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Oh boy, vintage Disneyland ephemera! My favorite. Today I am featuring a wonderful 1963 brochure printed for the "World Premier Engagement" of Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room (which debuted on June 23rd of '63). These are rare-ish, but...
Every year I update my table of thirty-plus temperatures, as recorded at Hampstead. Here's how we left things last year. Dates on which the temperature at Hampstead reached 30°C May JunJulAugSep 2010 279/10 2011 27 2012 2518 2013 13...
River otters at a Northern California lagoon have learned to climb onto resting brown pelicans, grab them by the neck, drag them underwater, and hold them there until they drown. The behavior was first documented in 2006. By 2024 the...
I was under the impression that Cities Skylines 2 was still bad. It isn't!! Cities Skylines 2 launched badly. I am not enough of an expert to be able to comment intelligently on the badness - I bounced off of CS1 several different times....
"There's stuff in there that has been in there for years," I told J. I was moaning about not being able to fit anything into any of the three drawers that constituted the freezer compartment of our fridge freezer. That was about four...
We can probably agree that it’s better to be needed than irrelevant. At least when people are around you for you, not for what you can do for them. I’ve made mistakes both ways about people’s intent. There’s little better in life than...
I want to talk to the angry critics who treat enjoying Marvel movies as proof of a dead culture and a weak mind. My argument is simple: if my happiness makes you hopping mad, the problem is you.Taste is personal. It’s shaped by your...
I want to talk to the angry critics who treat enjoying Marvel movies as proof of a dead culture and a weak mind. My argument is simple: if my happiness makes you hopping mad, the problem is you.Taste is personal. It’s shaped by your...
So I had a copy of this on the shelf at the shop, Massimo Mattioli’s complete Squeak the Mouse hardcover published by Fantagraphics a year or three back. Have you read this? I don’t know just how far these comics seeped into the...
July is nearly at an end so let’s take a look at the themes we had for #MurderEveryMonday, this month…
Trump Meets with Zelenskyy and Netanyahu In an Oval Office meeting in 2025, Donald Trump famously told Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelenskyy "You have no cards." And yet, somehow, Zelenskyy played his hand well. Russia invaded Ukraine...
Bus consultation news TfL have published three consultations shaking up several north London bus routes, including killing off two. It's all to fit their agenda of simplifying the bus network, reducing duplication and minimising the...
Editor’s note: Article originally published on July 29, 2019. What is the meaning of life? How do we cure all these diseases? Is lasting peace possible? Who am I supposed to marry? All these questions plus countless more have lingered...
Nova Scotia Hodge Podge is a beloved Maritime classic made with the season’s freshest young vegetables, gently cooked and tossed in a rich, silky sauce of cream, salt pork, and a splash of vegetable cooking liquor. It’s colourful,...
When it comes to poetry, my relationship with revising my own work has changed over the years. When I first started, I drafted on paper--usually whatever was at hand, which would have been the backs of leftover handouts and lined...