Author Archives: Phil Paine

READING — FEBRUARY 2026

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25536. (Amnesty International)Torture and Enforced Dis­ap­pear­ances in the Sun­shine State ― 
. . . . . Human Rights Vio­la­tions at “Alli­ga­tor Alca­traz” and Krome in Flori­da [report]
25537. (R. F. Fos­ter) Foster’s Ency­clo­pe­dia of Games, Includ­ing All the Indoor Games Played 
. . . . . at the Present Day [1897]
25538. [3] (Jerome Bix­by) It’s a Good Life [sto­ry]
25539. (David Wen­grow) The Ori­gins of Civic Life ― A Glob­al Per­spec­tive [arti­cle]
25540. (Michael Moor­cock) The Jew­el in the Skull
25541. (Ian Hod­der) Things and the Slow Neolith­ic: the Mid­dle East­ern Trans­for­ma­tion [arti­cle]
25542. (Jerome Bix­by) The Whip [sto­ry]
25543. (Arthur B. Evans) Anoth­er Verne Man­u­script Trans­lat­ed [arti­cle]
25544. (Madi­son Charl­ton) The Chil­dren of Martha March into Neg­a­tive Space [man­u­script]
25545. (Bede) The Sto­ry of Cæd­mon [excerpt from An Eccle­si­as­ti­cal His­to­ry of the English 
. . . . . Peo­ple]
25546. [2] (William Brei­d­ing) The Sen­su­al World [arti­cle]
25547. (Jacques God­bout) Hail Galarneau!

Image of the Month — FEBRUARY 2026

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FILMS — JANUARY 2026

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(Lopez 2025) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.140 ― A Cli­mate of Death
(Bell 1981) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Ep.1 ― Fit the First
(Chung 1991) Æon Flux: Ep.1–6 ― Six-seg­ment Pilot
(Asquith 1952) The Impor­tance of Being Earnest
(Mox­ey 1972) The Night Stalker
(East­man 1979) The Lit­tlest Hobo: Ep.1 ― Smoke
(del Toro 2025) Frankenstein
(Fish­er 1966) Island of Terror
(Tier­ney 2025) Heat­ed Rival­ry: Ep.1 ― Rookies
(Hitch­cock 1930) Murder!
(Son­nen­berg 2017) A Series of Unfor­tu­nate Events: Ep.1 ― The Bad Begin­ning Part One
(East­man 1979) The Lit­tlest Hobo: Ep.2 ― Man­hunt, Part 1
(Selander 1951) Flight to Mars
(Pro­tazanov 1924) Aeli­ta: Queen of Mars [Аэли́та]
(Pig­not­ta 2018) Otzi and the Mys­tery of Time
(Tier­ney 2025) Heat­ed Rival­ry: Ep.2 ― Olympians
(Smith 2014) The Bro­ken­wood Mys­ter­ies: Ep.1 ― Blood & Water
(Dear­den 1960) The League of Gentlemen
(Hath­away 1950) The Black Rose
(Ayoade 2004) Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place: Ep.1 ― Once Upon a Beginning
(Fish­er 1959) The Hound of the Baskervilles
(Cun­ha 1958) Mis­sile to the Moon
(Dick­in­son 1939) The Arse­nal Sta­di­um Mystery
(Tier­ney 2025) Heat­ed Rival­ry: Ep.3 ― Hunter
(Zil­balodis 2024) Flow [Straume]
(Cun­ha 1958) Giant from the Unknown
(Miyaza­ki 1978) Future Boy Conan [未来少年コナン]: Ep.1 ― Rem­nant Island
(Bell 1981) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Ep.2 ― Fit the Second
(Bernds 1958) Space Mas­ter X‑7
(Bal­a­ban 1954) Stranger from Venus
(Sharp 1978) The Thir­ty Nine Steps
(Tier­ney 2025) Heat­ed Rival­ry: Ep.4 ― Rose

First-time listening for FEBRUARY 2026

Posted by on January 31, 2026 No comments

26978. (Bill Haley) The Dec­ca Years & More [disc 1]
Nige­ria 70 – No Waha­la: High­life, Afro-Funk & Juju 1973–1987:
. . . . 26979. (Odeye­mi) “Oni Suru” 
. . . . 26980. (Prince Nico Mban­ga & Rocafil Jazz) “Sick­ness”
. . . . 26981. (Felix­son Nga­sia & The Sur­vivals) “Black Pre­cious Colour”
. . . . 26982. (Sina Bakare) “Africa”
. . . . 26983. (Sax­on Lee & The Shad­ows Inter­na­tion­al) “Spe­cial Secret of Baby”
. . . . 26984. (Osay­omore Joseph & The Cre­ative 7) “Obonog­bozu”
. . . . 26985. (Inter­na­tion­al Broth­ers Band) “Onu­ma Dimnobi”
. . . . 26986. (Don Bruce & The Angels) “Kin­uye”
. . . . 26987. (Rogana Ottah & His Black Heroes Int.) “Let Them Say”
. . . . 26988. (Etubom Rex Williams & His Niger­ian Artistes) “Psy­che­del­ic Shoes”
. . . . 26989. (Vic­tor Uwaifo & The Titibitis) “Iziegbe [Ekas­sa No.70]”
. . . . 26990. (M.A. Jaiyes­i­mi & His Cres­cent Bros Band) “Mundiya Loju”
26991. (George Shear­ing) George Shear­ing on Stage!
26992. (Chet Bak­er) The Ital­ian Sessions
26993. (Erroll Gar­ner) Con­cert by the Sea
26994. (Rug­gero Leon­cav­al­lo) Gli Zin­gari [com­plete opera; d. Bon­com­pag­ni; Galli, 
. . . . . Bot­tion, Scor­soni ‑1970]
26995. (Bud­dy DeFran­co) Bud­dy DeFran­co en Argentina

READING — JANUARY 2026

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(William Brei­d­ing) Leavings:
. . . . 25501. (Phil Paine) Intro­duc­tion [pref­ace]
. . . . 25502. (William Brei­d­ing) The Sen­su­al World [arti­cle]
. . . . 25503. (William Brei­d­ing) Out Into the Woods [arti­cle]
. . . . 25504. (William Brei­d­ing) Coups d’etats of Child­hood [arti­cle]
. . . . 25505. (William Brei­d­ing) Beyond the Mask [arti­cle]
. . . . 25506. (William Brei­d­ing) Ron­nie Daw­son “Rockin’ Bones” [arti­cle]
. . . . 25507. (William Brei­d­ing) Patron Saint of the Honky Tonks [arti­cle]
. . . . 25508. (William Brei­d­ing) Dead Pop Stars [arti­cle]
. . . . 25509. (William Brei­d­ing) Pop Mat­ters [arti­cle]
. . . . 25510. (William Brei­d­ing) Craw­dad Train [arti­cle]
. . . . 25511. (William Brei­d­ing) Crate Dig­ger [arti­cle]
. . . . 25512. (William Brei­d­ing) Julia Elliott [arti­cle]
. . . . 25513. (William Brei­d­ing) Armis­tead Maupin [arti­cle]
. . . . 25514. (William Brei­d­ing) Leav­ings: 2015 [arti­cle]
. . . . 25515. (William Brei­d­ing) You’ll Be Dead [sto­ry]
. . . . 25516. (William Brei­d­ing) A Tale of Romance [arti­cle]
. . . . 25517. (William Brei­d­ing) What’s Up With Led Zep? [arti­cle]
. . . . 25518. (William Brei­d­ing) Mis­fits in Milan [arti­cle]
. . . . 25519. (William Brei­d­ing) Nasty Boy What Went Wrong? [arti­cle]
. . . . 25520. (William Brei­d­ing) San Fran­cis­co and the Big Beat [arti­cle]
. . . . 25521. (William Brei­d­ing) How To Go Deeply Into Debt [arti­cle]
. . . . 25522. (William Brei­d­ing) The Lar­ry Chron­i­cles [arti­cle]
. . . . 25523. (William Brei­d­ing) Down Among the Lau­rels [arti­cle]
. . . . 25524. (William Brei­d­ing) The Skele­tons of Win­ter [arti­cle]
. . . . 25525. (William Brei­d­ing) My Sister’s Fake Hus­band [poem]
. . . . 25526. (William Brei­d­ing) Page From a Fucked Up Diary [poem]
. . . . 25527. (William Brei­d­ing) About To Begin [poem]
25528. (Andrew Ross Sorkin) 1929 ― Inside the Great­est Crash in Wall Street History 
. . . . . and How It Shat­tered a Nation
25529. (Lau­ra Diet­rich, et al) LBK Out­posts of Eil­sleben: Hunter-farmer Encounters 
. . . . . in the Bor­der­lands of Ear­ly Neolith­ic Cen­tral Europe [arti­cle]
25530. (Eber­hard Zang­ger) Pre­his­toric Earth­quakes and their Con­se­quences, as 
. . . . . Pre­served in Holocene Sed­i­ments from Volos and Argos, Greece [arti­cle]
25531. (Michael Free­man & Claude Jacques) Ancient Angkor
25532. (Moham­madamin Ema­mi) Achaemenid Bronze! Quid Est? Archaeometallurgical 
. . . . . Inves­ti­ga­tions on Some Bronze Arte­facts from Perse­po­lis [arti­cle]
25533. [2] (John Hen­ry Cut­ler) Tom Stet­son on the Trail of the Lost Tribe 
25535. (Mau­rice Leblanc) [Arsène Lupin] L’île aux trente cercueils

Image of the Month — JANUARY 2026

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FILMS — DECEMBER 2025

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(Mack­endrick 1955) The Ladykillers
(Booth 1900) Scrooge, or Marley’s Ghost
(Lean 1947) Great Expectations
(Jew­i­son 1967) In the Heat of the Night
(Mar­rin 1938) A Christ­mas Carol
(Ban­gu­ra 2025) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.137 ― The Devil’s Work
(Clements, Hall, Musker & Williams 2016) Moana
(Izatt 2018) A Christ­mas Carol
(Wilkin­son 2025) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.138 ― Book of the Dead
(Roley 1965) Lost in Space: Ep.9 ― The Oasis
(Zemeck­is 2009) A Christ­mas Carol
(Gib­son 2025) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.139 ― Claws Out
(Hall 1941) Here Comes Mr. Jordan
(Spiel­berg 1993) Juras­sic Park

First-time listening for DECEMBER 2025

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26971. (Hrdza) Neskrotený
26972. (Peter Sculthor­pe) Irkan­da IV for Vio­lin, Per­cus­sion and Strings
26973. (Farya Fara­ji) “Noël Huron” [sin­gle]
26974. (Clan­nad) Anam
26975. (H. P. Love­craft) H. P. Lovecraft
26976. (H. P. Love­craft) H. P. Love­craft 2
26977. (Great Big Sea) XX

READING — DECEMBER 2025

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25481. (Sum­it Kumar) Decolonis­ing Jus­tice in India: A Sol­i­dar­i­ty-Based Approach to 
. . . . . Post-Colo­nial Jus­tice [arti­cle]
25482. (Vladimir F. Nicules­cu) Non-genet­ic Mech­a­nisms in Can­cer Evo­lu­tion: Senescence, 
. . . . . Uni­cel­lu­ar­iza­tion, and Cycles of Stem­ness Recov­ery [arti­cle]
25483. (Dominick Gra­ham) The Price of Com­mand ― A Biog­ra­phy of Gen­er­al Guy Simonds
25484. (Vera Zam­ag­ni) An Eco­nom­ic His­to­ry of Europe Since 1700
25485. (Har­ry Boyte) The Black Cit­i­zen Teach­ers Who Changed the South [arti­cle]
25486. (Hédi Bouraoui) Ain­si par­le la Tour CN 
(August Strind­berg) Six Plays of Strind­berg [tr. Eliz­a­beth Sprigge]:
. . . . 25487. (Eric Bent­ley) On Strind­berg [pref­ace]
. . . . 25488. (August Strind­berg) The Father [play]
. . . . 25489. (August Strind­berg) Miss Julie [play]
. . . . 25490. (August Strind­berg) The Stronger [play]
. . . . 25491. (August Strind­berg) East­er [play]
. . . . 25492. (August Strind­berg) A Dream Play [play]
. . . . 25493. (August Strind­berg) The Ghost Sonata [play]
25494. (John T. Koch) Con­ver­gence in situ: the For­ma­tion of the Indo-Euro­pean Branches 
. . . . . and the Bronze-Iron Tran­si­tion [arti­cle]
25495. (Philippe Aubert de Gaspé) Les anciens Canadiens
25496. (Zhizhou Zhang, et al) The Evo­lu­tion of Cog­ni­tive Abil­i­ties in Marine Ani­mals: A
. . . . . Hypoth­e­sis Based on Insights about Cog­ni­tion Gene Poly­mor­phisms in 
. . . . . Coe­lo­canths and Lung­fish [arti­cle]
25497. (Mat­ti Charl­ton) Intro­duc­ing Malavak
25498. (Vera Zam­ag­ni) The Ital­ian Economy 
25499. [3] (John Hen­ry Cut­ler) Tom Stet­son and the Giant Jun­gle Ants
25500. [3] (Lee Sut­ton) Venus Boy

Image of the Month — DECEMBER 2025 — Art of Paul Kane

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Paul Kane (1810–1871)
“The Sur­vey­or: Por­trait of Cap­tain John Hen­ry Lefroy” paint­ed c.1845
The artist died in his home, a short dis­tance from my apart­ment in Toron­to, and is buried nearby.