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One of my favorite sites on the internet is openculture.com. As the name implies, it’s a curated collection of the best permanently free culture on the web, from free college courses, movies, images, audiobooks, and history lessons. Here’s a recent post that I found weirdly fascinating. It’s about how the ancient Romans had fewer cavities…
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As I get older (and older), I begin to suspect that I will, eventually, become nostalgic about literally everything in my past. Right now, I am feeling nostalgic for old TV commercials. If you grew up in the 1970s and 80s, like me, you watched a lot of TV commercials. Like, thousands and thousands. And…
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I could write a whole post on the various covers of Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451 that have come out over the years, as other people already have. My favorite is this one from the 1970s (the time of my childhood). It’s by a great illustrator named Barron Storey. I like it because it…
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Everybody has heard of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), but most people think it only affects people in the winter months. Some poor souls like me get in the spring, when the weather here in Central Florida starts to get hot and muggy and yet there is relatively little rain to wash the abundant pollen out…
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If I had to make a list of the 100 people who most contributed to my boyhood reading, imagination, and fantasy life, Ray Bradbury would probably be at the top, with Arthur C. Clarke and Issac Asimov a bit lower. Ridley Scott would be in there, too, as would a couple of women, including Ursula…
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My name is Ash Clifton and I’m a writer of mystery, sci-fi, and literary novels. I’m starting this blog as a replacement for my old blog, Bakhtin’s Cigarettes, which I maintained for over a decade. I’ll be reposting some of my favorite essays from BC, as well as new stuff. I’m also hoping to post…
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