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It started in early 2024, or so. I didn’t follow any sports besides Hockey, and figured I would dabble in hockey sports cards. I’d mainly collected some nonsport cards at other times in my life, such as superheroes (I’ve always loved...
Made my way down to Shelburne and the local brewery of course! Time for a small flight. I’m at: Boxing Rock Brewery, Shelburne, Nova Scotia Location map: https://misterchrisjones.ca/location/chris/7324/ Note tags: checkin, shelburne,...
Obit: Poemsby Victoria ChangGenres: Poetry Pages: 123 Rating: Synopsis: After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic...
From Ryan Tamares, on a postcard arriving yesterday (8/21) at my place (it was mailed much earlier at Stanford, passed for some reason through San Francisco, and then shunted back down to Palo Alto; the ways of the USPS are sometimes...
Mars low-society underdog ascends.By Pierce BrownRating: 4 / 5.If George Saunders was right that a story is “a continual system of escalation,” then this was a masterful one. I won’t ruin anything for someone that wants to go for a ride...
Three days before my first 10K in years, I caught a cold. The day before, I nearly phoned in sick from work, then thought better of bragging about a race I'd skipped the Friday before it. I ran it anyway, nearly gave up on a hill nobody...
I’m still rooting through old boxes and I found this. And.. Awww. Awwwww. (Raw magazine #8 was never published.)
Instead of one Twitter where everybody hates each other, we now have three twitters, each hating on the other. Well done, future.
An interesting mechanism in YouTube I just learned of. If you right click once, you get their context menu: If you right click again, you get the native browser menu: This is clunky and not discoverable, but I can see YouTube team’s bind...
Orginal post: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Arnold Henrich Kortenkamp was born about 1771 and died in Greffen 28 April 1837.1 He was a kötter (cotter), a farmer who typically owned a cottage and small plot of land but had to supplement their...
I think that about sums it up.
From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 29-31: Language is also a divide between maritime and mainland. The island and peninsula people all speak very...
The Shaker chair is a truly remarkable example of historic furniture design, rooted in a philosophy that valued utility, order and restraint. As an admirer of Shaker furniture, I have often been surprised by how little its qualities are...
Brian's third visit this year, was to Hobby Lobby (similar to our Hobbycraft, but ours carries less of the kind of stuff we're about to look at here), where he found some useful sets of classic rack-toys, which seem to tick all the...
While some folks want art to exist outside of politics, it’s often enmeshed in the discipline. From Picasso’s haunting painting Guernica, to Lady Liberty Leading the People, art has been used to portray political ideals and aspirations...