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How Leonard Cohen Lived Between The Hour And The Age
Songs of Love and Hate stayed the course. Over fluttering Spanish guitar, 36-year-old Cohen hangs his head in self-recrimination and psychic pain, details shuddering loneliness and the grotesquery of human performance. His vocal offering comes, as ever, via his gravelly… Read More ›
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That was truly ………. Weird 😬
The title is what a friend of mine sent me in WhatsApp about the above version of The Greatest Love Of All and the video, but for me it is a different experience. Arguably this version is much worse than… Read More ›
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QOTD: What are your preferred apps?
A simple question, but one which may help others find decent solutions. What are your preferred apps in the key areas? Mine are as follows- Notes: Apple Notes (simple, fast and very effective)Tasks: GoodTask (a shell over Reminders, but highly… Read More ›
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“People need relationships”
I don’t remember anything about the experiments, but when I found out about them in my late 20s, a remarkable thing happened. Which is that years after her death, I had a reconciliation with my mother. Because I’d been so… Read More ›
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Time To Go Home
A watch belonging to the age of World War II was recently returned to the family of a man who had it taken from him by Nazi guards at the concentration camp he died in over seven decades ago in… Read More ›
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The MISTERO (ANTHRACITE)
That is an e-bike, with pedals. It is not a motocross bike, it is a bicycle.
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One month with the Christopher Ward C65 Trident GMT (black)
As a self-confessed watch obsessive any new purchase is fraught with indecision and over-ambition in terms of what is expected from a new timepiece. The smallest of faults can cause a watch to be flipped and it is amazing how… Read More ›
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Why do we love Retro-Looking Games?
“Playing retro games,” says Schranck, “you’re happy to be feeling like a kid again. As an adult, you have all these responsibilities and anxieties, and if you can just find a way to forget about that, even just for 15… Read More ›
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Reading on iPad vs Kindle
Is it better to read on your iPad or read on your Kindle? Today we discuss the differences between the two and which is better! I expected the Kindle to win easily, but not in this video. He is of… Read More ›
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The Bandit9 Jaeger
The Jaeger is the latest collaboration between Bandit9 Motorcycles and Royal Enfield. The Continental GT 650 gets the Bandit9 treatment; a transformation of a modern classic to a sleek, slender, futuristic ride. A motorcycle designed to its limits and engineered… Read More ›
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