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At heart, John Darnielle is a goth elder captivated by Chaucer and improv troupes. For 30 years, he’s found a home in chronicling the obscure, and sometimes tragic, lives of everyday people through song and text: self-destructive spouses, washed-up wrestlers, drug-dealer running backs, babies born in motel rooms. His first book, Wolf in White Van, longlisted for a National Book Award, tails Sean Phillips, a disfigured homebody who invents a fantasy, pay-by-mail RPG game that leads to a dead teenager; the follow-up, Universal Harvester, details Jeremy Heldt, a video store clerk discovering horrific vignettes strewn across the store’s VHS tapes....

Amazon is now offering some notable deals on SanDisk memory products from $19.50. One notable offer is the SanDisk 400GB Ultra microSDXC UHS-I Memory Card for $39.99 shipped. Regularly up to $70, it more typically sells in the $50 range at Amazon and around $57 via Walmart. This is within $1 of the Amazon all-time low and well under the 400GB Ultra Plus model that goes for $70 at Best Buy. This one delivers pocket-sized memory for Android devices, tablets, camera rigs, and your Nintendo Switch with 400GB of storage space and an included adapter for compatibility with a wider...

  You’re lonely, so you’ve decided to throw yourself onto the digital dating scene. Needless to say, it’s intimidating. It’s like hanging a picture of yourself in an art museum and hoping for a glance when you’re surrounded by Mona Lisas. So how exactly do you manage to stand out in this of faces? Good photos. For example, Business Insider cites a study that reveals users of online dating platforms form quick judgments on how “datable” you are just by looking at your photos. They also explained that “photo-based impressions may influence a decision to contact a potential mate, even...

Third time isn’t such a charm after all. After back-to-back failures at getting a Japanese driver’s license in the cheapest but most difficult way possible, I decided to take a break for the rest of 2021. It turned out to be a good idea too, because I have a bad habit of repeatedly running head-first into problems rather than taking a step back and considering the situation more clearly. So, while I was meditating over the New Year’s holiday by decorating vacation homes for animals on my Switch, a nagging thought kept floating around the back of my head from...

Ready for a whole bunch of valentine-y heart activities for preschoolers? Your kids will immerse themselves in the sweetness of these Valentines Day activities while they also engage in all sorts of hands-on learning. Related: Process-Based Valentine Art For Preschool Hearts are great shapes to use in preschool activities anytime. You certainly don’t need to wait for Valentine’s Day, as kids are drawn to heart shapes any time! Below are preschool heart activities in a number of categories, depending on what you want to work on with your students. You can try your favorite or pick a couple of each!...