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I first encountered the phrase deadpan photography around Youtube, of all places. I was watching one of Tatiana Hopper’s videos I think (I don’t remember which one). I didn’t think much of it at the time but I was intrigued by the term...
Northumberland explorations. Peterchurch to Hay. New garage door. Another heatwave ahead. Alnwick – The County Town of Northumberland C drove us over to Warkworth on Tuesday morning to visit the castle, the old bridge and gate house and...
During this month I replaced the camera I use to make the majority of my Old Cars Parked photos. So long, iPhone 12 mini; hello iPhone 17e. This was an upgrade of necessity, as the 12 mini became intolerably unreliable over the last few...
For anyone who doesn’t follow football, here’s what happened. When the USA played (and beat) Bosnia and Herzegovina on 1 July, their striker Folarin Balogun was sent off for a foul on Tarik Muharemović. Players sent off are automatically...
Historically, I've always messed about with posting 575 style verses on my many blogs, but I have managed to protect you from the silliness of these efforts in my latest incarnation here. Well, today that ends. Sorry. I also tend to post...
🔖 https://blog.zenlinux.com/2020/04/configuring-the-gnome-shell-panel-with-firefox-and-thunderbird-profiles/ I tend to forget about this neat feature of modern browsers. Profiles! Time to sort that chaos a little. That comment that it...
Listen and purchase at pinkhydrangea's bandcamp here The artist pinkhydrangea has released a new album, and since I was absolutely in love with their last album, Ethereal K-Pop Noise, which you can read about if you click here, I was...
EmuDeck for Android Just Got a New Launcher and a Ton of Upgrades retrohandhelds.gg Pivoting back to the Android side of things, a few of the more important changes in EmuDeck aren’t actually user-facing. Instead, the developer has...
This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is: Book Titles That Include the Word “[insert word of your choice here]” (Pick a word and share ten book titles that include that word!) Lots of possible choices...
7th July 2026 A parable of a clever lawyer and a wise lawyer * Scene: the legal department at FIFA headquarters. A room with two desks. At the desk nearest the door is the CLEVER LAWYER. At the desk by the window is the WISE LAWYER...
Exactly how many Belles of Tusculum were there?Tusculum, of course, is the verdant hilltop overlooking the old town of Columbia in the eastern reaches of Cincinnati. At least two women acquired the title of “Belle of Tusculum” and it’s...
Heather Delaney of the Dirtbag Dao has a great piece about US “vanlife” in the in Issue 18 and a great review of a classic 1982 text on the subject, Blue Highways, in Issue 19). Check out these pics taken by Heather. They make a decent...
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1998 mystery, eleventh of Granger's novels of Chief Inspector Alan Markby and non-detective Meredith Mitchell. A local lawyer and minor European luminary has his head bashed in outside his kitchen door, after Meredith had given a...
Portrait of a Young Woman, 1915WikiPastry Cook of Cagnes, 1922 The GuardianGrotesque self portrait, c1923Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris.Thank you to George Prochnik for this review. From 1913, to get from Smilovichi, a shtetl in...