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(To complement my recent story for the Manchester Mill about the Manchester punk club, the Ranch Bar, I thought I’d dig up this old interview I did with Morrissey for Melody Maker in 1986. While I was writing the story, I did not know how controversial it would become. Morrissey was furious. Johnny Marr threatened to beat me up. Morrissey sicced his lawyers on Melody Maker and claimed I’d invented his quotes to make him sound racist.

I remember my first. Nineteen years old, away, at college, in the sweet part of the semester, the part before classes start. A room full of friends—talking, lounging, bullshitting, and doing these with aplomb. Until, a decision to go, at which we all start getting to our feet. Though one of us doing this more slowly than the rest, also sighing and grunting until, at last, he has something to announce: “We’re getting old.

Based on the title I was expecting "Most Guys Are Losers" to be some sort of pseudo-feminist man-hating screed about how men are such scum and who'd want to date one, at least until somebody with a six-pack and six-figure income comes along. I think I would've enjoyed that; everyone's kind of P.O.'d and chippy these days anyway, so it would've fit our collective mood. But the film, written and directed by rookie Eric Ustian, omits the latter part of the title of the actual book that inspired it: "

Back in February 2022, I was invited by the kind folks at HiLobrow to write about my enthusiasm for a certain sidekick of which I’m sharing here… TIN MAN Born in the late 1960s, I grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan watching a lot of syndicated television. I was supposed to identify with Captain Kirk, Batman, the Fonz, and the Six Million Dollar Man but my first action hero was an adolescent badass named Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz.

5/5 Medals of Yavin: Highly recommended for people who want a flip form factor that is easy to carry and a joy to use Lovely design and Viva Magenta color Fully functional outer display Expensive without carrier offers Over the past few years I have purchased every iteration of the Samsung Galaxy Fold and currently have a Z Fold 4 in my collection. I’ve tried the smaller Flip devices, but the limited use of the outer display, rather poor battery life, and $1,000 price kept me from using them for longer than the review period.

Welcome to the Chip Letter. This week’s short ‘Chiplet’ post is on Morris Chang, TSMC and Japan. It’s available for premium subscribers now and will be unlocked for everyone next week. Next week’s full post, Demystifying GPU Compute Software, a companion to Demystifying GPU Compute Architectures, will look at the story of the software ecosystems for programming GPUs. Today, the last post in our series on 8-bit designs, with a look at possibly the most advanced design of the 8-bit era, the Motorola 6809.

Our final Top 5 of the AFC! Next week, we kick off the NFC North with the Bears. It’s gonna be … something. Fouts has misread few things about himself. Don't call him a lumberjack, a mountain man or Moses, he says, referring to his dark beard and penchant for privacy with his wife and two children at their offseason retreat on the dry side of the Oregon mountains. “I ain't none of that,” he adds.

Want to know what firearms Clint Eastwood used in High Plains Drifter? You can look it up: guns used in HighPlains Drifter. The Internet Movie Firearms Database(IMFDb) is an online database of firearms used or featured in films, television shows, video games, and anime. It includes articles relating to actors, and some characters, such as James Bond, listing the particular firearms they have been associated with in their movies.

From the moment I first saw the trailer for “No Hard Feelings” I’ve eagerly awaited its release. Jennifer Lawrence is one of my favorite actresses on earth not to mention drop dead gorgeous. Plus, trailer clips looked absolutely hilarious and make this a must-see. For those who don’t know, the premise revolves around Maddie (Jennifer Lawrence) being a down-on-her-luck woman who had her car repossessed and finds herself in danger of losing her house.