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101 Dalmatians in 1996 probably was the first and not that bad (great work from Glenn Close, pointless waste of Hugh Laurie). It was...

I do agree that too many of the choices are too similar - Knave could be folded into Into the Odd and Odd-adjacents (such as Mausritter)...

Is it a hot take to say pitching a LotR movie about Tom Bombadil feels the same as pitching a Narnia movie about Santa Claus? Also, I...

I just finished watching Boss, with Kelsey Grammer as the mayor of Chicago. It was pretty good, obviously the idea that an American...

I sign a lot of stuff for work so I tend to just use my three initials, cursive but legible. For legal documents I tend to use my first...

Jane Jacobs has been so widely ignored in practice because the people she (largely correctly, IMHO) identifies as sources of destructive...

Funny, I just read an article that sort of excoriated her that on the topic of why she moved to Canada said they moved when her sons...

Ooh, Jane Jacobs! I just learned about her from the Origin Story podcast about 15 minute cities. I see you can do walks in Toronto based...

I'm all caught up on Rivers of London - what I thought would take me a month took me three to get through all 8 plus a volume of short...

Ooh, nice.

IIRC the armour was forged in the mighty fires of the steelworks of Pittsburgh.

I already had it through my cable service, however, I recently renewed my cell service to merge my US and Canadian access, and they...

I've seen the first three seasons of Resident Alien. An excellent show! I'm looking forward to grabbing season 4 on DVD. Johnathan

Read P Djeli Clark’s time travel short story, Cronus, today, and it’s a perfect little tale and very relevant to our times. Of course if...

More like this Is generally agreed that the cartoon Maui design was Dwaynes homage to his grandfather Yeah very much this, he's...