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Today I am returning to Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor’s opinions on crime fiction. Working alphabetically, I have previously covered authors beginning with ‘A’ and ‘B’. No surprises that I am now looking at crime writers whose...
Much of my working life was spent among writers indifferent to the precision, clarity and stylishness of what they wrote. They flung words on the page (or screen) the way a bored child throws mud at the wall to see what sticks. They were...
A cute girl who loves violence marries the prince who dumped her thinking she was somebody else. I enjoyed this. It’s cute. But I can’t help comparing it to the recent “May I Ask for One Final Thing?”, which has a similar premise of a...
Listen people. It’s Chinese communist isekai. How can you say no to that??? I’ve read the manga too. It’s complete slop but this is the slop I love and I’m not sorry about it. The character designs and art are way better than in the...
Wandering around Skipton, I spotted something a little different. Yes, the canals are lovely (more photos in a future post), but there is a tugboat serving crumble!Of course, I had to know more, so once I'd walked my lunch of Yorkshire...
Last week I took some days off for a family event. It was a lovely trip. It’s commonplace to dread flying in the United States these days, and so it was terrific that it was uneventful. In addition to family time which I won’t share,...
Last fall, My close friend, Chelsea Matisz gave a wonderful TEDx Talk called, “How modern life could affect gut health”. Last fall, I had the opportunity to speak at TEDxCalgary about an idea I’ve been thinking about for years: the way...
Faces float and fly through our brains. Kicking pebbles, wearing backpacks, laughing about the school day, your friends flicker past you with red cheeks and windswept hair on cool and crisp walks home. Silverware clinking, gravy boats...
Yesterday I wrote about being in a bad place, mental health wise. If you don't want to click, the TL;DR is that I got levelled by a panic attack. In truth I'm still feeling the aftershocks and reverberations ~30 hours later. My vision is...
Discovered a frustrating macOS 26.5.1 in iMessages. While I can send and receive SMS and RCS messages to Android users on my iPhone, I can only receive them on a Mac or iPad. I’m not alone in this as I’ve seen several reports. Most point...
My colleague Richard Rothaus and I have been including the Hadji Mustafa fountain on our afternoon walks around the village of Corinth. In fact, we visit it so often that we’ve become friendly with the local working dogs (but not too...
Walking into a school cafeteria in the 1970s meant more than just finding a seat. The moment you set your lunchbox down on that long, noisy table, every kid around you took notice. Before you even opened it, a silent verdict had already...
Thanks to Steve Baron for alerting me to a Facebook post from yesterday that brought to light a car I wasn't aware existed. Austin Street Railway 63 is the last surviving (as far as I know!) car from that city's system. It's always fun...
Here is some child-rearing equipment that we only began using the fourth time around: Glass bottles, like Philips Avent. We used Playtex disposable liners before and now regret it: what we got in convenience was not worth the cost in...
Die Lesende – Lovis Corinth I am nothing if not suggestible. Earlier this week Simon shared his Century of Brilliant Books in which he recommends a book for every year of the 20th Century. Having done a Century of Books alongside Simon...