Month: January 2023
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Twenty Three Week Three
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Many moments fly by. This one hit. I was photographing from the Senate gallery as Sen. Nate Blouin read a statement by Ari Webb during the voting on and passing of another anti-transgender bill in the Utah Senate. A quote from Bryan Schott’s article in The Salt Lake Tribune: “This is a reminder of the…
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Overreach by Owen Matthews | Goodreads
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Link: Dmitry Bukov: It’s like a theatre… today’s Russian does what is expected of him. Sometimes he applauds, sometimes he wolf-whistles. But he is not required to actually believe. Everyone knows that the man on the stage is not Prince Hamlet but Laurence Olivier. Nobody believes that what is happening on the stage is actually…
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How “Battle Royale” Took Over Video Games | The New Yorker
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How “Battle Royale” Took Over Video Games With a simple, ingenious formula, a Japanese novel has inspired some of the most successful games in history. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-battle-royale-took-over-video-games In the mid-nineteen-nineties, Koushun Takami was dozing on his futon on the island of Shikoku, Japan, when he was visited by an apparition: a maniacal…
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Light and Dark – 2023
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in Corelight.trenthead.com we are surrounded by wonder dark.trenthead.com we live in a dark forest frequent posts to these two sites – light and dark.
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How Eric Adams Started Mentoring a Con Man | The New Yorker
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How Eric Adams Started Mentoring a Con Man The mayor’s friends and allies have puzzled over his relationship with Lamor Whitehead, a fraudster Brooklyn church leader. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/how-eric-adams-started-mentoring-a-con-man Bruan, who was already negotiating Abdullah’s surrender with the N.Y.P.D., believes that Whitehead’s intrusion alarmed the authorities, prompting officers to pounce on Abdullah, guns…
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Twenty Three Week Two
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The archives say the week was this: Media: Landlocked (film) was the kind of film you can’t forget (in the best way). Sick (film) takes you back to early COVID-19 quarantine and adds a human killer. Saw Avatar: The Way of Water (film) in the theater. And to catch the backstory of a MySpace outsider…