Alan Bennett diary excerpts seem to have jumped ship from the LRB to The Guardian - www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...
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Alan Bennett diary excerpts seem to have jumped ship from the LRB to The Guardian - www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...
worst day of the year. hour stolen from night time given to the smug idiot breakfast eaters. the rise and shine clowns
Excuse the interruption to Candy Week, but I've just been made aware that not only is it International Women's Day, it's also Cynthia Rothrock's birthday! So to celebrate, and in lieu of the originally scheduled post, here's pre-movie stardom Cynthia in an ad for KFC!
nothing pisses me off more than Raising Canes taking over good real estate near universities. Without fail, crappy chicken replacing cool bars and local spots.
A red ad, showing five games. The title is "Sparks of Genius." Game 1 is NARC ("Your mission is to seek out and destroy the king pin of the MR BIG Corporation); screenshots show a beat-em-up and a guy on a walkie-talkie. Game 2 is Robocop 2 ("Seven levels of muscle-straining, reflex-testing, sideways scrolling fury!); screenshots show a sidescrolling stage and robocop firing up. Game 3 is Total Recall ("As Doug Quaid you travel to Mars to discover your true identity..."); a poster and images of a platforming section and an elevator section appear. Game 4 is Chase HQ 2 ("Special Criminal Investigation - continuing where Chase HQ left off..."); screens show a racing game in a foggy cityscape in skyscrapers, and a helicopter chase in a dirtier city at nighttime. Game 5 is Pang ("No time for balloonin' around!"); screenshots show a UK palace and a mountain range, both of which have a tiny guy in a safari hat shooting up at bubbles. At bottom, the OCEAN logo.
SPARKS OF GENIUS (Source.)
had it happen to me in grad school owing to stress (brought on by impending deadlines, mainly) a few times
a small complaint given the misery in the world, but I do "love" the prospect of starting a road trip with gas prices on the ascent, and no end in sight...
Golden Age Superman stands head to thigh alone in a panel black at the top and red on the bottom where Superman stands pointing at the reader as he says, "Be wary of unscrupulous operators of gambling games--they are always on the look out for unsuspecting victims."
what I shout when I leave the dance floor at a wedding
spring break starts once I leave the office in a few minutes, and not a moment too soon!
implies existence of frivolous beverages
Live Bait 23 - www.livephish.com/LP-2618.html
Packard Bell Navigator 3.5 (1995)
I think this is one of the big reasons that I don't have a personal use for LLMs or agentic AI for research. I know where to find the information that I need, and I know/know of most of the people who produce the secondary sources that I work from. I even know which primary sources are extant!
Advert for Data East's arcade machine Slap Shot. A dozen people wearing ice hockey goalie masks.
Have you all seen the flyer for Data East's arcade hockey machine Slap Shot? This one, that looks more like an advert for some Jason Voorhees-based cult? Cool, just checking.
that Garfield fellow is incorrigible
Amazing Adventures 36 (753)
I once had an editor of an anthology give me the note to "reduce use of em dashes by one half". Meant lots of rewritten sentences, but ultimately for the better.
book cover w/ ink blot: Demons of the Mind: Psychiatry and Cinema in the Long 1960s by Tim Snelson, William R. Macauley and David A. Kirby
digging into this cool book
Classic AD&D Gold/Silver box games - and the DM's assistant app - were proffered in this 1989 ad from Game Player's magazine, part of VGHF's recent scans of the long-running magazine.
*authoritative voice* Drinking iced coffee out of buckets is not a new phenomenon.
the particular dislocation of sitting in an empty Zoom meeting room
old pro golf, pirate course. pirate close-up. ocean city, maryland, 1985
old pro golf, pirate course. pirate close-up. ocean city, maryland, 1985
microphones at Grateful Dead show
concertgoers hold boomboxes at Polish music festival
tapers sidestage at bluegrass festival
man in t shirt that reads Tape Master
snow day news drop: last week, i turned in a draft of the book i've been working on for the past 6 years! right now, it's called "the invisible hit parade: a taper's history of music" & will be out in 2027 from da capo/hachette. much more to come, obviously!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJoi...
Supreme House of Cheese
Toluca, IL
even after I gave up the Post my parents would save the print Book World section for me to see when I visited. So much good will destroyed...
me after raking exactly one pile of leaves
