Apollo Lemmon – play, politics & peculiarities

Music 2019.10.11-2019.10.17

My listening has been a bit scattered this week, but I've been enjoying discovering some new artists.

Assorted Articles VI

I'm continuing to sift through political articles to find gems. I have some older ones, but there's an article from last week that I think

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Squirrel Girl

Marvel's Squirrel Girl is one of the most fun and lovable characters in comics. Ryan North and Erica Henderson redefined Squirrel Girl and injected a

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Run 2019.10.16

It was nice to get back to running after a few days away from it. The season 4 story with zombie vikings and the early

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Working Class Literature on T-Bone Slim

The first episode of Working Class Literature, a sister podcast to Working Class History, features the life and work of T-Bone Slim. Like so many

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Beabadoobee – I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus

Beabadoobee is creating wonderful pop songs that would have been at home on 90s music video channels. The new EP Space Cadet is brimming with

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Project 365 2019.10.08-2019.10.14

I've continued on taking a photo each day for a Project 365. The photos are shared each day on my FrozenTruth.com account at apollo.

Train Cruise

Train Cruise is a television series from NHK that celebrates trains and train culture in Japan. As a fan of trains in general, it has

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Assorted Articles V

Now and then I go through a backlog of political articles I tucked away to read again and find some I want to share. During

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Mario Kart Tour

The release of Mario Kart Tour received decidedly mixed reviews, but I have been enjoying it and playing a bit each day. The game looks

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Music 2019.10.04-2019.10.10

My listening this week was clustered around a few artists, and mostly quite subdued. Must be autumn's influence.

Super Mario Tap Dance Medley

Postmodern Jukebox has released a video of a medley of tracks from Super Mario soundtracks with tap dancing by Demi Remick. The familiar tunes are

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Martian Chronicles

Episodes 700 and 701 of the venerable Escape Pod podcast showcase Cory Doctorow's Martian Chronicles novella. Cory had previously read the story on his own

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Run 2019.10.10

I enjoyed the first training mission for the Halloween 2019 Virtual Race for Zombies, Run! The story wasn't as directly tied to the carnival the

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Scrap Robot

On my way to work I ran into this well made scrap robot. It's one of the highlights of the Hallowe'en season. I spotted in

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Run 2019.10.09

Much of my running has been focused around a destination lately rather than roughly toward home after work. Trying to shape my path to get

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Run 2019.10.08

Having to rescue a baby in the zombie apocalypse will never fail to tug at my heartstrings.

Project 365 2019.10.01-2019.10.07

I continued a Project 365 through the first week of October, taking a photo each day. The photos are shared each day on my FrozenTruth.com account at apollo.

Run 2019.10.07

One of the little annoyances in running is when I try to fit a run into an errand. Today I ended up cycling around a

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Halifax Through the HMA

The Halifax Municipal Archives have been sharing a collection of photos they are trying to identify in the Flickr album Can you help us identify

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Celestine Emerald at 5 Months

This afternoon we took some photos of Celestine to mark her 5 month birthday, which was at the end of last week.

Music 2019.09.27-2019.10.03

This past week I've been listening to a lot of artists who have released albums through Lilystar Records. The label has released some wonderful indie

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Ghosteen

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' new album Ghosteen is haunting, beautiful and heartbreaking. Nick Cave tends to unblinkingly look at ugliness lyrically, and that

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Run 2019.10.03

Running through a zombie-infested library was one of the lightest, most enjoyable missions in Zombies, Run! It was fun to revisit it today.

Pokémon Platinum

I've been playing through Pokémon Platinum again as part of an ongoing project to revisit each region of the main series games. Exploring Sinnoh again

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Run 2019.10.02

The final episode of this eighth season of Zombies, Run! was tense, heartbreaking and among the best missions this game has produced. This was my

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It Started With An April Shower

The Gentle Isolation seem to have a quiet online presence, but their one full release, It Started With An April Shower, is an absolutely wonderful

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Run 2019.10.01

Colder weather has meant adjusting what I wear when running. Today it meant wearing a light jacket for the first time in a long while.

RECLAIMER

Chad Walker, who put together the fantastic and important SIGMATA: This Signal Kills Fascists tabletop RPG, is now Kickstarting RECLAIMER: A Game of Climate Crisis

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