious intolerance to Northern Ireland?
Passing the one-quarter mark through the 1200s on the list. Here's a playlist for #1201-1225 to help you through the weekend.
in the plus side, watching the president of the United States destroy the entire geopolitical order because he didn't get a shiny award has successfully cured all my hangups about subtle character motivation in writing
*Forget the ketamine, what about the cash
Where @aptshadow.bsky.social goes, scientists follow.
Picture of Greenland surrounded by a Lego wall of defence.
Love this
Some believe that tuning our music to 432 Hz rather than 440 will make it sound better—and make us feel better. What gives?
https://bit.ly/48gmIh6
sponsored by Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse
Happy new year!
The latest issue of Dublin magazine The GOO has arrived to kick off 2026 and features a couple of interviews I hosted, one with the awesome The Altered Hours whose self titled album was one of the best Irish albums this year.
Read the issue here: tr.ee/ZaoF3K5eKm
There it is. The final print edition, after more than 150 years, of the Atlanta Journal Constitution
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As fine an actor as he was, Isiah was an even better spirit and the greatest gentleman.
Tourist overcrowding of London is something else. But more concerningly I cannot find a Curlywurly bar anywhere for love or money and it's driving me a bit bananas
We're about to start a Season 2 rewatch.
I was just at the gym watching a The Wire s2 episode, and came back to this awful news. Ransone was incredible in that season — so believable as the screw-up determined to live down to everyone's low opinion of him. And great in almost everything else I saw him do. RIP.
Fine Shoe Sales & Repair at Jones and Danforth.
Todd Snider Live in Nashville 2010: www.chimesfreedom.com/2025/11/17/t...
we must solve America’s loneliness epidemic
So, what's the deal with "observers" in quantum mechanics? Can one grok an interpretation of QM *without* observers? Well, @amandagefter.bsky.social has given this a lot of thought... nautil.us/reality-exis... via @nautil.us #physics #philosophy
This is good fun. I laughed so hard I cried. (Or maybe I just cried.)
Christmas in Washington: A Song About Heroes: www.chimesfreedom.com/2017/12/24/c...
Heroic tales that seldom end well.
Well, I’ll never win a Hugo or a Nebula, but I did finally make the front of Locus, which is no small thing.
The only Black Friday we recognize here