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It’s a long weekend here in the United States; we are celebrating Memorial Day, which is a holiday to remember those who have died in military service. Like many federal holidays, it has been associated with retail sales, and is the...
What Craig Counsell and David Ross have in common is that both are former players and I think that is the context in which one has to conclude that so far Counsell has not been better than the person he replaced. Former player managers...
Yesterday’s ghosts are today’s mermaids. Here is a Fiji mermaid as advertised (above) and in reality (below). Not the PT Barnum specimen, but apparently made around the same time. On a semi-related note, here is some good life advice...
I had implemented Postiz and n8n earlier this week to migrate away from Make and Buffer. It went OK with n8n doing the heavy lifting for the processing and formatting, but Postiz was way too heavy on resources at around 2.5 GB of RAM. So...
It was at the gas station browsing through the spinner rack when I really noticed Frank Frazetta’s work. A pulp book, titled “Conan the Adventurer” grabbed my attention with the image of a muscular primitive man and a scantily clad young...
When you're out running long distances, especially if you're by yourself, you have a lot of time to think. And you're about to learn that Ian is an incredibly thoughtful person. I've known him in a few different capacities over the...
Our final full day in Edinburgh (for this trip) dawned. When we hung out in London for a while I visited the SOAS archives and this time in Edinburgh my big dream was to visit the National Library of Scotland. It wasn’t archives I was...
on rejecting convenience, going analog, and algoholishm
A night portrait session with Tim Dever in Georgetown.
Another positive week, this week, for happenings, including: • In between all the rain we got a couple of really gloriously sunny days. And though the temps never really got...
Les Apaches were Paris's most feared and most fashionable criminal subculture, from around 1900 to WWI. Here's the full story of who they were, how they operated, and why they're still remembered.
I follow a Core Path, and end up back on the JOG Trail. Then I get lost... of course. Continue reading →
Sasha Mingia photographs Paris the way a migrant learns a city — in fragments, without guarantees. Her project Mingialand in Paris is not a love letter to the French capital. It is something more tentative — a document of the fragile...
This is the kind of thing that enrages me; Natricia Duncan and Anthony Lugg report in the Guardian: When the Jamaican MP Nekeisha Burchell stood up to give her maiden speech, she was keenly aware of how much her country’s parliament...
OK, the deadline has passed, so I’m allowed to publish my entry for the 100-word microfiction challenge I wrote about earlier.I didn’t make it to the second round, but it was still fun. The assignment was to write an original 100-word...