Author: Jonathan Kieran
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Esna Temple Ceiling Fully Restored and Revealed
I had long known about the ongoing restoration and preservation work taking place at the majestic remnants of the temple at Esna in Southern Egypt, but news that the glorious astrological ceiling of its famous hypostyle hall (all that remains…
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Red Triangle Great White Sharks Triangulating
This is WHAT THEY DO, people, off our Central Californian shorelines, in October (especially), within the parameters of the infamous Red Triangle (most definitely). Spin the existential roulette wheel, surfers, and hope for the best. These juveniles are HONGRAY and…
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Wanderings … “I Have Lived On This Earth”
Philae Island at the Southern frontier of Ancient and modern Egypt, near the First Cataract of the Nile, these days trapped behind Aswan Dam, is ever-beguiling, standing as it has for almost 2,400 years in the hot silence of Mystique.…
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Random Things People Shove Under My Front Door
Who could have left this little pamphlet of piety while casing the neighborhood for converts? Jehovah’s Witlesses? Southern Baptulists? The Assembly of Adventists Twice-Removed, The Rip-Tootin’ Calvinist Welcome Wagon? So … uplifting. Literally! “Oh, Tina! It’s amazing! It’s wonderful! Glory,…
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Where, When, Why, What, and How Big Were the Fangs?
I won’t even pretend that TMZ Sports is a worthy journalistic source, much less expound upon the fact that “journalism” now appears to be an endeavor undertaken by imbeciles with pacifiers in their mouths, half-baked opinions in their soft-scrambled brains,…
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Hilariously Tangy Underworld BonBons from Cintra Wilson and Her Wilberforce Players
I’m just going to tell you to explore it at leisure. [Jonathan is busy writing and illustrating and finishing a whole slew of projects in preparation for upcoming major releases. Don’t expect a helluva lot of bloggin’ to get done…
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MechaStreisand Looms
I shall not beat around the bush—no, not for a second. Barbra Streisand was a technically dazzling singer, albeit one whose voice was (in my opinion) void of tangible charm or pathos. My mom loved her for a few years…
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Critics Basically Declare ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ To Be a Hodgepodge of Incoherent Turkey Droppings Mixed With the Stench of Decaying Talent in a Landscape of Abject Cultural Mediocrity
Of course, I should not have been surprised at all. The top critics around the world have already rendered their judgments and the “highly anticipated” return to the gritty, harrowing roots of the original classic film from 1973 has been…
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Big Shark But No Scale, Baby
The shark captured in this short clip from a fishing boat off the shores of Who-Knows-Where is DEFINITELY a Great White Shark and not a basking shark, as an obviously impressed onlooker in the clip suggested. The distinct, fattened cylindrical…
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If Old Family Photos Could SPEAK …
Mother has enough hair to conceal the Gutenberg Bible. Father doesn’t have enough hair to conceal the fact that his parents were siblings. The children will never be able to conceal their existential terror or get out from beneath an avalanche of lifelong psychiatric…
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