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“Cinders always remain where there once was a fire.” It only took Roger Doyle 10 minutes to compose his most enduring tune. Sitting at the Fairlight Computer Music Instrument in his Bray studio one day in early 1984, he quickly assembled the filigreed synth patterns and clanking bassline that would eventually become ‘Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth’. After spending the previous two years slowly mastering this complex bit of digital sampling technology – made famous by the likes of Kate Bush and Herbie Hancock – here was a perfect piece of theatrical pop, bursting out of him like the first flowers of the season.

(All Images used by Gordon Mortensen) Beltaine approaches and the floral exclamations begin to overlap until the air is loud, loud, loud with scent, color, pollen. Sending magic to all of you. I’m facing some really scary health news right now but I am getting a lot of juice and joy and magic from watching the world wake up green tendril by green tendril. Here are some old poems from chapbooks of mine I hope to someday republish.

Greetings. With the school year done, I can catch up on some games projects. Here’s a look at some of what I’ve been playing, running, and designing of late. We have been hosting sessions at our new home playing Fall of Magic with a few close friends. Fall of Magic is a beautiful storytelling game from Heart of the Deernicorn. As you play you unroll a hand-sewn, elegantly illustrated scroll that represents the lands your characters are journeying through.

We’ve observed the internal structure of many, many suwar and āyāt, but we have yet to look at the organizational relationship between two different suwar. To introduce this particular study we will begin with the pairing of the 55th and 56th suwar of the Quran, Sūrah ar-Raḥmān (The All-Merciful) and Sūrah al-Wāqi'ah (The Inevitable Event), respectively. The mirroring between the two suwar can be seen below with the relevant āyah numbers shown in parenthesis.

First things first so I know you all read this: A quickie 30-minute marinade on the shrimp will be good, but a 4- to 24-hour marinade will be fantastic. If you can, plan ahead! And as usual, click here for the WTC recipe index, and scroll allll the way down for a printer-friendly PDF of this recipe! Now that I’ve spilled the beans about baby #3, we can talk pregnancy cravings!

I started writing this piece in March 2020 as a way of distracting myself from the impending doom of the imploding world but didn’t get the opportunity to finish it since we ended up getting a wine man who could deliver within 12 hours of ordering a crate. With Metallica releasing a new track, ‘Lux Æterna’, ahead of their new album, ‘72 Seasons’, in April, I thought it would be a good opportunity to re-visit this.

In this week’s Unseen St. Louis, let’s get down and dirty and explore a time when caves and beer went hand in hand. I’d like to offer a special thanks to local cave/brewery history enthusiast Mike DeBroeck who provided several of the images and some of the details in this piece. Any errors, though, are all mine! Today Downtown St. Louis looks much the same as any other mid-sized city’s central business district.

Maximus Mischief retired to stud after a brief but brilliant four-start career. He won his first three races at age two, including the G2 Remsen Stakes, by a combined 17 lengths, stamping himself as one of the most exciting two-year-olds of his crop. In his sophomore debut, he finished third in the Holy Bull Stakes as the odds-on favorite, but he never had a chance to redeem that effort, retiring with a soft tissue injury prior to the Fountain of Youth.

Hello Button Buddies! Another week has come and gone, and now it is time to brace ourselves for the overwhelming bounty that August, September and (gulp) October will bring. But first, there are all kinds of exciting things on the horizon. Read on to learn more… By AliceLast Friday, the day I had been anticipating for so very long finally came: Stardew Valley Plus became available on Apple Arcade. I already have Stardew Valley on Xbox, PC and mobile already.