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There’s something about knowledge and understanding that is fascinating. With all the technology at our disposal, knowledge is readily available. But understanding is not. I think of math classes in school where I felt this the most....
I've been posting my stories and poems to this blog since February 2024. My latest posts have titles like The Book of Temples Chapter 22 and The Moonskull Verses Canto 43. These lengthy tales might be a little overwhelming to new...
I’ve posted the monumental totem of N. E. Galloway before (shown also) but I have also learned he.was quite the woodcarver. Here’s a carving he made from a tree adorned with a snake and owls! I’m not sure the size, but appears to be a...
text by Bridgit PhillipsDo your own research:Strange online behaviors often mirror patterns long present offline, amplified by digital platforms. Phenomena like Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) faking, while a bizarre and excessive...
I have completed 58 circuits around Sol. I share the exact birthday with actor Robert Gant from “Queer As Folk”. I wish him a happy birthday every year. I’m probably not the only one that shares the exact same birthday as him. I’ve been...
The 400-mile run from the Hudson through the Cape Cod Precautionary Area to Boston by four of the Gorch Fock-class training barques over the weekend was won by Gorch Fock II, which also won the original OpSail76 Five Sisters Race and is...
Resavoir - Themes for DreamsThis one slipped out with little fanfare (at least as far as I could tell!) earlier this spring, but don’t let it slip on by. I’ve loved all of Will Miller’s Resavoir LPs; Themes for Dreams might be my...
The U.S. Navy christened the future Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS George M. Neal (DDG 131) during a ceremony at Ingalls in Pascagoula on Saturday, after launching back in April. She is the first warship named for Ohio-born...
The Battle of the Sea of Azov 2026 by Ivan Aivazovsky According to the ISW, Ukrainian forces have struck no less than 90 Russian commercial shipping vessels (mostly coastal tankers but also a smattering of tugs, cargo ships, ferries, and...
In Saturday's article about Sesame Street, I mentioned how about 20% of the stations showing the program were commercial, not educational. We can see that in today's listings, where three commercial stations have it on; all three are CBS...
When I think of a sleeping Ali, I also think of other images of iconic Black men in domestic spaces, and the way that that domesticity, in my eyes, acts as a protestation of capitalistic time, a slipping of the yoke of extractive labor....
Good morning! Saturday, I talked a little bit about two music “hot takes” I have. At the risk of sounding like a broken record (sorrynotsorry), there’s a third: I’m not especially fond of Nirvana’s In Utero. Writing about the record in...
Some records quietly end up listening to you. This EP has become the soundtrack to a period of my life where every sound seems to resonate a little deeper than usual. Its electronic textures never chase impact for its own sake. Instead,...
“If you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life but still the same amount of snow.” I saw this in James Clear’s newsletter and chuckled. For what it’s worth, there’s a lot to love about the snow.
I thought of a new idea for finding new material for my blog. I asked Google AI if there had been any new discoveries of Pleistocene fossil remains in Georgia since 2018. Google AI said “yes” and it cited a paper published in 2012. I...