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Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton, 1969, 1994, 2016. It’s fall, and a little girl needs a new coat. Her family doesn’t have much money, but someone gives her mother a box of rags, which her mother sews into a patchwork coat for the...
Compromise is a good word, but compromised isn’t? Stripping the sheets off the bed. The bowl has to be washed first, but it’s too big on the rack. Shadows in my brain like shrapnel. They didn’t do anything wrong, except for everything....
UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of long-ago interbreeding among modern humans and at least four other archaic human relatives. New technique pinpoints...
Unpolished human websites Chinese Drivers Are Using Tiny Plastic Heads to Fool Tesla’s Autopilot Safeguards The worship of billionaires has become our shittiest religion Does working remotely make us feel worse? [Lavorare da remoto ci fa...
On August 7th Adam C (of the excellent blog Fishin' Impossible) commented "Four to go? You will be done by August 16th is my guess." Regarding me cracking 20 double carp this season - well, it was tight - but double #20 above at 10lb...
rihovski-ru: Flood (2007) Georgy Kichiginhttps://vk.ru/rihovski *They look like the eternal-peasantry, but they used to be Soyuz spacecraft technicians
LONDON A-Z Q is for Queensbury Suburban options are extremely limited for the letter Q, indeed just two, so I've plumped for Queensbury over the better known Queen's Park. You'll find it two stops from the top of the Jubilee line...
Inspired by my recent Classic Crime Reprints roundup post for July, which mentions the printing of a new edition of Van Gulik’s The Chinese Nail Murders (a book I remember enjoying), I decided to take a book at the Judge Dee short story...
Hi everyone! Here we are, another Sunday, another Meals of the Week post! Every Sunday I like to share with you, my dear readers, my meals of the week. Everything delicious that I have cooked and or eaten for my main meals over the past...
As a long-time fan of Italian design, I have to admire these Milanese runway-models who are so aggressively chic that they really look like they would assassinate men, eat the flesh of men, and then chew on the dry bones of men
Sign that millennials are aging: R-Pat is now Hugh Grant I'm kind of fascinated by how extreme and intense of a reaction everyone in this movie has to [the fact that causes the titular drama]. It's interesting because I cannot really...
I’ll write up today’s birding tomorrow, but here’s a preview featuring a handsome Cedar Waxwing.
Why? Because I was looking at my tags (all 100 million of them) and Nic noticed one that was so long it wasn’t wrapping properly in a column. I said it was probably for a review of the movie 2012, which I remembered correctly. Then we...
John Wyver writes: The usual Sunday helping of stuff that I have found engaging and enriching over the past week. The header image is of two Hylaeosaurus dinosaurs on the Tidal Lakes Trail in Crystal Palace Park, which we visited last...
Welcome to another The Simple Catholic Sunday Funnies! Growing up, one of my favorite parts of Sunday was flipping to the comics section of the newspaper: a little pocket of humor, color, and light-heartedness to start the week. Now, in...