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A few months ago I wrote about what it feels like to have tits. I love and enjoy mine and I’m very grateful for every squishy, bouncy inch of them. But not everyone feels the same way, and when I published the audio on Patreon, the...
Early last week, I looked at Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s Hell of Solitude, the first of a number of acquisitions inspired by a reread of Anri Yasuda’s excellent work, Beauty Matters, and I’m back today to talk about a second one, by another of...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this multi-level parking structure, documenting the stacked infrastructure of urban vehicle processing. Bright yellow and orange toll kiosks stand against gray concrete barriers and glass elevator...
Just see wherever we peer into the first tiny springs of the national life, how this true panacea for all of the ills of the body politic bubbles forth—education, education, education. Andrew Carnegie, 1886[i] School houses do not teach...
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Dear loiterers It’s First Sunday, This Sunday and so time for a wander together – and this time we are venturing further than ever before. By popular request we will be loitering in Warrington. We’ve broken our own Greater Manchester...
A better day today with some sunshine. No car cleaning today. Finished cutting the hedge round the big lawn. Cleared Bernard’s bin and box of paper. Poor T Cott died.
I came across a video from Jared Henderson on an online sentiment that new books are not as good as the old ones. He touches on a few ideas on why he thinks this idea is going around. One of his points was discussing the sheer volume of...
I got slightly addicted to blogging about blogging. Easy on this lovely platform since we're all bloggers or writers of one kind or another. I got indigestion so I'm wondering if you got it too? Overindulging on a wave of other blogging...
Photo: © Stan B.Having grown up in New York, I've always admired a sense of style. It takes something to possess one, even more to own it; and says something about the person and how they move in the world. Of course, it's ultimately...
Nota bene: I discuss Adam Smith’s first “dire warning” here. As promised (see here and here), I will now turn to the last part of Adam Smith’s 79-page pamphlet (Part #13, pp. 47-79), Additions and Corrections to the First and Second...
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto...
We finally made it to Bude Sea Pool this week, 88m lengths of beautiful swimming on Summerleaze beach in Cornwall.The pool opened in 1930, dug out next to the beach's rocky cliffs. It is a tidal pool, which means the water is refreshed...
I like to include a thank you in every commission, and to help with that I produce a range of bespoke cards. This is the third batch and they continue to give me a great deal of pride and joy when I fold them carefully to pen a few words...
I find it highly amusing that it has taken this long for people to realise that the passport form factor is actually more usable–if only because you can reach across the entire screen with your thumb–and that a 4:3 foldable makes far...