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The walls are covered with Bay City Rollers and David Soul posters. And the shot of an elderly psychic investigator sitting among the images of late 70s teen dreams while listening to the recordings of himself communicating with the poltergeist is just brilliant.

Hey look, an awesome mashup!

Giving away books, especially to coworkers, has made me extremely worried about what I might have written in them. I don’t think I fill the endpages of my books with doodles of torture implements, plot outlines for my first novel, or columns of me practicing what my signature would look like if I were married to Martin Amis, but who knows, I do funny things when I’m drunk.

Finnish military intelligence gauged American troops’ mobility and action capability in northern and cold conditions as very limited – “hopelessly behind” Russia (or Finland). The Finnish Military Attaché became even more convinced of this after witnessing U.S. maneuvers in Alaska in March 1950.

Despite his own many unpleasant encounters with the FSB, Harding doubts that ‘the security and law enforcement services belong in Putin’s domain’ or ‘that they follow his orders’ – ‘they enjoy near total autonomy.’ That several autonomous agencies will trip over one another’s feet is only natural. The Foreign Ministry was embarrassed by the FSB’s surprise decision to expel Harding because it was announced on the eve of a visit to London by the Russian foreign minister. ‘These are the kind of things,’ Harding writes, ‘that are supposed to have disappeared from Putin’s rational, vertical, Prussian-style state.’ That they have not disappeared is evidence that there is no rational, vertical, Prussian-style state.