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Today, July 9, 2026, I had the pleasure of pre-recording a conversation with Dr. Sonia Del Re, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Canada, for The Blue Hour. The interview will air on Tuesday, July 14, at 2...
It's hard to keep up with the flourishing zine, comics and book fairs happening at the moment, which I see as a very positive sign.This weekend (11th and 12th July 2026) sees the ARC festival of contemporary comics taking place in...
Two quick apps I’m trying to write about, but I keep getting pulled away: Crucial Tracks: You saw me testing here on the blog. Found out about this thanks to Lou Plummer. It’s a slow-paced social network/microblogging network where you...
Had a horrible day, and a lovely evening.81 words · 2 images
New York City has put out a map of its "immigrant neighborhoods", and some people are complaining that Jewish neighborhoods aren't represented. These complaints, in turn, are generating a counternarrative expressing the irony of...
“Innocent until proven guilty” isn’t always as black and white as it may seem in some cases. Author Bryan Gruley takes a look at what happens when other factors are at play in a seemingly open and shut case of murder. Plunge into the icy...
While at the Farewell party yesterday, I documented some of the little details of kindergarten, before it's over.
I’m not in Maynooth right now, but I gather it’s warm there. Not perhaps as warm as here in London (34°C), bit still a bit warm to be wearing a fur coat. Still, it seems that Maynooth Library Cat is surviving… picture by Joost Slingerland
When I was in Canada, one of the books I was looking out for was Wild Dogs (2004) by Helen Humphreys. I believe she has only written two novels set in contemporary Canada, and that was precisely the sort of novel I was on the hunt for....
In my ongoing Kurosawa retrospective, I’ve reached 1954 and Seven Samurai, which I’ve seen more often than any other of his (it’s one of my favorite movies, and of course whenever I read DeWitt’s great novel I have to rewatch it). I’ve...
Hello, loves! I need a little something to do. Here’s something that could be done. Better code, not as easy to understand as it might be. There is absolutely no reason to work on this, except that I want to. There is this odd code in...
The collection of signs for the 'Cornwall at War' museum makes me smile every time I pass them. It's on the way to a woods I take the dog to often. Every time I pass I say to myself "I'm going to stop and take a picture on the way home"–...
Another emotive post from one of my favourite blogs. The practice is almost embarrassingly simple. When it gets dark, I do not press the lever. Instead I turn on one lamp. In my case it is a small floor lamp with a fabric shade that I...
23:01 - Feeling bleh so I'm sitting in the bedroom pretending I have a record player and looking through the View-Master. Just a lil' escape.
The mice men.