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Useful directory of short wave broadcasters htff
Posted: 25 Dec 2017 10:06 PM PST
http://blog.marxy.org/2017/12/useful...hort-wave.html
Just stumbled across hfcc.orgÂ*while hunting for DRM stations. It seems like
quite a good database of what's on shortwave right now.
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Xmas movie, Die Hard, an archetypal analysis
Posted: 25 Dec 2017 10:03 PM PST
http://blog.marxy.org/2017/12/xmas-m...-analysis.html
Prompted by a mention of “Die Hard” as a classic Christmas movie, we
watched it again on Christmas night. The 1988 action movie it holds up
really well and I recognise many of the action sequences that have been
replicated in later movies. Jumping off a ledge held by a fire hose turns
up in both The Matrix and again in Atomic Blond.
Action hero John McClane is troubled by his poor relationship