A writer recently released a new book. Organizing an event at a local bookstore, she set up rows of chairs and plenty of promotional material in anticipation of an audience. To her disappointment however, no one showed up. Now, Suzanne Young has been an author for over fifteen years, making this experience all the more […]
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Gedurende lange tijd wist ik driemaal niets over George Michael buiten dit: een handvol stroopzoete hits met Wham, enkele meer volwassen hits tijdens z’n solocarrière en een succesvolle coverversie van Somebody To Love op het tribuutconcert voor Freddie Mercury. Weet je, de man overleed in 2016, maar om de een of andere reden had ik
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Ever had the following experience? It’s around noon and you have some time left, so you go to some fastfood joint – let’s say McDonalds. The burger looked great in the ads, but it doesn’t quite look the same when it’s in front of you. The bacon doesn’t quite look as appetizing, the bun sort
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Around the second half of 2021, I decided my YouTube channel was about to change: I would start doing interviews. There was one big problem however, my webcam’s videoquality left much to be desired, so I’d have to look for something a little better. After looking around, I picked up a new camera, the Sony
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If you’ve been following the news at all lately, it was hard to miss: the boxing match between Jake Paul and Tommy Fury has been all the rage. On one hand, you have Jake Paul, the famous social media influencer. In the past, his videos tended to be loud and obnoxious, mainly aiming for a
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Remember Steven Seagal? Famous action movie star during the nineties, today he’s fallen into an abyss of B-movies. Indulge me, if you will, into a little thought experiment. Imagine we’re consultants hired to fix his career – which is in the dumpster nowadays. Seems to me, you’d want to build on what’s already there: plenty
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Back when I was a teenager, I listened to Hercule Poirot’s detective stories on audiobooks. Now, these audiobooks weren’t half bad. They even managed to get the tv series’ actors to record all of it and I enjoyed my time listening to them. But let me tell you what I really yearned for: to watch
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A few days ago, I found myself watching Grand Designs presented by Kevin McCloud. It showed a golf addicted businessman in the search of a new house, wanting to build his new home on a historical site. Well, I say historical, but there wasn’t much left, besides the outline of some Roman era foundations. After
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Recently I saw this video of current chess world champion Magnus Carlsen, playing against Judit Polgar. Now, you might remember Judit. She grew up as one of the Polgar sisters. Their father being a psychologist, he experimented to push his daughters to become chess grandmasters, through a regime of constant practice and many high level
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Going back to your childhood, which films grabbed your interest then, and of those, which do you still watch now? For me I’d have to say: Mission Impossible 1 (1996), The Count Of Monte Cristo (2002) and The Mask Of Zorro (1998). All of these have a hero central to the story, who’s been betrayed
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