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Rudolph Vanlentino Jean Acker One hundred years ago this month, Grace Kingsley was writing about the usual assortment of casting news and Hollywood party-going, and she debunked some gossip about Rudolph Valentino. On the twelfth she...
Today's "Anything Goes Saturday" images were a mystery to me; we see a small, unusual-looking sternwheeler on a glassy body of water, with the name "S.S. Priscilla" visible on the life preservers on the upper level (the "hot dog deck", I...
Changing rolesTo the traveller along the Lower Icknield Way, north of Tring, the village of Marsworth seems unimpressive, somewhere to pass by quickly perhaps, on the way to Dunstable. But it’s more interesting than that, because the...
I may be a little less visible than usual online over the next few weeks, as my mother sadly passed away this week following a long decline into dementia. It has been painful to watch her become not herself any more but in many ways it’s...
Rob Hopkins, who founded the Transition Towns movement two decades ago, has been a tireless and engaging activist for community-led Transition ever since. As the work has developed, so have the methods. What started in the Transition...
Himbeer-Torte mit Kokos Ich hatte mir eine Torte gewünscht. Eine Himbeertorte. Fruchtig. Sahnig. Mit Kokos im Boden und auch auf der Sahne. Und einem knuffigen Biskuitboden. Alles ganz einfach. Und wenn sie direkt aus dem Kühlschrank...
During my years as a lawyer, I read countless motions. This one made me stop because of the government's extraordinary explanation for why an indictment should never have been sought in the first place.This is an excerpt from the federal...
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got warmer Guinness, Italian pils and the Good People. First, a rare example of a story from a retail technology vendor press release that is...
I have been serially restarting Cities Skylines 2 with new city starts and new mods. It was inevitable that I would eventually try to make a city with no cars (well, no privately-owned vehicles): I'm pleased by how easy this was to try....
Decided to make life difficult for myself; a carp on the fly. Thought it wouldn't be too hard with so many carp - but despite lots of fish investigating a variety of flys it took 1½ hours before one hit a Squirmy Wormy - totally worth it...
Today is “Send a Friend a Webmention Day!” What’s that? See indieweb.org/send_a_friend_a_webmention_day, and the 2026 event page. I’m running late, and these folks may not have websites which support webmentions but nonetheless they are...
The moment right before the sun comes up, right before a breath is really there, right before a tension is released. That's where the rainbow starts.
Morning all, and welcome to Blaugust 2026. I’m hoping Blaugust will be a shot in the arm to a blog that is by no means dead but perhaps a little sleepy. As usual, my welcome post will be brief. And... they're off! My reasons for...
Hey! I guess the headline this month is I added a homepage to my site. I used to just drop you in a list of recent blog posts, but there's a few different things happening here on a regular basis now, so I thought it was time to have...
Source Windswept musk ox carved by Inuk artist Joe Kavik (born 1950) from Rankin Inlet (Kangiqiniq), Canada. Amusing and it works. Nice piece. A different art form but with cultural affinities. Local Song A throwback to one of my first...