Somewhere between discovering The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Hellblazer, I fell deeply into love with early-to-mid 20th-century detective fiction. It was a world of smart men who mean… Read the rest of the article: Raymond Chandler is the once and future king of opening paragraphs
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Séamus Bellamy If HBO's upcoming Lovecraft Country is even 20% as great as its source material—Matt Ruff's novel bearing the same name—We're in for a fun, terrifying treat. I suppose we'll know,… Read the rest of the article: Lovecraft Country is coming to HBO and I am here for it
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Séamus Bellamy Photoshop kinda sucked when Adobe introduced it to the iPad last year. Months in, Photoshop for iOS is still such a flummoxing disappointment when I need to tinker with an… Read the rest of the article: Adobe makes sending images Lightroom to Photoshop on iPad a thing
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Séamus Bellamy When we finally come out of this terrifying situation that the world has found itself embroiled in, the very best we can hope for is to become a better people… Read the rest of the article: Shut in sounds: Oysterband—Early Days of a Better Nation
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Séamus Bellamy Thanks to the coronavirus, international travel is pretty much out of the question. This, however, doesn't mean that you can't take a taste of a huge number of cultures from… Read the rest of the article: Radio Garden is a great way to discover music from around the world
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Séamus Bellamy Look, nothing about what's done in this video is easy or anything less than time consuming. But, if you're hellbent on being able to enjoy something as close to a… Read the rest of the article: Making Cadbury Creme Eggs from scratch takes a lot of work… and sugar
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Séamus Bellamy Apparently, Greater Manchester is the New Florida during spring break of the United Kingdom. Despite warnings, daily updates to the number of victims of COVID-19 and the threat of steep… Read the rest of the article: Idiots in the UK risk their community for the sake of socialization and bouncy castles
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Séamus Bellamy While you're sheltering in place, I hope it's with someone who loves you and makes you feel whole.
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Séamus Bellamy If you own a piece of hardware, you should be able to do whatever the hell you want with it, period. Don't like the color? Paint it. Not enough storage?… Read the rest of the article: The right to repair is the right to screw up
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Séamus Bellamy More often than not, the solutions for slowing the roll of our planet into an untenable ball of environmental disasters is right under our noses—protect green spaces. End the use… Read the rest of the article: Scientists: enzyme eats plastic like it's made of Pringles
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Séamus Bellamy It's easy to get bored, sheltering in place, or worse, being confined to one room in your home under quarantine. I've played my fair share of video games over the… Read the rest of the article: Get into Google's Stadia game service for free
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Séamus Bellamy Let's take a moment to reflect upon the fact that, no matter how dire things are and, how more terrible they're expected to become, we're still able to issue some… Read the rest of the article: Shut in sounds: The Decemberists—Calamity Song
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Séamus Bellamy No matter how much joy owning a cat may have brought into your life, there's no denying that they're nothing more than cuddly little murder machines that like to watch… Read the rest of the article: Limit the spread of coronavirus by keeping your cat indoors
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Séamus Bellamy I'm not sure that we deserve a happy ending. But like the rest of you, right now, I'm hoping like hell for one.
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Séamus Bellamy Good news everyone: at least one nation in the world has its shit together. despite being busy curb stomping its COVID-19 curve, New Zealand has also take steps to ensure… Read the rest of the article: Easter Bunny & the Tooth Fairy designated as essential workers
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Séamus Bellamy If you've ever wanted to catch a fish with a trap designed to catch other edible, living things, your time has arrived. I'm not sure if this is a technique… Read the rest of the article: How to catch a fish using a mouse trap
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Séamus Bellamy While the separation of church and state is typically the way we prefer to roll in much of the western world, it seems that in times of tragedy their collision… Read the rest of the article: Manhattan cathedral has been converted into a field hospital
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Séamus Bellamy Given that I came into the COVID-19 crisis with heart issues, I've been extra paranoid and extra cautious about catching the coronavirus: I'm a member of what they're calling a… Read the rest of the article: COVID-19 may be attacking the hearts of some infected individuals
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Séamus Bellamy 1952 Vincent Black Lightning is a song that makes me think about fresh starts, old habits, love and loss—topics that we all currently have way too much time to ponder,… Read the rest of the article: Shut in sounds: Richard Thompson—1952 Vincent Black Lightning
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Séamus Bellamy Over the next couple of weeks, I'll be installing a number of upgrades into my shotgun and converting my iPod classic to use SD cards for storage and a 3,000… Read the rest of the article: Quarantine DIY: build your own motorized drift trike