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On August 21st, 2006 I started a photo of the day project. At the time, the idea was to post a photo everyday. As the years went on, it changed to post a photo taken on that day. Then vacations to adventures happened, so I posted...
Fear of loss rarely comes from the loss itself. It comes from a quiet assumption underneath it: that the thing will stay. Give up that assumption first, book the thing as already gone, and there is nothing left to defend. What remains is...
The Freedom 250 had a lot of hype leading up to it, and a lot of patriotism and pomp on full display. Surely the race couldn’t match the build-up could it? In my opinion – it actually did. Before everyone jumps on me for being an IndyCar...
I found another one! I'd just exited Marble Arch station on Park Lane east side and as I crossed North Row I noticed that the man hole within the tarmac still retains some wood block paving within three of its segments.View looking back...
I always chose the repertoire for my community choirs. Most people knew what my taste was, which is why they’d joined the choir in the first place. But every now and then I would introduce a new song and it just wouldn’t take. I used to...
I went to Portmeirion: it is amazing, an architectural jewel-box that works. I don’t think I’d want to stay in the little self-catering cottages or apartments, or in the hotel, because from 10.30 the floods of tourists would become...
Hey everyone! Rosy Overdrive is up and running again, as you can see. As I get things back to “normal” I’ve realized I can’t spend too much time trying to write about every single album I want to write about that came out during the...
I do a lot of documentary photography. Walk up to a thing, frame it straightforwardly, photograph it. Because I enjoy cities, where density limits where I can stand to photograph things, I like wider lenses. You’d think I’d lean into...
We return to standard posting - bundles of shiny links, fresh from the internet! For more, check out the chonky set from last week found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally...
Just a short post to mark the passing of the great Land magazine, which has shut up shop with its 37th issue this summer. What can I say about it? For almost as many years as I’ve been following a more land-based way of life, The Land...
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Sepulcrum: LaceratorOut 24th July on Chaos Records Chile’s Sepulcrum land the second album with ease, delivering a near perfect elaboration on 2023’s ‘Lamentations of Immolated Souls’ without over stretching themselves. If anything they...
Monday’s back again, but look, here’s one I made earlier! I’m on a trip right now to celebrate my birthday (today is indie bookshop spree day!) so comments might be slow, but I’ve got a Fantasy with Friends post anyway. All the prompts...
Am a hobby-cyclist. I wouldn't even use the word amateur, as it already conveys a sense of aspiration to professionalism that I do not have. I specifically reject the idea that you need to follow any kind of 'norm' or 'trend' by using...
The device below is our coffee maker. It is mundane, ugly, practical, doesn’t get in my way, does its job (make coffee from electricity, a paper filter, water, and ground beans) and keeps the coffee warm when it’s done without using...