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Hello everyone and welcome to my Sunday Meals of the Week post. Every Sunday I like to share with you, my dear readers, all of the deliciousness that I have enjoyed as my main meals for the past seven days.It is hard to believe that we...
Earlier this year I began taking a look at the crime fiction reviews of Barzun and Taylor, as collected in A Catalogue of Crime. So far, I have looked at authors beginning with A, B, and C. Continuing alphabetically, today’s post is...
I don't know if you've ever noticed, but some tube station names have apostrophes. And some don't. with: Earl's Court, King's Cross St Pancras, Queen's Park, Regent's Park, St James's Park, St John's Wood, St Paul's, Shepherd's Bush...
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...
Sorry, but that infernal tetanus shot is rearing its head again. After tomorrow, the blog is a one-man show for the rest of the week. The better part of discretion is for that man to rest and get back to 100%. Click here for full story
My wife and I recently rewatched all of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and I managed to catch all the episodes I’d missed the first time through. I was surprised to find Les Misérables featuring prominently in a fifth-season episode, “For...
I realized I used the one that has the Subway colours again. Whoops. I mean, it works fine, but I don’t want someone expecting to get a six inch ham and cheese from the site.
Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet... ...We have a winner for my bloggiversary celebration giveaway! She has been notified. I'll be posting the MAVERICK quiz answers on Sunday....August 8th is the birthday...
At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my...
The Roottrees are Dead is a deduction game by Jeremy Johnston set in 1998, which tasks you with doing online research to complete the family tree of a trio of very famous teen models. The history of the game itself is pretty interesting....
Shawn was kind enough to host me again, this time banging on about Hungarian/Magyarul literature in English translation, one of my personal obsessions. Click through to watch. Books discussed:Zsófia Bán: Night School (A Reader for...
“[T]here is, perhaps, a special pleasure in re-learning the names of many of the flowers every spring. It is like re-reading a book that one has almost forgotten. Montaigne tells us that he had so bad a memory that he could always read...
There is a certain kind of privilege in Jackson, IL and it comes with a name.Vale. Thompson. Morgan.These are old families, respected families, the sort of names people recognize before the person attached to them has said a word. That...
It’s not a system. It’s just how I do things. An improvisation on the fly, influenced by decades of lived experience, thought, memory. A personal configuration file. A topography of consciousness. A constellation of synapses. Etcetera....
Welcome to the (continuing) Sunday Ramble© series I was looking back at some music files that I’ve been working on, and it looks like--basically, I haven’t opened Ableton Live all summer. I think I really peaked when I did the South by...