For the past couple of months I have been very pleased with the BBC Sounds plugin on the Lyrion music server network. Now the BBC is ending Sounds access outside of the UK. The only radio stations that will be available are the World Service and Radio 4. Is this fallout from Trump’s tariff madness?
The Kirby Museum’s first publishing project is here and I’m impressed. My copy of Sky Masters of the Space Force: The Complete Sunday Strips in Color came with a print and t-shirt.
Copies of the book should become available in comics shops. Publication was crowd-funded on ZOOP, with much of the interest coming from Wally Wood’s ink finishes over Jack Kirby’s pencils. Wood’s run on the comic strip was actually somewhat sporadic, until he eventually dropped out altogether.
Woody never stuck with any one thing for very long, especially after Bill Gaines limited EC to publishing MAD and nothing else. But the work Wally did on Sky Masters is outstanding and wouldn’t be equaled until Joe Sinnott’s run inking Kirby on the Fantastic Four.
(Note to mih: I will have the book with me when visiting in May.)
My Kindle e-reader is just new enough to support a feature that’s coming in a firmware update. I’ll be able to tap the side or back of the unit, rather than the screen, to advance to the next page.
Having been a fan of the physical buttons on my long dead Kindle Keyboard, I’m looking forward to giving this a try. I could do the update manually via USB, but I’ll wait for it to be pushed out over WiFi.
Update: My mistake. Re-reading that article, I see the update on a 10th generation Kindle only includes the Recap feature. I’m not going to buy a new model just to get double-tap and a USB-C connector, rather than the Micro USB on my Paperwhite.
There is no such thing as being overqualified for any job, no matter what it is. That’s an idea I formed in the 11th grade, washing dishes after school and on Saturdays. It’s a notion that has stayed with me ever since then.
This White House briefing begins with somebody screwing up the audio. It continues with a stunning level of dissembling and lies from a childish press secretary who obviously feels she was born for the job. This security breach is a genuine crisis for Trump’s administration.
Here’s Trump proving just how out of touch he is and removed from those he is trusting to carry out his wishes. He’s showing his age, which is why he needs Musk to be his co-president. I’m not against the idea in principle. It’s what Biden should have done with Harris, as I stated at the start of his term.
The continuous takes in Adolescence were possible thanks to digital technology. A couple of much older examples come to mind, from when movies were shot on 10-minute reels of film.
Hitchcock’s Rope is a rather modest example, because it was filmed on a single interior set. The exterior tracking shot that starts Welles’ Touch of Evil is much more impressive.
My only problem with this movie is the casting of Charlton Heston. Richardo Montalban was the obviously better choice for the role.
Here are a couple of Marketplace segments I heard that were extra interesting to me.
Are we suffering from the planned economic realignments of Project 2025, or is this simply Trump pulling another one of his grifts? It seems likely to me that both are in play.
