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The siren's songs have lured another government official onto the rocks.
Last month, I covered the North Walsham car boot sale. The first (April) car boot of 2026 wasn’t very good. Entering May’s car boot, I immediately noticed more cars set up than in April (though like an extra row or two, not nearly twice...
May 13, 2026 A favorite of so many of us, and such a rich and striking painting: And a bright, cheerful palette: Our heroine came into the month of May with this 20-piece wardrobe; I could live with this for months… This is a DRESSY...
I was up in northern Sydney today, and saw the longest and most vivid rainbow I think I’ve ever seen in my life! I didn’t have a proper camera on me, and was almost late to a meeting, but I still had to stop and take a look. By Ruben...
On this day (13 May) in 1846, the United States Congress approved a declaration of war against Mexico. As a result of this unjustified war of aggression (see here or here, for example), the United States would end up acquiring … Continue...
it's all on fire. seeks to find visual languages for movements in chaos and for collapsing worlds. it's a messy collection of comics, drawn by a messy hand, with a messy pile of tools. often poetic, sometimes funny (hopefully), trying...
Someone came by the shop and donated a short box full of comics…not really much of interest in there, the usual smattering of random ’90s Marvel comics, but it did have: …nineteen copies of West Coast Avengers Annual #3 from 1988. That’s...
There’s been a run of books recently which have arrived at the Ramblings and not even skimmed Mount TBR; and for once, I can remember where I heard about this recent arrival! The book is “Kafkaesque” by Maïa Hruska, translated by Sam...
Keyboard Commands I ran out of keyboard commands. OK, that sounds weird. Let me explain. In Alfred, I have the following keyboard assignments: ⇧⌃A: App Store ⇧⌃B: BBEdit ⇧⌃E: Emacs I had covered the alphabet. Every letter had an...
Stunning footage shows a large landspout tornado towering over north-central New Mexico. dust devils are caused by convective currents of heat rising off of hot ground. They are different. If you look up waterspouts, it might give you a...
And the joy of memory… Herewith, our final episode in Celia and Bucky Lee’s vague but intrepid journey toward wherever we’re going. To catch you up: Vladimir Putin has just escorted Our Duo, along with a cavalcade of co-stars, into an...