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Review | Anthony Oliveira's Queer Retelling of the Bible by Esmee Wright - The London Magazine 'To the enigmatic prose of the Bible, Oliveira layers meaning upon those ruins, not to move the story on, but to give voice to the unspoken fear.' Esmee Wright reviews Anthony Oliveira's Dayspring.

Can I recommend Anthony Oliveira's DAYSPRING

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USAFA chapel, designed by Walter Netsch, a row of triangles with diamond-esque buttress articulations. Built by SOM.

oh boy is it ever

I bet that stellar's sea lion fur is warm.

zero-defect mentality produces flag officer whose never fucked up so badly he got fired before.

local Christmas pageant re-ignites Homoiousian controversy

The cover for Thomas Thwaites The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch Depicting a toaster that looks half-forned and melted

Interesting book.
One thing I learned was how many of the high grade, relatively easy to get minerals and ores had been mined out in the 1600s or so.

"Is it good, friend?"

"It is bitter-bitter."

YouTube video by Mitchell Dean Corrosion Combating the Pervasive Menace Part 1

Also I had no idea about this part if LeVar Burton's acting career.

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I'd like a book recommendation. History, non-western please.

In return I shall recommend Wade Davis' INTO THE SILENCE, about the British Everest expeditions of the 1920s

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Commotio cordis: NFL player’s collapse spotlights rare heart phenomenon | Heart | UT Southwestern Medical Center Commotio cordis is the rarest form of cardiac arrest – when a healthy heart is stopped by a blow to the chest in between heartbeats. UT Southwestern explains how athletes can protect themselves from t...

[Also the five point palm exploding heart technique is real: utswmed.org/medblog/comm... ]

Of Course Pai Mai taught Kiddo the five point palm exploding heart technique: he saw her indomitable will, her defining characteristic.

So many times Kiddo is placed in some impossible situation or trapped, only to have her opponents fail to follow through because they don't have her drive.

Put Hanzo's little flat about the shop on r/malelivingspace

Hell put Budd's trailer on r/malelivingspace

Love the trailer fight. Maybe in this edition my favorite one, with the swords not used due to space until the very end.

Uma Thurman! what an actress.

B.B. : Beatrix and Bill

I hadn't realized how slimy, smarmy and self-righteous Bill was. Carradine has this evil charm.

And he's completely wrong about Superman. It's not criticism. Clark Kent is the guy who couldn't possibly be The Man Of Steel.

Lots of beautiful establishing landscape shots.

because I'm stupid like that, I timed the fight in the garden.
From the needle drop to the last sword stroke:

5 minutes and 1 second.

No upper deck on these Air O flights.

The changes have been thematic extensions, character depth, etc.

It's fun to see them with essentially new eyes, knowing much more about film, about Tarantino's influences, point of view, and obsessions.

Went to see KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR

Currently in intermission.

I always tell people the college class I've used most in my career was Professional Communication; and the STEM class I've used most was Probs and Stats.

$100k isn't what it used to be either.

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It's free with the cell phone plan.

YouTube video by YoPitalla Roland Tembo captures T-Rex.

Well:

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ok maybe when the weather turns to shit I'll set up the bike trainer and get a good 3-plus hours in watching these.

what is more Feminine and Violent than the Sea?

Freshly Remember'd: Kirk Drift There is no other way to put this: essentially everything about Popular Consciousness Kirk is bullshit.

Yet another tragic victim of "Kirk Drift," or the mass pop-cultural misremembering

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You heard it here first #bskybc

You loved* the adventures of Severian the Torturer

Now get ready for the adventures of Severian the Lame

IN

Gene Wolfe’s “Urth of the New Sun”

Coming 12/19-January something or other

Surprise!

Nuts and candies, oranges.