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“Chasing Black Unicorns: How Building the Amazon of Africa Put me on Interpol’s most wanted list” by Marek Zmyslowski is entertaining, educational, and more vain than you would expect.
It’s equal parts tell-all, vanity press, and fish-out-of-water. This is, after all, the story of a Polish entrepreneur in Nigeria.
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In case it isn’t obvious or if you’re a new reader, I listen to a lot of music.
The list below is based solely on what I’ve curated on one of the music streaming services I have access to. If it weren’t for that limitation, this list might never be completed. Guidelines are helpful, and for something like this having a limiting factor is almost a necessity.
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Douglas A. Anderson’s collection of stories gathered in Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy appears to be more from before Tolkien’s works were published than “classic stories that inspired the author of The Lord of the Rings” but I can’t fault the publisher for trying to drum up sales.
Of the 21 stories that make up this collection, there were only a handful I enjoyed and four that I truly loved…
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On Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at 6:18pm the world lost legendary musicmaker Andrew Belling.
Belling was a stranger to me until I was first introduced to Ralph Bakshi’s seminal work Wizards, for which he composed the entire electronic score. From then on, I was a fan of his work.
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Merriam-Webster defines wisdom as the “ability to discern inner qualities and relationships;” “good sense;” “generally accepted belief;” “accumulated philosophical or scientific learning” which could be summarized as insight, judgment and knowledge.
It continues on to define it as “a wise attitude, belief, or course of action” and “the teachings of the ancient wise men.”
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