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  • Seamus Bellamy
    7:00 am Thu, Dec 19, 2019
    Singer/Songwriter Kirsty MacColl was killed 19 years ago this week

    Many may only know her voice from hearing The Pogues' Fairytale of New York, but beyond that timeless tune, Kirsty MacColl's career as a singer and songwriter was as full… Read the rest of the article: Singer/Songwriter Kirsty MacColl was killed 19 years ago this week

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    6:00 am Thu, Dec 19, 2019
    New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey wants to cram your skull full of writing knowledge

    Richard Kadrey is a New York Times bestselling author and a friend of this website. His dark, horror-tinged urban fantasy books have been a fixture in bookstores and libraries since… Read the rest of the article: New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey wants to cram your skull full of writing knowledge

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    5:00 am Thu, Dec 19, 2019
    Congregants allegedly pressured to to sell their own blood and donate the funds to their church

    For all the good that many organized religions try to do in the world (albeit, often with ulterior motives,) there's no end to the amount of greasy shit that individual… Read the rest of the article: Congregants allegedly pressured to to sell their own blood and donate the funds to their church

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    6:30 am Wed, Dec 18, 2019
    A legendary point-and-click adventure game has found a new life online.

    I remember buying Westwood Studios (miss those guys) point-and-click Blade Runner game to play on my old ThinkPad, back in the late 1990s. It was the first game I can… Read the rest of the article: A legendary point-and-click adventure game has found a new life online.

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    4:59 am Wed, Dec 18, 2019
    Wolfeye Studios' Weird West is looking like my kind of game

    I'm looking forward to Weird West, for a number of reasons. Its hand-painted aesthetic and  top-down tactical game play bring to mind all of the love that I hold for… Read the rest of the article: Wolfeye Studios' Weird West is looking like my kind of game

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    9:00 am Tue, Dec 17, 2019
    Someone will be sent to the hospital if this cat ever makes it out of this tinfoil-lined hallway

    I'm like, eighty percent certain that this kitty's going to kill whoever it is holding the camera, just as soon as it figures out that it can survive crossing a… Read the rest of the article: Someone will be sent to the hospital if this cat ever makes it out of this tinfoil-lined hallway

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    8:00 am Tue, Dec 17, 2019
    Adobe is starting to sort out Photoshop for iPad's lousy feature set

    Let me give it to you straight: Photoshop for iPad isn't great. Over the past year, creatives who rely on their iPadOS tablet to take care of photographic business have… Read the rest of the article: Adobe is starting to sort out Photoshop for iPad's lousy feature set

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    6:15 am Tue, Dec 17, 2019
    This 13-year old Jarvis Cocker tune is vying for a Christmas number one in England this year

    This video hit YouTube in 2009. The song was originally released in 2006 as a bonus track on Jarvis Cocker's first post-Pulp album. More than a decade later, not much… Read the rest of the article: This 13-year old Jarvis Cocker tune is vying for a Christmas number one in England this year

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    4:38 am Tue, Dec 17, 2019
    This cheap professional grade electric razor is an upgrade I never knew I wanted

    I started going bald in my mid-twenties, thanks to a combination of stress and shitty genes. I put up with it, right up to the point where I started thinking… Read the rest of the article: This cheap professional grade electric razor is an upgrade I never knew I wanted

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    9:00 am Mon, Dec 16, 2019
    Travel Tunes: Tinariwen—Kel Tinawen

    The RV might be winterized and staying put until the spring thaw, but we're not. Now that I have the all clear from my cardiologist, my wife and are are… Read the rest of the article: Travel Tunes: Tinariwen—Kel Tinawen

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    6:00 am Mon, Dec 16, 2019
    The Final Trailer for Netflix's The Witcher is here

    I haven't had the chance to play any of the Witcher games (although Witcher 3 for Nintendo Switch is on my list of titles to buy, just as soon as… Read the rest of the article: The Final Trailer for Netflix's The Witcher is here

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    4:30 am Mon, Dec 16, 2019
    American Psycho as a valley bro? Yes please.

    For the record, I own a Jok3r 60% keyboard with Cherry MX Red switches. Image via Pixabay

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    9:00 am Fri, Dec 13, 2019
    California beach awash with penises which also happen to be fish

    OK get to it. There's a worm out called the Fat Innkeeper Worm or, if you will the Penis Fish. Recently, thousands of the sea-cocks washed up on the shores… Read the rest of the article: California beach awash with penises which also happen to be fish

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    8:00 am Fri, Dec 13, 2019
    Threat Level Midnight is a go

    Golden Face is back. This time, it's personal.

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    6:30 am Thu, Dec 12, 2019
    What to do when random airport security screening isn't all that random

    With the holiday season upon us, folks will soon be flying to see folks. Some people are able to breeze through airport security lines with nothing more than a removal… Read the rest of the article: What to do when random airport security screening isn't all that random

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    4:45 am Thu, Dec 12, 2019
    Polar bears are eager to know what a camera drone tastes like

    Polar bears have been at the shit end of the global warming stick for some time now. Food has grown scarce for the massive beasts, causing them to move inland… Read the rest of the article: Polar bears are eager to know what a camera drone tastes like

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    8:40 am Wed, Dec 11, 2019
    Italian food from Trader Joe's Disappoints Italians, as you'd expect

    When you're eating "Italian" food from Trader Joe's, wishing it was a nosh from Commerciante Giuseppe's…

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    4:41 am Wed, Dec 11, 2019
    PSA: The Air Force isn't partial to cocaine

    Many folks have to submit themselves to a drug test, on a routine basis in order to stay gainfully employed. There's greasy ways around these tests of course: bringing someone… Read the rest of the article: PSA: The Air Force isn't partial to cocaine

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    6:00 am Mon, Dec 9, 2019
    In praise of slow gaming

    Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a game that my MacBook can't even look at sideways with it it turning into a steaming slagheap of aluminum and silicon. The RPG, in… Read the rest of the article: In praise of slow gaming

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  • Seamus Bellamy
    5:30 am Mon, Dec 9, 2019
    Willem Dafoe wanted to be left alone while filming Togo

    Rumors from the locals in Nordegg, Alberta would have it that while filming Togo last year, Willem Dafoe stayed at the Goldeye Centre: a wilderness lodge around 30 minutes of… Read the rest of the article: Willem Dafoe wanted to be left alone while filming Togo

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