NBCC member Tony Miksanek's review of "Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds" by Scott Solomon was Booklist's featured "Review of the Day" for February 26:
Ronen Givony traces the ascent of Pitchfork and the early days of online music criticism.
News I missed!
Recently, Korea banned ticket reselling.
If you try to resell a concert/play/game/event ticket for more than you paid, the fine is 50X what you tried to charge. Anyone can turn you in and collect 10%.
So long, scalpers.
(Apparently BTS tickets were up to 11k until this passed)
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Maybe try reading your own biography before replying to others, maybe try taking into account the country the person you’re being unkind too is from, maybe try being nice. Maybe you’d be best off over the road.
😂
The texture of the French Connection.
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Eisenhower
MvdV using one hand to pull the Palace lad back waits until him and his dance partner get inside the box before grabbing him with both hands! As a Sunderland fan I’ve seen a helluva lot of relegations and this clown show stuff is what happens when you are going down.
Why did the Palace keeper wander out from between the posts there? If he’d stayed in between them the shot would’ve hit him.
Love the title though I’d have overegged the pudding and went for “Badgers Badges” myself.
NBCC member Clea Simon wrote about the “Which Side” concert/teach-out series based on James Sullivan’s 2019 book, "Which Side Are You On?: 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs," for The Arts Fuse:
This is firmly in the realm of 'you couldn't make this sh*t up.' Though, obviously, my next novel will now have to include a crime fighting tuktuk ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Helped carry the luggage of the other girl on the Goodfellas blind date onto a plane in LA.
Rubbish.
Pervert glasses.
A story from @paulkwrites.bsky.social is always a treat!
Every British writer, artist, creative whatever should read this, get angry at what the Government are planning to do and fight them like bloody fuck. How fucking dare they steal out work and hand it to US tech bros. It’s not theirs to take.
Finished yet?
Including one to me.
‘Dusking’ - intriguing idea of creating a pause by going outside to watch the coming of the night. “Dusking is about looking at one point and seeing it fade. Don’t look around too much; focus. Trees are very good – they rise up for a moment and then fade away.”
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My favourite British work of art. Used to look forward to its Sunday appearances over the road pre bedlam. Keep up the good work.
Maaaaan was I chuffed when she retweeted me over the road.
Great news. If I’d known earlier I may have gone out to celebrate.
Is the history of the football the history of great individuals? Or are background structural forces more important?
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I don’t know anything that anyone would be interested in knowing unfortunately.
Seemingly every male British actor has played Churchill in some movie or TV show, and Steve Coogan has played seemingly every male in the British Isles in some movie or TV show, yet Steve Coogan has never played Churchill. Discuss.
February 29, 1932: Nailed up in the closet of an unoccupied house at 2318 Pontius Ave.., West Los Angeles, the body of Tomas Moreno (or Towas Morino), 43-year-old Japanese, was discovered yesterday by friends.
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