#Spooktober 26 – The Lost Room

October 26, 2023

Do you want something spooky that’s not Gothic and yet manages to be deeply unsettling? This 2006 mini-series starring Peter Krause and Julianna Margulies is an absolute gem.

After coming across several objects that hide incredibly weird powers behind an absolutely ordinary appearance, detective Joe Miller finds himself tangled up in a paranormal investigation revolving around a mysterious Room that got somehow eradicated from existence. The Event, as it’s called, dislocated objects and scattered them through time, but was the room empty or should we heed the signs that a man was there? And what happened to him?

music and theatre

Ma se io avessi previsto tutto questo

Francesco Guccini è stato una figura importantissima per la mia crescita e per il mio sviluppo personale. Sono cresciuta in una casa in cui il rapporto con la musica è stato quantomai particolare, almeno durante la mia infanzia, e l’avevo scoperto grazie all’intervento di due

August 6, 2026 1:21 pm

Summertime

Paths of the Mirror

Alejandra Pizarnik (1936–1972) was an Argentine poet, translator, and writer of Russian Jewish descent, and one of the most intense and influential voices of mid‑20th‑century Latin America. Born Flora Alejandra in Buenos Aires, she studied philosophy and literature but left academia to devote herself to

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architecture, engineering and construction

The Universe within a Room

Gaston Bachelard‘s Poetics of Space is the book that gives this week its title, and its central claim, that the house is our first universe, a cosmos before we know the word, is seductive enough that it’s worth resisting for a moment. You know the

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