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Over the next few weeks you’ll see this poster up around Charlottetown:The poster—for the July 14, 2026 edition of Jack Pine Folk Club—is a reproduction of an original lino reduction print by Lisa, the result of weeks of research,...
Back in the days when a friend and I used to brew beer, we’d buy bottled beer to drink, and save the empties for our home brews. Heineken beer was one of those, but we learned that Heineken bottles were made with fairly thin glass. We...
I couldn’t find a good cover photo of the front cover of Here Where We Live Is Our Country so I took a photo of the library copy I had. The cover illustration is by Molly Crabapple. The accusation of failure isn’t one we should level...
Emily St. John Mandel’s “Sea of Tranquility“ is difficult to review because the less you know about it going in, the more impactful it will be when you read it. Sea of Tranquility cover Like “This is How You Lose the Time War” this book...
If you've visited my blog on more than one occasion this last week or so, you might have noticed a slightly different look — or even a huge change. It's me playing around. Trying different styles and ways to piece things together. Trial...
Delightful cortado to start the day at Youngblood Coffee in Fargo.
“My mom taught us to always notice the sky. Appreciate the colors, see the shapes of the clouds, watch a plane fly through, let the sun hit your face. Not only is it a lesson to slow down, but it opens up your chest and shoulders. It’s a...
Album of the Week, June 27, 2026 In the late 1980s, there was an upwelling of interest in world music. We had Paul Simon working with South African musicians on Graceland, Sting incorporating Latin sounds on …Nothing Like the Sun,...
This update covers Sunday 06-21-26 through Saturday 06-27-26 (icon Glossary, if needed). LIFE 🈁 Making decisions and sticking to them (which is always the harder part). 📕 I committed to using one software for photo editing, and gave up...
Back to April. Aside from the Avatar movie, all of these were part of the Super Saturday Movie Club, whose monthly theme this time was "Vampires". May 2 - Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)I've mentioned before that MPV, the programme I use...
This new bus shelter ad from The 5th Wave and Red Island Cider reminded me of coffee bags of yore.
The gentlemen morning drinker is better served at 'SpoonsAnother perfect walk from Komoot. Mrs M goes as far as to say it is her "walk of the year". Interesting, as a variation of the route won a similar accolade back in the dark covid...
One day I'm going to write a proper polished blogpost about testing for difficulty balance for ChoiceScript games. It is not this day, here's a link to my most recent short post on the subject.
One of the more memorable scenes from Twin Peaks takes places toward the end of the pilot. Deputies Hawk and Brennan escort James Hurley to the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Station holding cell area. After they leave, Mike Nelson and Bobby...
We can’t start a Little Things without first talking about the weather and come on, it’s been hell on earth for everyone in Europe these last few weeks, while we here, in North America, are being drowned with almost daily rain storms....