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Haven
Tuwiuwok Bluff, via Haven, Maine fan wiki When I thought about the TV series Haven , I remembered vague details, and thought it must have...
Mar 54 min read

Shore to Shor!
MAMMÚT Everyone has heard the stereotype of the older person complaining about the “new music” younger people listen to, and we can all...
Feb 265 min read


Order out of Chaos
Nine Princes in Amber, cover, via OpenLibrary.org My Dad didn’t particularly like Roger Zelazny’s work. He thought it was a bit too...
Feb 194 min read


I don't like spam!
Monty Python – Spam, via Wikipedia Even fifty years later, the influence of Monty Python is felt, as older generations reminisce and...
Feb 55 min read


False Equivalence
Skeptical Science, John Cook, via Wikimedia Commons Words are fun! Today, let’s ask whether the words “equivalence” and “equivalency” are...
Jan 85 min read

Shall we play a game?
WarGames, 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXzNo0vR_dU I can only hear that question in the voice of the computer Joshua, from the...
Dec 18, 20244 min read


Welcome to the Rage Machine!
One of my all-time favourite songs is Welcome to the Machine , by Pink Floyd. While the song appeared on the 1975 album Wish You Were...
Oct 16, 20246 min read


Rasputin
It’s been more than two years since I last posted, so I’m trying to remember which buttons to press to make this happen. Life has a...
Oct 9, 20245 min read


Killing in the Name!
Who’d have thought that music could be political? Or that musicians might have political views? Let’s take the song Killing in the Name...
Jun 12, 20223 min read


The Name is the Thing!
Some films age well. An example is the classic The Day the Earth Stood Still, which was fairly successful when it was originally released...
Apr 10, 20223 min read


The Wall!
#TIL that the iconic image of the album cover for the famous album The Wall was not actually the original cover. In fact, the text “Pink...
Apr 3, 20224 min read

All in this Together!
When I write, I sometimes have a topic in mind, and look for an interesting way to introduce it. This time, I ended up going down an...
Mar 27, 20224 min read

Lingua Franca!
Recently, I was listening to an old episode of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, (actually, episode 803, dated 28-Nov-2020), in which...
Feb 6, 20226 min read

I think I want a new keyboard!
While thinking about a topic for this post, I listened to a podcast I had not previously included in my online playlist...
Jan 9, 20224 min read


The Internet is on fire!
I found the image above when searching for a good image of fire, and it seemed just about perfect on multiple levels. Buster Keaton...
Jan 2, 20224 min read


Songs in the Key of Life!
Stevie Wonder is one of those truly great artists whose music permeates our culture. I had never actually listened to the album “Songs...
Nov 28, 20213 min read

A Kind of Magic!
The film Highlander (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander_(film)) was enormously popular when it came out, as were several of the...
Oct 24, 20214 min read

Keys!
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Chamber_of_Secrets), there is a scene...
Oct 11, 20213 min read

Don't Panic!
One of the key catch-phrases of the classic “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to...
Oct 3, 20213 min read


Sound and Fury!
The phrase “full of sound sound and fury, signifying nothing” is part of one of the most famous soliloquies in the English language. It...
Sep 26, 20215 min read
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