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Clowns at the circus

Short recommendations, reviews, and cautionary tales about horror in fiction (mostly movies). Read through the archives and subscribe here.

• Eunoia: Words that Don't Translate
  Meaning isn't 100% transitive.
• Magnetik Phunk - Open Reel Ensemble
  A one-shot music video performed using only the reel-to-reel tape recorders.
• Please, Lego, let this engineer bring your computer brick to life
  Just because it was inevitable doesn't mean it isn't glorious.
• Elon Musk, please bring back Weird Twitter if you're going to break everything else.
  Dan makes me nostalgic for Twitter 2007-2013.
• The Commodordion
  Incredible instrument made from two Commodore 64s, floppy disks, tape and a giant dose of nerdery.
• Pickleball Is Expanding. Tennis Is Mad.
  ‘Oh, that’s tennis for non-athletes.'
• Could 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' in Chicago really be done? We found out.
  Answer: barely, with a few modifications.
• CU Denver will launch a ‘smart cities incubator’ program
  Some behind-the-scenes of my work life.
• Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa
  The All Iowa Lawn Tennis Club!
• Believe it or not: dry western Kansas is the place to study prehistoric oceans
  "Hell's Aquarium"