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6 Jun 2026 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
As you may have surmised from the title, recently I have begun messing around with a good ol’ fashioned typewriter. This thing has been sitting here in my office for years - a used offering from my parents, who could no longer fathom any...
5 Jun 2026 6 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard
Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/agCHFxUVayfxwHAD Thermometer for the country: why people don't believe salaries from the news. It's a creepy story because it's about each of us. Prepared for those who prefer the truth in their pocket to the...
30 May 2026 5 minute read 3 comments rah
English belongs to the Germanic arm of the Indo-European family of languages that can roughly be defined as Slavic / Slavonic (central and East European, reaching down into the northern parts of the Balkans -eg Serbia, Monetnegro), Romantic (Mediterr...
26 May 2026 2 minute read 11 comments Ship Shard
Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/ady5D30JDDjEBGlk A dystopia on the theme of a change of power. The main question has long been "who will win". Is there even room for another outcome? Because if it doesn't exist, it's no longer politics. Thi...
23 May 2026 24 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard
Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/af0P8ZknigabINUP Where did the Game of Thrones characters end up after the end credits? The eighth season of Game of Thrones was the culmination of an epic saga and ended on May 19, 2019. It consisted of six...
10 May 2026 6 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey
As huge a band as Genesis eventually became, in many respects you can still make the case that they are underrated. Especially if you branch outward and consider the meteoric solo careers of successive ringleaders Peter Gabriel and Phil Collin...
8 May 2026 2 minute read 0 comments rah
I am kinda doing this one for fun. If you were to think back to your childhood did you have a favourite book or maybe a few favourites, books that tragically are no longer on your bookshelf, but that you wish you could read again, even one more time....
4 May 2026 5 minute read 3 comments rah
With Mama_Rah and the boys being away I have been home alone all weekend and so I have taken the opportunity to binge-watch the new BBC adaption of William Golding's The Lord of the Flies. It is, of course, a story I am familiar with, given the broad...
2 May 2026 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
A short while after Swervedriver leave the stage, on this already dreamlike seeming night in December of ’93, the target of our latest infatuation finally materializes before us: Smashing Pumpkins, a Chicago foursome who’ve blown up beyond belie...
27 Apr 2026 6 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard
Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aeyb7f9P0n-Ut8zf Beyond the wall of Paradise: why "Moscow 2042" is scarier than any news. Moscow beyond the Wall: how Voinovich's "Moscow 2042" became a mirror of the present. "Moscow 2042" by V...
