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The Storica blog has a post about Pinocchio that has some Hattic material: Carlo Collodi serialised the story in Il Giornale per i bambini, the first Italian children’s magazine, beginning on July 7, 1881. The first installment was...
I decided to hike part of the Appalachian Trail this year. I made it forty miles before my heels couldn’t take it anymore (bad shoes), but loved the experience and learned a lot. This post is pretty niche, but it’s for people who are...
Puppy discusses its 1 month of bear since creating an account and a site.
The mail brought two new Peanuts board books this week, and the web offered up images of another, so I guess that’s the theme for the day. Cheering You On, Charlie Brown looks first at how Charlie Brown has a lot of difficulty in life,...
Dear Constant Reader, Happy Friday! Remember last week when I talked about being an ambassador for burlesque? This is related. Support your local community — not just your burlesque community. If there’s a cause that’s important to you,...
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One of my favourite tropes in a book is house-hunting – particularly when it is done for comic effect. There is something so delightfully funny about the contrast between an estate agent’s exaggerated, mendacious positivity and some...
They beat Jesus with that.
This week, we have longevity and voting, fighting ICE, Hormuz pricing, media priorities, US midterms, roads and mental health, repatriating artifacts, and Jewish American Heritage.
What possessed me to type x.com into the address bar I can tell you not, but there I was, staring for the first time in weeks at the “For you” tab. And there it was, in all capital letters: “THIS IS HOW WE CURE PANCREATIC CANCER”,...